Huge Freakin Apah Test

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 Pylon Entryway

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• Campaniform
o Opened out papyrus blossom look
• Bud cluster capitals
• Walls at angle, taper in as they go up
• Notch at center

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Severe Style

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480-450 BCE
—Kritios Boy Invents contrapposto
-A natural, comfortable stance, that shows figures in a realistic, unexaggerated light

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High Classical

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o Instead of trying to demonstrate body mechanics, 450-400 (High Classical) focuses on showing figures with ideal physical proportions

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Doryphorus

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 Polykleitos, “Doryphorus”
• “spear- bearer”
- originally called “The Canon”set of rules—rules of proportions
-Demonstration piece showing the ideal ratios

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Parthenon

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• Had been destroyed by Persians when trying to take over, so Athens needed to rebuild temple to patron goddess, Athena
• Around 440 During High Classical Period
• From outside, two ends look identical--Balance and symmetry critical in Greek art
• Architects of Parthenon—Iktinos and Kallikrates MEMORIZE
• Doric Temple

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Chief Sculptor of PArthenon

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Phidias
o Designer and over-seer—not actually scukptor
o “Phidian Style”
 “WET DRAPERY”

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o Late Classical

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400-323 BCE
- see images that reflect a more slender set of proportions
-FEMALE NUDES TREATED AS BEAUTY

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Who Established the slender rule of proportions?

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Praxiteles

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 Lysippos, “Apoxyomenos”

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-“Apoxyomenos”—means “The Scraper”
• Slender set of proportions
• Scraping=way of cleaning after participating in sportsoil, scraping

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End of the Classical Period

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• A and S get into Peloponisian wars--Civil wars, weaken them, very vulnerable, will be invaded by the Macedonians
• Philip the Great is leader
• Managed to conquer Greece almost without any effort
• During, Philip actually dies—his son takes overALEXANDER THE GREAT

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- Hellenistic(Hogs)

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-focus on figures that could be real, actual people
-See suffering,real life events such as old age and poverty
wider range of matter-Erotic Art and art Without religious meaning

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Roman ARt General

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- General
o Distinguish themselves through:
 Architecture
1. Round arches
2. Vaults –in particular a Barrel Vault
a. Can bring it around in a circle like a donut
i. Called Ring Vault
b. Took one Barrel Vault and crossed it with another=Groin Vaults
3. Domes
4. Perfection of Building with Concrete
o Concrete STRONGER and cheaper THAN CEMENT, locally available and plentiful, make any shape
o Cement=water, sand, and powdered limestone
o To make it concrete, all you do is add crushed rock (agragit)

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- Empire Period

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o Buildings designed to show power and authority at some time
 Think about practicality too
• Purpose of building and ways to make it function the best
o Arches, vaults

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PArthenon

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1. Look at the rock itself—architecture of mass
2. Calm dignity, rationality, stability
3. What creates that mood is VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LINES and REGULARITY of forms/spacing
4. Columns and Architrave create those lines
5. Focus on exterior; don’t really see interior ever
6. Think of Greek architecture= temples and theaters

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Pantheon dif from PArt

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1. Awed by gigantic enclosed space—Architecture of space
2. Not calm—awe, wonder, intimidation
3. Not created by vertical and horizontal lines—created by expansive curving lines and massive scale
4. Domes, Arches, Vaults create the curving forms
5. Focus on exterior AS WELL as interior—supposed to have impact on us from outside and inside
6. Think of Roman architecture= much broader: gov’t buildings, atriums, more

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Pantheon

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most famous early thing of concrete

very thin layer of marble veneer
• Also, entire dome was covered in BRONZE
o Pope orders that bronze should be removed and melted down to create his big architectural Baldecchinao in St. Peters
- Rafael’s tomb in walls of Pantheon

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Round Temple Form

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Tholos

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• The Battle of Issus

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o Epic battle in which Alexander and troops conquered Persians