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Definition
Name:Dipylon Krater
Location: the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 740 BCE
Period: Geometric Period

-One of the earliest examples of paintings on pots

-Marked the grave of the Athenian Man

-Hole in the bottom for practical and/or ritual purposes
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Kroisos
Location:Greece
Date:ca. 530 BCE
Period: Archaic Period

-Marked a Grave

-Archaic Smile, Naturalist
Term
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Definition
Name:Peplos Kore
Location: the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Time: ca. 530 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period

-Wore Peplos, a column shaped garment

-might be either a maiden or g-ddess
Term
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Definition
Name: François Vase
Artist:Kleitias and Ergotimos
Date: ca. 570 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period

-Volute Shaped

-200 figures in 6 registrars

-shows various greek mythology
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game
Artist: Exekias
Time: ca. 540–530 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period

-Two Soliders playing a dice game

-one is saying 4 the other is saying 3

-calm before the storm moment
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Herakles wrestling Antaios
Artist: Euphronios
Date: ca. 510 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period

-Shows the middle of a fight

-Renders human anatomy

-Red Figure Technique: pigment applied to background, no paint on figures

-Middle of Story, no Climax
Term
kouros
Definition
an archaic Greek statue of a young man.
Term
Kore
Definition
A statue of woman produced in Ancient Greece
Term
red-figure
Definition
In later Greek pottery, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear details; the reverse of black-figure painting.
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black-figure
Definition
In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes.
Term
Megaron
Definition
a free-standing, more or less square room entered at one side through one or more anterooms and a two-columned porch
Term
Doric Order
Definition
characterized by, among other features, capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses, columns without bases, and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes.
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Ionic Order
Definition
characterized by, among other features, volutes, capitals, columns with bases, and an uninterrupted frieze.
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Capital
Definition
The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel.
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Metope
Definition
The panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculpted in relief.
Term
Triglyph
Definition
A slightly projecting rectangular element of the DORIC FRIEZE characterized by two or three vertical cuttings.
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Volute
Definition
A spiral, scroll-like form characteristic of the ancient Greek Ionic and the Roman Composite capital.
Term
Entasis
Definition
The convex profile (an apparent swelling) in the shaft of a column
Term
Pediment
Definition
In classical architecture, the triangular space (gable) at the end of a building, formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonnade; also, an ornamental feature having this shape.
Term
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Definition
Name:Dying warrior
Location: West pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina,
Date: ca. 500–490 BCE
Period: Archaic Period

-No archaic smile

-Looking down in saddness

-Beard, old looking
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Dying warrior
Location: the east pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina
Date: ca. 490–480 BCE.
Period: Archaic Period

-Nature Perfected

-Archaic Smile

-Doesn't look in pain or hurt
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: East pediment
Location: Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Date: ca. 470-456 BCE
Period: Classical Period

-Nature Perfected

-natural but idealized

-Chariot Race btwn Pelops vs Oinomas

-Calm Before the Storm Moment

-Roughly Se-metrical
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Seer
Location: from East pediment, Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Date: ca. 470-456 BCE
Period: Classical Period

-View Empathizes with Seer because like the seer, the viewer knows what happens at the end of the story depicted at the East pediment
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Kritios Boy
Date: ca. 480 BCE
Period: Classical Period

-Body is shifting to the left

-Naturalistic pose
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Riace Warrior
Date: ca. 460-450 BCE
Period: Classical Period

-Bronze

-Found in a Shipwreck

-One of a very few amount of Bronze sculptures preserved
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Artist: Polykleitos
Date: ca. 450–440 BCE
Period: Classical Period

-Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original

-based on pthyagorous

-Underlying Harmonic Proportions that are found in everything beautiful

-Chlastic Balance, X shape of engaged muscles and relaxed muscles

-Controposto stance
Term
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Definition
Name: Parthenon
Artist: Iktinos and Kallikrates
Location: the Temple of Athena Parthenos, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece,
Date: 447–438 BCE.
Period: Classical Period

-Doric Order On the Exterior

-Ionic Order on the Interior

-Covered in archeticual sculpture

-Nothing is straight, all lines are curved slightly
Term
Delian League
Definition
alliance formed by Athens with other city-states after Persian wars; later taken over by Athens and became Athenian empire.
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Contrapposto
Definition
the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part (usually hips and legs one way, shoulders and chest another), creating a counter-positioning of the body about its central axis
Term
stylobate
Definition
The third of three steps of a Greek temple on which the columns rest
Term
Canon
Definition
a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy
Term
chiastic
Definition
made or covered with gold or ivory
Term
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Definition
Name: Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?)
Location: east pediment, Parthenon,
Date:ca. 438–432 BCE.
Period: Classical Period

-shows 2 g-ddesses

-sculpture shows the g-ddesses wearing very sheer fabric, with their bodies showing through
Term
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Definition
Name: Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze: Horsemen of north frieze, gods and goddesses, elders and maidens of east frieze,
Date: ca. 447–438 BCE.
Period: Classical Period

-Outside the Dipylon Gate

-Festival for "new outfit" for Athena Statue

-people in the world are shown: idealized middle age people

-top part has more depth on it than the bottom
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Erechtheion
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date: ca. 421–405 BCE.
Period: Classical Period

-needed to be at the acropolis despite poor areas to construct on

-holds the tree of Athena, and Posidens salt water rock

-honors Athena, houses another Athena Statue

-Ionic Order
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Hermes and the infant Dionysos
Artist: Praxiteles
Date: ca. 340 BCE.
Period: Late Classical

-Marble copy after an original

-interaction btwn g-ds

-balance shift

-s curve- similar to controposto

-people are longer and thinner than before
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Aphrodite of Knidos
Artist: Praxiteles
Date: ca. 350–340 BCE.
Period: Late Classical

-Roman marble copy after an original

-first nude female; first nude g-ddess

-g-ddess of love: evokes a sexual errotic tone

-suceeded in representing an idol
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Grave stele of a hunter
Date: ca. 340-330 BCE
Period: Late Classical

- Idealized figure =represents the dead

-Older philosopher, contemplation= represents a living person

-Young Boy crying- represents a living person

-Sad Dog- represents a living person
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Apoxymenos (Scraper)
Artist: Lysippos
Date: ca. 330 BCE.
Period: Late Classical

-Roman marble copy after a bronze

-conntraposto stance

-athletic- arm sticking out into space

-scraping oil/sand to clean from athletics

-engagment of body by viewer
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: “Battle of Issus,”
Artist: Philoxenos of Eretria
Date: ca. 310 BCE
Period: Late Classical

-mosaic copy from Pompeii

-Alexander; great big eyes, looking up, curly hair

-Battle between Alexander/ Darius III

-Optical tricks represented
Term
Strigil
Definition
A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available.
Term
Tesserae
Definition
mall stone cubes used to make mosaics
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Athena battling Alkyoneos, detail of the gigantomachy frieze,
Location: the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey
Date: ca. 175 BCE
Period: Hellenistic Period

-based on parthenon pediment

-violent movement

-shows Athena's birth
Term
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Definition
Name: Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife
Artist: Epigonos
Location: Pergamon, Turkey
Date: ca. 230–220 BCE

-Roman marble copy after a bronze original

-center of the attalid group

-intensely expressive faces

-woman's limp/lifeless

-theatrical gestures
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Old market woman
Date: ca. 150–100 BCE.
Period: Hellenistic Period

-old woman carrying chickens and fruits/veggies

-face is wrinkled, back is bent over

-spirit seems broken

-no one knows the purpose of the statue
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Laocoön and his sons
Artist: Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes
Date: early 1st century CE
Period: Hellenistic Period

-based on a group of hellenistic masterpiece depicting Laocoon and sons

-represents g-ds punishing laocoon for trying to warn Troy of the Trojan horse
Term
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Definition
Name: Model of an Etruscan Temple
Date: sixth century BCE
Period: Etruscan

-model of a typical temple

-wooden columns and roofs

-wall were sun-dried bricks

-narrow staircase for entrance

-Greek style doric columns
Term
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Definition
Name: Apulu (Apollo)
Artist: Vulca of Veii (attrib.)
Location: from Veii
Date: ca. 510-500 BCE
Period: Etruscan

-Energy and Excitement

-from temple in Veii

-Brightly painted and depicts rippling folds of a toga garment
Term
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Definition
Name: Tomb of the Reliefs
Date: 3rd cent BCE
Period: Etruscan

-most elaborate of underground tombs in decoration

-accommodated several generations of one family

-domestic purpose
Term
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Definition
Name: Sarcophagus with reclining couple
Location: Cerveteri
Date: 520 BCE
Period: Etruscan

-reclining at a dinner party

-woman is there which was unheard of before

-shows no influence of the after life

-No death ritual
Term
Terra Cotta
Definition
an unglazed hard-baked clay pottery; a reddish brown colour
Term
Necropolis
Definition
cemetery: a tract of land used for burials
Term
Cerberus
Definition
the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades
Term
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Definition
Name: Capitoline Wolf
Location: Rome, Italy
Date: c. 500-480 BCE
Period: Etruscan

-Symbol of Rome

-Associated with Roman Republic

- 2 babies (Romulus and Remus) drinking the wolfs milk

-Completed by Atrusion Artists

-blends different styles
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Aule Metele (Orator)
Location: Cortona, Italy
Date: early first cent BCE
Period: Etruscan

-Addressing the crowd

-expert bronze casting

-depicts a main of high standards, because of his toga and high laced boots
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Temple of Portunus
Date: ca. 75 BCE
Period: Roman Republic

-g-d of ports and harbors

-greek style; ionic columns/pediments
-Etruscan style; Oriented to front/podium

-built out of Roman stone stuccoed with marble
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
Location: Palestrina
Date: begun ca. 100 BCE
Period: Roman Republic

-made out of concrete

-Rounded buildings

-named after Fortuna= G-ddess of Fortune

-Top of building- held a cave with a fortune teller in it
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Head of a Roman Patrician
Date: ca. 75-50 BCE
Period: Roman Republic

-Veristic= all realism very detailed

-age meant power and wisdom

-associated with religion and family

-portrait of family member, showed status
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii
Date: ca. 30 BCE
Period: Roman Republic

-3 relief portraits

-L/R= Slaves that were set free

-M= The Slave Owner who set them free
Term
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Definition
Name: House of the Vettii
Date: rebuilt 60-79 CE
Period: Roman Republic

-Upper-class lifestyle

-Implovian- space for recieving guests

-garden with small rooms surrounding it
Term
Experiential
Definition
Of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience
Term
Bellerophon
Definition
a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus
Term
Impluvium
Definition
the basin in an atrium for the collection of rain water, normally connected to a cistern
Term
Tablinum
Definition
A central room off the atrium of a Roman house.
Term
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Definition
Name: Augustus of Primaporta (Augustus as a general)
Date: early 1st cent. CE copy of a bronze of ca. 20 BCE
Period: Early Roman Empire

-quotes earlier scupltures

-hands out gesture to people

-wearing roman armor

-Cupid is featured, because he claims to be the son of venus, and cupid is also a son of venus

-conntraposto stance

-quoting earlier works to make up for his young age
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)
Location: Rome
Date: 13-9 BCE
Period: Early Roman Empire

-Alter of peace relates to Pax Romanana

-depict the procession to commence building

-built in a four year period
Term
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Definition
Name: Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero
Artist: Severus and Celer
Date: 64-68 CE
Period: Early Roman Republic

-120 foot statue of himself marking his home

-innovated use of concrete

-famously covered in precious materials

-self indulgent space
Term
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Definition
Name: Portrait of Vespasian
Date: ca. 75-79 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire

-Roman General takes over Roman Flavian Dynasty

-brings back the aged philosopher-like look

-veristic
Term
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Definition
Name:The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Location:Rome
Date:ca. 70-80 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire

-big public works project

-built on Neros "private" land

-made in barrel vaults in concrete

-base: Doric Order
-2nd Row: Ionic Order
-Top: Corinthian Order
Term
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Definition
Name: Arch of Titus
Date: after 81 CE
Period: Early Roman Empire

- details of the ‘Spoils of Jerusalem,’ ‘The Triumph of Titus,’ and ‘The Apotheosis of Titus’

-commemorates activities of Titus

-shows the people carrying the treasures of the Jewish Temple
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Forum of Trajan
Artist:Apollodorus of Damascus
Location:Rome, Italy
Date: ded. 112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire

-statue of trajan in the middle

-vasilica- largly used for trials

-2 libraries behind the Vasilica
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Column of Trajan
Location: Rome
Date: dedicated 112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire

-bronze sculpture of Trajan

-decorated all the way up the column

-Images of campaign all the way up

-Trajan appears a lot recognizable and idealized
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Markets of Trajan
Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus
Location: Rome
Date: 100-112 CE
Period: High Roman Empire

-Market place

-equivalent to a modern day malll
Term
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Definition
Name: Pantheon
Location:Rome
Date: c. 118-125 CE
Period: High Roman Empire

-Temple dedicated to all the roman g-ds

-commemorates old temple that was on the land

-on a high podium

-Corinthian Columns, sculptures in pediment
Term
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Definition
Name:Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Date: c. 175 CE
Period: High Roman Empire

-bronze preserved b/c it was thought to be constantine

-similar gesture to Augustus, gesture of mercy

-beard, looks old= philosopher and knowledgeable

-On a horse, military association , control

-wearing a toga= not wearing armor
Term
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Definition
Name: Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Geta and Caracalla
Date: c. 200 CE
Period: Late Empire

-Depicted Septimius Severus, wife, and 2 sons

-Geta's picture was scratched out when his brother killed him and took over rome

-Marcus has a beard= which was a tribute to the older leaders with philosopher beards
Term
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Definition
Name: The Tetrarchs
Date: c. 305 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire

-Showed the 4 rulers (2 Augustus and 2 Ceasars)

-Each Pair was holding their counterpart

-Abstract and Stylized

-No individual likeness

-made out of Prophiry: Hard purple stone
Term
[image]
Definition
Name: Arch of Constantine
Location:Rome
Date: 312-315 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire

-Typical roman form

-next to forum

-symbols from previous empirical artworks= weird because that usually is to disrespect the past rulers but this seems to flatter or honor them
Term
[image]
Definition
Name:Constantine
Date:315-330 CE
Period: Late Roman Empire

-Giant sculpture

-bronze surrounding it

-re-carved portrait

-youthful, idealized, looking up
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