| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff | | ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | 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> | | Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Minoan | 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 | | Bull-leaping, from the palace at Knossos | Ancient Greece: Minoan | Unknown | Fresco | Different people with different colors<br>Elongation of bull shows motion<br>Aquatic pattern on border<br>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<br>Used golden ratio<br>Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans<br>Contraposto - counter posture<br>Well preserved because of Pompeii<br> | | Dying Gaul | Classical Greece: Hellenistic | Epigonos | Marble copy after bronze original | Representational hair<br>Objects on ground give sense of place<br>Shows blood and sweat<br>Doesn't portray a greek man (less jacked, less hot), shows a frenchman<br>Choker shows he's a gaul<br>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<br>Lot of detail compared to aphrodite of knidos<br>Dry drapery<br>Contrasting textures<br>Contraposto<br>Has musculature and feminine form<br>More intimate, sensual | | 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> | | Pont-du-Gard | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Shelly Limestone | Arches create space<br>Aquaduct helped city<br>columns aligned vertically<br>Ashlar Masonry<br>Used as major bridge<br>Use of Roman arch | | 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 | | Arch of Titus | Rome: Empire | Patron: Titus | Concrete faced with marble | Commemorates when Rome defeats Jerusalem<br>Triumphal Arch <br>Depicts jewish temple being raided, money used to fund colosseum<br>Original historian was jewish (Josephus) | | Portrait of a Husband and Wife | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Fresco | His skin is darker<br>Preserved because of Pompeii<br>She's holding beeswax tablet and stylus<br>They're flexing literacy<br>Literacy was only for the rich<br> | | | | | | | | 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 cooperatinon | | Patron | Person that paid for it | | Incrustacean | Cut rock in half and flip to show vein - Pantheon | | Portico | Fancy front porch - Pantheon | | Trumphal Arch | Winning army walks through on return home | | Contraposto | The Italian word for counter posture, natural stance, more weight on one foot, body makes an S shape | | Ungrounded | No historical record | | Doric | Masculine, beefy, the simplest, oldest style | | Ionic | Feminine, slender, medium old | | Corinthian | Fancy top, planty shape around the base of the top, latest style | | Corbelled Arch | Rocks that go in gradually, like two wedges | | Post and Lintel | Two posts and a lintel across the top | | Roman arch (with keystone) | Normal vault | | Groin vault | 4 way intersection | | | |