Barron's: Chapter 4 - Greek Art Flashcards
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Archaic Art
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- 600-480 B.C.E.
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Classical Art
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- 480-323 B.C.E.
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Hellenistic Art
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- 320-30 B.C.E.
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Essential Knowledge
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- Greek art is studied chronologically according to changes in style
- Greeks works are not studied according to dynastic rule, as in Egypt, but according to broad changes in stylistic patters
- Greek art is most known for its idealization and harmonic proportions, both in sculpture and in architecture
- Greek art has had an important impact on European art, particularly in the eighteenth century
- Greek writing contains some of the earliest contemporary accounts about art and artists
- Epics from the foundation of Greek writing. The texts at first transmitted orally, but later were written down
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3 ways Greek sculpture stands apart from ones before them
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- unafraid of nudity
- marble sculpture cut away from the stone behind them
- in the Classical and Hellenistic periods use contrapposto
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Anavysos Kouros
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- 530 B.C.E.
- marble and paint
- National Archaeological Museum, Athens
- Archaic Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Idealization
- Power Figure
- Staff God
- Donatello, David
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Peplos Kore
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- 530 B.C.E.
- marble and paint
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
- Archaic Art
- Winged Victory of Samothrace
- Seated Boxer
- Victory Adjusting Her Sandal
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Polykleitos, Spear Bearer
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- 450-440 B.C.E.
- marble copy from a bronze original
- National Archaeological Museum, Naples
- Greek name: Doryphoros
- Archaic Art-Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Human Figure
- Female Deity from Nukoro
- Shiva as Lord of Dance
- Braque, Portugese
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Helios, Horses and Dionysos
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- 438-432 B.C.E.
- marble
- British Museum, London
- classical art; contrapposto
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Plaque of the Ergastines
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- 438-432 B.C.E.
- marble
- Louvre, Paris
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Relief Sculpture
- Churning of the Ocean of Milk
- Coyolxauhqui
- Lintel 25 of Structure 23 from Yaxchilan
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Victory Adjusting her Sandal, from the Temple of Athena Nike
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- 410 B.C.E.
- marble
- Acropolis Museum, Athens
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Figure in Motion
- Shiva as Lord of Dance
- Nio guardian figure
- Churning of the Ocean of Milk
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Grave Stele of Hegeso
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- 410 B.C.E.
- painted marble
- National Archaeological Museum, Athens
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Funerary Markers and Materials
- Taj Mahal
- Sarcophagus of the Spouses
- Tutankhamun’s Tomb
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Nike of Samothrace
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- 190 B.C.E.
- marble
- Louvre, Paris
- Hellenistic Art
- found in 1863 in situ on Samothrace
- Cross-Cultural References: Location
- Smithson, Spiral Jetty
- Dome of the Rock
- Lanzon Stela
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Athena, from the Pergamon Altar
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- 175 B.C.E.
- marble
- State Museum, Berlin
- gigantomachy
- Hellenistic Art
- Cross-Cultural References: Relief Sculpture
- Narmer Palette
- Anthropomorphic Stele
- Pyxis of al-Mughira
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Seated Boxer
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- 100 B.C.E.
- bronze
- National Roman Museum, Rome
- Rare Hellenistic bronze
- Hellenistic Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual vs. Society
- Goya, And There’s Nothing to Be Done
- Kirchner, Self-Portrait as a Soldier
- Munch, The Scream
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Athenian Agora
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- 600-150 B.C.E.
- Athens, Greece
- Archaic Art-Classical Art-Hellenistic Art
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Iktinos and Kallikrates, th Parthenon
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- 447-438 B.C.E.
- Athens, Greece
- constructed under the leadership of Pericles after the Persian sack of Athens in 480 B.C.E. destroyed the original Acropolis
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Classical Influence on Later Buildings
- Jefferson, Monticello
- Porta, Il Gesu
- Venturi, House in New Castle County
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Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike
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- 425 B.C.E.
- Athens, Greece
- Amphiprostyle: Having four columns in the front and four in the back
- built to commemorate the Greek victory over the Persians in the Battle of Marathon
- Classical Art
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Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
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- 175 B.C.E.
- marbel
- State Museum, Berlin
- Hellenistic Art
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Niobid Painter, Niobides Krater
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- 460-450 B.C.E.
- clay
- Louvre, Paris
- Found in Orvieto, Italy
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Ceramics
- Beaker with ibex motifs
- The David Vases
- Martinez, Black-on-black ceramic vessel
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Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun
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- 310 B.C.E.
- Roman copy of 100 B.C.E.
- mosaic
- National Archaeological Museum, Naples
- Classical Art
- Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Battle and Glory
- Narmer Palette
- Bayeux Tapestry
- Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
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acropolis
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- literally, a “high city,”a Greek temple complex built on a hill over a city
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agora
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- a public plaza in a Greek city where commercial, religious, and societal activities are conducted
