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Greek Art 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
10/27/2016

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Lion Gate at Mycenae

1250 BCE

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Snake Gdess

faience

from Knossos, Minoan

from a shrine snake = fertility

1600 BCE

formality and naturalism coexist w/ geometry

elaborate decoration offsets naturalism

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Kameres style beak spouted jug

from Phaistos

2000 BCE

10 inches tall

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Octopus stirrup jar/pilgrim flask

from Palaikastro

1450 BCE

11 in

dark on light decoration, late Bronze Age

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Grandstand Fresco

from the Knossos Fresco Atlas

1500 bce

fresco

part of the miniature frescos

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Bull head Rhyton

serpentine, limestone, rock crystal

from Knossos

1500 BCE

used for carrying liquids

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Household gdess statue

from Gazi

terracotta

wheel made lower body

headress embellished by poppies

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Sarcophagus

from Aghia Triada

1400 BCE

painted limestone

scene 6 in

Minoan belief in life after death

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Landscapes with Swallows

Thera

1650 BCE
Fresco

7 1/2 ft 

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Gold mask

from grave shaft V in circle a

gold

1550 bce

10 1/4 in

Laid over the face of the dead

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Dagger blade with lion hunt

from shaft grave V

Mycenae

1550 BCE

Bronze with gold, silver, and niello inlay

Nilotic, river scenes derived from Syria

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Treasury of Atreus

Mycenae

1300 BCE

view from the east

door 16 1/2 ft

tomb

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Warrior vase

krater

from Mycenae

1200 BCE

16 ins

variety of decoration

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Geometric Krater

from the Dipylon cemetery

Athens

4 ft

750 BCE

grave marker, showed funeral rituals

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Centaur 

from Lefkandi

900 BCE

Terracotta

14ins

found in grave, companion after death

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The Chigi Vase

Protocorinthian olpe

650 BCE

found in Etruscan tomb in Italy

 

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Analotos AMphora

675 BCE

31 1/2 in

Protoattic style

Geometric with horse procession, protoattic with detail in manes 

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Late protoattic, early black figure amphora

Nessos amphora

600 BCE
4ft

Athens 

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Reconstruction of the temple of Apollo superstructure
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Lady of Auxerre

640 BCE

Limestone

25 in

Daedalic style (dedalus the sculptor's workshop)

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The Nikandre statue

from Delos

640 BCE

Marble

5 ft

dedicated to Artemis or Apollo

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Treasury of the Siphnians

Delphi

530 bce

faced west

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East pediment 

Treasury of the Siphnians

Delphi

530 BCE

fight for the tripod

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East frieze

Treasury of the Siphnians

Delphi

530 BCE

Gds together

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north frieze

treasury of the siphnians

530 bce

gigantomachy

 

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Temple of Hera

Poseidonia, Italy

540 BCE

 

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Temple of Hera

Poseidonia, Italy

540 BCE

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Anavysos Kouros

from Anavysos, Attica

530 BCE
Marble

6 ft

more naturalized form, same pose and pattern

Kroisos' monument 

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Aristodikos

from Attica

Marble

500 BCE

grave marker

 

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Peplos Kore

from Acropolis, Athens

reprsents daily wear

530 BCE

Marble

4 ft

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Chian  Kore

from Chian workshop

from Athens

520 BCE

Marble

22 in

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Ichys Kouros

from Samos

from the sanctuary of Hera

580 BCE

Marble

15 ft

only pattern is hair, more fluid than Attica kouri

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François vase

Attic black figure krater

570 BCE

Kleitias (painter) Ergotimos (potter)

 found in an Etruscan tomb in Italy

  Calydonian boar hunt, funeral game for Patroklos, marriage of Peleus and Thetis, ambush of Triolos


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Dionysus and Maenads

Attic black figure amphora 

by the Amasis painter

540 BCE

13 in

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Ajax and Achilles playing a game

Attic black figure amphora

by Exekias

540 BCE

2 ft

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collapsing warrior from the east pediment

 the Temple of Aphaia

Aegina

470 BCE

6ft long

Marble

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East pediment from the Temple of Zeus,

Olympia

(chariot race of Pelops & Oinomaos),

460 BCE

Hippodamia, Pelops, Zeus, King Oinomaos, QUeen Sterope,


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Seer Iamos

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

east pediment

460 BCE

Marble

4 1/2 ft

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River Kladeos

Temple of Zeus, Olympia

460 BCE

Marble

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Apollo 

East pediment

temple of Zeus, Olympia

460 BCE

Marble

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Herakles and the Cretan Bull,

metope from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia

460 BCE'

Marble

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Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon,

the Temple of Athena Parthenos,

Acropolis, Athens

447 BCE

 


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dionysus 

east pediment

parthenon

447 BCE

 

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Three goddesses (Hestia? Dione? and Aphrodite), from the east pediment of the  Parthenon

447 BCE

 

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3' 6" high 

Panathenaic Festival procession  frieze from the Parthenon 

cavalcade will head from north to east from the marshal

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Varvakeion Statuette

100 AD

 3’ 5 1⁄2 “ high,

Roman marble version of the gold and ivory statue of Athena Parthenos by Phidias

erected in the cella of the Parthenon ca.

438 BCE 


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Temple of Athena Nike,

Acropolis, Athens,

from the east

showing tetrastyle columns of the façade and monolithic pillars.

420s BCE.

Column height 15’ 3” 


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Nike adjusting her sandal,

from the south side of the parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike,

Acropolis, Athens,

ca. 410-405 BCE.

Marble, ca.

3’ 6” high 

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The Nessos Amphora

black figure

600 BCE

4 ft

knielauf=figure in motion

orientalized floral design

no fillers=end of Protoattic

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Dreros stauettes

700 BCE

Bronze

15 in (male) , 2 ft

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