| 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
| | 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
| | 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 | | 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 | | 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
| | | | | | | | 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 | | | |