Ancient Greek Art
Last updated September 2008
ANCIENT ART: General
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- Greek Art in the Ancient World: Special Topics (through the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History)
- Classical Art & Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- Mediterranean architecture (largely classical) (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University
- Cleopatra: A Multimedia Guide to the Ancient World: Egypt, Greece, and Italy (The Art Institute of Chicago), with a Timeline, Glossary, and Maps
- Classical Art & Architecture (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at the Australian National University)
- Forum Antiquum: Ancient World Internet Resources (Eric Kondratieff), with links to:
- The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World
- Ancient Greek and Roman Coins (Doug Smith)
- Greek and Roman Art in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Greco-Roman Antiquities in the Collection of the Museum of Antiquities, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Ancient Art in the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
- Antiquity: Jewellery and Glyptics in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Alexandria: The Pharos Lighthouse
(part of Underwater Archaeology)
- Lantern Slides of Classical Antiquity grouped by country, city and/or site, building and more detailed location (Center for the Study of Architecture [CSA] and Bryn Mawr College)
- Ancient Mediterranean Culture (through Images from History), with links to:
- Pre-imperial regional cultures of the Mediterranean
CYCLADIC, MINOAN, AND MYCENAEAN
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- Aegean Art (Dr. Rozmeri Basic, University of Oklahoma), with links to
- The Origins of Greek Art, the Bronze Age, and the Geometric Style (3200-720 BC) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Greek World, Neolithic, Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean, Cypriot (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Minoan Crete (All photos, text and design by Ian Swindale. Copyright © Ian Swindale, 1998), with links to:
Palaces
Early Minoan Settlements
Early Minoan Tombs
Late Minoan Tombs
Other Sites
- Knossos - The Palace of King Minos
- Palace, Knossos, Crete, plus additional images (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- Gournia, Archanes and Ayia Triada: Palaces or Not? (essay by Ioannis Georganas, University of Nottingham, through the Classics Technology Center)
- Ancient Aegean, plus pages 2 and 3 (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Museum of Cycladic Art (The Nicholas P. Goulandris Foundation), Athens
- The Prehistoric Archaeology of the Aegean (Jeremy Rutter, Dartmouth College)
- Minoan Civilization, with a link to some images
- The Minoan Culture on Crete
- The Minoan Snake Goddess (essay by Chris Witcombe)
- Mycenaean Palace (through Archimedia I- Architecture in Ancient Near East), with a link to:
- Mycenae
ANCIENT GREECE
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- Greco-Roman Museum of Alexandria, Egypt
- The Origins of Greek Art, the Bronze Age, and the Geometric Style (3200-720 BC) in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Archiac Greek Art (7th - 6th Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Classical Greek Art (5th - 4th Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Hellenistic Art (3rd - 1st Centuries BC in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris
- Ancient Greek Cities (Ellen Papakyriakou/Anagnostou), with links to
- Perseus Project: An Evolving Digital Library on Ancient Greece (Gregory Crane, Editor-in-Chief, Tufts University) - Art and Archaeology, which access to:
- The Greeks (PBS presentation), including some links to Greek Architecture
- Greek Architecture (part of 40 Centuries of Architecture, through Thais)
- The Beazley Archive (University of Oxford), with links to
- Greek Art (through ArtLex)
- Greek Vases in the Gregorian Etruscan Museum (through The Holy See, The Vatican)
- Greek Vases in Part I, and Part II of the collection of The Etruscan Museum (Museo Gregoriano) at the Vatican: (through Christus Rex), with links to (large) images:
- Amphora of Exekias, circa 530 B.C.
- Red-figured hydria, circa 490 B.C., painted by the "painter of Berlin"
- Black-figured column krater, circa 560 B.C.
- Black-figured amphora, circa 530 B.C., attributed to the Painter of the Vatican Mourner (his name piece)
- Black-figured kylix, circa 555 B.C., attributed to the Arkesilas Painter
- Black-figured olpe, circa 630-615 B.C., attributed to the Painter of Vatican (his name piece)
- Red-figured hydria, circa 510 B.C., attributed to Euthymides
- Red-figured amphora, circa 450 B.C., attributed to the Achilles Painter (his name piece)
- Red-figured kylix, circa 470 B.C., attributed to the Oedipus Painter (his name piece)
- Whiteground calyx-krater, circa 440-430 B.C., attributed to the Phiale Painter
- Red-figured bell krater, circa 350-325 B.C., attributed to the Aestas
- Greek Art & Archaeology
- Acropolis of Athens reconstructed (through the Museum of Reconstructions)
- Ancient Greece in the The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- The New Greek Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with links to
- Greek Architecture (part of a History of Western Architecture, through the Leo Masuda Architectonic Research Office), with links to
- The Theatre at Segesta, Sicily (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- Greek Sculpture (through Mark Harden's Artchive)
- Greek Art and Architecture (through AICT: Art Images for College Teaching)
- Geometric and Orientalizing Periods
- Archaic Architecture & Architectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5
- Classical Architecture & Arhcitectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Late Classical & Hellenistic Archtiecture & Architectural Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5
- Greek Figure Sculpture, plus pages 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- The Greek Orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of European Architecture, Boston College)
- Greek Sculpture (through Jeffery Howe's Digital Archive of Art: Online images from Boston College)
- Photographs of Greek Sculpture in the Photo Archives of AERIA (Antikensammlung ERlangen Internet Archive) (Institut für Klassische Archäologie und Antikensammlung, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nünberg)
- Doryphoros
- Belvedere Torso
- Discobolos of Myron
- Statues of Aphrodite / Venus
- Laocoön
- Greek Portraits
- Italian-Etruscan Portraits
- Greek Architectural Sculpture
- Metopes
- Friezes
- Temple of Athena Assos
- Parthenon, Athens
- Temple of Athena Nike, Athens
- Erechtheion, Athens
- Hephaestaion, Athens
- Temple of Apollo, Bassai
- Siphnian Treasury and Theatre, Delphi
- Heroon, Goelbasi-Trysa
- Mausoleum, Halikarnassos
- Altar, Pergamon
- Temple of Dionysos, Teos
- Xanthos
- Pedimental Sculpture
- Acroteria
- Caryatids
- Prinias
- Architectural Ornament
- Archaic Reliefs
- Classical Reliefs
- The Ancient Greek World at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
- Greek World II, Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, Gandhara (in The George Ortiz Collection)
- Greek Artifacts from the David M. Robinson Collection (The University Museums, University of Mississippi)
- Greek Art (Mark Harden's Texas.net Museum of Art ARTCHIVE)
- The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis (through Harvard University Art Museums)
- Images of the Trojan War Myth in Ancient Art
- Images of Heracles in Ancient Art
- The Statue of Hermes in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- The Ancient City of Athens
- Sites and Monuments
- Athens
- Acropolis, with links to images of
- Acropolis - South Slope, plus Images
- Acropolis - North Slope, plus Images
- Acropolis - East Slope, plus Images
- The Agora, plus Images
- Eleusinion in Athens, plus Images
- Kerameikos, plus Images
- Library of Hadrian, plus Images
- The Lysikrates Monument & Street of the Tripods, plus Images
- The Philopappos Monument, plus Images
- The Pnyx, plus Images
- The Roman Agora & the Tower of the Winds, plus Images
- Brauron: The Sanctuary of Artemis, plus Images
- Essays & Other Resources
- The Parthenon (through Great Buildings Online)
- The CSA Propylaea Project (through the Center for the Study of Architecture [CSA] and Bryn Mawr College), with links to
- Temple of Athena Nike (through Great Buildings Online)
- Stoa of Attalus (through Great Buildings Online)
- Images of Orality and Literacy in Greek Iconography of the 5th, 4th, and 3rd Centuries BCE (assembled by Andrew Wiesner)
- Temples at Paestum (through Great Buildings Online)
- Paestum, Italy (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- Computer Reconstruction of the Temple of Hera II (Temple of Poseidon) at Paestum
- Didyma (through Michael Greenhalgh's ArtServe at The Australian National University)
- W. R. Lethaby,
The Tomb of Mausolus, London: B. T. Batsford, 1908 (through Bill Thayer's Lacus Curtius)
- The Statue of Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican Museum (through the Digital Imaging Project, Mary Ann Sullivan, Bluffton College)
- Grec (in French), with links to
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