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Title: Lyre Player from Keros
Period: Cycladic
Time Period: 2000 BC
note: harp, chair, person = 3, which is perfect |
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Title: Snake Goddess
Period: Minoan
(1600 BC)
Women had an elevated position in Minoan society |
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Palace at Knossos
Minoan
1600-1400
Crete
8000 sq feet, 1400 rooms. Architectural air conditioning, Grand staircase with windows, used a lot of wood instead of marble- more forgiving and restorable. |
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Toreador. fresco
Minoan
1500 BC
white figures were female, red were male. motion expressed in picture |
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Lions Gate
Mycenean
1250 BC |
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Dipylon Vase
Geometric
8th Century BC
note: repetition of geometric shapes and patterns |
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Standing Youth Kouros
Archaic
600 BC
note: curly/plaited hair- archaic |
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Kroisos Kouros
Archaic
525 BC |
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Peoplos Kore
Archaic
520 BC
note: braided hair/vapid eyes- archaic |
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The Kritios Boy
Classical
480 BC
Much more realistic compared to previous human figures - classical |
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Poseidon (Zeus)
Classical
460-450 BC
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Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
Classical
450 BC |
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Dying Warrior
Classical
490 BC |
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Hermes with Infant Dionysos
Classical
340 BC |
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Victory of Samothrace (Winged Victory)
Hellenistic
200-190 BC
Note: Realistic and emotional*- Hellenistic
*Pathos |
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Dying Gaul
Hellenistic
230-220 BC
Realistic and emotional - Hellenistic |
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Laocoon and his Sons
Hellenistic
2nd-1st Century BC |
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