VIII. Classical Greek Art
The Birth of an Artistic Canon
DU1701 Periods of Art History I: from Prehistory to Trajan
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)
Kritios Boy, from
the Acropolis,
Athens, c. 480 BCE
Acropolis Museum,
Athens
Aristokidos kouros,
c. 510-500 BCE
Archaeological
Museum, Athens
Myron of Eleutherae
5th c. BCE (Early Classical Period)
Phidias of Athens
c. 493–430 BCE (High Classical Period)
Polykleitos of Argos
5th C. BCE (High Classical Period)
Praxiteles of Athens
c. 400–330 BCE (Late Classical Period)
Lysippos of Sicyon
4th C. BCE (Late Classical Period)
Zeus (or Poseidon), c. 470–460 BCE, bronze, 2.09 m
high, from a shipwreck off Cape Artemision
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Bronze statuette of Zeus or Poseidon, early 5th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Zeus of Ugento, c. 530 BCE
Museo archeologico nazionale di Taranto
The Charioteer of
Delphi, c. 470 BCE
bronze, H: 1,80 m
Delphi Museum
Cavalier Rampin, marble, c. 550 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Leo von Klenze,
Reconstruction of
the Acropolis, 1846
Pinakothek
Museum, Munich
Varvakeion, Roman marble copy of
Athena Parthenos by Phidias
(438 BCE), c. 130 CE
National Archaeological Museum,
Athens
Archibald Archer, Elgin
Room, oil on canvas, 1819
British Museum, London
Phidias, Marble relief (Block XLI)
from the North frieze of the
Parthenon, 438-432 BCE
British Museum, London
Kritios Boy, from the Acropolis,
Athens, c. 480 BCE
Acropolis Museum, Athens
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, roman
copy, pentelic marble, 198.12 x
48.26 x 48.26 cm, c. 120-150 BCE
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Polykleitos, Diadoumenos, roman copy
1st century CE of a Greek original
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Discobolus, interior from an Attic redfigured
cup, ca. 490 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Attributed to Kallimachos, Roman
copies of Maenads
Metropolitan Museum, New York
& Capitoline Museums, Rome
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, marble, torso
— Roman copy of the 2nd century CE, the
rest — restoration of the 17th century by
sculptor Ippolito Buzzi (1562—1634)
Palazzo Altemps, Rome
Apoxyomenos, Roman copy of
the 1st century CE, after Greek
original of c. 330 BCE, 192 cm
Statue of a Victorious Youth, bronze with inlaid
copper, 151.5 × 70 × 27.9 cm, 64.4108 kg, 300–100 BCE
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu