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 Learn@UW for this course,.
The list of objects is tentative; I will probably change these as the course progresses.
Weeks 1-2. Introduction to Greek Sculpture
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:
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Objects:
- Periods of Greek History and Sculpture
- Sources
- Contexts and Uses
- Doing Research in Greek Art
Project 1 (map) due Feb. 1
Week 3. Beginnings
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 8
- Hurwit, Art and Culture ch. 4 (on reserve)
Objects:
- Cycladic Figurines
- Lion Gate, Mycenae
- Centaur from Lefkandi
- Geometric figurines
- Ivory figurine from Delphi: man and lion
- Sphyrelata from Dreros, Crete
- Wooden sculptures?
- Statuette dedicated by Mantiklos
- Ivory nude female from grave in Athens
- Auxerre Kore
- Sculptures from Prinias
- Kore of Nikandre
Weeks 4-5. Kouroi and Korai
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, pdf)
Objects:
- Sounion kouros
- New York kouros
- Dipylon Head; new kouros from Athens (Sacred Gate Kouros)
- Colossal kouroi from Samos and Delos
- Kleobis and Biton
- Anavysos Kouros
- Tenea Kouros
- Kouroi from Ptoion, Boeotia
- Kore from Keratea (“Berlin kore”)
- Cheramyes’ Kore, Samos
- Geneleos Group, Samos
- Seated figures from Miletus, Didyma, Samos
- Phrasikleia and her “brother”
- Korai from the Athenian Acropolis
- Archaic Gravestones and korai/kouroi
Week 6: Sculpture in Archaic Sanctuaries
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 9-10 (cont.)
- Benson, “The Central Group of the Corfu Pediment” (pdf)
- G. Rizza, “Siceliot Sculpture in the Archaic Period”, pp. 399-412 in The Greek World, on reserve.
- • Neer, “Framing the gift. The Siphnian Treasury at Delphi and the politics of architectural sculpture” (pdf)
- •J. Hurwit, The Athenian Acropolis ch. 6 (on reserve)
Objects:
- Temple of Artemis, Corcyra
- Architectural Sculpture in the West: Selinus, Foce del Sele (Paestum)
- Sculpture at Delphi: Siphnian Treasury, Athenian Treasury, Temple of Apollo, chryselephantine dedications; silver bull
- Temples at Selinus, other South Italian and Sicilian sites
- Ionian Architectural Sculpture: Didyma and Ephesus
- The Archaic Athenian Acropolis: limestone and marble temple pediments, korai, Moschophoros, Rampin Rider.
Midterm in class Mar. 3.
Week 7: The Classical Revolution
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 11
- Hallett, “The Origins of the Classical Style” (pdf)
- •Pollitt, Art and Experience ch. 2
Objects:
- The End of Kouroi and Korai: Aristodikos; Euthydikos Kore
- Statue Bases from the Themistoklean Wall, Athens
- Tyrannicides
- Kritios Boy
- Blond Boy
- Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Week 8: Early Classical Sculpture in on the Mainland and in the West
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 12
- De Miro, “Greek Sculpture in Sicily in the Classical Period”, pp. 413-420 in The Greek World, on reserve.
Objects:
- The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- Temples at Selinus, Himera, etc.
- Ludovisi and Boston Thrones
- Goddess from Taranto
- Motya Charioteer (didn't do)
Project 2 due Mar. 10
Week 9: Spring Break
Week 10: The Periclean Building Program
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)
Objects:
- The Parthenon: Pediments, Metopes, Frieze
- The Erechtheion
- The Temple of Athena Nike
Week 11: Early and High Classical Free Sculpture
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 13 (cont.)
- Tobin, “The Canon of Polykleitos” (pdf)
- •Pollitt, Art and Experience ch. 3
Objects:
- Myron: Diskobolos; Athena and Marsyas
- Riace Bronzes
- Zeus from Artemision
- Delphi Charioteer
- Polykleitos Doryphoros, Diadoumenos (copies)
- 3 Amazons from Ephesus (copies)
Week 12. The Peloponnesian War; Athenian Grave Reliefs
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 14
- •Leader, “In Death Not Divided,” (pdf)
Objects:
- Nike of Paionios
- Hermes Propylaios (skipped)
- Ares Borghese (skipped)
- Agora Aphrodite (skipped)
- Athenian Grave Stelai
Week 13: Great Sculptors of the Fourth Century
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 14-15 (cont.)
- Articles by Jeppesen, Waywell, Cook in Architecture and Society in Hecatomnid Caria, (pdf)
- Ch. 8, “Revealing Aphrodite,” in Spivey, Understanding Greek Sculpture (on reserve)
Objects:
- Kephisidotus: Eirene and Ploutos
- Praxiteles: Aphrodite of Knidos; Hermes and Dionysos
- Skopas
- Lysippos: Daochos Monument; (Apoxyomenos - skipped)
- Bronzes from the Piraeus: Athena, Artemis, Kouros (skipped)
- The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, and its predecessors (Tomb of Cyrus, Pasargadae, Iran; Nereid Monument, Xanthos, Lycia; the Heroon of Perikles, Limyra, Lycia)
Clear topics for Project 3 with me by Apr. 14.
Week 14: Architectural Sculpture in the Fourth Century
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 14-15 (cont.)
- Burford, Greek Temple Builders at Epidauros, “III: Building in the Sanctuary of Asklepios” (on reserve)
Objects:
- Temple of Apollo at Bassae
- Temple of Apollo at Epidauros
- Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea
Lecture: Margaret Miles, “Art and Plunder” in L150 7:00 PM.
Week 15: Alexander the Great and Hellenistic sculpture
Reading:
- Stewart ch. 16-19
- Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age ch. 1 (on reserve)
Objects:
- Portraits of Alexander and Successors
- The Philippeion, Olympia
- Ruler Portraits
- Demosthenes
- Sarcophagi from Sidon necropolis
- Nemrud Dağ
Week 16: Catchup and Review
Project 3 due May 5.
Final May 12, 12:25-2:25, L150 Elvehjem Building