Unit 10, lesson 5: Greek art

In this lesson we are going to study Greek art. This lesson is very important because Greek art is the source of almost all artistic styles in Europe until the 20th century AD: you can see Greek forms in plenty of works of art.

You can find these contents in pages 172-175 of your book.

This is the presentation of the contents.



This version contains comments in English



And this one is in Spanish (I suggest that you watch this one for learning the translation of architectural vocabulary).



There are plenty of Youtube videos if you want to learn more about art. The Smarthistory channel contains lots of stuff, I've chosen the following ones as the most representative of this lesson's content, but there are lots of others.

This video is about the characteristics of classical orders and how Greek orders influenced Roman and also modern architecture: you can see these orders everywhere! (you can choose Spanish subtitles if you want)



In this video you can see a commentary of the Doryphorus, look especially at the difference between archaic and classical Greek sculpture.