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Art history Test 2, Greek and Roman
Etruscan, Greek and Roman Art
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/14/2013

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Palace Complex-Knosses 1500 BCE, Aegean was

Constructed for the Ruler and people of Crete at Knossos

The thematic meaning was that it was designed as a labyrinth with frescos and painted symbols of the gods.

Sealife and Coastal scenes with geometric patterns

the function was a place where the people could live and worship their gods aphrodite and poseidon

 

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Bull Jumping- Knosses 1500 BCE, Aegean was

made for the people of knossos to represent a athletic event.

The sylistic meaning was to portray men jumping over and on a bull at an athletic event. men were depicted with dark skin and painted by fresco.

The function was to commemorate the athletic event of bull jumping to king and entarage

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Funerary Mask-Mycenae-1500 BCE Mycenaean

It was made for Agamennon

The sylistic meaning was a mask made of gold to represent the person in afterlife

The function was to cover the face of the deceased.

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Lioness Gate-Mycenae- 1300 BCE, Mycenaean

It was was made for the people to pass through to protect those on the inside an entrance way

The thematic meaning was a gate with two lions facing each other based on post and lintel construction with a triangular configuration. The lions were signs of strength.

The function was to intimidate enemies and protect the people.

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Treasury of Atreus- Mycenae- 1300 BCE, Mycanaean

It was made for for holding of the remains of the sovereign dead and acted as a fortress

It was styled like a behive tomb, subterranean, complete with and entrance, passageway usually built into the slopes or hillsides.

The function was to be a burial place for the remains of the emperor and people

 

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Geometric Krater from Dyplon cemetary Athens-

700 BCE, Greek

It was made for a funerary marker for the dead

This has geometric banding and friezes of simplified aninimal and humans. Two registars with the one on top showing the dead with family offering to gods and one on bottom shows soldiers and a man on a chariot.

It acts as a large jar that drops wine on the dead for an offering.

 

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Temple of Aphaia, Dying Warrior 500 BCE Greek

It was made for the temple to celebrate the gods.

It was a marble sculpture of a dying soldier in battle.

He has a archaic smile and placed in the pediment laying down to fit in the corner.

the function os to honor of dying in battle, the temple is for the gods.

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Kouros of Kroisos-500 BC, .Greek

It was Made for Kroisos

Made to honor kroisos.The sculpture is naturalistic in style.

This figure is in a kouros pose which shows egyptian influence.

 

 

 

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Peplos Kore, Acropolis-500 BCE Greek

Votive figure, Meant to please both human and divne audiances

The stylistic meaning is she is wearing tight fitting clothes or peplos and has an archaic smile. The clothing reveals the shape of her body.

Her function is to commemorate a young woman

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Kritious Boy-500 BC, Greek

It was made to honor the boy it portrays.

It displays his masculinity

Its function is to honor a young mans youth and health

 

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Polykleitus: Doryphorus-500 BCE, Greek

The sculpture was made for atheletes and warriors.

Doryphoros was posed in a contra posto pose and a realistic image.

Its function was to provide viewers with a standard idealized image of what atheletes should look like.

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Apoxyomenos, Lysippos, 300 BCE, Greek

It depicts the bathing technigue using oil instead of water. the oil would be scaped off and sold as an aphrodisiac.

The athelete is highly idealized and is standing in a contraposto pose.

The function is to honor and be dedicated to atheletes in Greek Games

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Parthenon, Architects Kallikrates and Ikinos with overseer pheidias, 400 BCE, Greek

The parthenon was built for the goddess Athena

It was built on peripteral style. Entasis was used to design the columns. It contained two interior rooms, one in which housed the goddess.

It functioned as a place of worship.

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Three Seated Goddess-Parthenon, 400 BCE, Greek

It was made for a east pediment scuplture.

The clothing was very clingy. It shows the womans bodies and is very naturalistic. It was important for women to be consisdered pure.

The function was to praise the gods on the outside of the parthenon to show beauty.

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The erectheion-architect Mnesikles, 400 BCE, Greek

The erectheion was made for the goddess athena and Posidon

It features a porch of maidens whaich has a very large stone beam that creates alot of weight. throught he tight clothing you can see the female form.

It was made for the Greek people to worship their gods

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Laucoon by Hagesandros, polydoros and athandoros

1 century BC, Greek

It was made for the romans to tell the story of the demise in the story of the trojan war.

The father is larger than the sons which conveys heirachical scale. The serpents crushing them represents the evil forces against them. Form of hellenistic scuplture.

Its function is to tell a story of Laucoon

 

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Dying Gaul, Epigones, 200 BCE, Greek

It was made for the people of Greece

A hellenistic sculpture of a dying soldier, shows humility, depicts dying celt, shows realism through expression on his face.

Fuction is to depict and honor a person in battle

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Nike of Samothrace, Ca, 200 BCE, Greek

Made for the people of Greece, Goddess of Victory

Nike is scene as a triumphant figure in Greek culture. Her stance was one in which her arm was raised in triumph

The function was to honor Nike and a sea battle, Good fortune at sea

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Tomb of Reliefs, Cerverteri, 3rd century BCE Etruscan

Made for the deceased

It was related to the Egptian burial tombs bearing relief carvings on the walls shown. Anything the dead would need in the afterlife.

the function was the burial tomb for wealty etruscans

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Capitoline, She-Wolf, 500 BCE, Etruscan

Made for the Etruscan people

The hair on the mane of the she-wolf is sylized.

It tells the mythical story of romulus and remus being raised by a she-wolf. the founders of rome.

The function was to tell the story

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Pont du Gard , Nimes 100 BC Roman

It was made for the people of Rome and its territories

It was a architectual achievement to engineering of Rome.

It supplied fresh water to the city from an area miles away.They used arches and dry masonary and created water pressure from a very slow incline.

Its function was to provide drinking water to the roman public

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Temple of Portunus, Rome 75 BC

The temple was built for the dedication to the gods.

The architecture mirrors the architecture of the Greeks.

The temple played a role in the of etruscan architecture and the worship of gods

The function was a place of worship for the roman people

 

 

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Ixion room, Pompei 70BC, Roman

Made for the upper class couples of Pompeii

The wall frescos shows the wealth of the couples and introduces the halo in pictures. Holding skulls show education and understanding.

The exion room was to provide housing and a residense to couples

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Augustus from Primaporta 20 BC, Roman

it was made to praise the emperor Augustus

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Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome 10 BCe, Roman
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Arch of Titus, Rome 70 BC
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Marcus Aurelius, Rome
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Colossseaum, Rome 100 ce
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The Pantheon, Rome 100 CE
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Constantine the Great 100 CE
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