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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) 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
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
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
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
Arch of Titus Rome: Empire Titus Concrete faced with marble Commemorates when Rome defeats jerusalem
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
Doric Masculine, beefy, the simplest, oldest style
Ionic Feminine, slender
Corinthian Fancy top, planty shape around the base of the top
Contraposto The Italian word for counter posture, natural stance, more weight on one foot, body makes an S shape
Trumphal Arch Winnign army walks through