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Title: Ajax and Achilles playing a game artist: Exekias Culture: Greek it is a moment during the trojan war there is a lull in fighting them playing a game shows there friendship Achilles is in the hat and he is dominate Ajax is bigger but slower they are playing a board game and calling out numbers. the focal point is dead space between the two there curved backs lead to the dead space and friendship the spears do this as well the shields act like a barrier to keep your eye on them playing a game this is considered a black figured human consciousness friendship and sociology. |
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Title: Spear Bearer Artist: Polykelitios Culture: Greek contrapposto: the twisted pose resulting from parts of the body set in oppositon to each other around a central axis bent leg to a straight arm straight leg to a bent arm perfect image of body canon: established rules or standard canon of proportions: a set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body. arete: visual rep. of excellence, beauty of excellence, beauty of mind body and spirit. |
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Essay: Hermes and the Ifant Dionysous Culture: Greek he was one of the gods that started as a baby. they send Dionisyis into woods to live with a satyar. hermes is going to feed the baby he would have an arm with grapes for baby dionyisis is the God of wine cloth is to stabilize the sculpture "s" curve is in the body the body is thinner greek culture. |
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Lacoon and his son Lacoon is the guy in the center, he is a trojan priest of Apollo. he has the abillity to see into the future he sees the trojan horse the send snakes to kill Lacoon athena and psydedone on the greek side he is going to warn the greeks not to take the trojan horse he is trying to break free from the snakes muscles flexed to show his muscles to break free twisted controposto in the body very detail feel he is in pain, you can see this in his face, it is phscology pain. he is not going to save his son and he is not going to be able to warn them about the trojan horse his god apollo has abandoned him he is in pathos |
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Augustus of Primaporta culture: Roman red hair because he is a god bare feet because he is on holy ground his body i sin controposto. he has his hand out because he is one with the people. one the bottom cupid is riding a dolphin cupids mother is venus, which came from the foam the foam of the sea. true world and real world support him clean shaven means roman he has a dog which shows loyalty the other guy is a barbarian sky god = peace all year around at the bottom is mother earth |
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Flavian Amphitheatre culture: Roman they would build it on the side of a heel so they would have a slope concrete: the most important technicigiacal advancements invented by the Romans you can have an arch: a curved structure structural element that spans an open space barrel vault roman culture groin vault: the collums are engaged colloms because they are only for looks |
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Commodus as Hercules he believed he is the recarnation of Hercules he wears a head dress of a lion he carried a club like hercules the sculpture is a bust the shield has to eagles to represent at the bottom are amazon women which shows he keeps things in order he had a beard like a barbareian Roman culture |
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the crossing of the red sea culture: Jewish it has nitch the nitch would have scripts from the bible they would teach young boys how to read and write the different panels would tell stories the room is a private place of worship moses is placed in a basket pharohs daughter finds him it is a continious narration there is more than one part to the story it is very flat fresco style army on the right drowing on the left God parts the sea just for mosses it is frontal it has black outline like a coloring book they did a certain part every day mosses and aaron are the center of the painting the key concept is religion |
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Good Shepard, Orants, and story of jonah done very quick by amature christ is the good shepard the subjects are reused this is a new religion at the time it is an early christian work comes from Islam 23:1 it refers to the new and old testaments it is a mix pegan, christianity, and jewish its symbols go for all relgions there is a nitch at the bottom Orant 4 parts of the story jonah was ate by the whale and spit out three days later the reason for the jonahs story is the three day symblism for the crucefexion of jesus has sketch quality |
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Emperor of Justinian and his attendents church of san vital culture: Byzantine it is a centralized church plan had marble in the room was filled with mosaics series of grape vines on the coloums birds on a bowl with grapes = christ christ is dressed in purple which means royalty christ is clean shaven in this image techquie is mosiac has glass cubes and gold cubes he is wearing mother pearl subject is justinain beside him the clergy in the corner there are six members of the state, like the 12 diciplies the member so of the state are hold a shield with an x for christ this is frontal and flat heavy outline made with gold big eyes |
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virgin and child with saints and angles culture: Byzantine used the term icon in the center is mary with christ on her lap mary is the throne of wisdom the purpose is to mediate to the image the two men beside her are saints they are know for slaying dragons there names are theador and george examples on how to be more like god behind them are angels flat, frontal, heavy outline, big eyes, made of gold. |
