Aegean through Imperial Roman Flashcards
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Knossos, Crete
Labyrinth Palace of King Minos
ca. 1700-1400 BCE
Minotaur Legend
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Dolphin Fresco
ca. 1700-1300 BCE
Knossos
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Octopus Jar
ca. 1450 BCE
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Snake Goddess
ca. 1600 BCE
Faience from Knossos
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Bull-Leaping Fresco
ca. 1450-1400 BCE
Knossos
True Fresco
Water is used as the vehicle for the pigment and, with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall
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Lion Gate
ca. 1300-1250
Two Heraldic lions & a column
Mycenae
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Treasury of Atreus
ca. 1300-1250 BCE
Mycenae
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Funerary Masks, from Grave Circle A
ca. 1600-1500 BCE
Repoussé gold
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Vapheio Cup
ca. 1500-1450 BCE
Repoussé Gold
Mycenae
Cyclopean Masonry
Built w/ very large, irregular stone blocks, as if by a giant
Tholos
Beehive-like earthen mound tombs (pl. tholoi)
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Geometric Style Amphora
“Dipylon Amphora” - From Dipylon cemetary, Athens
Greek vessel- Standardized for function
ca. 750 BCE
Thrown on a wheel
Pictured: Scene of Mourning; Meandering Key
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New York Kouros
“Kouros”: Male youth
ca. 600 BCE
Greek
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Lady of Auxerre
“Kore”: Maiden
ca. 650-625 BCE
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Kroisos
ca. 530 BCE
Commemorating Kroisos who died in battle
Example of “archaic smile”
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Temple of Aphaia
Aegina, Greece
West Pediment: Dying Soldier, ca. 500-490 BCE
East Pediment: Dying Soldier, ca. 480; Had been destroyed & rebuilt
Pediments show battle of Greeks & Trojans
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Peplos Kore
ca. 620-525 BCE
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Kritios Boy
ca. 480 BCE
Encaustic
Painting using beeswax
Hellas
Former name of Ancient Greece
Archaic Smile
Typical smile in Ancient Greek sculptures; often appears unnatural & strange, possibly used to suggest life & wellness
Differences between Doric & Ionic Greek Temples
- Doric columns sit directly on stylobate
Ionic columns sit on a base
- Doric columns appear more solid & heavy
Ionic columns appear more slender, less tapering
- Doric capitals have a flaring, cushionlike shape
Ionic capitals end in a volute
- Doric frieze is broken up into triglyphs and metopes
Ionic have a running frieze
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Doryphoros
Polykleitos
ca. 450-440 BCE
accompanied a written piece about proportion
also called Canon (standard of measure/perfection)
Centauromachy
A fight involving centaurs
Contrapposto
Human figure leaning with most of their weight on one foot
Canon
Standard of perfection
Hollow Bronze Casting/Lost Wax Method
- Model-making.
- Moldmaking.
- Wax
- Removal of wax
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Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Livon of Elis
c. 470-456 BCE
East Pediment: Chariot race of Pelops & Ornomaos
West Pediment: Apollo and Battle of Greeks & Centaurs (centauromachy)
Metopes: Labors of Hercules
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Riace Warrior
ca. 460-450 BCE
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Artemision Zeus or Poseidon
ca. 460-450 BCE
Gigantomachy
War between the Gods of Olympus & the rebelling giants
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Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos
ca. 350-340
Roman marble copy
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Lysippos, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)
ca. 350 BCE
Roman marble copy
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Lysippos, Portrait of Alexander the Great
3rd Century BCE
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Great Altar of Zeus / Peramon Altar
Pergamon (Modern Turkey)
ca. 175 BCE
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Sleeping Satyr
ca. 230-220 BCE
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Seated Boxer
ca. 100-50 BCE
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Old Market Woman
ca. 150-100 BCE
Tumulus
(pl. tumuli) mound of dirt & stones covering a grave/tomb
Necropolis
“City of the Dead”; cluster of tumuli
Terracotta
Earthenware popular among Entruscans
Veristic Portraiture
naturalistic portraiture, including wrinkles & flaws
Stylistic eclecticism
Combining everal stylistic methods
Imagines
(Imag-in-ays) busts of ancestors in marble or wax
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Interior of the Tomb of the Reliefs
3rd Century BCE
Cerveteri (necropolis), Italy
Decorated like the inside of a house; bed, chairs, stucco tools, etc
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Sarcophagos with Reclining Couple
ca. 520 BCE
Cerveteri, Italy
Terracotta
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Capitoline Wolf
ca. 500 BCE
Child figured (Romulus & Remus) added during Italian Renaissance
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Head of an Old Man
ca. 80 BCE
Roman Republic
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Portrait of a Roman General
ca. 75-50 BCE
Marble
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Funerary Relief with Portraits of the Gesii
ca. 30 BCE
Mosaic
Assemblage of pieces of glass or stone to create an image
Tesserae
Small pieces of glass or stone used in mosaic
domus
Roman house
Atrium
Squarish central hall lit by an opening in the roof
Impluvium
Pool or basin located under the roof opening to catch rain
Cubiculum
bedroom located off of atrium of domus
First Style of Pompeian Wall Painting
Simulated stones in geometric flat planes of color
First century BCE
Second Style of Pompeian Wall Painting
Simulated 3D scene / fantasy world
ca. 60 - 20 BCE
Third Style of Pompeian Wall Painting
Abandonment of illusion; solid planes of color similar to first style
ca. 10 BCE - 1st Century BCE
Fourth Style of Pompeian Style Wall Painting
Elements from each of the first three styles
ca. 60 - 79 BCE
Atmospheric Perspective
Objects further away are hazier, objects closer are sharper
Linear Perspective
Mathematical system of creating the illusion of depth
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Battle of Alexander
ca. 1st Century BCE
Mosaic
Roman copy of Greek fresco “Philoxenos of Eretria” ca. 310 BCE
House of the Faun, Pompeii
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Gardenscape
Villa of Livia, Primaporta
Second style
30-20 BCE
atmospheric perspective
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Scenes of Dionysiac Mystery Cult
ca. 60 BCE
Villa of the Mysteries
2nd Style
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House of the Vettii
Domus in Pompeii
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Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor
Cubiculum
ca. 50-40 BCE
2nd style fresco
linear perspective
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Villa of Agrippa Postumus
ca. 10 BCE
3rd style fresco
Bosco trecase, Italy
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Ixion Room
House of the Vettii, Pompeii
ca. 70-79 BCE
4th style fresco
