Art History I: Ancient World To The Middle Ages

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Geometric Krater

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Geometric Period

Athens Greece

-key or meander around top, popular during time period.

-hollow=libations to dead/no bottom

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Hero and centaur

(Herkales and Nessos?)

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Geometric Period

Olympia Greece

-Man is larger than centaur

-Naked=Youthful male figure

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Lysippides and Andokides Painters

(Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game)

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Archaic Period

Orvieto Italy

Amphora

-Bilingual, one black/ one red figure

-red figure painting done with a brush

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Kroisos

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Archaic Period

Anavysos Greece

--Based on Egyption form

-replaced geometric vases as grave markers

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Calf Bearer

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Archaic Period

Athens Greece

-archiac smile, few sculptures=alive

-dedicated to Athena

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Peplos Kore

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Archaic Period

Athens Greece

-4 garments, one from a goddess

-holding what identified her in left hand, dont know who she is

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West Pediment from the Temple of Artemis

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Archaic Period

Corfu Greece

-Moved away from narritive, centeralized figure

-Panthers things and Medusa gaurding temple

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Niobid Painter

(Artemis and Apollo Slaying the Children of Niobe

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Classical Period

Orvieto Italy

-Children being slain because, Niobid boasted about her children

-figures are portrayed through out plain and interacting with background.

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Athena, Herakles, and Atlas with the Apples of Hesperides

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Classical Period

Olympia Greece

-dipicted herakles doing 1 of the 12 labors= holding up the sky

-caught in the middle of an action=sever style

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Iktinos and Killikrates

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Classical Period

Athens Greece

Parthenon

-perfect in structure

-collumns that lean inwards

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Erchthenion

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Classical Period

Athens Greece

-not symetrical

-built to replace the Athenian temple

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Polykleitos, Doryphoros

(Spear Bearer)

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Classical Period

Roman marble copy from Pompeii

-contropasto

-used to have spear and sheild

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Praxiteles

(Aphrodite of Kronos)

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Classical Period

Roman marble copy

-first nude women

-highley sexualized

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Nike Alighting on warship

(Nike of Samothrace)

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Hellenistic

Samothrace Greece

-original placement on fountain

-giving favor to ship

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Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes

(Laocoon and his sons)

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Hellenistic

Rome, Italy

-snakes attacked them because one of them tried to warn about the wooden horse of the trojans

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Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander, Aphrodite

(Venus of Milo)

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Hellenistic

Melos Greece

-highly sexualized on purpose

-left hand holds apple that Paris awarded to the most beautiful goddess

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Polyeuktos, Demosthenes

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Hellenistic

Roman Copy

-dipicted as frail but with courage and moral conviction

-made 42 years after models death

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Acropolis

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A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill.

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Architrave

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A main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature. The molded frame around a doorway or window.

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Black Vase Painting

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The silhouetting of dark figures
against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes.

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Capital

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Forms the topmost member of a column.

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Caryatid

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Female figure that functions as a supporting column. These wear peplos, which is a simple tunic.

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Cella (Naos)

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A cella (from Latin for small chamber) or naos (from the Greek ναός, "temple"), is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture, or a shop facing the street in domestic Roman architecture,

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Column

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An upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing alone as a monument.

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Contrapposto

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Stance in which one part of the body is turned in opposition to another, creating a counter positioning of the body around its central axis.

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Cornice

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An ornamental molding around the wall of a room just below the ceiling.

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Entrablature

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A horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice.

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Frieze

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A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, especially on a wall near the ceiling.

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Greek Orders

(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian)

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A system of standardized "types" or styles used in classical architecture.

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Kore

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Archaic sculpture of a standing female. Always clothed, usually in a peplos

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Kouros

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Archaic sculpture of a standing male youth. Funerary, votive, ect. Not considered portraites but generalized representations of youth.

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Meander

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Greek fret/key. A decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif.

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Metope

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A square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze.

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Pediment

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The triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns.

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Peristyle

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A colonnade around the Cella and its porches

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Pronaos

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A vestibule at the front of a classical temple, enclosed by a portico and projecting sidewalls.

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Red Vase Painting

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The silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear detail.

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Shaft

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Rests upon the base, is a long, narrow, vertical cylinder that in some orders is articulated with fluting (vertical grooves). The shaft may also taper inward slightly so that it is wider at the bottom than at the top.

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Stylobate

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curves upwards.

A continuous base supporting a row of columns in classical Greek architecture.

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Triglyph

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A tablet in a Doric frieze with three vertical grooves. Triglyphs alternate with metopes.

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Volute

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A spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.

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Ancient Greece

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Geometric

Archaic

Classical

Hellenistic