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Dipylon Cemetery
Geometric Krater |
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athens greece
*earliest example of greek figure painting
*740 bc
*mixes wine and water
*Warriors and chariots with soldiers with apple core shield (clay and water) then fired
*it features a mourning scene
*showed wealth of family whose grave it marked and technical skill of potter
*abstract angular motifs in horizontal bands
*meander: key pattern around rim
*period designated Geometric because all early vases decorated only by abstr*art of storytelling revisedact motifs |
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| Achillies and Ajax playing a dice game |
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| Orvieto, Italy, Around 530 BCE, the Andokides Painter invented the red-figure technique. Some of his early vases are "bilingual"-that is, the same scene appears on both sides, one in black-figure and one in red-figure. same composition on the front and back, but in both styles. artists used black glaze to outline the figures/red clay was reserved for the figures/interior details were made with a small brush/lines could be varied/glaze thickness could be varied/the art of drawing was revolutionized |
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Statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo
Thebes, Greece
700-680 BCE
Bronze
8” high
Mantiklos dedicated statuette to Apollo
The treatment of the body reveals the interest 7th c. BCE Greek artists had in reproducing details of human anatomy |
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Archaic
lime stone 650-625 bce
Lady of Auxerre, goddess or kore, c. 650-625 BCE, Limestone, c. 2 ft tall
Kore= goddess/maiden
Clothed, like all greek goddesses
hand on heart is gesture of prayer
love of abstract shapes seen |
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600BCE
Egyptian influence, Egyptians traded with Greeks
Left leg in adv.= walking pose
Too generalized to be a specific person
Slender, soft, muscles are not rendered in a very realistic way |
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Calf bearer
(Moschophoros) |
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ca. 560 BCE
dedicated by Rhonbos on the acropolis
Athens, Greece
Marble
wears thin cloak (rare) |
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| Kroisos (Kouros from Anavysos) |
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GREEK
Archaic Period
530 BCE
Marble, 6'4" |
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