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The prehistoric Aegean and
Lion Gate, Mysenae Greece |
pg 68
Troy and Mycenae, pelopokkesus, Crete, Asia minor, Cyclades Largest sculpture in the prehistoric Aegean, relief of confronting lions, consists of two great monoliths and a huge lintel |
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Woman from Syros pg 68
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Cycladic Art
nude woman with arm folded across the abdomen from grave in the island of Syros it is uncertain if ti represents the deceased budy rendered using a series of traingles |
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Palace of Knossos pg 70
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Greece
The knosos palace is the largest on Crete and was the legendary home of King Minos it's layout features a large central court, around which all the residential and administrative units were grouped |
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Plan of the palace at Knossos pg 70
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the mazelike plan of the knossos palace gave rise to the greek myth of the cretan labyrinth inhabited by the minotaur that the athenian king Theseus killed.
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Stairwell in the residential quarter of the palace at Knossos Crete, Greece pg 71
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the knossons palace was complex in elevation as well as plan. it had at least three stories on all sides of the court. Minoan columns taper from top to bottom, the opposite of Egyptian and Greek columns
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Bull leaping fromt he knossos , crete greece pg 72
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frescue, ceremonial scene, women have fair skin and men dark
depics minoan ceremony of bull leaping, young men grasped the horns of a bull and vaulted onto its back. suggest elasticity in living beings |
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Spring Fresco
Landscape with Swallows from room delta 2, akrotiri thera , greece , cyclades pg 73 thera fresco |
agean muralists painted in wet fresco, which required rapid execution.
first known pure landscape, theran painter used vivid colors and undulating lines to capture the essence of springtime from Akrotiri |
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pg 74 Kamares-ware jar pg 74
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from phaistos, crete greece
have creamy white and reddish brown decoration on black background this jar combines a fish with curvilinear abstract patterns including spirals and waves minoan pottery love of nature |
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Harvesters Vase pg pg 76 crete greece steatie originally with gold leaf, greatest diameter
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minoan relief sculpture
from Hagia Triada shows riotous crowd singing and shouting as they go to or return from he fields |
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Corbeled gallery in the walls of the citadel, Tiryns, Greece pg 77
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The walls of Tiryns cvontain a long cobell vaulted gallery in which irregular Cyclopean blocks were piled into horizontal courses and then cantivelerd inward until the two walls met in a pointed arch
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Three methods of spanning a passegway pg 77
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1. post and lintel- was the norm in greece
2. corbeled arch- myeneaeans 3. arch- popular in Rome |
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Plaster Sculpture pg 81
Female head from Mycenae, greece painted plaster |
very early example of monumental statue of a goddess in Greece, but some scholars think its a head of a sphynx
red dots are the facial paint or tattoos recorded Early Cycladic figurines of women |
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Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetary, Athens, Greece pg 88
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figure paintings appeared with abtract designs
featured a mourning scene and procession in honor of deceased Dipylon Cemetary, athens meander-key two bands of human figures and a horse drawn chariots in the middle concern on specifying gender human figure reintroduced into painter's repertoire art of storytelling revived |
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Lady of auxerre goddess or maiden limestone pg 91
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this kore maiden typifies the so called deadalic style of the seventh century with its triangular face and hair and lingering geometric fondness for abstract pattern kore- goddess or maiden deadalus- legendray artist, said to have built the labyrinth |
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New York Kouros marble pg 92
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kouros- youth
kouros of the earliest life soze statues adopted the Egyptian pose for standing kuroi are nude and made from original block of stone funerary statue kuroi used as offerings in sanctuaries |
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Kroisos from Anavysos, Greece, marble pg 93
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stood over the grave of Kroisos, a young man who died in battle. The statue displays increased naturalism in its proportions and more rounded modeling of face, toso and limbs
more naturalistic |
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13 Plan of a typical Greek perpteral temple pg 95
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The basic form of the canonical Greek temple derives from that of the megaron of a Mycenaean palace
greek temples housed statues of deieties and most were surrounded by columns naos or cella- core of an ancient greek temple pronaos-porch antae -extended walls opisthodomos- porch at the rear decorative purpose persistyle- external colonnade on all four sides |
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14 Elevations of the Doric and Ionic orders. pg 96
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The major differences between the Doric and Ionic orders are the form of the capitals and the treatment of the frieze.
The Doric order is divided into triglyphs and metopes. |
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15 Temple of Hera I Basilica, Paestum Italy pg 97
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The peristyle of this huge early Doric temple consists of heavy , closely spaced , cigar-shaped columns with bulky, pancake capitals
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16 Plan of the Temple of Hera I pg 97
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The temple has an odd number of columns on the facade and a single row of columns in the cella, leaving no place for central cult statue.
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23 Euphronios, Heraknles Wrestling Antaios from Cerveteri Italy pg 102
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Euphronios rejected te age-old composite view for his depiction of Heracles and the giant Antaios instead attempted to reproduce how human body is seen from a particular viewpoint.
painter Euphronios |
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25Temple of Aphasia, Aegina, Greece pg 103
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Doric Design
columns are more slender and widely spaced only six columns on the facade and twelve on the flanks |
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29 Dynamic Warrior from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphasia, Aegina, Greece , marble
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The eastern dying warrior already belongs to the classical era. His posture is more natural, and he exhibits a new self-consciousness. Concerned with his own pain, he does not face the viewer.
classical sculpture |
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34 kritios boy, acropolis, athens, greece, marble pg 107
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sulptor kritios
first statue to show how a human actually stands depicted shifting of weight from one leg to another no archaic smile |
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40 polykleitos doryphoros (spear bearer) roman marble copy from pompeii italy pg 110
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artist: polykleidos
from pmpeii italy portray the perfect man to impose order on human movement employ harmonic proportions and a system of cross balance for all parts of the body used a canon- standard of perfection |
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41 Kresilas Pericles, roman marble herm copy of a bronze original pg 111
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artist: kresilas
portrait of pericles noble man appear more noble idealized image not realistic inscribed pericles, son of xanthippos, the athenian |
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42 acropolis, athens, greece pg112
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centerpiece built by pericles was the parthenon
the athenians reconstructed the acropolis after the persian sack funds came from delian league treasury. |
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43 restored view of the acropolis, athens, greece pg 112
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1 parthenon- temple
2. propylaia- gateway 3 pinakotheke- 4. erechtheion 5 temple of athena nike |
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44 Iktinos and kallikrates, parthenon, acropolis, greece, athens pg 113
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architects=iktinos amd kallikrates
staute of athena was work of phidias architects believed that perfect beauty could be achieved by using harmonic proportions Doric temple contaminated by ionic elements |
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45 plan of parthenon, acropolis, greece diagram of sculptural program pg 113
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the parthenon was lavishly decorated under the direction of phidias. statues filled both pediments and figural reliefs adorned all 92 metopes.
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49 three goddesses hestia, dione and aphrodite, from the east pediment of the parthenon, acropolis, athens greece, marble pg 115
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confomr perfectly with the right side of the east pediment. the thin and heavy folds of the garments alternately reveal and conceal the body forms
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50 Details of the Panatheniac Festival procession freize from the parthenon
horsemen of north freize seited gods and goddesses (poseidon, apollo and artemis) elders and maidens of east frieze pg 116 |
procession of citizens on horseback and on foot that took place every four years under the watchful eyes of gods
celebrated athenians and athena |
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52 Erechtheion (looking northwest) acropolis, athens greece pg 117
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antithesis of the Doric Parthenon directly across from it. An ionic temple
replaced archaic athena temple honored athena and housed the ancient wooden image of the goddess that was the goal of the panathenaic festival procession had shrines for other gods as well ex erechtheus and kekrops, kings of athens |
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53 Plan of the Erecheion , acropolis, athens , greece pg 118
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the assymmetrical form is unique for a greek temple it reflects the need to incorporate preexisting shrines into the plan, including those of the kings erechtheus and kekrops.
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54 Caryatid from the south porch of the Erechtheon, Acropolis, athens greece pg 118
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the south porch of the erechtheion features caryatids, updated classical versions with contrapposto stance of archaic caryatids of the porch of the siphnian treasury at delphi
south porch caryatid |
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Aphrodite of Kindos pg 123
roman marble copy |
First nude statue of a goddess
artist: praxiteles- famous for his ability to transform marble into soft and radiant flesh had dewy eyes |
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paraxiteles Hermes and the infant Dionysos from the Temple of Hera, Olympia Greece pg 124
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artist: praxiteles
humanized the Olympian dieties. This Hermes is as sentuous as Aphrodite Found in Temple of Hera Hermes stops to rest on a journey to Nysa to give dionysis to papposilenos and nymphs The gods gazes dreamily into space while he dangles grapes as temptation for the infant god of wine |
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65 Lysippos, Apxymenos, roman marble copy
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means scraper
artist: lysippos introduced a new canon of proportions and a nervous energy broke down the dominance of the frontal view and encouraged the viewing of staute from multiple angles bronze stigil-scraper |
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Philoxenos of Eretria, Battle of Issus Roman copy (Alexander Mosiac) pg 128
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artist: Philoxenos of Eretria
from : House of Faun: Pompeii, Italy considered one of the greatest paintings of antiquity captures confroIntation between Alexander the Great and Persian King Darius II made for king Cassander tesserae- tiny stones or pieces of glass cut desired shape |
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71 Polykleitos the Younger, Theater, Epidauros, Greece pg 129
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artist: polykleidos the younger
situated on hillsides finest in greece accomodated 12,000 spectators located at Epidauros in the Peloponnesos |
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Altar of Zeus pg 133
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location: Pergamon, Turkey
gigantomachy frieze of Pergamons monumental Altar of Zeus is almost 400 feet long. The battle of gods and giants alluled to the victory of King AttalosI over the Gauls of Asia Minor most famous hellenistic cultural ensemble the subject os battle of zeus against the giants |
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Athena battling Alkyoneos, detail of the gigantomachy frieze from the Altar of Zeus pg 134
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from Pergamon ,Turkey
emotional power never previously seen violent movements and vivid depictions |
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Nike alighting on a worship pg 135
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from Samotherace, Greece
hellenistic baroque in Sanctuary of the Great Gods nike allighted on the prow of a greek warship rejected polykleiden conception of proportioned statue |
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laacoon and his sons pg 139
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artist: Athanadoros, Hagesandros and polydoros of rhodes
from Rome, Italy hellenistic style sea serpens attacking laocoon and his two sons mathches the account given only in Aeneid |
