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UGA, ARHI 2300, Kemling, Week 3
Images from Week 3, Spring 2011
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
02/13/2011

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Seated Khafre

c. 2520-2494 BCE

Egyptian

Old Kingdom Period

Diorite

Believed by Ancient Egyptians to be the resting place of a pharoah's "ka", or spirit (leaves the body when you die and finds rest in the statue

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Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

1353-1335 BCE

Egyptian

Amarna Period

Limestone

Akhenaton is known for focusing the Egyptian religion on "Aten" the disk of the sun (big step towards polytheism, or at least henotheism)

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Menkaure and Wife

c. 2490-2472 BCE

Egyptian

Old Kingdom

Graywacke

Idealization

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Geometric Krater

c. 740 BCE

Greek

Geometric Period

Terracotta

Grave marker common in Geometric Period

Depicts the "prothesis", Ancient Greek funerary practice

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Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game

Sculpted by Exekias

c. 540-530 BCE

Greek

Archaic Period

Terracotta

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Kouros (means "male youth)

c. 530 BCE

Greek

Archaic Period

Marble

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Doryphorus (Spear-bearer)

Sculpted by Polykleitos

c. 450 BCE

Greek

High Classical Period

Marble

 

***Roman Marble copy of Greek bronze original

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