| 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
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| 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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| 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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| 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 |
| 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 |
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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 cooperatino |
| Patron | Person that paid for it |
| Incrustacean | Cut rock in half and flip to show vein - Pantheon |
| Portico | Fancy front porch - Pantheon |