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Aristotle wrote about the idea of four causes. The first formal cause is like a blueprint for the idea. The second cause is the material; what a thing is made out of. The third cause is the process by which the artist makes the thing. The fourth cause is the purpose of a thing, known as telos.
Although popular modern understanding of the ancient Greek world is based on the classical art of fifth century B.C.E. Athens, it is important to recognize that Greek civilization was vast and did not develop overnight. The Dark Ages (c. 1100–c. 800 B.C.E.) to the Orientalizing Period (c. 700–600 B.C.E.)
The art of ancient Greece is usually divided stylistically into four periods: the Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. The Geometric age is usually dated from about 1000 BC, although in reality little is known about art in Greece during the preceding 200 years, traditionally known as the Greek Dark Ages.
May 17, 2010 · Ancient Greek art flourished around 450 B.C., when Athenian general Pericles used public money to support the city‑state’s artists and thinkers. Pericles paid artisans to build temples and ...
- Missy Sullivan
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Classical Greece 480-323 BCE. Classical Greece, also known as the Golden Age, became fundamental both to the later Roman Empire and western civilization, in philosophy, politics, literature, science, art, and architecture. The great Greek historian of the era Thucydides, called the general and populist statesman Pericles "Athens's first citizen."
Aug 30, 2024 · Unit 1: The beginnings of Greek art, c. 3000–2000 B.C.E. This unit introduces ancient Greece. It then examines sculptures produced by the Cycladic civilization, which existed in the Aegean thousands of years before the ancient Greek civilization emerged, to introduce the basics of formal analysis and reinforce the importance of archaeology in ...
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The Greek and Roman galleries reveal classical art in all of its complexity and resonance. The objects range from small, engraved gemstones to black-figure and red-figure painted vases to over-lifesize statues and reflect virtually all of the materials in which ancient artists and craftsmen worked: marble, limestone, terracotta, bronze, gold, silver, and glass, as well as such rarer substances ...
