Description
Book SynopsisGreek Sculpture presents a chronological overview of the plastic and glyptic art forms in the ancient Greek world from the emergence of life-sized marble statuary at the end of the seventh century BC to the appropriation of Greek sculptural traditions by Rome in the first two centuries AD.
Table of ContentsPreface
CHAPTER 1 – Beginnings and Before: Greek Sculpture in the Iron Age (ca.1000-600)
BOX - Uses of Sculpture in Ancient Greece
CHAPTER 2 - The Search for Order: Sculptural Schemata and Regional Styles (ca. 600-550)
BOX - Marble, the Monumental, and Egypt: Materials and Processes
CHAPTER 3. Free-Standing Sculpture in the Later Sixth Century: Style and Penhellenism (ca. 550-500):
BOX - Chronology and Herodotus
CHAPTER 4. Sixth Century Architectural Sculpture
BOX - The Greek Architectural Orders and Vitruvius
CHAPTER 5. The Change to Classical: Democratic Athens and the Persian Conflict (ca. 500-460)
BOX - Bronze Casting Techniques – “Copies and Originals”
CHAPTER 6. The Temple of Zeus at Olympia: Panhellenism and the Early Classical (ca. 470-450)
BOX - Literary Sources I – Pausanias
CHAPTER 7. Classical Moment I: The Parthenon, Pericles, and the Power of Persuasion (ca. 450-430)
BOX - The Parthenon Marbles and the Acropolis Museum
CHAPTER 8. Classical Moment II: Sculptors and Statuary in the Mid-Fifth Century
BOX - Literary Sources II – Ancient Art Histories
CHAPTER 9. Unfinished Business: Pericles’ Programs and the Archidamian War (ca. 430-420)
BOX - The Evidence of Inscriptions
CHAPTER 10. An Attic Tragedy: The Fall of Athens and The Transition to Late Classical (ca. 420-390)
BOX - Painting and Perceptualism
CHAPTER 11. Idealism and Individuality I: Late Classical Architectural Sculpture
(ca. 390-330)
BOX - Itinerant Artists and Regional Schools
CHAPTER 12. Idealism and Individuality II: Late Classical Statuary and Relief Sculpture (ca. 390-330)
BOX - The Role of the Sculptor
CHAPTER 13. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece I: The Rise of Macedon and the Kingdoms of the Diadochs (ca. 330-200)
BOX - The Nike of Samothrace and Hellenistic Chronology
CHAPTER 14. Sculpture in Hellenistic Greece II: Greek Styles and Roman Taste (ca. 200-50)
BOX - Ars revixit, Hellenistic Classicism, and Roman Patronage
