Lamassu, Khorsabad, Assyrian

• not a sculpture in round, but 2 reliefs, therfore has 5 legs to show front and side view,
• unibrow

Lion Hunt, palace of Assurbanipal, Ninevah, Assyrian period

• king kills lions in many ways and times.
• continuous narration- same character in multiple postions to tell a story

ishtar gate, babylon, neo babylonian

• glazed bricks

persepolis, persian

• hypostyle halls,
•  lamassu-4 legged,
•  audience hall,
• registars- showing gifts from afar to give to king,
• differenciation of scale,
• king kills mantacor,

Dipylon krater, Athens, Geometric period

• used as grave marker

Lady of Auxerre, Daedalic style, orientalizing period

• looks egyptian (triangular hair)
• looks like she's smiling as a means to end lips
• wasp waist

New York Kouros, Archaic

• experimenting with muscles

Achilles and Ajax Gaming, Exekias, Archaic

• one scene taking up majority of vase
• bilingual: black figure on one side, red figure on other

Revelers, Euthymides, archaic

• "as euphronias could never do"
• 3/4 turn

Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Early Classical

• architect:libion elis
• chariot races of pelops and oinomaos
• old seer reacting to future- looks old, stylized, emotion via gesture

Kritios Boy, athens acropolis, archaic/early classical

• first contraposto- body naturally at rest
• more roundish, boy-like body

Charioteer, Delphi, Early Classical

• dedicated by someone who won a chariot race
• bronze
• contraposto (shoulders and head tilted)
• simplified hair, face and clothes
• rimmed eyes

Discus Thrower, Myron, Early classical

• Myronian (compressed time)
• off-center triangles
• clues to find copies made by romans: points, high sheen, tree trunks

Spear bearer, Polykleitos, high classical

• canon of proportions 1:7
• pliny the elder (author of first textbook of art)
• muscular, blocky body

parthenon, athens acropolis, high classical

• more of a treasury than a temple
• stylobate curvature (optical refinements)
• metopes: N-greeks v. trojans, S-lapith v. centaurs, E-gods v. giants, W-greeks v. amazons
• frieze- panathenaic procession

Erechtheion, athens acropolis, high classical

• athena polias
• caryatid porch (wet drapery)

Nike temple, athens acropolis, high classical

• persians are shown fat
• unusual to depict real battle in large scale
• decorated balustrade around the edge of bastion (wet drapery)

artemis and apollo, niobid painter, high classical

• placed figures on differents levels
• red figure krater
• slaying children of Niobe

Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles, classical 4th century

• first large scale female nude in Greek world
• put Knidos on the map, helped build it's economy

Hermes and Dionysos, olympia, praxiteles, classical 4th century

• S-curve (off center)
• humanizing effort
• not good and making babies

Scraper, lysippos, classical 4th century

• Lysippos was 1st to write down canon of proportions 1:8
• twist in space, no single point of view

Weary Herakles, Lysippos, classical 4th century

• iconography: recognizing visual attributes of a figure (ex: dorothy and ruby slippers)
• shown leaning, can't tell why tired from front
• holding apples behind back

Battle of Issus Mosaic, pompeii, 100 bc (after classical 4th century painting by Philoxenos)

• limited color pallet, limited background
• flat ground, like a stage
• tessera: little cubes of glass (not used in classical 4th century, showing it to be a roman copy)

Lysicrates monument, athens, classical 4th century

• monument for winning athenian play contest
• first outdoor use of corinthian order

Altar of Zeus, pergamon, hellenistic

• facial expressions
• really moving figures
• overblown bodies
• aware of past history
• guiding gaze toward athena "V" formation (reference to athens) by tilting gate

Dying Gaul, Hellenistic

• Elements of him not being greek: french fry hair, bridge of nose, necklace, low brow

Nike, samothrace, hellenistic

• winged female, descending onto boat, explains crookedness of wings and movement of drapery

Laocoon, rome, Hellenistic/early imperial

• may be Roman original in Hellenistic style
• Or is a Roman copy, and the copier added another son to fit Roman mythology

Apollo, Veii, Etruscan

• terra cotta
• much more movement
• clothed

Tomb of reliefs, cerveteri, etruscan

• looks like the inside of a house

Mausolus, mausoleum at Halicarnassus, classical 4th century

• 1 of seven wonders of anciant world
• house with collumns on second story and third story had a pyramid
• tried to render as persians looked: bulky drapery, deeply sunken eyes, smaller head to body, play with light and shadow