diff --git a/education/humanities/Test 2.md b/education/humanities/Test 2.md index ed3c631..8daa542 100644 --- a/education/humanities/Test 2.md +++ b/education/humanities/Test 2.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ | ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Treasury Of Atreus | Ancient Greece: Helladic | Unknown | Limestone | Largest dome for over 1000 years
Largest monolithic lintel
Ashlar masonry and cyclopic masonry
Thought to be Atreus, he abdicated (possibly a tomb)
post and lintel and corbelled arch
| | Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Minoan | Unknown | Faience | Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power
victory pose
rosettes
sideways dress - otherworldly
We don't know much about this work | -| Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Fresco | Different people with different colors
Elongation of bull shows motion
Aquatic pattern on border
Connection to sea | +| Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos | Ancient Greece: Minoan | Unknown | Fresco | Different people with different colors
Elongation of bull shows motion
Aquatic pattern on border
Connection to sea | | 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
Used golden ratio
Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans
Contraposto - counter posture
Well preserved because of Pompeii
| | Dying Gaul | Classical Greece: Hellenistic | Epigonos | Marble copy after bronze original | Representational hair
Objects on ground give sense of place
Shows blood and sweat
Doesn't portray a greek man (less jacked, less hot), shows a frenchman
Choker shows he's a gaul
Defeat: Broken sword, no attempt to call for help (horn), sitting on shield | | Aphrodite (Venus de Milo) | Classical Greece: Hellenstic | Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander | Marble | Individualized
Lot of detail compared to aphrodite of knidos
Dry drapery
Contrasting textures
Contraposto
Has musculature and feminine form
More intimate, sensual |