Chapter Five

Chapters

1 - Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age
3 - Ancient Egypt
4 - Prehistoric Aegean
5 - Ancient Greece
9 - Etruscans
10 - Ancient Rome
11 - Early Christian
12 - Byzantium
16 - Early Medieval
17 - Romanesque
18 and 19 - Gothic
20 - Fifteenth Century Northern Europe and Spain
21 - Fifteenth Century Italy
22-High Renaissance
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Slide #1

Slide#1

Artist:Unknown
Title:Covered vase with horse figure
Location:Greece
Date:c. 700 BC
Description: Late geometric period. Zigzag patterns and circles. No animals on vase - only on top.

Slide #2

Slide#2

Artist:Unknown
Title:Figure of woman
Location:Greece
Date:c. 700 BC
Description: Terra-cotta (baked clay). Decorated with animals and geometric figures.

Slide #3

Slide#3

Artist:Unknown
Title:Aryballos: form of cockleshells
Location:Greece
Date:Late 6th century BC
Description:

Slide #4

Slide#4

Artist:Unknown
Title:Griffin Jug
Location:Greece
Date:7th century BC
Description: Orientalizing period. Animal head on top and geometric design. Patterns and animals. Eastern influence.

Slide #5

Slide#5

Artist:Unknown
Title:Dionysus and Dolphins
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Black figure. Kylix. Dionysus was the Greek god of wine.

Slide #6

Slide#6

Artist:Exekias
Title:Dionysus and Dolphins
Location:Attica, Greece
Date:7th period BC
Description: Orientalizing period. Interior f Attic pottery.

Slide #7

Slide#7

Artist:Psiax
Title:Herakles strangling Nemean Lion
Location:Greece
Date:c. 525 BC
Description: Black figure amphora. Symbolic hero facing unknown forces.

Slide #8

Slide#8

Artist:Psiax
Title:Herakles strangling Nemean Lion - Detail
Location:Greece
Date:c. 525 BC
Description: Black figure amphora. Symbolic hero facing unknown forces.

Slide #9

Slide#9

Artist:Unknown
Title:Attic black figure vase
Location:Greece
Date:c. 520 BC
Description: Prize vase. Depicts foot race. Portrays action from the Olympics.

Slide #10

Slide#10

Artist:Unknown
Title:Hektor with his chariot
Location:Greece
Date:c. 570-550 BC
Description: Black figure vase

Slide #11

Book #5-19

Slide#11 
Book#5-19

Artist:Exekias
Title:Achilles and Ajax casting dice
Location:Greece
Date:c. 540-530 BC
Description: 24" high. Black figure amphora.

Slide #12

Slide#12

Artist:Unknown
Title:Theseus Killing the Minotaur
Location:Greece
Date: 6th century BC
Description: Amphora. Light females, dark males.

Slide #13

Slide#13

Artist:Unknown
Title:Theseus Killing the Minotaur
Location:Greece
Date: c. 500-600 BC
Description: Side view of head. Black figure

Slide #14

Slide#14

Artist:Unknown
Title:Lapith and Centaur
Location:Greece
Date:c. 490-480 BC
Description: Interior of Kylix. Red Figure.

Slide #15

Slide#15

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kylix
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description:Red figure. Finer details.

Slide #16

Slide#16

Artist:Unknown
Title:Herakles and Busiris
Location:Greece
Date:c. 510 BC
Description: Red figure

Slide #17

Slide#17

Artist:Unknown
Title:Volci
Location:Greece
Date:c. 430 BC
Description: Red figure. Profile bodies.

Slide #18

Slide#18

Artist: Unknown
Title:Fall of Troy vase
Location:Greece
Date:c. 465 BC
Description: Altaura painter

Slide #19

Slide#19

Artist:Unknown
Title:Theseus defeating Monsters
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Red figure Kylix

Slide #20

Slide#20

Artist:Unknown
Title:Red figure vase
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Detailed. Thin black lines on white. Black background.

Slide #21

Slide#21

Artist:Unknown
Title:Red figure Theseus
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: All profile heads in red figure.

Slide #22

Slide#22

Artist:Unknown
Title:Achilles Painter
Location:Greece
Date:c. 440-430 BC
Description: Used as offering at cemetery to dead. Used for ceremonies.

Slide #23

Book #5-8

Slide#23 
Book#5-8

Artist:Unknown
Title:Standing Youth
Location:Greece
Date:c. 600 BC
Description: NY Kouros

Slide #24

Slide#24

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kouros from Souric
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: ?

Slide #25

Slide#25

Artist:Unknown
Title:Rampin Head
Location:Greece
Date: c. 560 BC
Description: Textured hair. Archaic smile.

Slide #26

Slide#26

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kouros
Location:Greece
Date:c. 615-590 BC
Description: More natural looking than previous models.

Slide #27

Book #5-9

Slide#27 
Book#5-9

Artist:Unknown
Title:Calf-Bearer
Location:Greece
Date:c. 570 BC
Description: Marble. 65 inches tall. Archaic smile, one leg forward, idealized, bearded. Clothed - an important person/action. Sacrificing animal to Athena. Painted with encaustic (hot wax and pigment)

Slide #28

Book #5-10

Slide#28 
Book#5-10

Artist:Unknown
Title:Memorial statue of Kroisos
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Corresponds to red figure phase to archaic sculpture. Funerary statue. More anatomical details. 6'4".

Slide #29

Slide#29

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kore painted
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Marble

Slide #30

Book #5-12

Slide#30 
Book#5-12

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kore from Chios
Location:Greece
Date:c. 520 BC (Figure in book is from 510 BC)
Description: Very detailed. Painted. Detailed drapery.

Slide #31

Book #5-1

Slide#31 
Book#5-11

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kore in Dorian Peplos
Location:Greece
Date: 530 BC
Description: Stylistic sister to Kore from Chios. Less detailed. 48". Rigid, archaic smile.

Slide #32

Book #5-1

Slide#32 
Book#5-11

Artist:Unknown
Title:Kore in Dorian Peplos
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Reddish hair.

Slide #33

Slide#33

Artist:Unknown
Title:5th century Kore
Location:Greece
Date:c. 400 BC
Description: Simple. Partially naked.

Slide #34

Slide#34

Artist:Unknown
Title:Berlin Kore
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Very stylized

Slide #35

Book #5-15

Slide#35 
Book#5-15

Artist:Unknown
Title:West pediment from Temple of Artemis
Location: Corfu, Greece
Date:c. 500-580 BC
Description: Limestone. 9'4" at tallest part. Doric Temple. Triangular piece over post and lintel like lion gate (modeled after lion gate). Medusa (Gorgon) - profile legs, front view of head and body.

Slide #36

Slide#36

Artist:Unknown
Title:Hera from Samos
Location:Greece
Date:c. 570-560 BC
Description: Columnar body, typical clothing

Slide #37

Slide#37

Artist:Unknown
Title:Treasury of Siphnians
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Continuous band of sculpture around building.

Slide #38

Slide#38

Artist:Unknown
Title:Treasury of Siphnians
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Characters are all the same size.

Slide #39

Slide#39

Artist:Unknown
Title:Treasury of Siphnians
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Undercut legs

Slide #40

Book #5-17

Slide#40 
Book#5-17

Artist:Unknown
Title:Treasury of Siphnians
Location:Greece
Date:c. 530 BC
Description: Some things protrude to show depth.

Slide #41

Slide#41

Artist:Unknown
Title:Herakles
Location:Greece - Eastern Facade of the Temple of Aphaia in Aegina.
Date:c. 490-480 BC
Description: Marble. Late Archaic - human action.

Slide #42

Slide#42

Artist:Unknown
Title:Birth of Venus
Location:Greece
Date:c. 480-450 BC
Description: Motion and Emotion. Classical. Severe style.

Slide #43

Book #5-35

Slide#43 
Book#5-35

Artist:Unknown
Title:Charioteer
Location:Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece
Date:c. 470 BC
Description: Bronze. 5'11". Some motion, but pretty stiff. Glass paste eyes, bronze eyelashes. Inlaid silver band around hair.

Slide #44

Slide#44

Artist:Unknown
Title:Charioteer(detail)
Location:Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece
Date:c. 470 BC
Description: Bronze. 5'11". Some motion, but pretty stiff. Glass paste eyes, bronze eyelashes. Inlaid silver band around hair.

Slide #45

Slide#45

Artist:Unknown
Title:Charioteer(detail)
Location:Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece
Date:c. 470 BC
Description: Bronze. 5'11". Some motion, but pretty stiff. Glass paste eyes, bronze eyelashes. Inlaid silver band around hair.

Slide #46

Slide#46

Artist:Unknown
Title:Woman holding a dove
Location:Greece
Date:c. 460 BC
Description: Severe style, early classical. Bronze.

Slide #47

Slide#47

Artist:Unknown
Title:Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs
Location:Temple of Zeus, West Pediment, Athens, Greece
Date:?
Description: Central group. Severe style. Large free standing figures. motion. Not relief.

Slide #48

Slide#48

Artist:Unknown
Title:Apollo 3/4 view
Location:Temple of Zeus, West Pediment, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 460 BC
Description:

Slide #49

Book #5-36

Slide#49 
Book#5-36

Artist:Unknown
Title:Zeus (or Poseidon)
Location:Sea off Cape Artemision, Greece
Date:c. 460-450 BC
Description: Bronze. 82". Found in ocean. Severe style. Shift in weight. Action.

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Slide#50

Artist:Polycleitus
Title:Diadumenus
Location:Greece
Date:5th century BC
Description:

Slide #51

Book #5-37

Slide#51 
Book#5-37

Artist:Myron
Title:Discobolus (Discus thrower)
Location:Greece
Date:c. 450 BC
Description:Marble. Roman copy. At the height of motion before throwing. Shift in weight. Shows a sequence with one pose. Balanced. Weight on one leg.

Slide #52

Slide#52

Artist:Unknown
Title:Dying Niobid
Location:Greece
Date:c. 450-440 BC
Description: Marble. 59". Mature classical style. Emotion and motion. Earliest large Greek female nude. Pulling arrow out of back.

Slide #53

Slide#53

Artist:Unknown
Title:Seated Youth.
Location:Greece
Date:c. 300 BC
Description: Hellenistic. Interacts with environment. exaggeration of muscles and action.

Slide #54

Slide#54

Artist:Unknown
Title:Hermes of Andres
Location:Greece
Date:c. 400 BC
Description: Late Classical

Slide #55

Slide#55

Artist:Unknown
Title:Hermes of Andres (detail)
Location:Greece
Date:c. 400 BC
Description: Head. Marble.

Slide #56

Book #5-54

Slide#56 
Book#5-54

Artist:Unknown
Title:Nike taking off her sandal
Location:Temple of Athena Nike,Acropolics, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 410-407 BC
Description: Marble. 3'6". High relif. Wet look to drapery. Removing shoe because she cannot step on holy ground with shoes.

Slide #57

Book #5-55

Slide#57 
Book#5-55

Artist:Unknown
Title:Grave Stele of Hegeso
Location:Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 400 BC
Description: Grave marker. Picking out jewelry in room. Everyday scene. May be symbolic of dowry - she died before she was married. Clothing molds to figure. Phitius style. Relief carving.

Slide #58

Slide#58

Artist:Unknown
Title:Three Maidens
Location:Greece
Date:409 BC
Description: Marble. 3'6". Figures in action.

Slide #59

Book #5-62

Slide#59 
Book#5-62

Artist:Praxiteles
Title:Hermes, 3/4 view
Location:Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece
Date:c. 325 BC (a copy after an original of c. 340 BC)
Description: Marble. 85". Human-like. Originally golding grapes to tempt baby Dionysus (god of wine). Tenderness. Interaction. Contropoosto. S curve.

Slide #60

Book #5-62

Slide#60 
Book#5-62

Artist:Praxiteles
Title:Hermes
Location:Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece
Date:c. 325 BC (a copy after an original of c. 340 BC)
Description: Marble. 85". Human-like. Originally golding grapes to tempt baby Dionysus (god of wine). Tenderness. Interaction. Contropposto. S curve.

Slide #61

Slide#60

Artist:Unknown
Title:Riace Bronze Figure
Location:Riace, Italy (statue is Greek)
Date:c. 450 BC
Description: Severe style. Contrapposto.

Slide #62

Slide#62

Artist:Unknown
Title:Riace Bronze Figure (head detail)
Location:Riace, Italy (statue is Greek)
Date:c. 450 BC
Description: Severe style. Contrapposto.

Slide #63

Book #5-28

Slide#63 
Book#5-28

Artist:Unknown
Title:Dying Warrior
Location:East pediment of Temple of Aphaia at Aegina, Greece
Date:c. 490-480 BC
Description: Marble. 6'1". Archaic. Doesn't look active or emotional

Slide #64

Book #5-47

Slide#64 
Book#5-47

Artist:Phidius
Title:Three Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, Aphrodite)
Location:East pediment of Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 438-432 BC
Description: Marble. 4'5" at tallest place. Flowing style. Figures are united in drapery.

Slide #65

Slide#65

Artist:Unknown
Title:The three fates
Location:East pediment of Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:?
Description:

Slide #66

Slide#66

Artist:Unknown
Title:The three graces
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Hellenistic.

Slide #67

Slide#67

Artist:Unknown
Title:The Laocoon Group
Location:Greece
Date:1st century BC
Description: Marble. Hellenistic. Exaggerated muscles. Depicts death of Laocoon and his sons.

Slide #68

Slide#68

Artist:Unknown
Title:The Laocoon Group
Location:Greece
Date:1st century BC
Description: Marble. Hellenistic. Exaggerated muscles. Depicts death of Laocoon and his sons.

Slide #69

Book #5-87

Slide#69 
Book#5-87

Artist:Unknown
Title:Statue of an Old Market Woman
Location:Greece
Date:c. 150-100 BC
Description: Pentelic marble. 4.5'. Hellenistic. Wrinkled, bent, expression, old, ugly, realistic. Motion.

Slide #70

Book #5-82

Slide#70 
Book#5-82

Artist:Unknown
Title:Nike of Samothrace
Location:Samothrace, Greece
Date:c. 200-190 BC.
Description: Hellenistic. Made to commemorate naval victory. Uses outside space. Marble. about 8'1".

Slide #71

Slide#71

Artist:Unknown
Title:Nike of Samothrace
Location:Samothrace, Greece
Date:c. 200-190 BC.
Description: Hellenistic. Made to commemorate naval victory. Uses outside space. Marble. about 8'1".

Slide #72

Slide#72

Artist:Unknown
Title:Portait head from Delos
Location:Greece
Date:c. 80 BC
Description: Bronze. 12.75". Flabby features. Not idealized. Worried expression.

Slide #73

Slide#73

Artist:Unknown
Title:Portait head from Delos
Location:Greece
Date:c. 80 BC
Description: Bronze. 12.75". Flabby features. Not idealized. Worried expression.

Slide #74

Book #5-69

Slide#74 
Book#5-69

Artist:Philoxenos of Eretria (original)
Title:The Battle of Issus(original). Alexander Mosaic (Roman copy)
Location:House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy
Date:c. 310 BC (original). 1st century BC (copy)
Description: Tessera mosaic. About 8'10" by 16'9".

Slide #75

Slide#75

Artist:Unknown
Title:The Jockey
Location:Greece
Date:3rd century BC
Description: Bronze. Statue of a young Horseman. Hellenistic.

Slide #76

Slide#76

Artist:Unknown
Title:Young Satyr with flute
Location:Greece
Date:?
Description: Hellenistic. Marble.

Slide #77

Slide#77

Artist:Ipigonus
Title:Dying Trumpeter (Roman copy after a bronze original)
Location:?
Date:c. 230-220 BC
Description: Hellenistic. Realistic. Made to celebrate victory. Bones, blood, muscles, veins are overexaggerated - suffering.

Slide #78

Book #5-38

Slide#78 
Book#5-38

Artist: Polykleitos
Title:Doryphouros (Spear bearer) - Roman marble copy.
Location:Pompeii, Italy
Date:450-440 BC (original)
Description: 6'11" high

 

 

GREEK ARCHITECTURE

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Slide#1

Artist:NA
Title:Greek arcitectural orders
LocationNA:
Date:NA
Description:Doric, Ionic and Corinthian

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Slide#2

Artist:NA
Title:Ionic Columns
Location:NA
Date:NA
Description:NA

Slide #3

Slide#3

Artist:Ictinus, Callicrates, Karpion
Title:Rear Porch (Parthenon)
Location:Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:?
Description: Doric Columns

Slide #4

Slide#4

Artist:Unknown
Title:Basilica, exterior
Location:Paestum, Italy
Date:c. 556 BC
Description: Doric.

Slide #5

Slide#5

Artist:Unknown
Title:Temple of Poseidon, exterior (dedicated to Hera)
Location:Paestum, Italy
Date:c. 450 BC
Description: Doric

Slide #6

Slide#6

Artist:Unknown
Title:Temple of Poseidon, interior, side aisle
Location:Paestum, Italy
Date:c. 450 BC
Description: 2 stories

Slide #7

Slide#7

Artist:Unknown
Title:Temple of Bassae
Location:?
Date:?
Description: Doric exterior with Ionic and Corinthian elements

Slide #8

Slide#8

Artist:Unknown
Title:The Acropolis
Location:Athens, Greece
Date:?
Description: Hill with temples on it

Slide #9

Book #5-40

Slide#9 
Book#5-40

Artist:Unknown
Title:The Acropolis
Location:Athens, Greece
Date:?
Description:

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Book #5-49

Slide#10 
Book#5-49

Artist:Mnesikles
Title:Propylaea, general view
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 437-432 BC
Description: Doric columns. Mixture of Doric and Ionic elements.

Slide #11

Slide#11

Artist:Mnesikles
Title:Propylaea, view from Acropolis
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 437-432 BC
Description: Doric columns. Mixture of Doric and Ionic elements.

Slide #12

Slide#12

Artist:Unknown
Title:Erechtheum, looking toward Lycabettos
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 421-405 BC
Description: Temple to display art. Ionic

Slide #13

Slide#13

Artist:Unknown
Title:Erechtheum, Porch of Maidens (Caryatids) - Distant View
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 421-405 BC
Description: Ionic

Slide #14

Slide#14

Artist:Unknown
Title:Erechtheum, Porch of Maidens (Caryatids)
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 421-405 BC
Description: Ionic

Slide #15

Slide#15

Artist:Iktinos, Kallikrates (architects)
Title:Parthenon sectional drawing
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date: 448-432 BC
Description: White marble. Doric on outside -- pediment, metopes, triglyphs. Ionic frieze inside. Columns lean inwards. Fluting on columns. Platform is curved. Pillars - entasis bulge.

Slide #16

Slide#16

Artist:Iktinos, Kallikrates
Title:Parthenon
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date: 448-432 BC
Description: White marble. Doric on outside -- pediment, metopes, triglyphs. Ionic frieze inside. Columns lean inwards. Fluting on columns. Platform is curved. Pillars - entasis bulge.

Slide #17

Book #5-42

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Book#5-42

Artist:Iktinos, Kallikrates
Title:Parthenon from southwest
Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date: 448-432 BC
Description: White marble. Doric on outside -- pediment, metopes, triglyphs. Ionic frieze inside. Columns lean inwards. Fluting on columns. Platform is curved. Pillars - entasis bulge.

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Slide#18

Artist:Phidias
Title:Interior of Parthenon (Athena Parthenos)
Location:Cella of Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 438 BC
Description: Made of wood - skin of ivory and gold. Parthenon was built in her honor. 38ft. tall.

Slide #19

Book #5-44

Slide#19 
Book#5-44

Artist:Phidias
Title:Interior of Parthenon (Athena Parthenos)
Location:Cella of Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c. 438 BC
Description: Made of wood - skin of ivory and gold. Parthenon was built in her honor. 38ft. tall.:

Slide #20

Book #5-43

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Book#5-43

Artist:NA
Title:Parthenon plan (Doric)
Location:NA
Date:NA
Description: NA

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Slide#21

Artist:Kallikrates
Title:Temple of Athena Nike
Location:Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Date:c.427-424 BC
Description: View from Propylaea. Ionic, volute shape (straight) columns.

Slide #22

Slide#22

Artist:Unknown
Title:Temple of Zeus
Location:Athens, Greece
Date:170 BC
Description: Corinthian columns

Slide #23

Book #5-70

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Book#5-70

Artist:Polyklitus' sun
Title:Epidauros Theater.
Location:Epidauros, Greece
Date:c. 350 BC
Description:South slope of Acropolis. One of the original theaters. Stone seats, orchestra, stage. Open air theater.

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Book #5-73

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Book#5-73

Artist:Unknown
Title:Monument of Lysikrates
Location:Athens, Greece
Date:334 BC
Description: Holds tripod. Engaged semi-round columns. Holds a prize/award. Corintian columns/capitals. Round shape.