5.3 KiB
5.3 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) | 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 |
| 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 |