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Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase
Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
Medium: Ceramic, 42” high
Date: c. 750–700 BCE, GEOMETRIC PERIOD
Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Used as a grave marker near Athens
Mourners tearing hair with grief
Geometric patterns, shapes representing mourners (not realistic)
Note: no reference to afterlife (like on Egyptian funerary art)
Artist: n/a
Title: Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher)
Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration
Size: height 11 ½"
Date: c. 600 BCE Orientalizing Period
Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London
Significance:
•Black figure vase
•Shows Eastern/Oriental influence with motifs of imaginary animals, plant forms, from Near East, Asia Minor & Egypt
Artist: Exekias
Title: The Suicide of Ajax
Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration, 27" high (69 cm)
Date: c. 540 BCE Archaic Period
Source/Museum: Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
•Stunning composition with shape of figure echoing form of vase, balanced between uprights of shield & tree.
•Shows drama of moment when Ajax will throw himself on his sword.
•Black figure ceramic.
Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Title: Death of Sarpedon
Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration, 18" high
Date: c. 515 BCE, Archaic Period
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Euphronius best known red figure artist, illustrating a story from the Iliad, Sleep & Death carry dead Trojan warrior from battlefield
Balanced composition, rhythm of decorative bands echoing the shape of the body and Hermes, guide to the Underworld
Foreshorteing … such as Sarpedon’s left leg
Not a flashcard but be familiar with this … what type of building
Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, c. 530-525 BCE archaic period; filled with relief pedients, caryatids acting as columns, varying depth of relief.
Title: Anavysos Kouros
Medium: Marble with remnants of paint
Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)
Date: c. 530 BCE - Archaic Period
Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Significance:
More naturalistic than New York Kouros (Standing Youth)…
Archaic style-wiglike hair, archaic smile, stiffly posed showing Egyptian influence
Male statues always nude (female Kore statues usually wore clothing)
Originally on a grave, inscription honoring fallen war hero killed by Ares the war god
Dying Warrior, artist unknown
Medium: Marble, about 6’long
Date: c. 500–490 BCE, Archaic Period..West pediment marked end of Archaic period, more into early classical, East pediment is more rigid sculptures
Source/Museum: Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (now located in Munich)
Set standard for pediment sculpture, twisted form turning in space, fitting corner of triangle
Kritian Boy, Marble, 3’10”, 480 BCE Early Classical, Kritios?, contrapossto, natural pose, lifelike. Found in Acropolis.
Marks beginning of Early Classical Period, transitioning away from rigid archaic poses and geometric shapes
Spear Bearer (doryphoros, Achilles)
Polykleitos, Roman Copy of orig. bronze 450 BCE
6’11”
Illustrated Polykleitos canon of proportions which included symmetria, relationship of weight bearing and non weight bearing leg
Dynamically balanced pose (spear is lost)
Riace Warrior,
Artist Unknown
High Classical period
460-450 BCE
Found in sea near Riace, Italy
Impossibly idealized musculature
Detailed glass eyes, silver teeth, copper lips
Face is of older man, body of idealized Greek athlete
(We saw these in Art Made the World, remember?)
Artist: Myron
Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE (classical period)
Source/Museum: National Museum, Rome
•Idealized Olympic athlete
•Balanced form
•Humanism philosophy
•Closed vs. open, curves vs. angles, moment of tension
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Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)
Nike Adjusting Her Sandal,
Artist unknown
Marble, 3’6”, 410 BCE High Classical
Fragment of relief decoration from Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
Temple was built amphiprostyle plan with porch at each end, Ionic style
Wings balance her pose
Virtuoso sculptor of the clingy drapery as Nike balances to adjust her shoe
The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. Nw View, 447-432 BCE, Kalikrates & Iktinos
Proportions 4:9, balanced views, narrowing space of corner columns. Glorified Athens and Athena, masterpiece of sculpture/architecture, Marble. Pediment sculpture only survives in fragments. Independence, self confidence, pride. Inspired architecture worldwide, including 19th century US. Symbolizeds human ideals.
Erechtheion. View From The East. Porch of The Maidens At Left; North Porch Can Be Seen Through The Columns of The East Wall 421-406 BCE Acropolis, Athens
Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.
Porch of the Maidens
420 BCE, CLASSICAL PERIOD
KNOWN FOR CARATYID COLUMNS in classical poses, closure symmetry and rhythm
Erected under Perikles building programs to revitalize Athens
Mythical location where Poseidon and Athena had a contest over who would rule Athens
Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles
Marble, 6’8” high, (Roman copy)
350 BCE (Late Classical)
Presently located in Vatican museum, Rome
1st Greek female nude goddess
(other female nudes were courtesans, etc.)
Humanized mature woman, ready to bathe, everyday activity rather than idealized battle scene or athletic event.
Possibly merging Babylonian goddess Ishtar with Aphrodite, Ishtar was almost always shown Nude
Gradual acceptance of female nudes in Greek art
Dying Gallic Trumpeter (flashcard)
Epigonos? 220 bce
Sanctuary of Athena in Pergamon
Expressionism characteristic of Hellenistic art
Gauls were Celtic people conquered during this period
Roman copy from garden of Julius Caesar
QuickTime™ and a decompressor
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Flashcard Image
Original 2nd century BCE
Maybe Roman copy
Pergamene style - complex composition illustrating episode from Trojan War…
Laocon told Trojans to beware Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan Horse)
Gods retaliated….
Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
Marble, 8’ high
180 BCE Hellenestic Period
Located in Louvre, Paris
Pergamene style, very theatrical
Heavy wings balance forward thrust of body
Masterpiece with draperies, motion
Commemorates military victory at sea (landing on ship’s prow)