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Roberto Laureano
Mrs. Nieves
English 1
5/15/07
Greek Art
Did you know that Greek art is mainly in four forms? Architecture, sculpture,
Painting and last, painted pottery… Greek art has been around for centries,
And to this day, it is still used.
Architecture: ancient Greek architects strove for the precision and excellence
of workman ship. The formulas they invented as early as the sixth centry B.C
have influenced the architecture of the past two millennia. The two principal
orders in archaic and classical Greek architecture are the Doric and the Lonic.
In the first, the Doric order the columns are fluted and have no base. The
capitals are composed of two parts consisting of a flat slab, the abacus, and
cusion like slab known as the echinus. On the capital rests the entablature,
which is made up of three parts…the architrave, the freeze, and the cornice.
Sculpture: sculptures include life size statues, but also relief sculptures which
wore on the sides of buildings and also tombstones. Not very much Greek
sculpture has survived for us to see. You might think it would last well, being
made mostly of limestone and marble, but both limestone and marble can be
burned and turned into lime, which is one of the ingredients of cement. In the
Middle Ages, most Greek statues were not valued, and they were burned in
lime kilns to make cement. Practically all big Greek archaeological sites have
medieval lime kilns in the middle of them. Some Greek sculpture is known
from Roman copies which have survived. Greek sculpture is divided into
seven main periods, though we are not always sure which period a statue
belongs in.
Painting: Although we know from written sources that the Greeks painted
pictures from the Bronze Age through to the Roman conquest and beyond, most
of them have been destroyed and very few of them survive. It may seem strange
that more of the older paintings survived than the more recent ones. This is
because some of the Bronze Age paintings were buried by volcanoes and others
were buried by earthquakes, and so they were not destroyed and archaeologists
were able to dig them up. The few later paintings that survive were mostly
painted on the walls of tombs, underground, and that is how they survived safely.
Painted pottery: Very few Greek painted pictures have survived the 2500 years
since they were painted. So most of what we know about Greek art comes from
the pictures they painted on fancy pottery. Pottery, even if it gets broken, can be
put back together, and a good deal of it has even survived whole, mostly in
Etruscan tombs. Greek painted pottery changed a good deal over time, from the
Stone Age to the Hellenistic period. For convenience, we divide it into seven
different time periods. Click on each period to find out more.
In conclusion, Greek art has been around for Years! And is still used today.
Work SITED:
http://www.artchive.com/artchive/G/greek.html
http://www.greeklandscapes.com/greece_art.html
http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/g/greek.html
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Greek/Greek1.htm
http://library.thinkquest.org/23492/
http://www.sas.upenn.edu/~ekondrat/greece.html
http://lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/gr_menu.html
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