| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff |
| ------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| 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
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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
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| Pont-du-Gard | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Shelly Limestone | Arches create space
Aquaduct helped city
columns aligned vertically
Ashlar Masonry
Used as major bridge
Use of Roman arch |
| 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
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| 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 |
| Arch of Titus | Rome: Empire | Patron: Titus | Concrete faced with marble | Commemorates when Rome defeats Jerusalem
Triumphal Arch
Depicts jewish temple being raided, money used to fund colosseum
Original historian was jewish (Josephus) |
| Portrait of a Husband and Wife | Rome: Empire | Unknown | Fresco | His skin is darker
Preserved because of Pompeii
She's holding beeswax tablet and stylus
They're flexing literacy
Literacy was only for the rich
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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 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 |
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