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7 Cards in this Set
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Akrotiri
1650 Celebrating nature nature is sole subject not realistically, but landscape's essence: colours and movement first known example of pure landscape painting with no narrative element |
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Mycenae
1300-1250 Limestone Outer gateway of stronghold protected by natural rock wll formed two monoliths capped with lintel corbeled arch: leaving an opening to lighten weight of lintel carries |
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Polykleitos
Roman copy from Pompeii bronze original Quest for ideal form one of most frequently copied statues model for roman athletes demonstration piece pronounced conreapposto beautiful human movement: still: dynamic asymmetrical balance perfection of proportions |
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Crete, 1500
nature celebrations Late Minoan marine style tentacles reach out over jar emphasizing volume relationship between jar's shape and form of octopus |
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Temple of Athena Parthenos
Acropolis, Athens 447-438 Phidas oversaw building and decoration Perfection of building Doric temple design: quest for perfect proportions well spaced columns, slender shafts refinement of bulging and squat Doric columns of Hera temple |
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Crete, Greece
1700-1400 Legendary home of King Minos Theseus battled Minotaur Labrys: double ax: Labyrinth: house of double axes mansions and villas around of the elite efficient terracotta pipes underneath for rainwater clay masonry |
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Marble
530 BCE kore meaning youth rigid frontality stand over graves adherence to Egyptian protoypes, but liberated from stone block; unlike Egypt: wanted to portray movement nude: died hero's death in battle Archaic smile not portrait rounded hips and swelling cheeks: naturalistic |
