Art History Test 3

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Cycladic Figure

Cycladic

Brought Back Human Figure

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Flotilla Fresco

Minoan

From Akrotiri

Showing we are sea fearing people

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Kamares Ware Jug

Minoan

Found in cave santuary on Mount Ida

wheel thrown

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Bull Leaping Fresco

Minoan

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Snake Goddess

Minoan

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Palaikastro Kouros

Chryselephantine

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Mask of Agamemnon

Mycenean

Got Squished

Repousse

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Treasury of Atreus (interior view)

Mycenean

Tholos=Round Building Plan

Dromos=Passageway in front of it

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Ajax and Achilles Playing a game

Exekias

Archaic

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Funerary Krater (Dipylon Vase)

Geometric

Cremation Associated

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Man and Centaur

Geometric

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Anavysos Kouros (Kroisos)

Archaic

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Peplos Kore

Archaic

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Dying Warrior (the smiling guy)

Archaic

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Kritios Boy

Early Classical

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Warrior (Riace Warrior)

Classical

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Parthenon, Athenian Acropolis

Kallikrates & Iktinos

Classical

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Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

Polykleitos Classical

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Marshals & Young Women

Classical

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Popylaia

Mnesikles

Classical

Doric

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Temple of Athena Nike

Kallikrates

Classical

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Erechtheion (w/ Porch of the Maids)

Mnesikles

Classical

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Aphrodite of Knidos

Praxiteles

Late Classical

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Scraper (Apoxyomenos)

Lysippos
Late Classical

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Portait of Alexander the Great

after Lysippos

Late Classical

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Rape of Persephone

Late Classical

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Temple of Olympian Zeus

cossutius

Hellenistic

1st time corinthian order was used on the exterior of a temple

acanthus leaf

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Theater at Epidauros

Hellenistic

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Dying Gallic Trumpeter

Epigonos

Hellenistic

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Laocoon and His Sons

Athanadoros, et al.

Hellenistic

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Nike of Samothrace

Pythokritos of Rhodes

Hellenistic

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Aphrodite of Melos

Alexandros of Antioch

Hellenistic

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Heinrich Schliemann

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German businessman and a pioneer of field archaeology.

Advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Archaeological excavator of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns. His work lent weight to the idea that Homer's Iliad and Virgil's Aeneid reflect actual historical events.

Came up with the name of the treasury of Atreus

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Arthur Evans

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most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout the eastern Mediterranean. Evans was the first to define Cretan scripts Linear A and Linear B, as well as an earlier pictographic writing.

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Homer:Illiad/Odyssey

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an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.

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Tholos

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round building plan

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Minos

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Labyrinth

King Minos=King of crete

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Labrys

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Double Sided Axe

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Minotaur

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Eats people

Body of a man and animal

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Labyrinth

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Daedalus: 1st mentioned by Homer as the creator of a wide dancing-ground for Ariadne.He also created the Labyrinth on Crete, in which the Minotaur (part man, part bull) was kept.

Icarus:Daedalus fashioned two pairs of wings out of wax and feathers for himself and his son. Icarus soared through the sky curiously, but in the process he came too close to the sun, which melted the wax. Icarus kept flapping his wings but soon realized that he had no feathers left and that he was only flapping his bare arms, and so Icarus fell into the sea in the area which today bears his name.

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Gorgon/medusa

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In Greek mythology Medusa was a monster, a Gorgon, generally described as having the face of a hideous human female with living venomous snakes in place of hair.

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Buon Fresco

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Wet Fresco

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Chryselephantine

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Gold Covered Ivory Carving

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Repousse

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Pounding gold pushed from behind

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Atlantis

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Fictional Island

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Faience

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conventional name in English for fine tin-glazed pottery on a delicate pale buff earthenware body, originally associated by French speakers with wares exported from Faenza in central Italy.

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Humanism

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not a philosophy, but a culture that puts man at the center of all things

emphasis on humans achieving perfection in form and in mind

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Protagoras

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Man is the measure of all things

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Arete

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Excellence (living up to your potential)

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Hubris

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Extreme pride/arrogance/bullying

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Meander (Greek Key)

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Meander pattern (geometric, signature doodle)

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776bce

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First Olympic Games

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Tripod

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Like a bronze firepit

some are chairs

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Amphora

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holds oils and wine

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Krater

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water and wine

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Kouros

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Boy

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Kore

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Girl

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Peplos

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body length garment

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Caryatid

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posts that take the sculpture of women

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Entasis

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The squishiness of the columns

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stoa

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Row of columns

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Delian League

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like the United Nations

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Acropolis

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City that is up

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Kosmios

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orderly, well-arranged, decent, modest

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Good to know

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Classical/Late Classical vs. Hellenistic

Emotional Restraint vs. Melodrama

Controlled Sensuality vs. Sexuality

beauty AND Ugliness both allowed

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Gigantomachy

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Giants

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Chiastic Principle

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The weight of the body on one foot, the other flexed and at rest, is a stance called the "chiastic" pose