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Set Design at Delphi
Understanding Archaic, Classical,
and Hellenistic Greek Art
Utilize elements of
Archaic, Classical,
and Hellenistic in
your set design
Archaic
• 600 BCE- 480 BCE
• Arts developed rapidly during this period.
• In architecture stone and marble
replaced the earlier mud brick and wood
construction.
Archaic
• Doric and Ionic Orders developed
during this period.
• Kore and Kouros sculptures
• Anatomy of sculpture uses ridges and
grooves to form geometric patterns.
Archaic
• Archaic smile, arms usually rigidly
placed at the sculptures sides
• One leg of sculptures is slightly in front
of the other.
Classical Period
• This period is framed by two major
events: The defeat of the Persians
in 479 BCE and the death of
Alexander the Great in 323 BCE.
Classical Period
• 479 BCE- 322 BCE
• Ideal and the General
• Aloof expressions on sculptures
Classical Period
• Humanism
• Rationalism
• Idealism
Classical Period
• Adages carved into the Temple of
Apollo such as:
• “Man is the measure of all things”
• “Know thyself”
• “Nothing in excess”
Classical Period
• Humanism: imagined their gods looked
like perfect human beings
Apollo for example is the exemplified
Greek ideal: body and mind in balance
Classical Period
• Rationalism: Greeks at this time valued
reason over emotion. The Greeks saw
aspects of life including the arts as
having meaning and pattern.
• Cannon of proportions
Idealism
• The True
• The Good
• The Beautiful
Hellenistic Period
• 323 BCE- 30 BCE
• Individual and Specific
• Turns from subject matter of heroic to
the everyday.
Hellenistic Period
• Sculptures begin to show human
emotion.
• Appeals to the senses with dramatic
poses and subjects
• Architecture begins to reflect taste for
high drama.
Resources/Contributions:
• Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History: Second
Edition Volume One. New Jersey:
Prentice-Hall Inc., 2002.