Gardner, Percy: The principles of Greek art (London, 1924)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

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The Grammar of Greek Art........ . 1

Greek art a special language: it has an accidence and a syntax
■ or philosophy, 1. The subject not a search into origins, but into
character and development, 3. These specifically Greek, whether
derived from Minoan or Oriental elements, 4. Parallel to Greek
literature, 6. Sources of our knowledge; ancient writers, inscrip-
tions, and especially extant monuments, 8. Greek original statues
and copies, 10. Scarcity of paintings, 11. Coins and gems, 11.

CHAPTER II

Ancient Critics on Art.........13

Socrates as reported in Memorabilia : interviews with Parrhasias
and Cleiton, 13. Views of Plato, 10. Aristotle on plastic art, 17.
Phrases in Aristotle's Poetics, symmetry, rhythm, ethos, pathos,
20. Later writers, Pasiteles, 26 ; Varro, Pliny, Cicero, 27 ; Pausa-
nias, 28; Lucian, 30.

CHAPTER HI

The Greek Temple..........33

Influence of country and race, 33. Purpose of the temple, 35.
Question of proportions, 38. Entasis, 39. Rationality of plan, 40.
Decoration confined to otiose parts, 41. Its simplicity, 44. False
departures in decoration, 44. Colouring, 47. Rhetorical tendency,
48. Satisfaction to religious needs, 49.

CHAPTER IV

The House and the Tomb . . .......51

Secular buildings, 51. Walls and theatres, 52. Dwelling houses,
53. The tomb : similarity to temple, 53. Finds at Mycenae, 56.
Sepulchral sculpture, 57. Spartan class, 57. North Greek horse-

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