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  • Geometric Krater
  • From the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 B.C.
  • Meander (key) pattern of horizontal bands, Geometric Vase
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Hero and Centaur (Herakles and Nessus)
  • ca. 750-730 B.C.
  • Geometric, Chiron had human front legs
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Mantiklos (Sculptor) Apollo
  • From Thebes, Greece ca. 700-680 B.C.
  • Bronze statuette, Orientalizing Art
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  • Corinthian Black Figure Amphora
  • From Rhodes, Greece ca. 625-600 B.C.
  • Orientalizing, Black Figure
  • British Museum, London
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  • Lintel of Temple A
  • From Prinias, Greece ca. 625 B.C.
  • Orientalizing reliefs
  • Archeological Museum, Herakleion
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  • Lady Of Auxerre (Mantiklos)
  • Limestone kore ca. 650-625 B.C.
  • Orientalizing
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • New York Kouros ca. 600 B.C.
  • Archaic, nude, almost Egyptian
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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  • Calf Bearer (Moschophoros)
  • Dedicated by Rhonbos on the Acropolis, Athens, ca. 560 B.C.
  • Thin cloak, smiling, Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Anavysos Kouros (for Kroisos)
  • Grave marker from Anavysos, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Painted in encaustic (wax), Archaic
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Peplos Kore
  • From the Acropolis, Athens ca. 530 B.C.
  • Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Kore from the Acropolis, Athens ca. 510 B.C.
  • Archaic
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Temple of Hera (“Basilica”)
  • Paestum, Italy ca. 550 B.C.
  • Doric temple
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  • West Pediment from the Temple of Artemis
  • From Corfu, Greece ca. 600-580 B.C.
  • Archaic, limestone, medusa and felines
  • Gigantomachy and Trojan War
  • Archeological Museum, Corfu
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  • Siphian Treasury
  • From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Ionic, Caryatids
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  • Gigantomachy on the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury
  • From Delphi, Greece ca. 530 B.C.
  • Archaic, Ionic
  • Archaelogical Museum, Delphi
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  • Francois Vase (Kleitias and Ergotimos)
  • From Chiusi, Italy, ca. 570 B.C.
  • Attic Black Figure Volute Krater, Centauromachy
  • Museo Archeologico, Florence
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  • Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (Exekias)
  • Black Figure
  • From Vulci, Italy ca. 540-530 B.C.
  • Vatican Museum, Rome
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  • Achilles and Ajax playing dice (Andokides)
  • From Orvieto, Italy ca. 525-520 B.C.
  • Bilingual painting, amphora
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  • Herakles wrestling Antaeus (Euphronios)
  • from Cerveteri, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
  • Attic red figure calyx krater
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • Three Revelers (Euthymides)
  • From Vulci, Italy ca. 510 B.C.
  • Amphora, foreshortening
  • Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Munich
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  • Girl preparing to bathe (Onesimos)
  • Interior of an Attic red figure kylix, nude, foreshortened
  • From Chiusi, Italy ca. 490 B.C.
  • Musees Royaux, Brussels
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  • Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
  • Doric columns
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  • West Pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
  • Aegina, Greece ca. 500-490 B.C.
  • Dying warrior, Archaic
  • Glyptothek, Munich
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  • Dying Warrior from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia
  • ca. 490-480 B.C
  • Beginning of Classicism
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  • East pediment from the Temple of Zeus
  • Olympia, Greece ca. 470-456 B.C.
  • Chariot race of Pelops
  • Horrified seer officially classical
  • Archeological Museum, Olympia
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  • Athena, Herakles, and Atlas witht the apples of the Hesperides
  • Metope from the Temple of Zeus
  • Classical
  • Archeological Museum, Olympia
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  • Kritios Boy
  • From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece ca. 480 B.C.
  • Contrapposto
  • Acropolis Museum, Athens
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  • Riace Warrior
  • From Riace, Italy ca. 460-450
  • Bronze, contrapposto, classical
  • Archeological Museum, Reggio Calabria
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  • Charioteer
  • From the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece ca. 470 B.C.
  • Classical
  • Archeological Museum, Delphi
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  • Zeus (or Poseidon)
  • From Cape Artemision, Greece ca. 460-450 B.C.
  • Bronze, Classical
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Discobolos (Myron)
  • Roman marble copy after bronze ca. 450 B.C.
  • Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
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  • Doryphoros Spear Bearer (Polykleitos)
  • From Pompeii, Italy ca. 450-440 B.C.
  • Classical Canon, contrapposto
  • Museo Nazionale, Naples
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  • Pericles (Kresilas) herm
  • ca. 429 B.C.
  • Vatican Museum, Rome
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  • Acropolis (Pericles)
  • Athens, Greece ca. 447-438 B.C.
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  • The Parthenon (Iktinos and Kallikrates)
  • Acropolis, Athens ca. 447-438 B.C.
  • Statue of Athena made by Phidias
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  • Athena Parthenos (Phidias)
  • In the cella of the Parthenon, chryselephantine, holding Nike
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  • Helios and his horses and Dionysus
  • East pediment of the Parthenon
  • Helios rising to bring the day
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  • Three Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite)
  • From the east pediment of the Parthenon
  • British Museum, London
  • Also a panathenaic procession relief
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  • Propylaia (Mnesikles)
  • Entrance to the Acropolis
  • Doric on outside, Ionic inside
  • ca. 437-432 B.C.
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  • Erecthion
  • From the Acropolis, for Athena, ca. 421-405 B.C.
  • Assymetrical, Ionic, caryatids
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  • Temple of Athena Nike (Kallikrates)
  • From the Acropolis, ca. 427-424 B.C.
  • Ionic, contains Nike adjusting her sandal
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  • Grave Stele of Hegeso
  • From the Dipylon cemetery, Athens ca. 400 B.C.
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Warrior taking leave of his wife (Achilles Painter)
  • Attic white ground lekythos
  • From Eretria, Greece ca. 440 B.C.
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Artemis and Apollo slaying the children of Niobe (Niobid Painter)
  • Attic red-figure calyx krater
  • From Orvieto, Italy, ca. 450 B.C.
  • Foreshortening
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • Hermes bringing the infant Dionysos (Phiale Painter)
  • Attic white ground calyx krater
  • From Vulci, Italy, ca. 440-435 B.C.
  • Vatican Museums, Rome
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  • Youth Diving
  • Painted on the ceiling of the Tomb of the Diver
  • From Paestum, Italy ca. 480 B.C.
  • Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Paestum
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  • Aphrodite of Knidos (Praxiteles)
  • ca. 350-340
  • High Classical nude
  • Vatican Museums, Rome
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  • Head of a Woman
  • From Chios, Greece ca. 320-300 B.C.
  • High Classical
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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  • Hermes and the Infant Dionysos (Praxiteles)
  • From the Temple of Hera, Olympia, Greece ca. 340
  • High Classical
  • Archeological Museum, Olympia
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  • Grave stele of a young hunter
  • Found by the Ilissos River, Athens, ca. 340-330 B.C.
  • High Classical
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Apoxyomenos Scraper (Lysippos)
  • ca. 330 B.C.
  • High Classical, movement
  • Vatican Museums, Rome
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  • Weary Herakles Farnese Herakles (Lysippos)
  • From Rome, ca. 320 B.C.
  • Signed Glykon of Athens
  • Museo Nazionale, Naples
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  • head of Alexander the Great
  • From Pella, Greece ca. 200-150 B.C.
  • Archeological Museum, Pella
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  • Stag Hunt (Gnosis)
  • From Pella, Greece ca. 300 B.C.
  • Pebble mosaic
  • Skiagraphia (shadow painting) invented by Apollodorus
  • Archeological Museum, Pella
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  • Battle of Issus (Philoxenos of Eretria)
  • From the House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy ca. 310 B.C.
  • Alexander the Great, tesserae
  • Museo Nazionale, Naples
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  • Theater (Polykleitos the Younger)
  • From Epidauros, Greece ca. 350 B.C.
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  • Tholos (Theodoros of Phokaia)
  • In Delphi, Greece ca. 375 B.C.
  • Doric Order
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  • Choragic Monument of Lysikrates
  • From Athens, Greece ca. 334 B.C.
  • Held a bronze tripod
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  • Altar of Zeus
  • From Pergamon, Turkey ca. 175 B.C.
  • Hellenistic, Ionic
  • Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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  • Athena Battling Alykoneos
  • Gigantomachy frieze on the Altar of Zeus at Pergamon, Turkey
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  • Gallic Chieftain killing himself and his wife (Epigonos)
  • Roman copy, bronze original from Pergamon ca. 230-220 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome
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  • Dying Gaul (Epigonos)
  • From Pergamon, Turkey ca. 230-220 B.C.
  • Museo Capitolino, Rome
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  • Nike of Samothrace
  • From Samothrace, Greece ca. 190 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • Aphrodite (Alexandros of Antioch on the Meander) Venus de Milo
  • From Melos, Greece ca. 150-125 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • Louvre, Paris
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  • Aphrodite, Eros, and Pan
  • From Delos, Greece ca. 100 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • National Archeological Museum, Athens
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  • Sleeping satyr (Barberini Faun)
  • From Rome ca. 230-200 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • Glyptothek, Munich
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  • Seated Boxer
  • From Rome ca. 100-50 B.C.
  • Hellenistic, bronze
  • Rome
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  • Old Market Woman
  • ca. 150-100 B.C.
  • Hellenistic
  • Metropolitan, New York
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  • Demosthenes (Polyeuktos)
  • ca. 280 B.C.
  • Hellenistic NIP SLIP
  • Copenhagen
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  • Laocoon and his sons (Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydorus)
  • From Titus’s Palace, Rome ca. Early First Century A.D.
  • Hellenistic
  • Vatican Museum, Rome
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  • Head of Odysseus (Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros)
  • From Tiberius’s Villa, Italy ca. First Century A.D.
  • Sperlonga

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