Preliminary Syllabus

Readings without bullets (•) are required for all; those with bullets are required for graduate students and those taking the fourth credit option, recommended for others. You should do the reading before class. Stewart = A. Stewart, Greek Sculpture: An Exploration. PDF files are on the web site for this course (http://www.wisc.edu/arth/ah302).

The list of objects is tentative; I will probably change these as the course progresses. See the on-line syllabus for up-to-date list, more information including dates, and images.

Weeks 1-2. Introduction to Greek Sculpture

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart, Introduction, ch. 1-5
• Ridgway, “The Setting of Greek Sculpture” (pdf)
• • Ridgway, “The Study of Greek Sculpture in the Twenty-First Century” (pdf) - written for the American Philosophical Society, not for undergraduates, so read with care!

Images:

• Introduction; Historical Overview

Objects:

• Periods of Greek History and Sculpture
• Sources
• Contexts and Uses
• Doing Research in Greek Art

Week 3. Beginnings

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 8
• Hurwit, Art and Culture ch. 4 (on reserve)

Images:

• Origins
• Project 1 Map here

Objects:

• Cycladic Figurines
• Lion Gate, Mycenae, ca.
• Centaur from Lefkandi, 1000-900 BC
• Geometric figurines, 8th c BC
• Sphyrelata from Dreros, Crete, ca. 700 BC
• Wooden sculptures?
• Ivory nude female from grave in Athens, ca. 730 BC
• Auxerre Kore, ca. 650-625 BC
• Sculptures from Prinias, ca. 650-625 BC
• Kore of Nikandre, ca. 650-625 BC
• Statuette dedicated by Mantiklos, ca. 700-675 BC
• Wooden statuette of Hera? from the Heraion on Samos, ca. 650-625 BC

Project 1 (map) due Feb. 2.

Weeks 4-5. Kouroi and Korai

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 9, 10
• Stewart, “When is a Kouros not an Apollo” (pdf)
• Holloway, “Why Korai?” (pdf)
• Davis, “Egypt, Samos and the Archaic Style” (pdf)
• •Guralnick, “Profiles of Kouroi” and “Profiles of Korai” (pdf)

Images:

• Kouroi; Korai

Objects:

• Sounion kouros, ca. 600-575 BC
• New York kouros, ca. 600-575 BC
• Dipylon Head; new kouros from Athens (Sacred Gate Kouros), ca. 600-575 BC
• Colossal kouroi from Samos and Delos, ca. 600-575 BC
• Kleobis and Biton, ca. 600-575 BC
• Anavysos Kouros, ca. 530 BC
• Tenea Kouros
• Kouroi from Ptoion, Boeotia
• Kore from Keratea (“Berlin kore”), ca. 580 BC
• Cheramyes’ Kore, Samos, ca. 560 BC
• Geneleos Group, Samos, ca. 550 BC
• Seated figures from Miletus, Didyma, Samos
• Phrasikleia and her “brother”, ca. 550 BC

(NDC to Istanbul Feb. 15-23)

Week 6: Sculpture in Archaic Sanctuaries

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 9-10 (cont.)
• Marconi, Temple Decoration and Cultural Identity in the Archaic Greek World, ch. 1-2
• • R. Neer, “The Athenian Treasury at Delphi and the Material of Politics” (pdf)
• • J. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis ch. 6 (on reserve)

Images:

• Architectural Sculpture 1: West Greece; Architectural Sculpture 2: East Greece

Objects:

• Temple of Artemis, Corcyra, ca. 600-575 BC
• Architectural Sculpture in the West: Selinus, Foce del Sele (Paestum)
• Sculpture at Delphi: Siphnian Treasury (ca. 525 BC), Athenian Treasury (after 490 BC), Temple of Apollo (ca. 510-500 BC?), chryselephantine dedications; silver bull (mid-sixth c BC)
• Ionian Architectural Sculpture: Didyma and Ephesus (second and third quarters of 6th c BC)
• The Archaic Athenian Acropolis: limestone and marble temple pediments, korai, Moschophoros, Rampin Rider.

Project 2 due in class Feb. 25

Week 7: The Classical Revolution

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 11
• Hallett, “The Origins of the Classical Style” (pdf)
• •Pollitt, Art and Experience ch. 2

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, after 480 BC (Stewart)
• The End of Kouroi and Korai: Aristodikos (500-490 BC); Euthydikos Kore (ca. 490-480 BC)
• Statue Bases from the Themistoklean Wall, Athens, ca. 500 BC
• Kritios Boy, ca. 480 BC
• Tyrannicides, original 477/6 BC
• Blond Boy (NOT DONE)
• Athenian Treasury, Delphi (after 490 BC)

Lecture by Andrew Stewart, Mar. 4, title and place and time to be announced.

Week 8: Early Classical Sculpture in on the Mainland and in the West

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 12
• De Miro, “Greek Sculpture in Sicily in the Classical Period”, pp. 413-420 in The Greek World, on reserve.

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia, 470-456 BC
• Temple E at Selinus, ca. 470-450 BC
• Enthroned Goddess from Tarentum, ca. 470 BC
• Ludovisi and Boston Thrones, 460-450 BC (Boston real or not?)

Midterm in class Mar. 9.

Week 9: The Periclean Building Program

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 13; T 46 - T 61.
• Pollitt, “The Meaning of the Parthenon Frieze” (pdf)
• Stewart, “History, Myth, and Allegory in the Program of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens,” (pdf)
• Hurwit, “Parthenon and Olympia” (pdf)

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• The Parthenon: Pediments, Metopes, Frieze, 447-432 BC
• The Erechtheion, ca. 420-406 BC
• The Temple of Athena Nike, ca. 420 BC

Week 10: Early and High Classical Free Sculpture

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 13 (cont.)
• Tobin, “The Canon of Polykleitos” (pdf)
• •Pollitt, Art and Experience ch. 3

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• Delphi Charioteer, ca. 478 or 474 BC
• Riace Bronzes, ca. 460 BC?
• Zeus from Artemision, ca. 450 BC
• Myron: Diskobolos; Athena and Marsyas, ca. 450 BC
• Polykleitos: the Doryphoros, ca. 440 BC
• 3 Amazons from Ephesus (copies), ca. 430 BC

Week 11: Spring Break

Week 12. The Peloponnesian War; Athenian Grave Reliefs

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 14
• Leader, “In Death Not Divided,” (pdf)

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• Nike of Paionios, ca. 421 BC
• Grave Stelai:

You need only know the ones in bold letters:

• Giustiani Stele, ca. 460-450 BC
• Stele of a Little Girl, from Paros, ca. 450 BC
• So-called Cat Stele, from Aegina, ca. 430 BC
• Stele of Hegeso, ca. 400 BC
• Stele of Ampharete, late 5th c. BC
• Stele of Ktesilaos and Theano, ca. 410-400 BC
• Stele of Dexileos, 394-393 BC
• Stele of Thraseas and Euandria, ca. 350 BC
• Stele from the Ilissos River, Athens, ca. 330 BC

Week 13: Great Sculptors of the Fourth Century

Reading:

• Readings: Stewart ch. 14-15 (cont.)
• Articles by Jeppesen, Waywell, Cook in Architecture and Society in Hecatomnid Caria, (pdf)

Images:

• Kephisidotus, Praxiteles, Lysippos; The Mausoleum

Objects:

• Kephisidotus: Eirene and Ploutos, ca. 375-370 BC
• Praxiteles: Aphrodite of Knidos; Hermes and Dionysos, ca. 350 - 330 BC, or later
• Lysippos: Daochos Monument (337/6-333/2 BC); Apoxyomenos, ca. 320 BC
• Bronzes from the Piraeus: Athena, Artemis, Kouros (not done)
• The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (ca. 360-350 BC), and its predecessors (Tomb of Cyrus, Pasargadae, Iran, ca. 530 BC; Nereid Monument, Xanthos, Lycia, ca. 390 BC; the Heroon of Perikles, Limyra, Lycia, ca. 360 BC)

Lecture by Sue Langdon, “Big Men, Little Women: Art and Society in Early Greece”, 4PM.

Proposal for Project 3 due by Apr. 14.

Week 14: Architectural Sculpture in the Fourth Century

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 14-15 (cont.)
• Burford, Greek Temple Builders at Epidauros, “III: Building in the Sanctuary of Asklepios” (on reserve)

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• Temple of Apollo at Bassae, ca. 420-400 BC
• Temple of Apollo at Epidauros, ca. 380-370 BC
• Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, ca. 340 BC

Week 15: Alexander the Great and Hellenistic sculpture

Reading:

• Reading: Stewart ch. 16-19
• Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age ch. 1 (on reserve)

Images:

• Images

Objects:

• Portraits of Philip and Family?, from Tomb II Vergina, ca. 336 BC?
• The Philippeion, Olympia, ca. 338-336 BC
• Portraits of Alexander and Successors
• Ruler Portraits
• Demosthenes, 280/79 BC
• Sarcophagi from Sidon necropolis
• Nemrud Dağ

Project 3 due Apr. 29.

Week 16: Catchup and Review

Final May 11, 12:25-2:25, L140 Elvehjem Building