Art History Quiz #2

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Palace of Minos. Knossos, Crete. Minoan Columns. Date: 1500 BCE. Pillowy Tops. Frescoes. No linear axis. Resembled the Labyrinth of myth.

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Queen's Megaron. Palace of Minos. Knossos, Crete. Date: 1700-1300 BCE. Playful paintings. Resembling nature and active. HALLMARKS OF MINOAN ART: Uses entire area and has a frame.

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Toreador Fresco. Palace of Minos. Knossos, Crete. Minoan Period. Date: 1550-1450 BCE. Men shown darker than women. Playful. Active. Composite view. Thin and small people.

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Snake Goddess. Palace Complex, Palace of Minos. Minoan Period. Knossos, Crete. Date: 1650 BCE. Made of FAIENCE. Vitreous sand that has been hardened and covered in glaze. Material is manmade.

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Harvester Vase. Minoan Period. Date: ca. 1500-1450 BCE. Medium: Stone/Steatite.

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Corbeled Casemate. Mycenean Period. Cylopean Masonry. 1400-1280 BCE. Each course of stone projects a little more inward than the row below it.

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Lion Gate. Mycenaean Period. 1250 BCE. Relieving Arch. Flanking a Minoan Column. Corbeled Relieving Arch.

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Treasury of Atreus. 1300-1250 BCE. Long passageway called a DROMOS. Thollos or Beehive style tomb. Body was placed either underground or in an adjacent room.

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Vaphio Cups. 1500-1450 BCE. Mycenean Period. Gold, using the method of Repousse'. One of them depicts a peaceful Minoan landscape. One of them depicts a violent Mycenean scene.

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Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice. 560-530 BCE. Arcahic Period. Artist: EXEKIAS. Black figures painted onto red clay amphoras and then etched.

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Dancing Revelers. (Komasts) 510-500 BCE. Red-Figured Amphora. Figures painted, not etched onto the red clay amphoras.

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Eos and Memon. Artist: Douris Painter. ca. 490-480 BCE. Red-Figured.

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Kouros (Youth). Date: ca. 600-590 BCE. Funerary marker for a deceased noble youth. Pose influenced by Egyptian Old Kingdom Portraits.

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Peplos Kore. Female Funerary Figure. Dressed.

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Kritios Boy. Date: 490-480 BCE. CONTRAPOSSTO. All weight resting on one leg. Hips and Shoulders at different levels.

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Early Classical Period. Zeus or Poseidon. Lost Wax Method. 460-450 BCE. Transitory moment.

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Doryphoros. (Spear Bearer). ARTIST: POLYKLEITOS. 450-440 BCE. High Classical Period. Established canon of proportions; 1:7, head to body. Idealized with no expression is the hallmark of high classical period.

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The Parthenon. 447 BCE-432 BCE. ARCHITECTS: IKTINOS & KALLIKRATES. Dedicated to Athena. Meant to be approached on a diagonal. Structure included many Pediments. Doric structure.

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Three Goddesses. Parthenon Pediments.

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Inner Frieze. Parthenon. Pan-Athenaic Procession or the Sacrifice of Arechtheus' Daughters. Peplos, or funerary cloth. EASTERN FRIEZE.

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Lapith and Centaur Metope. SOUTHERN FRIEZE. Symbolized the real battle that happened between the Persians and Athenians.

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Doric

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Ionic

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Corinthian.

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Aphrodite of Knidos. Artist: PRAXITELES. ca. 340 BCE. Totally idealized. Roman copy of greek original. Modeled after; PHRYNE the courtesan.

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The Battle of Alexander. Hellenistic Period. 323 BCE-31 BCE. Medium: Mosaic. Dynamic and dramatic.

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Nike of Samothrace. 190 BCE. Commemorates a naval victory. ARTIST: Pythokritos or other rhodes sculptor. Movement. S-Torsion. Cloth Draperies blowing in the natural wind of the statue's location.

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Sleeping Eros. 240-200 BCE. Garden Decoration. Lost Wax Method. Sleeping figures were popular in the Hellenistic Period. Cast Bronze. Wing details; similar to Nike of Samothrace.