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12 Cards in this Set
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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)
3000 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 |
