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| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | --------------- | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Faience | Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power<br>victory pose<br>rosettes<br>sideways dress - otherworldly<br>We don't know much about this work |
| Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) or *Canon* | Classical Greece: Classical | Polykleitos | Marble copy after bronze original | Called Canon because it's the standard of beauty for sculptures<br>Used golden ratio<br>Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans<br>Contraposto - counter posture<br>Well preserved because of Pompeii<br> |
| Treasury Of Atreus | Ancient Greece: Helladic | Unknown | Limestone | Largest dome for over 1000 years<br>Largest monolithic lintel<br>Ashlar masonry and cyclopic masonry<br>Thought to be Atreus, he abdicated (possibly a tomb)<br>post and lintel and corbelled arch<br> |
| Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) | Classical Greece: Hellenistic | Unknown | Marble | Rhodes probably had a successful naval victory<br>Where Nike got it's logo<br>Wet drapery, would have been in fountain<br>lot of contrasting texture<br>Dynamic<br> |
| Portrait of Augustus as General | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Marble Copy, Bronze Original | Three powers (ishtar gate):<br>- Curass - Military<br>- Toga - Wealth and political power<br>- Eros - Supernatural power<br>Harkening pose: asking for cooperation, contraposto<br>Idealized proportions<br> |
| The Pantheon | Roman: Empire | Patron: Hadrean | Concrete | First pantheon built out of wood, burned down<br>Rebuilt out of concrete<br>Originally built on a hill, now sunk by detrius of time<br>Monolithic columns from egypt in portico(front porch)<br>Had rosettes in ceiling squares<br>Biggest dome in the world<br>Squares and circles everywhere |
| Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Fresco | Different people with different colors<br>Elongation of bull shows motion<br>Aquatic pattern on border<br>Connection to sea |
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| Pont-du-Gard | Rome: Republic | Unknown | Shelly Limestone | |
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| Term | Definition |
| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Faience | Metal Glaze, Colder |
| Verism | Exaggerated age, wrinkles. Counterpart to hellenism but with emphasis on age instead of muscles |
| Chryselephantine | Ivory veneer with gold |
| Archaizing | Make something look older in content and style - Fonseca Bust |
| Harkening Pose | Asking for cooperatino |
| Patron | Person that paid for it |
| Incrustacean | Cut rock in half and flip to show vein - Pantheon |
| Portico | Fancy front porch - Pantheon |
| Doric | Masculine, beefy, the simplest, oldest style |
| Ionic | Feminine, slender |
| Corinthian | Fancy top, planty shape around the base of the top |
| Contraposto | The Italian word for counter posture, natural stance, more weight on one foot, body makes an S shape |