Art History (Chapter 5): Ancient Greece

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Funerary Krater (Artist)

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Unknown

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Funerary Krater (Location)

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Dipylon Cemetary, Athens

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Funerary Krater (Style)

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Geometric

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Funerary Krater (Medium)

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Ceramic

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Funerary Krater (Significance)

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Design on the top called a meander, all space filled (horror vacui), registers, mourning (people pulling their hair out)

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Temple of Hera I (Style)

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Archaic

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Temple of Hera I (Location)

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Paestum (Ancient Poseidonia)

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Temple of Hera I (Artist)

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Unknown

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Temple of Hera I (Medium)

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Unknown

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Temple of Hera I (Discussion)

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Three step foundation, columns rest on the floor (called Doric order), columns have shape called entasis, top of column is called the capital, and then the roof sits on top

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Gordon Medusa (Style)

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Archaic

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Gordon Medusa (Location)

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Pediment of Temple of Artemis, Korkyra

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Gordon Medusa (Medium)

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Limestone

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Gordon Medusa (Artist)

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Unknown)

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Gordon Medusa (Significance)

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Story of the Medusa

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Standing Youth (Kouros) (Artist)

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Unknown

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Standing Youth (Kouros)(Medium)

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Marble

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Standing Youth (Kouros) (Style)

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Archaic

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Standing Youth (Kouros) (Significance)

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Kouroi are typically nude, and have been associated with youth, athleticism and family community

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Standing Youth (Kouros) (Style)

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Archaic

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Anavysos Kouros (Artist)

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Unknown

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Anavysos Kouros (Medium)

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Marble with remnants of paint

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Anavysos Kouros (Style)

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Archaic

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Anavysos Kouros (Significance)

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Shows the more increasing interest of artists and their patrons in rendering lifelike art. Greater anatomical accuracy, less rigid pose, face less geometric, but still has archaic smile

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Anavysos Kouros (Location)

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Cemetary at Anavyssos, near Athens

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Peplos Kore (Artist)

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Unknown

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Peplos Kore (Style)

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Archaic

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Peplos Kore (Medium)

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Marble, once painted in encaustic (paint remnanats)

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Peplos Kore (Location)

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Acropolis, Athens

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Peplos Kore (Significance)

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Named for its garment, called a peplos. Her bare arms and head convey a greated sense of real flesh and human form, and her head it less conventional.

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Kore from Chios (Artist)

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Sculptor from Chios

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Kore from Chios (Style)

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Archaic

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Kore from Chios (Location)

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Acropolis, Athens

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Kore from Chios (Medium)

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Marble with paint

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Kore from Chios (Significance)

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Shows the continuing trend toward more lifelike figures

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Dionysos & Maenads (Style)

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Archaic

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Dionysos & Maenads (Location)

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Unknown

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Dionysos & Maenads (Medium)

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Ceramic

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Dionysos & Maenads (Artist)

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The Amasis Painter

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Dionysos & Maenads (Significnace)

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The Amasis Painter favored strong shapes and patterns, with the disregard for making figures appear to occupy real space. Black Figure method was adopted.

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Suicide of Ajax (Artist)

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Exekias

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Suicide of Ajax (Location)

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Athens

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Suicide of Ajax (Style)

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Archaic

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Suicide of Ajax (Medium)

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Ceramic

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Suicide of Ajax (Significance)

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Captures the story of Ajax killing himself after the death of his cousin Achilles. This is also Black Figure.

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Kritian Boy (Artist)

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Probably the Greek sculptor Kritios

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Kritian Boy (Location)

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Acropolis, Athens

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Kritian Boy (Medium)

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Marble

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Kritian Boy (Style)

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Early Classic

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Kritian Boy (Significance)

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The body is less rigid, and the artist seems to have a better understanding of the human body, skeleton, and the way the skin and muscles interact. The boy is in a different pose, and instead of the Archaic flat-footed stance, the right leg is bent, shifting the weight so that the body can be viewed shifting. The Archaic smile is gone

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Charioteer (Artist)

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Unknown

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Charioteer (Style)

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Early Classic

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Charioteer (Location)

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Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi

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Charioteer (Medium)

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Bronze, copper, silver, onyx

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Charioteer (Significance)

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Commemorates the victory of a driver in the Pythian games- again, in this early classic model we see more realistic features- as if the statue were a real person

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Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs (Artist)

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Unknown

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Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs (Medium)

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Marble

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Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs (Style)

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Early Classic

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Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs (Location)

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Temple of Zeus, Olympia

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Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs (Significance)

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These are remnants of the from the West pediment of the Temple of Zeus. A story is being told of centaurs who drank too much and tried to carry off Lapith women.

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Doryphoros (Artist)

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Polykleitos

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Doryphoros (Medium)

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Marble (This is a Copy-the original was Bronze)

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Doryphoros (Style)

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Early Classic

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Doryphoros (Location)

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Argos

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Doryphoros (Significance)

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Early Classic Greek Art- Polykleitos used a canon, or a set of rules about proportions of body parts to create the perfect form.

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Bronze Warriors (Artist)

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Unknown

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Bronze Warriors (Location)

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Found in the sea off Riace, Italy

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Bronze Warriors (Style)

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Early Classic

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Bronze Warriors (Medium)

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Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips and nipples

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Bronze Warriors (Significance)

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Classic Greek style, and has an idealized and youthful body. Inside is hollow.