ART 1011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Archaic Smile, Stylobate, Exekias
Document Summary
5-2 attributed to the hirschfeld workshop, funerary krater. c. 750-700 bce. Ajax and achilles playing a game. c. 540-530 bce. Height of amphora 2" small opening with sturdy handles. known for black figure painting. Archaic smile: slight upward mouth to indicate a smile from lips but not other features. Refined the designs to make them more ideally suited for their purposes. Acropolis: high city. highest point of city. religious rituals and fortress for temples of gods. Phineas: sculpture decoration. unified theme of political center piece is athena and zeus. Athena was born from zeus"s head fully grown consistency of scale. varying the poses to fill in the triangle. Entablature: horizontal above the capitol below the pediment areas of geometrical pattern. alternating triglyph and metopes (filled with narrative reliefs) Panathenaic festival. took place every 4 years they would replace the peplos on athena every 4 years.
