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What is the name and date?
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Kouros Figure, 600 B.C.
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What material is the Kouros figure made of? What is it's purpose?
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Marble, Grave marker
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What are the special features of the Kouros figure?
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Archaic smile, Ideal male, Stylized
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What is the name?
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Kore Figure
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What was the purpose of the Parthenon? Where and when was it built?
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Temple to Athena, Acropolis in Athens, 448-432 B.C.
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What are special features about the Parthenon?
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There are no straight lines, floor rises 12 cm in the middle, 1:2 proportion
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What are the types of columns?
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Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
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What is a pediment?
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The triangular set of sculptures that were at the the top of the front and back of the Parthenon.
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What is a frieze?
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The strip of relief sculptures around a building.
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What is the name for the relief sculptures inside the frieze?
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Metopes
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Who built the Parthenon?
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Iktinus and Kallikrates
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Where was this statue located? What was it made of?
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Inside the Parthenon, ivory and gold
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Who was Athena?
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God of wisdom and battle strategy.
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What is a relief sculpture?
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3-D forms project from a flat background.
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What is the name and date?
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The Porch of Maidens at the Erechtheum, 421-405
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What is the type of statue that the Maidens at Erechtheum are?
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Caryatids
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When was the Theater at Epidaurus made? What is significant about it?
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350 B.C., Still used today because of excellent acoustics
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What is the name and date?
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Kritios Boy, 480 B.C.
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What is significant about Kritios boy?
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More realistic, freestanding
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What is contrapposto?
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When the all of the weight is on one leg, natural, s curve
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What is the name and date?
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The Discus Thrower, 450 B.C.
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What is the name, date and material?
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Charioteer of Delphi, 470 B.C., Cast bronze
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What emotions is the Charioteer of Delphi displaying?
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Calm and composed, Rigid pose
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What are the 3 ages of Greek art?
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Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
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What is the name, date, and significance?
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Dying Gaul, 230-220 B.C., depicts a strong soldier dying because of the Greeks
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What are some special features about Dying Gaul?
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Has the Torc, Wounded, Roman copy
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What is the name, date and story behind this?
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Laocoon, 175-150 B.C., Father and son battling snake sent by gods
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What is special about the bodies in Laocoon?
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The motion of the human body, strong musculature
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What is the name and date?
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Nike of Samothrace, 200 B.C.
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What was the purpose of Nike of Samothrace?
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To celebrate the defeat of the Persians
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What are some special features about Nike of Samothrace?
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Wet drapery, highly realistic, looks like she's about to tale flight, probably placed on a cliff overlook where the battle took place
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What so the difference between a Roman and a Greek sculpture?
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Romans could not do free standing sculptures.
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