8.4 KiB
8.4 KiB
Piece | Place | Artist | Medium | Stuff |
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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 | 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 |
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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 | Winning army walks through on return home |