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Art History: Ancient Greece and the Etruscans
Gardner's Art History through the Ages Chapters 5 & 6
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
10/31/2017

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The Parthenon

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

 

Style: Classical Greek

Date: 447 - 432 BCE

  • Dedicated to the goddess Athena
  • Doric order with ionic elements (inside)
  • Sculpture thought to be overseen by Phidis
  • Temple of worship
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Plan of a typical Greek Peripteral temple

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Elevations of the Doric and Ionic Orders

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Herakles wrestling Antaios

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

Author: Euphronios

Date: Greek Archaic Period, 510 B.C.E.

Medium: Red figure technique on Calyx-Krater pottery

  • Mimesis: Euphronios depicted how the human form is actually seen in real life
  • Use of forshortening

 

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Chariot race of Pelops and Oinaomaos

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

  • Early Classical Period
  • ca. 470 - 457 BCE
  • Excavated at Olympia
  • Marble architecture in-the-round
  • Over-life sized

 

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Kritos Boy

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

  • Located in Athens
  • Dated c. 485 - 480 BCE
  • Between Late Archaic and early Classical Greek
  • Contra pasto: asymmetry of weight
  • Smaller than life-size
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Artemission Zeus (or Posiodon?)

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

  • Found at the bottom of the sea off cape Artemision, N Euboea
  • Early Classical Period
  • one of the few preserved original works of the Severe Style, notable for the exquisite rendering of motion and anatomy
  • Bronze cast
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Diskobolos

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

  • Author: Myron
  • c. 460 - 450 BCE.
  • completed near the end of the Severe period
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Doryphoros

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 authorship, medium, approximate date, period designation (Minoan, Archaic Greek, etc.), original location, patronage, subject, function and meaning

  • Classical Greek
  • Excavated at the Villa of the Papyri
  • Original made of bronze, more well-known roman copy is made of marble
  • contrapposto
  • depicts a teacher
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Iktinos and Kallikrates

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Athena Pathenos

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Centauromachy

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Panathenaic Festival Procession frieze

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Mnesikles

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Erechtheion

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Temple of Athena Nike

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Aphrodite of Knidos

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Hermes and the infant Dionysos

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Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

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Battle of Issus

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Choragic Monument of Lysikrates

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Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletos

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Stoa of Attlos II

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Athena battling Alkyonesos

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Nike alighting on a warship

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Venus de Milo

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Sleeping satyr

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Seated boxer

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Laocoon and his sons

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Model of a typical Etruscan temple of the sixth century BCE

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Apulu (Apollo of Veii)

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Capitoline Wolf
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