The Art of Ancient Greece: Sources and Documents.

Doric architecture, Ionic, Corinthian

Alexandrian style, Pergamene style and Mainland style

“Rhyparographos” = painter of everyday / sordid objects

1. realistic portraiture / individualism
2. conscious imitation of classical models
3. parodies of classical models
4. grotesquerie
5. purely “secular” art
6. 3-dimensionality instead of “frontalism”.
7. obsession with Tyche
8. reclining and falling figures
9. Female nudity
10. “Scholarly” or allegorical art: how new?
11. Social uses of art

1. art designed both to express and to evoke emotions of “pity and fear”, or humour
2. art about ordinary people