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Explore the timline of Greek Art.
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.
31 sty 2019 · 480–31 B.C.: Classical and Hellenistic Periods. Classical Art (480-323 BC) was created during a "golden age", from the time Athens rose to prominence to Greek expansion and right up until the death of Alexander the Great. It was during this period that human statues became so heroically proportioned.
Check out our three chapters about ancient Greek art in Reframing Art History: Pottery, the body, and the gods in ancient Greece, c. 800–490 B.C.E. War, democracy, and art in ancient Greece, c. 490–350 B.C.E. Empire and Art in the Hellenistic world (c. 350–31 B.C.E.)
Greek art began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods (with further developments during the Hellenistic Period).
17 maj 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...
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.
