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23 Cards in this Set
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Title: Diskobolos
Author: Greek Date: BCE 450 Period/style/school: Classical significance: |
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Title: funerary Vase
Artist: Athens, Greece Date: 750 BCE Period/style/school: Geometric Significance: - for the first time human beings are depicted as part of a narrative. - this depicts the cremation process. - mourners symbolize that they did not believe in after life |
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Title: silouette of man and Centaur
Artist: southern greece Date: 750 BCE Period/style/school: bronze Significance: - half man, half horse were believed to inhabit the wooded areas - this is a depiction of a civilized man stabbing the Centaur - height difference depicts the importance and power of the civilized man |
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Title: Ople Pitcher
Artist: Greek Date: 600 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: - though this has influences from eastern artists, greek artists were able to still invent an entirely new approach to vase painting - rossettes were one of the special touches - this was a black-figure poetry where they exposed the natural colour in the background |
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Title: standing youth Kouros
Artist: Greek Date: 600 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: - greek artist were not as obsessed ith permanence, therefore they cut away all stone from around the body - unlike the egyptian art, greek artists show the athletic bodies - this shows the archaic smile |
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Title: Anavysos Kouros
Artist: Greek Date: 525 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: - this suggests heroic strength due to the wiglike hair and archaic smile. - the anatomical accuracy of the limbs and torso also suggest heroic strength |
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Title: Berlin Kore
Artist: near athens Date: 570-560 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: - this 5 feet tall statue seem appropriate to a goddes, but it may represent a priestess or an attendant - traces of red indicates that it may have been painted red or gilded. - she holds a pomegranate symbolizing Persephone, the god of underworld |
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Title: The suicide of Ajax
Artist: Exekias Date: 540 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: -he took his subjects from greek mythology - archillies and ajax playing a game of chess - exekias shows ajaz preparing to die rather than ajax dead or before dieing. - he captures both form and emotion |
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Title: death of Sarpedon
Artist: Euphronios Date: 500 BCE Period/style/school: Archaic Significance: - euphronios was one of the best red figure painters. - early use of personification due to the winged figres carry the dead warriors from battlefield. |
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Title: Spear Bearer
Artist: Polykelitos Date: 450-440 BCE Period/style/school: Classical Significance: - this was the ideal physical perfection - this included ratios of the body, porportional weight etc |
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Title: Riace warriors
Artist: Greek Date: 460 BCE Period/style/school: Classical Significance: - youthful body with mature face - found at bottom of the sea but no one knows how it got there - teeth was silver and nipples were pinkish copper - monument commemorating a military victory |
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Title: East Pediment of Parethnon
Artist: Athien Date: 447- 432 BCE Period/Style/School: High Classical Significance: - |
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Title: East Pediment of Parhenon
Artist: Athenian Date: 447-432 BCE Period/Style/School: High Classical Significance: |
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Title: East pediment of Parthenon
Artist: Athenian Date: 447-432 BCE Period/Style/School: High Classical Significance: |
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Title: Erechtheion Acropolis
Artist: Athen Date: 480 BCE Period/Style/School: Classical Significance: |
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Title: Grave Stele of Hegeso
Artist: Athens Date: 410BCE Period/Style/School: Classical Significance: |
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Title: Hermes with the infance Dionysus
Artist: Praxiteles Date: 350-330 BCE Period/Style/School: Classical Significance: |
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Title: Hermes with the infance Dionysus
Artist: Praxiteles Date: 350-330 BCE Period/Style/School: Classical Significance: |
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Title: Dying Gaul from pergamum
Artist: Epigonos Date: 3rd Centuary BCE Period: hellenistic Significance: |
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Title: Great Altar of Pergamon
Artist: Greek Date: 175-150 BCE Period: Hellenistic Significance: |
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Title: Nike of Samothrace
Artist: Greek Date: 200BCE Period: Hellenistic Significance: |
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Title: Statue of an old market lady
Artist: Roman Date: 1st Centuary AD Period: Hellenistic Significance: |
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Title: Venus de Milo
Artist: Greek Date: 150-125 BCE Period: Hellenistic Significance: |
