The Art of Archaic Greece

230 Pages·1968·35.2 MB·English

by  E. HOMANN-WEDEKING

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ART OF THE WORLD
EUROPEAN CULTURES
THE HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL
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THE ART OF
ARCHAIC
GREECE
by
HOMANN-WEDEKING
E.
FOSTER
Translated by J. R.
CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC., NEW YORK
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Front ofcover: Achilles binding up the wounds of Patroklos. From the
inside of a bowl by the potter Sosias. About 500 B.c. Berlin Stiftung
Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Antikensammlung. Cfp. 188.
Title-page: Protocorinthian vase (detail) formerlyintheChigiCollection.
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Third quarter of yth century B.C. Height of vase 10 in. Rome, Villa
Giulia. Cf.pp. 56, 58.
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1966
GERMAN EDITION© I966 HOLLE VERLAG G.M.B.H., BADEN-BADEN, GERMANY
ENGLISH TRANSLATION © 1968 BY METHUEN & CO. LTD.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER: 68-16898
PRINTED IN HOLLAND
CONTENTS
List ofcolour plates (9). List of figures (9). Acknowledgments (10).
INTELLECTUAL FOUNDATIONS: THE GEOMETRIC AGE
I.
(circa 1050-700 b.c.) II_34
Ceramics (11). Themes ofthepictures (14). Ionia and Athens (14). Small-scale
sculpture (15). Foreign influences (17). Religious and sociological background
(21). Argos, Corinth and Sparta (23). Attica (23). Artistic regions (24).
Armour (28). Architecture (29). CultofHera andtemplesofHera (29).
REVOLUTION AND CONSOLIDATION: THE ORIENTAL-
II.
IZING AGE (circa 700-620 b.c.) 35-80
Break-Up of Geometric art forms. Political background. Foreign influences (35).
Crete.Cyclades.Corinth,East GreeceandAthens (36). Ceramics (37). Relationship
between small-scale and large-scale sculpture (42). Technical innovations (45).
Tyranny (47). Relationship between sculpture and architecture (50). Large-scale
sculpture (53). Rhodes, Corinth (55). Ivory carving (58). Sculpture in stone,
wood and bronze (61). The kouros type (61). Nudity and clothing (66).
Daidalos (71). Signature of artists (72). Architecture (74). Relationship ofart
to politics (79).
III. RIPE ARCHAIC: EARLY PERIOD (circa 620-550 b.c.) .... 81-129
Animalfigures (81). Mythologicalpictures (85). Narrativepictures. lMonumentali-
zatiori* of Corinthian art forms (87). Attic influence. Solon. Nature and effect of
Solonian reforms (88). Attic art at the beginning of the 6th century (91). Samian
sculpture. Geneleos (93). Ionian and Attic korai (95). Attic sculpture in the
.time of Peisistratos (99). Peisistratos (103). Attic grave stelai (103). Lakonian
vase-painting (105). Attic vase-painting. Kleitias (107). Painters and potters
(115). Spatiality and the shaping ofspace (116). Temple of Hera at Olympia
(117). Temple of Artemis at Ephesos (118). Temple ofApollo at Corinth (119).
ArchitectureandarchitecturalreliefsinMagna Graecia (122). Typesofcapital (124).
IV. RIPE ARCHAIC: LATE PERIOD (circa 550-490 b.c.) 130-196
Art in the time of Peisistratos. Sculpture (130). Reliefs (133). Forms of writing
(136). Inscription and ornament (136). Miniature art. Bronze-casting (137).
Large bronzes (144). Vase-painting (147). Lydos, Exekias (147). Amasis
(152). Chalcidian vases (158). Ionian 'Little Masters'. Fikellura vases (160).
Exekias' middle period (163). Art in the time ofthe sons of Peisistratos. Sculp-
ture (165). Relief and architecture (168). Delphi (168). Athens (175).
Eretria. Magna Graecia (175). Vase-painting. Exekias' late period (178).
Oltos (180). History of the development of amphora shapes (181). Influence of
theform ofgovernment on art (183). Attic sculpture in theearlyyears ofdemocracy
(185). Vase-painting in the earlyyears ofdemocracy (186). Persian Wars (190).
Continuity between Athenian politics and history of Archaic art (190). Art,
politics and religion (191). Religion andphilosophy. Nature and art (193).
APPENDICES
197-224
. . . . ,
Chronological table (198). Captions to Appendixofplates (200). Appendix
of plates (201). Notes on the text (209). Glossary (212). Map (214). Index
(216).