Artworks from 3 Periods of Greek Art

The Geometric period was an era which produced a good deal of pottery and other geometrically regular works. The Geometric krater from the Dipylon cemetery from the eighth century B.C. (De La Croix, Tansey, and Kirkpatrick 130) exemplifies the style of the period. The Geometric period is the name given to the era between the end of the Mycenaean age and the beginning of the Classic age. Greek society was marked then by tribal hereditary power and a growing land-owning aristocracy. The worship of particular gods in certain sacred places united Greeks of different tribes and cities through common sacrifices and common competitive games. The Geometric style reached its apex about the time of this krater, and the largest and most characteristic vases came from the area of the Dipylon Gate. These kraters served as sacrificial vessels and as tomb-monuments (Kjellberg and Saflund 53-55).

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ity-based artwork on a much grander scale than was seen in the Geometric period. The Greeks had become a more powerful state, recognized as such in the world after their defeat of the Persians. Athens was now the cultural and economic center of all of Greece, and artists from all parts of the Greek world were drawn to Athens (Kjellberg and Saflund 105). This also contributed to the Severe Style as the people of Greece manifested a sort of austere grandeur in their art of the period, with stern simplification of outline and surface, fixed pose, firm stance, and immobility of expression (De La Croix, Tansey, and Kirkpatrick 149). The Severe style developed after 480 B.C. with works such as The Riace Bronzes (c. 460-450 B.C.), showing a stern simplification of outline and surface, a fixed pose, firm stance, and immobile expressions. Sculpture in the Classical Period presents works of ideal beauty, balanced in composition and with figures given a rigidity suggestive of a structural column but with a degree of flexibility suggesting a living body. In the Late Classical Period, sculpture continued to show the humanizing tendency that began much earlier in works such as Hermes and Dionysos (c. 340 B.C.). The Nike of Samothrace,
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