Art History- Greek

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Kouros

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600 BCE, Marble

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Kore

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530 BCE, Marble, Acroplois, Athens

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Temple of Hera I

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550 BCE, Paestum, Italy

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West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia

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600 BCE, Corfu, Greece

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Temple of Aphaia

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500-490 BCE, Aegina, Greece

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Plan and restored cutaway view of the temple of Aphaia

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500-490 BCE, Aegina, Greece

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West pediment of the temple of Aphaia

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500 BCE, Aegina, Greece, Marble

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Dying Warrior, from the west pediment of the temple of Aphaia

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500-490 BCE, Aegina, Greece, Marble

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Riace Warrior

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450 BCE, Bronze, Riace, Italy

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Spear Bearer by Polykleitos

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450BCE, Roman copy of the Greek Bronze original, Found in Pompeii, Italy

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Parthenon by Iktinos and Kallikrates

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447-438 BCE, Acroplois, Athens

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Athena Parthenos by Phidias

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438 BCE, cella of the Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens

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Three Goddesses

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438 BCE, east pediment of the Parthenon

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Details of the Panathenaic Festival Procession

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438 BCE, frieze of the Parthenon

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Erchtheion

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421-405 BCE, Achropolis, Athens

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Caryatid from the South Porce of the Erechtheion

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421-405 BCE, Acroplois, Athens

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Grave Stele of Hegeso

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400 BCE, Dipylon Cemetary, Athens

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Achilles Painter

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440 BCE, Eretria, Greece

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Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles

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350-340 BCE, Roman copy of the Bronze original

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Hermes and infant Dionysus by Praxiteles

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340 BCE, Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece

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Grave Stele of a young hunter

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340-330 BCE, Athens, Greece

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Scraper by Lysippos

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330 BCE, Roman Copy of the Bronze original

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Weary Herakles by Lysippos

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320 BCE, Roman Copy

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Theodoros of Phokaia

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375 BCE, Tholos, Greece

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Reconstructed West Front of the altar of Zeus

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175 BCE, Pergamon, Turkey

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Detail of the gigantomachy frieze from the Altar of Zues

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175 BCE, Pergamon, Turkey

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Dying Gaul by Epigonos

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230 BCE, Roman Copy, Pergamon, Turkey

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Nike of Samothrace

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190 BCE, Marble, Samorthrace, Greece

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Aphrodite (Venus de Milo)

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150-125 BCE, Marble, Milos, Greece

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Seated Boxer

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100-50 BCE, Bronze, Rome, Italy

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Laocoon and his sons

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1st century CE, marble, Rome, Italy

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Naturalism

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Effect of making a sculpture seem life-like and less idealized.

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Idealization

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Exaggerated protrayal of a subject usually to make them look better or fit a specific cultural stereotype

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Contrapossto

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An Italian term meaning "counterpoise" used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs

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Ionic Order

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one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture.
Ionic columns normally stand on a base, which separates the shaft of the column from the stylobate or platform.

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Canon of proportions

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grid system establishing proportions for drawing and sculpting human figures.

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Doric Order

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one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture.
the height of Doric columns is six or seven times the diameter at the base.[1] This gives the Doric columns a shorter, thicker look than Ionic columns, which have 8:1 proportions.

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Colannade

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denotes a long sequence of columns joined at the top.

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Peristyle

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A columned porch or open colonnade in a building that surrounds a court

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Cella

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a room at the centre of the building, usually containing a cult image or statue

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Entablature

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the superstructure of moldings and bands which lies horizontally above the columns, resting on their capitals. Includes frieze and architrave.

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Architrave

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a moulded or ornamental band framing a rectangular opening

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Frieze

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the wide central section of an entablature and may be plain or — in the Ionic or Corinthian order — decorated with bas-reliefs

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Cornice

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any horizontal decorative molding which crowns any building or furniture element

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Pediment

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the triangular section found above the horizontal structure (entablature), typically supported by columns