Floor | Greek Art
Archaic Art Gallery
To view the interactive 3D model, please login.
During the Archaic period the Greeks fully developed the most widespread and influential of their political forms, the city-state (“polis”). The term “archaic,” meaning “old-fashioned” and designating Greek history from approximately 750 to 500 BCE, stems from art history. In the nineteenth century scholars of Greek art employed criteria about what is beautiful which today are no longer seen as absolute. They considered works of art from this period more old-fashioned than the more naturalistic “classical” art of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. (source: Ancient Greece. 2013. Thomas R. Martin, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/994475387)