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Mod 15 and 16: Helenistic Art, Etruscans
Art Hist 101x
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Temple of Apollo, Didyma 313 BC

Roman Republican Period: 509-27 BCE

-Hellenistic Temple

-Hellenistic Period Late 4th Century BC

-Begging of the Hellenistic Period

-Ionic Columns

-Had no pediment or roof

-It was Hypaethral

-Had statue of Apollo

-Steps leading up on all sides (classical)

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Hypaethral

-No Pediment or Roof

-Hypaethral=Open to the sky

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Stoa of Attalos II, Agora Athens 150 BCE

-Hellenistic Period 2nd Century

-Had shops similiar to a mall

-Doric columns on the outside, Ionic on the inside

-Gift by Attalos (king of pergamon)

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Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon 175 BCE

-Hellenistic Period 2nd Century

-Had large freize on the east and west ends

-Elevated altar

-Ionic columns

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Victory Monument of Attalos I (dying gaul) 230-220 BC

-Hellenistic Period 3 Centrury BC

-Located on the Altar of Zeus

-Gaul leader killing himself after defeat

-Hellenistic (Shows Emotion)

 

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Winged Nike of Samothrace 190 BC

-Nike:goddess of victory

-Helenistic 2nd century BC

-Nike crowning the victors of a naval battle

-Wind look shows power and energy

-Shows pain in the face (Hellenistic)

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Seated Boxer Ca 100-150 BC

-Hellenistic Time Period 2nd Century BC

-Hellenistic= Depicts and aging athlete

-Realism

-Not idealized

Roman Republican Period: 509-27 BCE

 

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Barberini Faun, Ca 230-200 BC

-Sleeping, Archiac and classical sculptures were always awake

-Very sexual

-His face shows an unpeaceful sleep, thus showing emotion (hellenistic)

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Old Market Woman 150-100 BC

-Hellenistic (2nd century)

-Early Empire Period: 27 BCE-180 CE

-Realistic

-Helenistic=Shows age and emotion

-Not idealistic opposite of classisms

-Shows social class

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Aphrodite of Melos 150-125 BC

-Hellenistic time period 2nd Cent BC

-Face shows no emotion (classical style)

-Created in the hellenistic period

Aphrodite, semi-draped, with her left foot resting on a step now missing. Her left hand may have held an apple and rested on a pillar to her left. Her right arm crossed her body, and perhaps supported the drapery at the left thigh. She was found with an inscribed base, the translation of which is;

[Alex?]andros son of Menides from Antioch-on-the-Meander made it.


 

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Aphrodite, Eros and Pan, From Delos 100 BC

-Shows Emotions=Hellenistic

-Hellenistic time period 2nd Cent BC

-Pan= a god; half goat half human forrest creature

-Eros; Aphrodite son

 

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Lacoon, Athandoros, Hagesandros & Polydoros of Rhodes, Early 1st Cent BC

 

-Hellenistic Style

-Sea serpents killing Lacoon and his children

The grouping was probably designed for a frontal view only. The theatricality and emphasis on emotional intensity is typically Hellenistic Greek--often called "Baroque" as well. Note the writhing serpents, one of whom bites Laocoön's left leg, and pained expressions.

 

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Alexanders Empire
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Victory Monument of Attalos the 1st, 230 BC

-Hellenistic period 3rd Centurary BC

-Muscular idealization

A Gaul killing himself, supporting his dead wife. From a victory monument set up at Pergamon by Attalos in the 220s BC. This includes the famous 'Dying Gaul'

 

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Aphrodite Kallipygous 2nd Cent BC

-Hellenistic period 2nd cent BC

-Shows a women naked something they didnt do often in classical times

-She is smiling at her naked butt showing emotion (hellenistic)

-very sexual piece

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Giantomachy:Athena Battling Alkyoneus

-Athen shown Victorious

-Hellenistic Style

 

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Veii, Portonaccio temple
-tripartite
- Steps only to the front, large porch
- 1st victims to romes power in 4th century b.c
- Doric capitals
-Archaic period
- not much left today

 

 

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Vulca of Veii, Apollo, From portonaccio temple, Veii, 510-500b.c

  • Statue of Apollo
  • Used tericoda because marble was not available
  • Based off of greek sculpture
  • ending the archaic period
  • Vulca was the first artist of rome
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Banditaccia Necropolis, Cerveteri

  • Many above ground tombs, lining roads
  • Used tufa- limestone, soft in the ground, then once meets oxygen hardens
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Tumulus, from Bandicattia Necropolis, Cerveteri

  • Mound made of tufa, covered in top soul, and cypress trees on top
  • tufa is different colors, and not very pretty but is durable and from volcanic ash
  • tumulus Dromos is the entry way to the tomb
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Tomb of reliefs, Cerveteri, 3rd century b.c

  • made of tufa, 2 pillars, slanted roofs, collective tomb
  • cremated ashes and put in niches
  • many pillars had things on them to look like real objects
  • Trompel'oeil- means decieving the eye, representing real objects
  • banqueting couchs, for festive occasion at the time of death
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Sarcophagus, from cerveteri, 520 bc

  • Archaic Period (8th-early 5th Cent BC)

  • Etruscan Supremacy: 700-509 BCE

  • Heavily painted, made on a terricotta
  • Differed from greeks because greeks never put a man and woman together
  • Intimate and eating
  • They didn't care about proportion of their statues
  • Faces in archaic style, almond eyes archaic grin
  • contained only ashes of deceased
  • Greeks didn't have tombs but etruscans did
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Tarquinia
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  • Another cemetary of the etruscans with tombs
  • Didn't have carvings imitating the apperance of walls. Used more paint
  • This was were Tomb of hunting and fishing was located
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Tomb of hunting and fishing 530-520b.c

  • Underground tomb, made from tufa, heavily painted walls by frescas
  • 2 chambers, anti chamber and main chamber
  • Slanted roofs, outdoor scenes, kids hunting and fishing
  • banqueting scenes for couples
  • Man and woman relling on couch at funeral banquet, playig instrements and 2 are adjusting things to put on their head(Rituals of banquet)
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Tomb of lioness, tarquinia 520bc

  • 2 female lions flanking, checkered board on top, shaped like a tent
  • Doric style
  • 2D pose, twisted perspective,
  • 2D guy and girl dancing-never in greek but here
  • Female hand gesture, atrotropaic, warding off bad spirits
  • Guy lieing on a banqueting couch, left hand is a kylix and right hand is a eggs, many times egg is in funerals
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Veila Velcha, Tomb of Orcus, 4th century BC

  • Next to husband on couch in a banquet
  • In tomb of Orcus
  • Etruscan
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Achilles and trojan captives, Francios Tomb, Vulci 4th-1st century

  • Achilles slaying trojan captives, slays hektor
  • Contrapostal form
  • vant figure-Protectress of the dead covers patrocase- who was achilesses best friend
  • Charon- etruscan god of death, he is blue, big hammer, he is like mercury in greek guids souls to death, later romans adapt charon
  • Romans adapted religion from etruscans
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Capitoline Wolf, from rome 500-480 bc

  • Bronze she wolf nursed Romulus and Remus after they were abandoned as infants.
  • Romulus killed his brother and founded rome becoming the cities king.
  • Etruscan art but for rome audience- icon of italian art
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Todi Mars, early 4th century B.C

  • Found in ciy of todi, probably of the god Mars
  • Etruscan Bronze work
  • Clothed, not contrapostal
  • Pouring libation into ground to seal a prayer and holding a spear
  • His face very classical, detatchment from emotion
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Aule Metele (Arringatore), From cortona, early 1st century b.c

  • Right at the change to roman empire, etruscans absorbed into roman customs
  • this guy is etruscan, but adopted roman customs
  • he wears a common roman toga and his hand is out which is common in a roman speech
  • Bronze sculpture, common rome statue
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Mirror with Calchas, From Praeneste, 400 Bc

  • Exceeded in making mirrors over greeks
  • Bronze, this is the back, destorts image and exaggerates themselves
  • This is a image of Greek seer Palcas with wings, she holds a liver looking for things which the etruscans believe that gods would talk to men through animal organs
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Bronze Liver model, Piacenza, 3rd cent BC

  • Quadrints for gods to communicate
  • there was a hole for them to tie around there neck
  • This resembled the god juno
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Novios Plautios, Ficoroni Cista, From Praeneste, Late 4th Century

  • Cistae- for womens tolietry items
  • Bronze, popular for living and dead
  • Artist was etruscan but built in rome
  • the frieze wraps around side and is of argonauts in search for a golden fleece. -Greek mythology and classical style
  • The argonants stopped for water, greek guy boxes the island king and wins
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