Arts of Classical Greece • Balance and order • Interest in realism • Showing bodies in motion • Mathematical formula for perfect male body • Peloponnesian War = art occupied by death and dying

Critian Boy

Discus Thrower

Spear Bearer •

Doryphoros

• Ideal male form

Architecture • Proportion • Interrelationship

Temple of Zeus @ Olympia

Parthenon

Parthenon • For Athena by Pericles • Doric columns • Ionic continuous frieze • Columns tilt in – Would meet if continues 2 miles up • Some free standing sculpture • Frieze of low relief • Metopes: high relief

Free standing

Low relief

High relief

Propylaea (entrance to Acropolis)

Erechtheum • Ionic temple • Uneven ground – many entrances • Became very complex • Decoration: elaborate & delicate • Women used as columns

Tholos • Circular buildings

Visual Arts • Little survives • Roman copies • Emotional • Sculptures • Ideal beauty of female form

Alexander by Lysippus

Relaxed posture