diff --git a/education/humanities/Test 2.md b/education/humanities/Test 2.md index 7ceeee1..e8e40ba 100644 --- a/education/humanities/Test 2.md +++ b/education/humanities/Test 2.md @@ -1,15 +1,16 @@ -| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff | -| ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | --------------- | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -| Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Faience | Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power
victory pose
rosettes
sideways dress - otherworldly
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
Used golden ratio
Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans
Contraposto - counter posture
Well preserved because of Pompeii
| -| 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
| -| Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) | Classical Greece: Hellenistic | Unknown | Marble | Rhodes probably had a successful naval victory
Where Nike got it's logo
Wet drapery, would have been in fountain
lot of contrasting texture
Dynamic
| -| Portrait of Augustus as General | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Marble Copy, Bronze Original | Three powers (ishtar gate):
- Curass - Military
- Toga - Wealth and political power
- Eros - Supernatural power
Harkening pose: asking for cooperation, contraposto
Idealized proportions
| -| The Pantheon | Roman: Empire | Patron: Hadrean | Concrete | First pantheon built out of wood, burned down
Rebuilt out of concrete
Originally built on a hill, now sunk by detrius of time
Monolithic columns from egypt in portico(front porch)
Had rosettes in ceiling squares
Biggest dome in the world
Squares and circles everywhere | -| 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 | -| Pont-du-Gard | Rome: Republic | Unknown | Shelly Limestone | Arches create space
Aquaduct helped city
columns aligned vertically
Ashlar Masonry
Used as major bridge
Use of Roman arch | -| 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 | -| | | | | | +| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff | +| ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | +| Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Faience | Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power
victory pose
rosettes
sideways dress - otherworldly
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
Used golden ratio
Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans
Contraposto - counter posture
Well preserved because of Pompeii
| +| 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
| +| Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) | Classical Greece: Hellenistic | Unknown | Marble | Rhodes probably had a successful naval victory
Where Nike got it's logo
Wet drapery, would have been in fountain
lot of contrasting texture
Dynamic
| +| Portrait of Augustus as General | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Marble Copy, Bronze Original | Three powers (ishtar gate):
- Curass - Military
- Toga - Wealth and political power
- Eros - Supernatural power
Harkening pose: asking for cooperation, contraposto
Idealized proportions
| +| The Pantheon | Roman: Empire | Patron: Hadrean | Concrete | First pantheon built out of wood, burned down
Rebuilt out of concrete
Originally built on a hill, now sunk by detrius of time
Monolithic columns from egypt in portico(front porch)
Had rosettes in ceiling squares
Biggest dome in the world
Squares and circles everywhere | +| 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 | +| Pont-du-Gard | Rome: Republic | Unknown | Shelly Limestone | Arches create space
Aquaduct helped city
columns aligned vertically
Ashlar Masonry
Used as major bridge
Use of Roman arch | +| 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 | +| Arch of Titus | Rome: Empire | Titus | Concrete faced with marble | Commemorates when Rome defeats jerusalem
| | Term | Definition | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | @@ -25,3 +26,4 @@ | 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 | +| Trumphal Arch | Winnign army walks through |