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Hellenistic Greek Period (323 BCE – 31 BCE) - Coggle Diagram
Hellenistic Greek Period (323 BCE – 31 BCE)
Subject Matter
Historical Figures & Events
Commemorates Attalid victory > Galatians
Dying Gaul (Epigonos of Pergamon, 230–220 BCE)
Defeated chieftain
Gaul Killing Himself and His Wife (Epigonos of Pergamon, 220 BCE)
Heroic yet tragic
Mythological Dramas
the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons
attacked by sea serpents
Laocoön and His Sons (Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus of Rhodes, 40–30 BCE)
gods battling giants in swirling
Pergamon Altar (Gigantomachy Frieze, 180–160 BCE)
Everyday Life & Ordinary People
peasant woman carrying produce
Old Market Woman (1st century BCE)
playful everyday scene
Boy with Goose (2nd century BCE)
Human Emotion & Suffering
a weary, bruised boxer
Boxer at Rest (Unknown Greek sculptor, 330–50 BCE)
pain and nobility
Dying Gaul (Epigonos, 230–220 BCE)
Eroticism & Sensuality
First nude female statue
Aphrodite of Knidos (Praxiteles, 4th century BCE)
popular in Hellenistic copies
Erotic reclining figure
Sleeping Hermaphroditus (Hellenistic original, 2nd century BCE)
Victory & Divine Power
Goddess of Victory descending
Nike of Samothrace (190 BCE)
Alexander the Great
Alexander Sarcophagus (320 BCE)
glorifying divine-like kingship
Exoticism & Cultural Encounters
Egyptian Nile landscapes
Nilotic Mosaics (2nd century BCE)
foreign peoples
Bronze Statuette of an African Boy (2nd century BCE)
Visual Art Techniques
Painting
Mosaic
Alexander Mosaic (c. 100 BCE, copy of earlier Hellenistic painting)
overlapping
illusionism
Foreshortening
shading
Fresco
Tomb of Persephone Fresco (Vergina, late 4th century BCE)
narrative storytelling
shading
Chiaroscuro
Sculpture
movement and triumph
Nike of Samothrace (c. 190 BCE, sculptor from Rhodes)
drapery carving
theatrical placement
Dynamic composition
sensual and lifelike
Sleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun) (c. 220 BCE)
erotic realism
detailed anatomy
Naturalistic reclining pose
Architectural
Altar
Great Altar of Pergamon (c. 180–160 BCE, commissioned by King Eumenes II)
high-relief frieze
deep carving
Monumentality
dramatic narrative
Temple
Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens (Olympieion) (started earlier, expanded in 2nd c. BCE by Antiochus IV)
Corinthian order (ornate capitals)
scale
Monumentality
Artwork + Media
Painting/Mosaic
Stag Hunt Mosaic
Date: 300 BCE
Artist: Gnosis (signed “Gnosis epoiesen”)
Media: Pebble mosaic
Size: 2.3 × 2.1 m
Palestrina Mosaic (Nilotic Mosaic)
Date: 2nd century BCE
Media: Stone tesserae mosaic
Size: 5.85 × 4.31 m
Sculpture
Size: 204 cm high
Media: Marble
Artist: Alexandros of Antioch
Date: 130–100 BCE
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
Tyche of Antioch
Date: 300 BCE
Artist: Eutychides (pupil of Lysippos)
Media: Bronze (later Roman marble copies survive)
Size: 2 m tall
Architectural
Stoa of Attalos (Athens)
Date: 150 BCE
Patron: King Attalos II of Pergamon
Media: Marble and limestone
Size: 115 m long × 20 m wide × 2 stories high
Elements of Art
Value
Deep carving
dramatic light
shadow contrasts
Space
Long colonnades
deep interior
Texture
Smoothly marble flesh
Colour
Naturalistic use of colour
greens, blues, yellows, browns
Shape
organic human shape
Line
Strong diagonals
Principles of Design
Movement
struggle and energy
Balance
radial symmetry
Definition
Hellenistic art embraced
emotion
drama
realism
diversity
movement
Theatricality and cosmopolitanism
Dynamic sculpture
Illusionistic painting
Monumental architecture
Intricate mosaics
new subject matter