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40 Cards in this Set
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Geometric Krater
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Pre-Classical
Greece Geometric period 740 BCE - sophisticated but simple - staggering with horses - complex narrative - emotions of sadness - funeral is depicted |
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Calf Bearer
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Pre-Classical
Greece Archaic period 600 BCE - archaic smile - muscularity is being depicted more - he has a six pack - defined forearms |
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Kore from the Acropolis
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Pre-Classical
Greece Archaic period 520 BCE - her body and drapery has movement (new!) - hair flows down more naturally - not rigid stance - drapery is sensual - chiton underneath himation |
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Dying Warrior
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Pre-Classical
Greece Archaic period 500 BCE and 490 BCE - from the Temple of Aphaia - later one is more innovative and deathly - first one has an archaic smile that is more pronounced - first one has an awkward stance and looks like he's getting up rather than falling down - later one is more in pain - later one is transitioning us to the Classical period |
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Riace Bronze
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Classical
Greek Classical period 460 BCE - in bronze - realism was not enough so - extremely exaggerated - no proportional like Vitruvian Man (legs longer than body) - more human than human - looking away - he is not anatomically possible - four divisions - long legs for superhuman quality - exaggerated crevices and grove in chest, why? - to create symmetry, order, and separation - all around statue |
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Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)
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Classical
Greek Classical period 450 BCE - made by Polykleitus - trying to depict an ideal and perfect body - unrealistic - 4 division - contrapposto is new - diagonal harmony of opposites creates balance - one side bent (motion) other side not (rest) for consistency - ready to move - looking away - casual pose, he's both relaxed and ready to move - superficial look - left arm and right leg at rest, v.v. - opposites complement each other - dynamic symmetry of balace |
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Parthenon
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Classical
Greece Classical period - in the Acropolis of Athens - Doric columns - about order, mathematical relationships of units with lxwxh - peripteral - columns are leaned inward because the sun makes them look smaller - symmetrical - has a metopes and trygliphs - Doric has no frieze, only metopes in decorated - frieze on the inside celebrates victory over Persians |
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Caryatid
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Classical
Greece Classical prd 421 BCE - on the Erectheion - expensive - labor intensive - |
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Three Goddesses
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Classical prd
Greece 435 BCE - detailed drapery and can see body underneath - muscles, bones are seen - chiroscuro - knees are bent, contropposto - not rigid like Egyptians - sensuous - sculptors knew mechanics of how muscles make body move, and human anatomy - in a pediment |
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Aphrodite of Knidos
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Late Classical prd
Greece 350 BCE - innocent - doesn't know she's being watched |
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Dying Gaul
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Hellenistic prd
Greece 230 BCE - very painful, real "dying" - dirty, dragged through, blood - rope around neck - all this shows trauma he's been thru - not overly muscular - emotions are exaggerated rather than physicality - still has nobility from his erect posture, and nicely trimmed mustache and toned body |
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Nike of Samothrace
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Hellenistic prd
Greece 190 BCE - she's landing |
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Laocoon and His Sons
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Hellenistic prd
Greece 1st century CE - realistic emotions (although very exaggerated) - very much in pain - diagonal - movement - foreshortening - erotic |
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Battle of Issos
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Hellenistic prd
Greece 310 BCE - Alexander the Great takes over Persians - good foreshortening (depth in horses) - reflection of soldier of resognition/surrender - very dimensional - swords get smaller as they go back |
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Model of Temple
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Etruscan
650 BCE - more vibrant - enclosed - front porch, entrance (new!) |
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Capitoline Wolf
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Etruscan
500 BCE - in bronze - sophistication in face - personality: surprised, read to attack, protective mother, on hi alert - half-Roman and half-Etruscan since Romolus and Remus were added later by Romans |
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Porta Marzia
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Etruscan
2nd cent. BCE - engaged columns, pilasters (later used by Romans) - Corinthian capital (like Greeks) - embedded in a wall during Ren'ss - gateway - triumphal arch - same as "corbelled arch" in Mycenean |
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Temple of Fortuna Virilis
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Republic period
Roman 75 BCE - Etruscan influence on porch and it's closed - ionic columns (influenced by Greeks) - quasi-peripteral (columns don't go all around) - pediment (again Greek influence) |
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Tholos
influenced by? |
tholos is a round temple
influenced by Greeks |
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Head of Roman Patrician
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Republic period
Roman 75 BCE - he's a wealthy man who's portrayed as the opposite - playing down his wealth - he's wise - down to Earth - not trying to be glamorized - known as Veristic > intentionally making portrait look rugged/aged, hyper realism |
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Mature 2nd style wall painting
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Republic period
Roman 50 BCE - tholos is in it (influenced by Greeks - broken pediment - illusionistic vistas through architecture -one-point linear perspective (to show depth, will be used in Ren'ss) - inspires and used in the Italian Ren'ss - all receding lines converge on a single point, like a "V" which gives us depth - along the paintings central axis - all have same center (tholos) for depth and order - |
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Augustus, from the Primaporta
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Early Empire period
Roman 20 BCE - marble copy of bronze orginal - perpetual youth style of classical Greek art - Early empire reveres youth, muscular body, while in Republic period we have the veristic look - Early empire goes back to the Greek classical period |
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Pax Romano
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200 years of stability and prosperity, in Early Roman Empire during the rule of Augustus
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Procession of Imperial family
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Early Empire period (27 BCE to 96 CE)
Roman 13 BCE - from the Ara Pacis Augustae - increase birth rate - declining, since women had power - children are depicted here, unlike in Greek art - celebrates prosperity |
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Colosseum
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Early Empire period (27 BCE to 96 CE)
Roman 70 CE - inspiration through the Italian Ren'ss - built for games, spectators, etc - built on land taken from Neru - Neru was very corrupt, taxed land heavily - 50,000 spectators, 76 entrances - compared with Parthenon, Colosseum has arches, barrel vaults stacked upon each other - built by Vespasian, finished by his son Titus - on the bottom Doric columns, above it Ionic columns, above it Corinthian columns -engaged columns (which was inspired by Etruscans) |
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Spoils of Jerusalem (Arch of Titus)
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Early Empire period (27 BCE to 96 CE)
Roman 81 CE - relief bay on the Arch of Titus - triumphal arch celebrates military victories and public works - tells us about the strong Roman empire/civilization (how they take over cities and civilizations and take gold etc) - soldiers are seen carrying away different things from the temples (they're looting) - Romans raided all the things from the temple of jeruslem, tells us of their socio-economics - very humanistic - it's staggered (depth) - heads are not at the same level - movement - *chiaroscuro (deep incising produces contrast b/t light and dark) - realistically moving figures |
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Portrait of Hadrian
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High Empire period (96 CE to 192 CE)
Roman 138 CE CE - bronze - vibrant and cultural society at this time - one of the greatest emperors of Rome - he's very cosmopolitan (he's from Spain and he's an emperor of Rome, so in Rome you don't have to be Roman to be in power, and it's a lot like here) - this means it's a very open, tolerant, cultural and vibrant society |
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Interior of Pantheon
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High Empire period (96 CE to 192 CE)
Roman 118 CE - dome - no internal support system - never been duplicated - built by Hadrian - cylinder crowned by semi-circular dome - 142 feet high and wide - circle within a circle (gives us depth, volume, balance) - cement (allowed all shapes and sizes) - 30-foot aucular opening - built based on intersection of two circles (creates balance as both have same point of center) - what keeps dome from caving in? auculus has puma stone, weight is lessened by coffers - Pre-Roman architecture used visible support structures which interrupted the space - *incrustation - juxtaposition of light and dart tiles (like floor in a barber shop) - tried to create the heavens |
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Incrustation
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juxtaposition of light and dark tiles
in the Pantheon (High Empire, Roman) |
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Marcus Aurelius equestarian staute
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High Empire period (96 CE to 192 CE)
Roman - also one of the greatest Roman ruler - military man with intellect - over-sized body is the propoganda - this makes him look powerful - goes back to the Veristic style because he doesn't look young, but serious, with a beard, |
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Marcus Aurelius
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High Empire period (96 CE to 192 CE)
Roman 175 CE - Roman empire - war is happening - he looks stressed, torn, he wants to escape Iraq |
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Four Tetrarchs
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Late Empire (192 CE to 337 CE)
Roman 305 CE - not a lot of body seen - stylized and rigid(goes back to Egyption) - not individualized - 4 military leaders divided by Diocletion into East and West - propaganda: unity (working together - navigating a change of social and political change - economy, war, and religious fanaticism threatens our worlds - stability and adaptibility is key to survival - by these 4 leaders, stability is brought by dividing into East&West - Constantine brings order to this falling apart society |
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Constantine
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Late Empire (192 CE to 337 CE)
Roman 313 CE - Constantine legalizes Christianity - rules Western part of the empire - stops persecution of the Jews - his statue is different as it looks up at the heavens (first sense of spirituality, also he has pupils (in his eyes, not students) - in 324 CE, he invades Eastern roman empire which reunites Roman empire (brings stability) - East empire never goes thru Dark Ages b/c Constantine moves capital from Rome to Constantinople - Middle Ages begin, Roman empire defeated, Nomads come in |
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What made Constantine end the tetrarchy?
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winning the Battle of Milvian
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Interior of the synagogue
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Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
- Old Testament themes/art - art is frontal/rigid with lack of movement and depth - stylized (like Egyptian art) - foreshortening used with some modeling |
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The Good Sheperd
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- Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
- early 4th century - painted ceiling of a catacomb (underground burial places) - *prefiguration - events of the Old Testament that foreshadow Christian events; Christians borrowed it from Jews b/c of their rich culture - Jesus depicted as a humble sheperd - - |
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Christ as Sol Invictus
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Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
- evolution of image of Christ - Christians are looking towards Romans - using Roman mythology (inspired Christian art) - rays of light coming out from his head as a halo |
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Christ as Good Sheperd
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Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
425 CE - upgraded image of Christ - Jesus looks like a patrician (so from a sheperd to a Roman emperor) - we never loose Classicism (in and out) - shadows of animals can be seen - |
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Miracle of loaves and fishes
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Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
504 CE - even more evolved image: Jesus as divine - all about Jesus and his frontality - not staggered, very frontal - |
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Christ before Pilate
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Late Antiquity (245 CE to 520 CE)
6th century CE - Pilate - showing a law court |
