13 lines
2.6 KiB
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13 lines
2.6 KiB
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| Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff |
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| Snake Goddess | Ancient Greece: Menoan | Unknown | Faience | Hierarchy of Scale; Exposed breasts - power<br>victory pose<br>rosettes<br>sideways dress - otherworldly<br>We don't know much about this work |
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| 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<br>Used golden ratio<br>Polykleitos was in the cult of pythagoreans<br>Contraposto - counter posture<br>Well preserved because of Pompeii<br> |
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| Treasury Of Atreus | Ancient Greece: Helladic | Unknown | Limestone | Largest dome for over 1000 years<br>Largest monolithic lintel<br>Ashlar masonry and cyclopic masonry<br>Thought to be Atreus, he abdicated (possibly a tomb)<br>post and lintel and corbelled arch<br> |
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| Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) | | | | |
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| Faience | Metal Glaze, Colder |
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| Verism | Exaggerated age, wrinkles. Counterpart to hellenism but with emphasis on age instead of muscles |
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| Chryselephantine | Ivory veneer with gold |
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