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Art History Test 2
Aegean - Greek
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/06/2013

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title: figure of a woman

 

date: 2600-2400 BCE

 

 period: aegean

 

culture: cycadic

 

medium: marble 

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title: young girl gathering saffron crocus flowers


date: before 1630 BCE


 period: aegean


medium: detail of wall painting 

 

sinificance - saffon was used for cooking, yellow dye, & alleviating menstrual cramps

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title: bull leaping 

date: 1550-1450 BCE

period: aegean

culture: late minoan 

medium: wall painting

location: knossos, crete

significance - ritual of bull leaping involving not only men, but women as well  

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title: octopus flask

date: 1500-1450 BCE

period: aegean

culture: mioan

medium - marine style ceramic (organic curvy lines)

location - crete 

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title: lion gate

 

date: 1250 BCE

 

period: aegean

 

culture: mycenae 

 

medium: limstone relief (post&lintel)

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title: corbel vault (interior of tholos tomb) "treasury of Atreus"

date: 1300-1200 BCE

period: aegean

culture: mycenae

date: 1300-1200 BCE

medium: limestone

location: mycenae, greece

 

 

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title: funerary vessel

artist - attributed to hirschfeld workshop

date: 750-735 BCE

period: greek

culture: geometric

medium: ceramic 

location: athens

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doric

ionic

corinthian

 

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title: anavysos kouros

date: 530BCE

period: archaic

culture: greek

medium - marble with remnants of paint

location - anavysos near athens

 

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title: peplos kore

date: 530BCE

period: archaic

culture: greek

medium: marble

location: acroplolis, athens

archaic smile: straight lip with curved corners (used to add some emotion)

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title: kritios boy 

date: 480BCE

period: early classical

culture: greek

medium: marble

location: acropolis, athens

 

beginnings of contropposto - weight shift

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title: warrior

date: 460-450 BCE

period: early classic

culture: greek

medium - bronze with bone, glass eye, silver teeth, copper lips, & nipples

location - riace, italy

 

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title: polykleitos (spear bearer/doryphoros/achilles)

period - high classic culture

greek roman copy after the orginal bronze of 450-440bce

medium - marble

 

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title: parthenon, acropolis

artists: architects kallikrates & iktinos

date: 447-432BCE

period: high classical 

culture: greek

location - acropolis. athens

doric columns

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title: east pediment of the parthenon

phidias and workshop

date: 447-432BCE

period: high classical 

culture: greek

medium: marble

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title: nike adjusting her sandel

date: 410-405BCE

period: high classical 

culture: greek

medium: marble

location - temple of athena nike, acropolis

 

 

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title: hermes and the infant dionysos

artist: sculptor praxiteles

date: hellenistic or roman copy after a late classic 4th century BCE orginal

period: late classical 

culture: greek

medium - marble w/remnants of red paint on the lips and hair

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title: aphrodite of melos

date: 150-100BCE

period: hellenistic 

culture: greek

medium: marble

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title: nike of samothrace

date: 180 BCE

period: hellenistic

culture: greek

medium: marble

loaction - sanctuary of the great gods, samothrace

 

 

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title: dying gallic trumpeter

artist: sculptor epigonos 

date: 220 BCE

period: hellenistic 

culture - greek roman copy after the orginal bronze of 220 BCE

medium: marble

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title: laocoon and his sons

artists: sculptors hagesandros, polydoros, & athanodoros of rhodes

date: 1st century BCE

period: hellenistic

culture: greek

medium: marble

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