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F. B. Tarbell
A History of Ancient Greek Art

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GREEK ARCHITECTURE


The temple

The Doric order

The Ionic order

Color

Rules

Ornaments

Lines

The theater

 

 

THE ARCHAIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE. FIRST HALF: 625 (?)-550 B.C.


The centers of artistic activity

Works of the early archaic period  

 

 

THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE
480-450 B. C.


Introduction

Harmodius and Aristogiton statues

A fine example of youthful strength and beauty

Myron of Athens

Selinus temple

Olympia monuments

Hestia

The boy with the thorn

Preface


PREHISTORIC ART IN GREECE


Introduction

Early walls of fortification

The "bee-hive" tombs

Palaces and wall frescoes

Sculpture in stone

Sculpture in metal

Pottery

 

GREEK SCULPTURE
GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS


Our sources

Materials and technical processes

Purposes of sculpture

Nudity

Godly and human

 

THE ARCHAIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE. SECOND HALF 550-480 B.C.


Characteristics

The ‘Harpy’ tomb

The grave-monument of Aristion

Early Attic sculpture

The pediment-figures from Aegina

The Strangford Apollo


 

THE GREAT AGE OF GREEK SCULPTURE

FIRST PERIOD 450-400 B.C.


Phidias

The Parthenon

The Erechtheum

The Balustrade

The Attic grave-relief

The Orpheus relief

Polyclitus

Paeonius of Mende

 

SECOND PERIOD: 400-323 B.C.


Introduction

Scopas of Paros

Cephisodotus

Praxiteles

Other artists

The Mausoleum

The sixteen sarcophagi

The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

The Lateran Sophocles

The colossal head of Zeus

Lysippus of Sicyon

THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD OF GREEK SCULPTURE
323-146 B.C.


Introduction

The little terra-cotta figurines

The latest of the Sidon sarcophagi

The Victory of Samothrace

The Aphrodite of Melos

The Apollo of the Belvedere

The statue of Posidippus

An ideal portrait of Homer

The naked boxer

The boy with the goose

A boy in prayer

Reliefs

Pergamum school of sculpture

The Rhodes school of sculpture

Greek sculpture under Roman rule

GREEK PAINTING


Vases

The Francois vase

Achilles and Penthesilea

Red-figured Vases

Euphronius

Aphrodite upon a goose

Polygnotus

Scene-painting for theatrical performances

Zeuxis and Parrhasius

Timanthes

Pamphilus and Pausias

Apelles

Protogenes

The Corneto sarcophagus

Portrait painting

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