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2.6 KiB
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) |
| 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 |