Greek Styles Art
Paintings
panel paintings
- Wooden paintings on wooden boards.
- Most respected form of art according to authors Pity and Pausanias.
- Encaustic (wax) and Tempra were used to make panel paintings.
- often collected and displayed in public places.
- none of the famous panel paintings from this time has survived
wall paintings
- Tradition of wall paintings go back at least to the minoan and myceanean bronze age.
- wall paintings are frequently described in pausainias.
- Appear to have be produced in classical and hellenistic periods.
- not many wall paintings from this time have survived.
- Most popular wall paintings from this time were, the monumental Archaic 7th century B.C. scene of hoplite combat from inside a temple at kalapodi (near thebes)and the elabrote fresco from the 4th century "grave of fillipp"