A Manual of the Historical Development of Art Pre-Historic—Ancient—Classic—Early Christian; with Special Reference to Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Ornamentation

CHAPTER VIII.

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GREEK ART.

Meshiah (humanity) was first freed by the Greeks in form, and by Christ in spirit--Aspect of nature--India, Egypt, and Persia as the component parts of Greek development-- The different dialects of the Greeks--Their mythology-- Traces of intelligible facts and historical events in the Greek myths--Zeus and his character--Prometheus and Faust--The nine muses and their leader--Greek life a continuous festivity--Greek poetry and philosophy--Greek artistic development--The Olympian, Pythian, Nemæan, and Isthmian games--Greek architecture: the temple-- Building materials--Site of temples--Proportion--Plan of temples--The Doric, Ionic, and Korinthian orders and their subdivisions--The Attic style--Greek pottery and Greek sculpture--Different periods--The British Museum and Greek art--Onatas, Ageladas, Kalamis, Pheidias, Praxiteles, Skopas, and Lysippus--The Parthenon-- Aphrodite no longer draped--The groups of Niobe, Laokoön, and the Farnese bull--Causes of the decline of Greek art 153