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Exam One
Important images in Chapters 4 & 5
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/07/2011

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[image]
Definition

Name: Young Girl Gathering Crocus Flowers

Material: Fresco paint on stone

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Location: Room 3 of House Xeste

Country: Greece

Style: Coming of age, shaved head, profile

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Figure of a Woman With a Drawing Showing Evidence of Original Painting and Outlining Design Scheme

Country: Greece

Material: Stone

Dates: Cycladic 3,000 - 1,600 BCE

 Style: Stylized through specific proportions, multiple strangely placed eyes, straight line through legs, and folded arms.

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Reconstruction of the palace complex

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Style: Labryinth, very open

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Kamares Ware Jug from Phaistos

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Ceramic

Style: No specific items, Flowy patterns

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Bull Leaping

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Fresco wall painting

Style: Minoan bodies (cylindrical, on toes, tall and lanky, tiny waists, curly hair), Stylized through elongation, colorful (blue), believed to be astronomical

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Woman or Goddess with Snakes

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Cylindrical, funny headdress, once brightly colored, fierce

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Harvester Vase

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Depth and perspective, large community joining of some kind

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Bull's-head Rhyton

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450

Materials: Stone, crystal, wood

Style: Super-ultra naturalistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Octopus Flask

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Ceramic

Style: Stylized through marine style, free flowing lines, ocean life

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Definition

Name: Vapheio Cup

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Gold

Style: repousse (relief by pushing out, not in), Minoan pose, naturalistic pose

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Landscape (Spring Fresco)

Country: Greece

Dates: Minoan 1900-1450 BCE

Material: Fresco Wall Painting

Style: Curvy lines, colorful, not naturalistic, no subject

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Reconstruction of Citadel at Mycenae

Dates: Mycenaen 1600-1100 BCE

Country: Greece

Style: Random, high walls, fortress-like

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Mask of Agamemnon

Country: Greece

Dates: Mycenaen 1600-1100 BCE

Material: Gold

Style: Funerary mask, repousse, might not even be Agamemnon

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Lion Gate

Country: Greece

Dates: Mycenaen 1600-1100 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Relief, stones hold the stones in place

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Tholos, The So-Called Treasury of Atreus

Country: Greece

 Dates: Mycenean 1600-1100 BCE

 Material: Stone

Style: Rounded, corbeling all the way up to reate the cone like structure, topped with the capstone that keeps the stones from falling in on one another

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Exterior View of Tholos, Treasury of Atreus

Country: Greece

Dates: Mycenean 1600-1100 BCE

Materials: Stone

Style: Much like the Lion Gate, this gateway has layering in the stone as well, removal of merely one stone will cause the structure to collapse. Bitch dont you even THINK about touching dat stone

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Fucking Tholos The So-Called Treasure of Atreus AGAIN

Country: Greece

Dates: Mycenean 1600-1100 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: The same as the past two slides but this is the inner view. Like, come on. Corbeling. Lots of damn corbeling.

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game

Artist: Exekias (potter and painter)

Country: Greece

Dates: Geometric 900-700 BCE

Materials: Black Figure Painting on Ceramic

Style: Profile, elongated, stylized

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Funerary Krater

Country: Greece

Dates: Geometric 900-700 BCE

Material: Terra Cotta

Style: geometric, lots of patterns, not naturalistic (triangles for torsos), the arms up signifies anguish

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Reconstruction Drawing of the Treasury of the Siphnians

Country: Greece

Date: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Style: Frieze, caryatids(female figures that take the place of columns), once painted brightly, ionic

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Battle between the Gods and the Giants

Country: Greece

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Frieze, wraps around Sanctuary of Apollo, was painted, hieratic scale, dismiss

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Temple of Hera I

Country: Italy

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Doric Order, Peripteral temple, entasis (the columns swell rather than being straight up and down)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Temple of Aphaia

Country: Greece

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Limestone made to look like marble, doric order, people change position not size to fit in frieze

Term
[image]
Definition
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[image]
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Name: Dying Warrior

Country: Greece

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: in left corner of east pediment in Temple of Aphaia, dynamic pose and expression, low to fit the frieze

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Metropolitan Kouros

Country: Greece

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Standard pose, body getting more realistic but not quite there

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Peplos Kore

Country: Greece

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Woman so she's clothed, traces of red in lips and hair, cylindrical

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Death of Sarpedon

Artists: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)

Country: Greek

Dates: Archaic 600-480 BCE

Material: Ceramic

Style: Light on Dark rather than dark on light (called red figure) [first]

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Kritios Boy

Artist: Kritios

Country: Greek

Dates: Early Classical 480-450 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: Most naturalistic thing they'd ever seen!!!, weight shift, belly button, hair still stylized

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Charioteer

Country: Greece

Dates: Early Classical 480-450 BCE

Material: Bronze

Style: Very dignified and serious, proper look on face, great detail esp. in the hair

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Warriors A and B

Country: Greek

Dates: Early Classical 480-450 BCE

Material: Bronze and lots of shit

Style: weight shift, first old face, still idealized body

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Recreation of Pheidias' figure of Athena

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Gold and Ivory

Style: Extravagant. Won over the people under the reign of Perikles

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Parthenon

Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Materials: Stone

Style: Doric order, extravagant (finest white marble), under reign of Perikles, perfectly proportionate

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Photographic mock-up of the east pediment of the Parthenon

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Frieze on Parthenon, under Perikles reign, change positions to fit

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Lapith Fighting a Centaur

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: deep relief, part of the Doric frieze on south side of Parthenon, chiasmic (x-shaped) to capture a moment

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Horsemen

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: from the Ionic frieze on north side of Parthenon, under reign of Perikles, ideal inhabitants, gives message that Athen is the shit.

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: The Spear Bearer

Artist: Polykleitos

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Style: Set the canon of proportions, basically perfectly proportioned, the most ideal man ever, bent leg, divided by active and nonactive left and right - contrapposto (the balancing of tense or supported with relaxed or at ease elements in a figure)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Marshals and Young Women

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: from Ionic frieze on east side of the Parthenon, idealized people to make Athens awesome, relief, depth, detailed drapery, women (clothed)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Erechteion

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: Under reign of Perikles, part of Acropolis, IONIC ORDER, asymmetrical to show houses many shrines

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Porch of the Maidens (Caryatid Porch)

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Stone

Style: women are strong, holding up the building, hair made thick to support the building, bent knee, knees bend one way on one side and another on the other to create symmetry, under reign of Perikles, part of Erechtheion

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: in Temple of Athena Nike in Acropolis under reign of Perikles, relief, her clothing seems light and forms to her body (discreetly erotic), wing balances unstable pose to keep proportion

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Woman and Maid

Country: Greece

Dates: High Classical 450-400 BCE

Material: Ceramic

Style: White-ground technique (white background), quiet sadness

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Hermes and the Infant Dionysos

Artist: Praxiteles or his followers

Country: Greece

Dates: Late Classical 400-325 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: Very human moment, very naturalistic, beautiful drapery, no longer stolid, smooth body vs. rough cloth

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Aphrodite of Knidos

Artist: Praxiteles

Country: Greek

Dates: Late Classical 400-325 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: Naked woman :O, smooth body vs. rough cloth, bent pose

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: The Scraper (Apoxyomenos)

Artist: Lysippos

Country: Greece

Date: Late Classical 400-325 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: pointing out, athlete after workout, tall and slender, doesn't follow canon of proportions (too perfect)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos

Country: Greece

Dates: Late Classical 400-325 BCE

Material: Painting

Style: Actual highlights and shadows to give 3-D look to people, dramatic and active,

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Reconstruction Drawing of the Theater at Epidauros

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Style: on a hill, seats and steps and aisles, orchestra = dirt circle at bottom, sound was amplified correctly, used for more than plays (religious ceremonies)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Dying Gallic Trumpeter

Artist: Possibly Epigonos

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Bronze

Style: Sorrowful to show sadness in war, spiked hair, mustache, enemy but heroic in defeat, Expressionism (deliberate attempt to elicit a speicific emotional response in the viewer)

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Reconstructed west front of the altar from Pergamon

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: Ionic columns, massive frieze that tells the story of the battle between the gods and the giants

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Athena Attacking the Giants

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: Athena is strong, deeeeeep relief, invades space by coming out of the wall, diagonals

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Laocoon and His Sons

Artist: Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: extremely tormented, sad, from the story of the Trojan war "beware Greeks bearing gifts", sculpture in the round

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Nike (Victory) of Samothrace

Country: Greece

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: forward lean balanced by enormous wings going back, hard shadows, contrast between skin, fabric, and feathers

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Aphrodite of Melos

Country: Greek

Dates: Hellenistic 325-31 BCE

Material: Marble

Style: reflects Praxiteles work, distant stare, smooth skin against rough drapery (erotic tension), bent knee

Term
Head of a Man vs. Mask of Agamemnon
Definition
Head of a Man:
Iraq
Akkadian 2340-2180 BCE
Hollow cast copper, eyebrows, curly, stylized hair

Mask of Agamemnon
Greece
Mycenean 1600-1100 BCE
Gold repousse (opposite of relief), stylized, esp. the beard and mustache and may or may not be Agamemnon
Term
Bull Leaping vs. Spotted Horse and Human Hands
Definition
Bull Leaping
Greece
Minoan 1900-1450 BCE
Wall fresco, typically stylized, tippy toes, tiny waist, elongated body, curly hair

Spotted Horse and Human Hands
France, Pech-Merle Cave
Paleolithic 40,000-8000 BCE
Rock and paint, very stylized with a big bodied horse with little feet
Term
Kritios Boy vs. Khafre
Definition
Kritos Boy
Kritios
Greece
Early Classical 480-450 BCE
Marble revolutionary

Khafre
Egypt
Old Kingdom 2575-2150 BCE
Stone, rigid pose, stone not carved away, glued to back
Term
Tholos (treasury of Atreus) vs. The Parthenon
Definition
Tholos
Greece
Mycenae 1600-1100 BCE
Stone, corbeling all the way to form cone shape

Parthenon
Greece
High Classical 450-400 BCE
Doric, Perifteral
Term
Cycladic
Definition
3000-1600 BCE
Term
Minoan
Definition
1900-1450 BCE
Term
Mycenaen
Definition
1600-1100 BCE
Term
Geometric
Definition
900-700 BCE
Term
Archaic
Definition
600-480 BCE
Term
Early Classical
Definition
480-450 BCE
Term
High Classical
Definition
450-400 BCE
Term
Late Classical
Definition
400-325 BCE
Term
Hellenistic
Definition
325-31 BCE
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