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64 Cards in this Set
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Cycladic Idol
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2400 BCE (Aegean)
Prehistoric People Fairly Abstract, emphasis on the Body Not active, stationary. Corpse like, found in tombs |
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Cycladic Musicians
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3000-2000 BCE (Aegean)
Stone carved with Stone Not always found in tombs. |
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Palace of Minos
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1500 BCE (Minoan)
Minotaur kept in Labryinth, which could be this palace. Lived very well Columns are upside down, wider top of collumns to support the roof Wiped out durring Earthquake. |
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Jumping Bull Fresco (within Palace of Minos)
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Color Emphasis.
"Simultaneous Narration"- Multiple Instances shown in one Picture. |
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Kamares Wave Pottery, Fish and Octopus
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1500 BCE (Minoan)
Shows that the potters wheel has been invented. |
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Snake Godesses
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1600 BCE
Might be a priestess Buried under Minos' Palace, possibly for protection. |
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Mycenian Art
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Characterized with MASSIVE citadels and "Cyclopian Masonry"
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Tiryn's Citadel
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1500 BCE (Mycenian)
Cyclopian Masonry, looking like Cyclops had assembled it very roughly. 20 ft. Thick. |
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Treasury of Atreus
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1300 BCE (Mycenian)
Domed Ceiling |
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Geometric and Archaic Greek Art
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Offers up names of artists, beacuse they wrote about their art.
Greek art is beautiful and stable beacuse the world around them is not. Invented Democracy, and voted on EVERYTHING. Valued Military valor and Political Power |
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Diplyon Krater
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740 BCE (Geometric)
Served as a GraveMarker. Geometric Design Used for offerings of oil and water. Images of many Mourners. Schematic style scene. Conventional death scene, generic cookie cutter depiction. |
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Hero and Centaur (Herakles and Nessus)
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750-730 BCE
Still very generic and geometric looking. |
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Blinding of Polyphemus
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670-650 BCE (Gemoetric)
Scene from The Odyssey, blinding a cyclops. Grave marker for an 11year old boy Some Egyptian stylings. Faces are getting curvier, very gestural Fear of open Space, fill it in. |
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Lady of Auxerre
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650 BCE (Archaic)
Life sized statue. Male nudity more accepted than female. Face very general. Not intended to last forever, made of lesser materials. |
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Kouros
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600 BCE (Archaic)
Stands like a pharaoh. One leg longer than the other. Idealized features, maybe a god or demigod. Youthful portrayal. |
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Kroisos
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530 BCE (Archaic)
Not as artificially symetrical, seems more personalized. More musculature Statue of a warrior, but has no markers of status or rank. |
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Achilles and Ajax
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540-530 BCE (Archaic)
Made by Exekias Depicts Trojan War Couple of guys playing a game. Spears crossed above the game, so war is a game. Example of Black Figure |
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Andokides Painter
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525-520
Made knockoffs of Exekias' work. |
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Euphonios, Herakles wrestling
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510 BCE (Archaic)
Greece had control of part of Italy, stolen art. Example of Red figure. |
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Temple of Hera
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550 BCE (Classical)
Post and Lintel system Made of Limestone. Opisthodomus-symmetrical room with no purpose |
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Temple of Aphaia at Aegia
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Persians destroy the Acropolis
Rebuild with Pericles as leader. Pericles presented as a military man with a philosopher's beard. Left the ruins of the first temple of Athena standing. |
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Parthenon
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448-432 BCE (Classical)
Contains both Doric and Ionic columns. 525 feet of continuous sculpture. Contained statue of Athena, covered in gold and Ivroy Winged female figure-Nike. |
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Elgin Marbles
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Marble statues stolen from the Parthenon and taken to the British Museum.
Presented Persians as centaurs, barbarians. |
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Erectheion: Porch of the Maidens
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421-405 BCE (Classical)
Spot where Poseidon struck a rock. Sculptures of Slave Women, forces to wear their fancy clothes as a sign of Athenian Power. |
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Kirritian Boy
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480 BCE (Classical)
Standing much more naturally, Contra Pasto Balance Made of Marble. |
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Bronze Warrior A
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460-450 BCE (Classical)
Found in a sunken Ship. Made of bronze, which was usually melted down. |
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Bronze Zeus
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460-450 BCE (Classical)
Symetrical Hair Majestic face God coming to smite thee. |
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Doryphoros
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450 BCE (Classical)
Ideal man according to Math. Thousands of copies. Balanced, relaxed Body gets all the focus of the sculpture. |
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Lysippos (scraper)
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330 BCE (Classical)
Scraped off olive oil. Fig leaf placed by the Vatican. Reaching out, much more dynamic. |
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Pelopenisian Wars
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Athens defeated by Phillip II.
Father of Alexander the Great. Began Hellenistic Period. |
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Dying Gaul
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230-220 BCE (Hellenistic)
Dignified Higher Emotional content |
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Glykon, Franesse Hercules
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150 BCE Original 320 BCE (Hellenistic)
Golden Apples, holds world up for Atlas. Beyond exhausted, but infinitely powerful. Tells a story, with emotional statement. |
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Nike of Samothrace
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190 BCE (Hellenistic)
Symbol of victory. "Wet" Drapery. Stepping forward, pushing towards victory. |
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Venus de Milo
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330 BCE (Hellenistic)
Arm likely stolen Could be a sign for a brothel. |
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Portrait of Alexander
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200-150 BCE (Hellenistic)
VERY expressive. Young looking. Holywood star, looking towards the future. |
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Barbarni Faun
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220 BCE (Hellenistic0
Erotic Tension Animalistic. |
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Laoccon and his Sons
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2nd-1st Cen BCE (Hellenistic)
Trojan Priest Gods kill him and his sons with serpants. Made by Agesander, Athenadorus, and Palydorus of Rhodes. Very important to the Rennassaince, Michelangelo may have been there when it was excavated. |
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Etruscan Art
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Area of Italy
Etruscans are the Native Italians. Lot of Greek Influence. Language was not Indo European. Lived in small city states. |
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Portonaccio Etruscan Temple
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510-500 BCE (Etruscan)
Latteraly symetrical. Only one way in. 3 rooms, for multiple gods. Tidya, Uni, and Minerva. Collumns spaced very far apart. Made of wood, which rotted away. Lots of steps, temples up on platforms to get closer to the gods. Life sized statues on the roof. |
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Apulu
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510-500
Made of Terracotta. Wearing clothes. Foot is raised, tipping him forward, giving him motion. |
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Canoptic Jars
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Put ashes in jars and bake the ashes INSIDE the jars.
More abstract. |
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Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple
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520 BCE (Etruscan)
Reclines, having a good time. Etruscans allowed women at their symposium. Look very affectionate. Loving snapshot. |
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Tomb of the Reliefs
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3d Cen BCE (Etruscan)
Put their stuff into tombs with them. Stuff carved into the rock. Cerberus carved on the wall. |
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Tomb of the Leopards
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480-470 BCE (Etruscan)
Painted Frescos. Wine, women, and song. Eggs for fertility. Good afterlife. BIG wine glasses. |
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Capitoline Wolf
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Center piece of Etrsucan art.
NOT ETRUSCAN, it's MEDIEVAL. Babies were made later. |
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Chimera of Arczzo
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400-350 BCE (Etruscan)
Balance between naturalism and abstract. Piece about emotion. Very human expression. |
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Porta Marzia
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2nd Century (Etruscan)
Invented the ARCH. Distributes weight, but not self sustaining. |
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Sarcophagus of Lars Pulena
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2nd Cen BCE (Etruscan)
After Roman conquest, Etruscans were no longer happy. |
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Aulus Metellus (Orator)
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Early 1st Cen BCE (Etruscan)
Roman Orator. Etruscan Statue. Etruscans are assimilated into Rome. Spanned 35 countries. |
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Temple of Fortuna Virilis
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75 BCE (Republican)
Influences of Greek and Etruscan. Greek style collumns. Misnamed. Is actually PORTUNAS. One entrance w/ stairs: Etruscan. Pillars and walls at the back. Latteraly symetrical Ionic Collumns. |
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Temple of Vesta
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Early 1st Cen BCE (Republican)
Made of concrete. Discovered concrete from volcanic eruption. Easily shaped and it's cheap. Corinthian collumns. Concrete is ugly, so they put a layer of marble on top. |
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Head of Roman Patrician Otricoli
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75-50 BCE (Republican)
Veristic art-hyper realistic. Value age, wisdom, experience. Put these busts at shrines to worship, like venerable ancestors. |
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Pompeii
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August 24th, 74 BCE
Ash covered the city. "Air Pockets" were filled with people. Originally Etrsucan, built in grid style. On one side of the forum, Temple of Jupiter, on the other, Town Hall. Very active public life. Had gods from Egypt present. |
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Amphitheatre at Pompeii
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80 BCE (Repbulican)
Could fit more people than the entire city. |
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House of Vettii
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2nd Cent BCE (Republican)
Houses were used to entertain guests, and were designed to welcome people. Impluvioum- Basin that water flows into. Walls plastered over, heavily painted. |
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Cubiculum of Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor
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50-40 BCE (Republican)
Had frescos-Pigment mixed with plaster. Trying to show outside the walls Had perspective Showed classical masks with built in amplification. |
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Villa of the Mysteries
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60-50 BCE (Republican)
Naked woman being whipped, w/ drunken men watching. Scenes of ritual: Cult of Diyonisus "Care Canem" Beware of Dog |
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Augustus of Prima Porta
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20 BCE (Empirical)
Julius elected in time of war, makes himself dictator for life. Shown as head of civilian gov, head of religion, and commander of army. Cupid in statue-godhood. Wearing armor with scene of victory carved in. |
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Cloaca Maxima
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7th Cen BCE, remodeled 33 BCE
Practical use of the arch. Temple at one of the entrances Coins commemorating "Goddess of the sewers" |
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Nero
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64 CE
Supposedly burned Rome for his pleasure palace. Pale and covered in spots. Perfoemed naked, composing Tryed to kill his mother. Senators got one of his slaves to betray him. |
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Vespasian
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69-79 CE (Empirical)
Looks like an uncle, wise, expereinced. Returns to Republic style art. Builds colleseum. |
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Aqueduct
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16 BCE
Rome grew beacuse of the aquaducts, brining water from high sources. Lined stone with lead. Offered civilization in their conquests. They go from living in mud huts to having aqueducts. |
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Collosseum
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70-80 CE (Flavian)
Built Upward, not down. Statue in each arch. 100 days of free entertainment, flooded colleseum and had a naval battle. Passageways under the floor. Emperor went to remind people of his power. Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns. Made of concrete and brick. |
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Arch of Titus
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81 CE (Flavian)
Arch made for Titus, depicting him as a god. Often depicted rulers in the nude. Non functional, other then to define space for a procession. Titus fought in Jerusalem, carrying treasure from Jerusalem back. First image of an emperor as truly divine. |
