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64 Cards in this Set
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Plan of Myrtos, Crete
EM II No plan Space separation One of the first sites of wine production |
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Sedos Type Cycladic figure. Made of Marble. From a grave on the Island of Naxos, Cyclades
ECII Tech. - marble art/style Ritual purpose Paint |
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Cycladic figurine. Marble.
Early Cycladic II Harp player -music -ritual -marble -> tech./style |
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Early Bronze Age Frying pan from Syros in Cyclades. ECII.
Terracotta Early Cycladic II Found in tomb at Chalandriani -wind and boat -fertility vessel ritual (?), charm in the form of a womb |
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Snake Goddess
Middle Minoan III Faience found at Knossos -nature/religion |
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Plaques in the shape of houses, perhaps inlays from furniture.
MMII Faience found at Knossos -air and light, windows -beginning of palace |
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Kamares Ware beak spouted jug
Middle Minoan II Ceramic found at Phaistos, Crete -nature -pottery wheel |
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Minyan ware goblet. Ceramic.
Middle Heladic from Mycenae -Pottery wheel; thin sharp profile -simple, probably functional as oppose to ritual |
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Beak spouted jug. Ceramic. From Thera.
Middle Cycladic -Beak seen in Troy -Simple, Functional -Beak spout (bird/nature) |
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Plan of the palace of Minos at Knossos Crete. LM
-Architecture -Social |
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Palace of Minos at Knossos Crete: Grand stair case adjacent to the royal living quarter. LMI
-Air and light -social status |
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Temple and Grand Stands. Frescos.
LMI Found in Palace of Minos- Knossos -social, clothes, gathering -art/style. Picked up from Egyptians |
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Statuette from Palaikastro. Gold and ivory body and gramets, serpentine and crystal head and eyes. 50cm tall.
LMI -religious(???) -art/style |
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Marine style pilgram flask from Palaikastro, Crete. Ceramic.
Late Minoan IB -style, nature/water -also social. See transition from floral to water. Volcanic eruption. Flora dead, notice/see new things. |
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Landscape with swallows. Thera, Cylades. Fresco.
LBI -nature -fresco |
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Sarcophagus from Aghia Triadha, Crete. Painted Lime stone
~1400BC. LMII to LMIIIA -ritual from iconography -social -> dead, class |
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Mask of Agamemnon from shaft grave V at Mycenae. Gold
Late Helladic I -individualistic, facial representation -gold -dead |
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Gold Signet ring from shaft grave IV. Mycenae.
Late Helladic I -gold -Minoan art influence -Warriors |
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Tholos tomb - "Treasury of Atreus". Mycenae
LHIIIB -Relieving trial -Social stratification, bury dead -Cross culture, Myceneans- rigid. Minoans- free flowing and air |
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Lion Gate entrance. Mycenae
1250 BC. Helladic -lions show power -Column in center shows contact with Minoans. Took architectural idea |
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Tripod Tablet - Linear B. Teracotta. Pylos
Late Helladic III B -Inventory of traded goods -Syllabubary system |
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Warrior Vase. Mycenae
Late Helladic III B-C -Marks transistion from LHIII B to LHIII C -Pictoral Style |
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Reconstruction drawing of heroon at Lefkandi.
Dark Age. 10th Cent. BC. -Burial of wealthy -Bronze and Faience bowls from Near East and Egypt showing trade |
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Bronze horse - bronze
Geometric. 750-700 BC. -Limitations of bronze working during Geo. Period. -Burial, care for dead, status |
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Charioteer figurine. Olympia.
750-700 BC. Geometric. (Orientalizing?) -Votive offfering celebrated as a victory -Olympic games imperative to lives |
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Female figuring from Athens. Ivory.
730 BC. Geometric -grave -ivory from Orient -Nude female from Orient |
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Attic Geometric amphora - Dipylon Master
Attic Geometric. 750 BC. -Grave in Athens. Amphora -> women burials -Prothesis -Coordination of paint articulate underlying strive for political and social order |
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Chigi Vase, protocorinthian olpe.
650 BC. Protocorinthian / Orientalizing -Veii -Depicts phalanx warfare. Can see emergence of hoplite warfare and battle forming Phalanx in Archaic period. Contrast to heros of Homer -Boy playing Aulos - synchronized |
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Frieze of horsemen/warriors from temple at Prinias. Limestone
Late 7th c. BC 625-600 Orientalizing period |
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Mantiklos Apollo, Thebes. Bronze.
700-675. BC. Orientalizing -Dedicated to Apollo -ensrciption |
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Nikandre Statue from Delos. Marble.
640. BC Archaic -Dedicated to an aristocrat from Naxian -Inscription -defined by male relatives and implied independence |
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New York Kouros from Attica. Marble.
600 BC. Archaic Attic -nude- orientalizing. Modified/Trained by egypt -Grave markers |
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Grave marker of Phrasikleia, and inscribed base. From Merenda Attica. Marble.
540 BC -Inscription suggests daughter that died before marriage -Female social status |
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Archaic Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
560 BC. Archaic -King Croesus, of Lydia, sponsored Temple -Ionic |
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Treasury of the Siphnians at Delphi
530 BC. Late Archaic -constructed as a shrine -competition -Ionic |
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Temple of Artemis, Corcya, Pediment: Medusa with her son Chysaar. Lime stone
580. BC Archaic -Panthars- power -Synoptic. Pegasus |
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Temple of Apollo at Corinth. Limestone with white stuco surface
560 BC. Late Archaic -Capital bulge -Doric order |
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Attic black figure amphora by Exekias: Suicide of Ajax.
540 BC. Late Archaic -Surpassed Corinth's Vases/pots -1 scene -Used before red figure |
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Attic red figure amphora by Euthymides: revelers
510-500 BC - Body in motion new -Inscription -Red Figure |
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Temple of Hera II (Poseidon)
470-460. Late Archaic -Paestum -Doric -Same knowledge as mainland greece |
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Charioteer from Motya, Sicily. Marble
480-450 Classical -stance -clothing - Hair late Archaic but face is Severe. Origens questioned |
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Temple of Zeus, Olympia. East Pediment: The seer Iamas. Mable.
460 BC Severe -age and anxious expression new to Geek scultpure |
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Rice Warrior. Bronze with copper lips and nipples, silver teeth and inlaid eyes.
460-450 Early classical/ Period of transition -knowledge of body, movement |
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Parthenon South Metope: Struggle between Lapith and Centaur. Athens
447-438 High Classical - Moment in story, leaves rest to imagination -Tension of fight, but drapery shows control over chaos |
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Attic red figure amphora by Achillies Painter: Achillies, in contraposto Polykleitan stance.
440 Early Classical Volci -stance -fewer signatures second half of century -The mood is close to the ideal calmness of the Parthenon figures, while the stance resembles the Doryphoros. |
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Doryphoros by Polykleitos. Roman Copy of Greek Bronze original. From Pompeii. Marble.
440 Classical - Weight leg/Free leg pose, Walking pose. Also Contrapasto -Pose and Poise reflects social freedom -Ideal male body |
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Temple of Athena Nike Relief figure adjusting her sandal. Athens. Marble.
410-405 High Classical -Clinging drapery -Made during war between Sparta and Athens |
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Erechtheion on Athenian Acropolis. Marble with black Eleusinian Limestone. Athens
430-406 Caryatic porch 420-410 -Ionic -Despite losing war ( with Sparta?) continued building programs which displayed cultural dominance |
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Epidaurus Theater
Early 3rd. Classical -Drama -Theater associated with Dionysos -Sacrifices -Community |
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Drawn reconstruction of the Philippeion at Olympia.
330 Late Classical -Tholos temple. Heroon. -King built it to show success and power. Politically motivated. -Legitimize Macedonian presence in Greece and so the Greece would serve them |
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Mausoleum at Halikarnassos.
350-340 Hellenistic -Ionic. Amazon. Lapith -City ruled by a Persian Satrap, shows other cultures recognize Greek culture -hired greeks to build it. Clothing and stance greek but not faces. |
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Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles. Roman copy of a 350 marble greek original.
Late Classical Knidos -First naked female -S curve -Viewed from all sides |
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The Scraper (Apoxyomenos). Roman copy of a 350-325 Bronze Greek original by Lysippos. Marble.
Hellenistic Rome -new cannon of proportions, slender body and smaller heads -> look taller -3D movement |
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Ilissos stele - school of Skopas
330 Late Classical Athens - different ages, dead boy |
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Krater from Derveni. Guilded Bronze, Copper and Silver.
330 Hellenistic -Dionysos, satyrs dance around -Cultural diffusion, Greek style is transformed and manipulated to adapt to the Macedonian taste |
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Rape of Persephone. Wall painting in Tomb of Persephone.
340 Vergina / Aigai -Hades carrying off Persephone -Depth -> eliptical wheel. Shadow for volume of faces - Death, yet life of Persephone |
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Stag Hunt Pebble Mosaic. Signed by Gnosis, from Pelle (Macedon)
300 Hellenistic -Pebbles closely packed and uniform size. Color. |
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Portrait of Alexander the Great - Lysippos (Roman Copy). Marble.
300 Late Classical Skulpturensammlung (Albertinum) (Dresden) (Repository) -anastole - hairstyle -Thick neck and bold cheeks, powerful, conquoror -superhuman, decended from Herakles |
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Alexander sarcophagus, frieze panel: scene of Macedonians fighting Persians with Alexander at the far left attacking on horseback. Marble.
320 Hellenistic Sidon -Persians and Macedonians, Alexander tried to amalgamate to legitimize kingdom -artistic skill |
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Gaul with his wife. Gallic cheiftain killing himself (Roman Copy). Hellenistic group. Marble. Pergamon.
220 Attalid -Rather die than surrender. Barbarian portrayed as a noble hero - Twisting is baroque |
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Gilt silver emblema from a drinking bowl depicting the sea monster Skylla hurling a rock.
-Likely made is Syracuse mid to late 3rd c. BCE. -Buried under floor of a basement room in a house at Morgantina shortly in or before 211 BCE. -illegally excavated from Morgantina in Scicily and then sold to Metropolitan Museum. |
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Great altar of Zeus. Pergamon. East frieze: Athena fighting giants. Marble.
175-150 Attalid Pergamon -establish order and justice -Inspired from athena depiction at parthenon - Pergamene kings defeated Gauls, Greeks - Persians, Gods- titans |
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Jockey of Cape Artemision. Artemision, Cape. Bronze.
200-150 Hellenistic -from a shipwreck -captured moment in time |
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Comic Scene, by Dioskourides of Samos. Mosaic. From a house at Pompeii
100 BC Imperial Roman -Scene from new comedy at the theater -old techniques to make peice, shading and polychromy |
