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Name:Dipylon Krater
Location: the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 740 BCE
Period: Geometric Period
-One of the earliest examples of paintings on pots
-Marked the grave of the Athenian Man
-Hole in the bottom for practical and/or ritual purposes |
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Name:Kroisos
Location:Greece
Date:ca. 530 BCE
Period: Archaic Period
-Marked a Grave
-Archaic Smile, Naturalist |
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Name:Peplos Kore
Location: the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Time: ca. 530 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period
-Wore Peplos, a column shaped garment
-might be either a maiden or g-ddess |
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Name: François Vase
Artist:Kleitias and Ergotimos
Date: ca. 570 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period
-Volute Shaped
-200 figures in 6 registrars
-shows various greek mythology |
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Name: Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game
Artist: Exekias
Time: ca. 540–530 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period
-Two Soliders playing a dice game
-one is saying 4 the other is saying 3
-calm before the storm moment |
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Name: Herakles wrestling Antaios
Artist: Euphronios
Date: ca. 510 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period
-Shows the middle of a fight
-Renders human anatomy
-Red Figure Technique: pigment applied to background, no paint on figures
-Middle of Story, no Climax |
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| an archaic Greek statue of a young man. |
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| A statue of woman produced in Ancient Greece |
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| In later Greek pottery, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear details; the reverse of black-figure painting. |
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| In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes. |
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| a free-standing, more or less square room entered at one side through one or more anterooms and a two-columned porch |
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| characterized by, among other features, capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses, columns without bases, and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes. |
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| characterized by, among other features, volutes, capitals, columns with bases, and an uninterrupted frieze. |
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| The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. |
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| The panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculpted in relief. |
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| A slightly projecting rectangular element of the DORIC FRIEZE characterized by two or three vertical cuttings. |
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| A spiral, scroll-like form characteristic of the ancient Greek Ionic and the Roman Composite capital. |
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| The convex profile (an apparent swelling) in the shaft of a column |
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| In classical architecture, the triangular space (gable) at the end of a building, formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonnade; also, an ornamental feature having this shape. |
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Name:Dying warrior
Location: West pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina,
Date: ca. 500–490 BCE
Period: Archaic Period
-No archaic smile
-Looking down in saddness
-Beard, old looking |
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Name:Dying warrior
Location: the east pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Date: ca. 490–480 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period
-Nature Perfected
-Archaic Smile
-Doesn't look in pain or hurt |
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Name: East pediment
Location: Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Date: ca. 470-456 BCE
Period: Classical Period
-Nature Perfected
-natural but idealized
-Chariot Race btwn Pelops vs Oinomas
-Calm Before the Storm Moment
-Roughly Se-metrical |
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Name: Seer
Location: from East pediment, Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Date: ca. 470-456 BCE
Period: Classical Period
-View Empathizes with Seer because like the seer, the viewer knows what happens at the end of the story depicted at the East pediment |
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Name:Kritios Boy
Date: ca. 480 BCE
Period: Classical Period
-Body is shifting to the left
-Naturalistic pose |
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Name: Riace Warrior
Date: ca. 460-450 BCE
Period: Classical Period
-Bronze
-Found in a Shipwreck
-One of a very few amount of Bronze sculptures preserved |
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Name:Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Artist: Polykleitos
Date: ca. 450–440 BCE
Period: Classical Period
-Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original
-based on pthyagorous
-Underlying Harmonic Proportions that are found in everything beautiful
-Chlastic Balance, X shape of engaged muscles and relaxed muscles
-Controposto stance |
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Name: Parthenon
Artist: Iktinos and Kallikrates
Location: the Temple of Athena Parthenos, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece,
Date: 447–438 BCE.
Period: Classical Period
-Doric Order On the Exterior
-Ionic Order on the Interior
-Covered in archeticual sculpture
-Nothing is straight, all lines are curved slightly |
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| alliance formed by Athens with other city-states after Persian wars; later taken over by Athens and became Athenian empire. |
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| the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part (usually hips and legs one way, shoulders and chest another), creating a counter-positioning of the body about its central axis |
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| The third of three steps of a Greek temple on which the columns rest |
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| a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy |
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| made or covered with gold or ivory |
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Name: Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?)
Location: east pediment, Parthenon,
Date:ca. 438–432 BCE.
Period: Classical Period
-shows 2 g-ddesses
-sculpture shows the g-ddesses wearing very sheer fabric, with their bodies showing through |
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Name: Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze: Horsemen of north frieze, gods and goddesses, elders and maidens of east frieze,
Date: ca. 447–438 BCE.
Period: Classical Period
-Outside the Dipylon Gate
-Festival for "new outfit" for Athena Statue
-people in the world are shown: idealized middle age people
-top part has more depth on it than the bottom |
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Name: Erechtheion
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 421–405 BCE.
Period: Classical Period
-needed to be at the acropolis despite poor areas to construct on
-holds the tree of Athena, and Posidens salt water rock
-honors Athena, houses another Athena Statue
-Ionic Order |
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Name: Hermes and the infant Dionysos
Artist: Praxiteles
Date: ca. 340 BCE.
Period: Late Classical
-Marble copy after an original
-interaction btwn g-ds
-balance shift
-s curve- similar to controposto
-people are longer and thinner than before |
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Name: Aphrodite of Knidos
Artist: Praxiteles
Date: ca. 350–340 BCE.
Period: Late Classical
-Roman marble copy after an original
-first nude female; first nude g-ddess
-g-ddess of love: evokes a sexual errotic tone
-suceeded in representing an idol |
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Name: Grave stele of a hunter
Date: ca. 340-330 BCE
Period: Late Classical
- Idealized figure =represents the dead
-Older philosopher, contemplation= represents a living person
-Young Boy crying- represents a living person
-Sad Dog- represents a living person |
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Name: Apoxymenos (Scraper)
Artist: Lysippos
Date: ca. 330 BCE.
Period: Late Classical
-Roman marble copy after a bronze
-conntraposto stance
-athletic- arm sticking out into space
-scraping oil/sand to clean from athletics
-engagment of body by viewer |
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Name: “Battle of Issus,”
Artist: Philoxenos of Eretria
Date: ca. 310 BCE
Period: Late Classical
-mosaic copy from Pompeii
-Alexander; great big eyes, looking up, curly hair
-Battle between Alexander/ Darius III
-Optical tricks represented |
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| A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available. |
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| mall stone cubes used to make mosaics |
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Name:Athena battling Alkyoneos, detail of the gigantomachy frieze,
Location: the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey
Date: ca. 175 BCE
Period: Hellenistic Period
-based on parthenon pediment
-violent movement
-shows Athena's birth |
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Name: Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife
Artist: Epigonos
Location: Pergamon, Turkey
Date: ca. 230–220 BCE
-Roman marble copy after a bronze original
-center of the attalid group
-intensely expressive faces
-woman's limp/lifeless
-theatrical gestures |
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Name: Old market woman
Date: ca. 150–100 BCE.
Period: Hellenistic Period
-old woman carrying chickens and fruits/veggies
-face is wrinkled, back is bent over
-spirit seems broken
-no one knows the purpose of the statue |
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Name: Laocoön and his sons
Artist: Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes
Date: early 1st century CE
Period: Hellenistic Period
-based on a group of hellenistic masterpiece depicting Laocoon and sons
-represents g-ds punishing laocoon for trying to warn Troy of the Trojan horse |
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Name: Model of an Etruscan Temple
Date: sixth century BCE
Period: Etruscan
-model of a typical temple
-wooden columns and roofs
-wall were sun-dried bricks
-narrow staircase for entrance
-Greek style doric columns |
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Name: Apulu (Apollo)
Artist: Vulca of Veii (attrib.)
Location: from Veii
Date: ca. 510-500 BCE
Period: Etruscan
-Energy and Excitement
-from temple in Veii
-Brightly painted and depicts rippling folds of a toga garment |
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Name: Tomb of the Reliefs
Date: 3rd cent BCE
Period: Etruscan
-most elaborate of underground tombs in decoration
-accommodated several generations of one family
-domestic purpose |
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Name: Sarcophagus with reclining couple
Location: Cerveteri
Date: 520 BCE
Period: Etruscan
-reclining at a dinner party
-woman is there which was unheard of before
-shows no influence of the after life
-No death ritual |
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| an unglazed hard-baked clay pottery; a reddish brown colour |
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| cemetery: a tract of land used for burials |
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| the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades |
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Name: Capitoline Wolf
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: c. 500-480 BCE
Period: Etruscan
-Symbol of Rome
-Associated with Roman Republic
- 2 babies (Romulus and Remus) drinking the wolfs milk
-Completed by Atrusion Artists
-blends different styles |
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Name: Aule Metele (Orator)
Location: Cortona, Italy
Date: early first cent BCE
Period: Etruscan
-Addressing the crowd
-expert bronze casting
-depicts a main of high standards, because of his toga and high laced boots |
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Name: Temple of Portunus
Date: ca. 75 BCE
Period: Roman Republic
-g-d of ports and harbors
-greek style; ionic columns/pediments
-Etruscan style; Oriented to front/podium
-built out of Roman stone stuccoed with marble |
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Name: Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Location: Palestrina
Date: begun ca. 100 BCE
Period: Roman Republic
-made out of concrete
-Rounded buildings
-named after Fortuna= G-ddess of Fortune
-Top of building- held a cave with a fortune teller in it |
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Name: Head of a Roman Patrician
Date: ca. 75-50 BCE
Period: Roman Republic
-Veristic= all realism very detailed
-age meant power and wisdom
-associated with religion and family
-portrait of family member, showed status |
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Name: Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii
Date: ca. 30 BCE
Period: Roman Republic
-3 relief portraits
-L/R= Slaves that were set free
-M= The Slave Owner who set them free |
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Name: House of the Vettii
Date: rebuilt 60-79 CE
Period: Roman Republic
-Upper-class lifestyle
-Implovian- space for recieving guests
-garden with small rooms surrounding it |
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| Of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience |
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| a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus |
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| the basin in an atrium for the collection of rain water, normally connected to a cistern |
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| A central room off the atrium of a Roman house. |
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Name: Augustus of Primaporta (Augustus as a general)
Date: early 1st cent. CE copy of a bronze of ca. 20 BCE
Period: Early Roman Empire
-quotes earlier scupltures
-hands out gesture to people
-wearing roman armor
-Cupid is featured, because he claims to be the son of venus, and cupid is also a son of venus
-conntraposto stance
-quoting earlier works to make up for his young age |
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Name: Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)
Location: Rome
Date: 13-9 BCE
Period: Early Roman Empire
-Alter of peace relates to Pax Romanana
-depict the procession to commence building
-built in a four year period |
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Name: Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero
Artist: Severus and Celer
Date: 64-68 CE
Period: Early Roman Republic
-120 foot statue of himself marking his home
-innovated use of concrete
-famously covered in precious materials
-self indulgent space |
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Name: Portrait of Vespasian
Date: ca. 75-79 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire
-Roman General takes over Roman Flavian Dynasty
-brings back the aged philosopher-like look
-veristic |
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Name:The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Location:Rome
Date:ca. 70-80 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire
-big public works project
-built on Neros "private" land
-made in barrel vaults in concrete
-base: Doric Order
-2nd Row: Ionic Order
-Top: Corinthian Order |
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Name: Arch of Titus
Date: after 81 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire
- details of the ‘Spoils of Jerusalem,’ ‘The Triumph of Titus,’ and ‘The Apotheosis of Titus’
-commemorates activities of Titus
-shows the people carrying the treasures of the Jewish Temple |
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Name: Forum of Trajan
Artist:Apollodorus of Damascus
Location:Rome, Italy
Date: ded. 112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire
-statue of trajan in the middle
-vasilica- largly used for trials
-2 libraries behind the Vasilica |
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Name: Column of Trajan
Location: Rome
Date: dedicated 112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire
-bronze sculpture of Trajan
-decorated all the way up the column
-Images of campaign all the way up
-Trajan appears a lot recognizable and idealized |
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Name: Markets of Trajan
Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus
Location: Rome
Date: 100-112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire
-Market place
-equivalent to a modern day malll |
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Name: Pantheon
Location:Rome
Date: c. 118-125 CE
Period: High Roman Empire
-Temple dedicated to all the roman g-ds
-commemorates old temple that was on the land
-on a high podium
-Corinthian Columns, sculptures in pediment |
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Name:Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Date: c. 175 CE
Period: High Roman Empire
-bronze preserved b/c it was thought to be constantine
-similar gesture to Augustus, gesture of mercy
-beard, looks old= philosopher and knowledgeable
-On a horse, military association , control
-wearing a toga= not wearing armor |
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Name: Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Geta and Caracalla
Date: c. 200 CE
Period: Late Empire
-Depicted Septimius Severus, wife, and 2 sons
-Geta's picture was scratched out when his brother killed him and took over rome
-Marcus has a beard= which was a tribute to the older leaders with philosopher beards |
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Name: The Tetrarchs
Date: c. 305 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire
-Showed the 4 rulers (2 Augustus and 2 Ceasars)
-Each Pair was holding their counterpart
-Abstract and Stylized
-No individual likeness
-made out of Prophiry: Hard purple stone |
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Name: Arch of Constantine
Location:Rome
Date: 312-315 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire
-Typical roman form
-next to forum
-symbols from previous empirical artworks= weird because that usually is to disrespect the past rulers but this seems to flatter or honor them |
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Name:Constantine
Date:315-330 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire
-Giant sculpture
-bronze surrounding it
-re-carved portrait
-youthful, idealized, looking up |
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