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18 Cards in this Set
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Palace at Knossos (all views and plan)
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Crete, Greece
1700-1400 Legendary home of King Minos Theseus battled Minotaur Labrys: double ax: Labyrinth: house of double axes mansions and villas around of the elite efficient terracotoa pipes underneath for rainwater clay masonry |
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Landscape with swallows (Spring Fresco)
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Akrotiri
1650 Celebrating nature nature is sole subject not realistically, but landscape's essence: colours and movement first known example of pure landscape painting with no narrative element |
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Marine Style octopus jar
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Crete, 1500
nature celebrations Late Minoan marine style tentacles reach out over jar emphasizing volume relationship between jar's shape and form of octopus |
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Plan of the palace, Tiryns
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Tiryns, Greece
1400-1200 approach ramp made it easy to get attackers from above megaron: reception hall of the king with a throne and central hearth with columns variation formed later temple plans |
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Lion Gate
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Mycenae
1300-1250 Limestone Outer gateway of stronghold protected by natural rock wll formed two monoliths capped with lintel corbeled arch: leaving an opening to lighten weight of lintel carries relieving triangle: filled limestone lions: guardian figures of entrances: heads gone: maybe sphinxs? |
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Warrior Vase
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Mycenae Greece
1200 after downfall of MYcenean palaces, vase painting still continued one of latest examples of krater: bowl for mixing wine and water woman bids farewell narrative: paralleled in other vases: schematic and abstract like octopus |
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Kroisos, from Anavysos
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Marble
530 BCE kore meaning youth rigid frontality stand over graves adherence to Egyptian protoypes, but liberated from stone block; unlike Egypt: wanted to portray movement nude: died hero's death in battle Archaic smile not portrait rounded hips and swelling cheeks: naturalistic |
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Peplos Kore
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Acropolis, Athens
530 peplos: long, woolen belted garment stood as votive offerings at Athena's sanctuary left arm extended, break from frontal compression like egypt softer treatment of shape and flesh intircate hair |
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Kritios Boy
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Acropolis, Athens
480 Marble A new way to stand: break from rigid and unnatural Egyptian inspired pose portraying how a human actually stands youth has a slight dip to right hip: shifted weight bent at ease head slightly tilted weight shift CONTRAPPOSTO |
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Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)
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Polykleitos
Roman copy from pompei broze original Quest for ideal form one of most frequently copied statues model for roman athletes demonstration piece pronounced conreapposto beautiful human movement: still: dynamic asymmetrical balance perfection of proportions |
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Parthenon
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Iktinos and Kallikrates
Temple of Athena Parthenos Acropolis, Athens 447-438 Phidas oversaw building and decoration Perfection of building Doric temple design: quest for perfect proportions well spaced columns, slender shafts refinement of bulging and squat Doric columns of Hera temple |
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Propylai
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Mnesikles
Acropolis, Athens 437-432 monumental entrance to Acropolis on a steep slope: splitting building into eas and west sections represending doric temple facade mix of doric and slender IONIC never completed due to Peloponnesian War |
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Erectheion
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Acropolis
421 Persians wrecked Athena temple: new one here incorporated shrines of other gods and demigods as well as wooden athena asymmetrical plan posiedon and athena fought here; she won great decorative details: frieze: dark blue limestone to contrast with white marble walls and columns |
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Hermes and the infant Dionysos
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Temple of Hera, Olympia
Copy 340 Praxitelean manner: softness of youth; dewy eyes and flesh hermes stopped to rest in a forest; leans on a tree--> s curve common in Praxitiles statues tender between adult and child not in statues before smooth subtle and delocate |
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Apoxyomenos (Scraper)
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roman copy after bronze original
330 Lysippos of Sikyon new canon of proportions bodies=more slender than those of polykleitos heads=one eighth height of body vs one seventh athlete scraping oil nervous energy dominance of frontal view in statuary |
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Athena battling Alkyoneos
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gigantomachy frieze
altar of zeus pergamon, turkey 175bce 400ft long; hundreds of figures: battle of zues and gods vs giats athens earlier defeat of persians: athena beating alkyoneos and nike crowns her emotional intensity |
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Nike of Samothrace
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alighting on warship
samothrace greece marble helenistic baroque style amplified effect of wind and wings illusion of rushing waves and wind sound of water in upper basin of fountain: added dimension rejected idea of polukleitan concept of statue as self-contained identity hellenistic statues interact with environment and appear alive |
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Laocoön and his sons
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Athanadoros, Hagesandros, Polydoros of Rhodes
rome, italy 1ce marble hellenistic art under roman patronage second century under rome greeks made copies of classical and hellenistic art to create statues a la grecque trojan priest and his sons Serpents to punish laocoon who tried to warn friends about danger of troy inspiration of three rhodian sculptors perhaps: was a pergamene statuary group |
