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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
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
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

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