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  • *Name**: Riace Warrior A
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 460-450 BC
  • *Original** Location: Riace
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  • *Name**: Riace Warrior B
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 460-450 BC
  • *Original Location**: Riace
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  • *Name**: Ludovisi Throne. Birth of Aphrodite
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 460-early 5th C. BC
  • *Original Location**: Croton or Locri, Italy
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  • *Name**: Ludovisi Throne. Right side:Veiled woman
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 460-early 5th C. BC
  • *Original Location**: Croton or Locri, Italy
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  • *Name**: Ludovisi Throne. Left side: Flute player
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 460-early 5th C. BC
  • *Original Location**: Croton or Locri, Italy
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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus, entrance from south
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Architect**: Libon of Elis Original
  • *Location**: Olympia
  • Zeus olympios = the far seeing zeus
  • supervises & judges the propriety & acts of humankind
  • cult was established @ olympia 10th c BC
  • popularity of the temple was b/c of its quadrennial (every 4 years) games = Olympics
  • plan had ramp to possibly lead sacrificial animal to the temple
  • columns were done in classical proportions (long side was short side times two plus one)
  • proportions of columns were slimmer, less pronounced entasis, & capitals were less cushioned
  • greeks vowed to never rebuild the temples destroyed by the barbarism of the Persians as a reminder of what happened (battle of marathon, thermopylae, salamis, platea)

doric temple

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. East pediment diagram
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Architect**: Libon of Elis
  • *Original Location**: Olympia

east pediment = front of temple

pedimental sculptural narrative = story of Pelops & Oenomaus

faced the stadium (old placement of stadium)

believed that it’s specifically the sacrifice to Zeus before the doomed race

the vow of fair play to him as overseer of law & morals

Greeks chose the moment of greater psychological intensity = moment before what’s to come

zeus in the middle, seer on the right

sides are antithetical = mirror eaach other, but w/slight differences to remove rigidity (on either side of zeus or apollo)

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. E. pediment, center: Zeus
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location:** Olympia

in the middle, fills the highest point of the pediment

biggest = god status, imposes dike upon the people

dike (die-key) = right order of things

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. E. pediment, right side. Det: Seer
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location**: Olympia

right side of east facade

old man sees the future = death of Oenomaus & curse of Pelops & family

can’t do anything about it = fate

shows emotional foreshadowing of things to come & contemplation & hopelessness to change it

also shows age - balding head & sagging musculature

face is very emotional - no more archaic smile

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. West pediment diagram
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Architect**: Libon of Elis
  • *Original Location**: Olympia

West pediment = rear of temple

pedimental sculpture narrative = battle between Lapiths & centaurs

  • Lapith King Pirithous invites the centaurs to his wedding/banquet to Hippodameia (not pelops’ wife) aka Deidamia
  • centaurs drink wine for first time (or really strong wine depending on what story you read) & get all crazy & tried to carry the Lapith women off
  • including Pirithous’ bride, Deidamia
  • Lapiths fight & are able to overcome the half human, half animal creatures
  • superiority of civilized society over the bestial instincts
  • always present in the nature of human kind
  • base instincts are “adike” (a-die-key) = wrong order
  • adike is overcome by Apollo = overseer of wrong order
    • son of zeus & restorer of civilized order

allegory for the Greeks defeating the Persians

conflict between Greeks & barbarians

composition is symmetrical

connection of sculptures & struggle make for chaos & static

contrast of dike, order of east pediment supervised by zeus (god of justice) & adike, absence of order of west pediment, just about to be corrected by apollo god of the civilization

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. W. pediment, center. Det: Apollo
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location:** Olympia

apollo is the overseer of wrong order = adike

ideal body & expressionless face

“expressionless” face = not void of emotion, but surpressing violent emotion - controlling himself = rationality over irrationality

violent emotion motivates the barbarians

absence of inappropriate expression

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. W. pediment. Det: Deidameia & Centaur
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location:** Olympia

centaur is kidnapping Pirithous’ wife, Deidameia

also like apollo, Deidameia has “expressionless” face - is controlling her emotions in a chaotic moment

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. W. pediment. Det: Lapith youth, Centaur, & Lapith girl
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location:** Olympia

centaur is trying to kidnap a girl, lapith youth is stopping him

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. W. Frieze Metope: Herakles, Atlas and Athena
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location**: Olympia

sculptures of metopes are restricted by the space

easier thann the triangular pediment, but harder b/c of repetitive nature of decorating 12 of them w/o being boring

strong verticality & triangular composition

story is of Herakles’ 12th (and last) labor: stealing the golden apples of the hesperides

atlas is bringing apples back to herakles, who is holding the world in atlas’ absence, & athena is helping him since he can’t do it alone

athena’s peplos is asymmetrically hanging to avoid rigidity

herakles is purposefully off center

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  • *Name**: Temple of Zeus. Metope: Herakles & Athena
  • *Period**: Early Classical
  • *Date**: c. 470-456 BC
  • *Original Location**: Olympia

story is of 6th labor - stymphalian birds

heracles kills a plague of birds w/bow & arrow after Athena gives him a rattle (made by Hephaestus) to scare the birds into the sky

strong diagonal composition w/athena on a rock

breaks up rigidity by placing her seated

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Name: Temple of Zeus. W. Frieze
Metope: Herakles & the Bull of Minos
Period: Early Classical
Date: c. 470-456 BC
Original Location: Olympia

story is of 7th labor= cretan bull

strong composition & strong diagonal, but off set

austerity of designn - contributes to gravity of content

labors are exemplars of personal strength in adversity, simplicity of living, & public spiritedness

makes herakles a model for philosophers

several of the labors were seen as triumphs over death

related to his eventual deification

severity gives nobility

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  • *Name**: Parthenon. East frieze, right: Poseidon, Apollo & Artemis
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: 438-432 BC
  • *Artist**: Supervised by Phidias
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Propylaea. Plan
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: 437-432 BC
  • *Artist**: Mnesicles
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Propylaea
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: 437-432 BC
  • *Artist**: Mnesicles
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Propylaea. Inner porch & back wall of north wing
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: 437-432 BC
  • *Artist**: Mnesicles
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Athena Parthenos
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: 447-439 BC
  • *Artist**: Phidias
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Athena Promachos
  • *Period**: Classical
  • *Date**: c.438 BC
  • *Artist**: Phidias
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Copy of Maenad
  • *Period**: Late fifth-century Classical
  • *Date**: c.420-410 BC
  • *Artist**: Kallimachos?
  • *Original Location:** Unknown
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Tholos
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.360 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location**: Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Tholos. Plan.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c. 360 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location:** Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Tholos. Interior corridors. Fountain.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.360 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location**: Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Theatre. Reconstruction
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.350 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location:** Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Theatre. Plan.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.350 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location**: Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios. Theater.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.350 BC
  • *Artist**: Polykleitos the Younger
  • *Original Location:** Epidauros
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  • *Name**: Copy of the Aphrodite of Knidos.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.350 BC
  • *Artist**: Praxiteles
  • *Original Location**: Knidos
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  • *Name**: Copy of Apollo the Sauroktonos.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.340-330 BC
  • *Artist**: Praxiteles
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  • *Name**: Hermes with the Infant Dionysios.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.330-320 BC
  • *Artist**: Praxiteles
  • *Original Location**: Olympia
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  • *Name**: Copy of the Apoxyomenos (Scraper). Front view.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.330 BC
  • *Artist**: Lysippos
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  • *Name**: Tomb of Mausolus (Mausoleum). Reconstruction.
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.353 BC
  • *Original Location:** Halikarnassus
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  • *Name**: Tomb of Mausolus (Mausoleum). West(?) frieze: Greeks & Amazons
  • *Period**: Late Classical
  • *Date**: c.353 BC
  • *Original Location**: Halikarnassus
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Name: Sanctuary of Athena, reconstruction
Period: Hellenistic
Date: Upper terrace, early 3rd cent. BC
Lower terrace, late 3rd cent. BC
Original Location: Lindos, Rhodes

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Name: Sanctuary of Athena, plan
Period: Hellenistic
Date: Upper terrace, early 3rd cent. BC
Lower terrace, late 3rd cent. BC
Original Location: Lindos, Rhodes

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Name: Sanctuary of Athena, view
Period: Hellenistic
Date: Upper terrace, early 3rd cent. BC
Lower terrace, late 3rd cent. BC
Original Location: Lindos, Rhodes

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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios, reconstruction
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: mid-2nd cent. BC
  • *Original Location**: Kos
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios, plan
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: mid-2nd cent. BC
  • *Original Location**: Kos
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  • *Name**: Sanctuary of Asklepios, view
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: mid-2nd cent. BC
  • *Original Location**: Kos
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  • *Title**: Sanctuary of Asklepios, cross-section
  • *Artist/Culture**: Hellenistic
  • *City/Site:** Kos
  • *Country:** Greece
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  • *Title**: Sanctuary of Asklepios, reconstruction
  • *Artist/Culture**: hellenistic
  • *City/Site:** Kos
  • *Country:** Greece
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  • *Name**: Copy from Pompeii of the mosaic of the Victory of Alexander over Darius III
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.300 BC
  • *Artist**: Philoxenos or Helen of Egypt
  • *Original Location**: Pompeii
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  • *Name**: Venus de Milo
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.80 BC
  • *Original Location**: Melos
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  • *Name**: Nike of Samothrace
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.200-190 BC
  • *Original Location**: Samothrace
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  • *Name**: Aphrodite of Cyrene
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: Early 1st Century B.C
  • *Original Location:** Cyrene
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  • *Name**: Copy of Venus Kallipygos
  • *Period**: Late Hellenistic
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  • *Name**: Copy of Hermes and Aphrodite’s child (front view)
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: 2nd Century B.C.
  • *Artist**: Polykles?
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  • *Name**: Bust copy of enthroned Serapis
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.320-300 BC
  • *Artist**: Bryaxis
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  • *Name**: Copy of portrait of Perikles (Classical)
  • *Date**: c.440-430 BC
  • *Artist**: Kresilas?
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Copy of Sophocles
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.340 BC
  • *Original Location**: Athens
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  • *Name**: Portrait of Alexander
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.200-180 BC
  • *Artist**: Lysippean tradition?
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Copy of Demosthenes
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.280 BC
  • *Artist**: Polyeuktos
  • *Original Location:** Athens
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  • *Name**: Copy of Chrysippos
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.200 BC
  • *Artist**: Euboulides?
  • *Original Location:** Athens
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  • *Name**: Victory monument of Attalos I, reconstruction
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.230-220 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Victory monument of Attalos I, Gaul and wife
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.230-220 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Victory monument of Attalos I, Dying Gaul
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.230-220 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Great Altar of Zeus, view
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.181-159 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Great Altar of Zeus, east frieze, Zeus group
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.181-159 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Great Altar of Zeus, east frieze, Athena group
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.181-159 BC
  • *Original Location**: Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Great Altar of Zeus, east frieze, athena group Detail: Head of Alkyoneus
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: c.181-159 BC
  • *Original Location:** Pergamon
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  • *Name**: Laocoön
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: 1st cent. AD
  • *Artist**: Hagesandros, Polydorus, and Athenodoros of Rhodes
  • *Original Location**: Rome
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  • *Name**: Copy of a drunken old woman
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: Late 2nd Century BC
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  • *Name**: Copy of an old shepherdess going to market
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: Late 2nd Century BC
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  • *Name**: Seated Boxer
  • *Period**: Hellenistic
  • *Date**: 2nd to early 1st Century BC
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  • *Title**: Great Altar of Zeus, figures ‘climbing’ up northwest steps
  • *Date**: 181-159 BCE
  • *Style**: Hellenistic
  • *City/Site**: Pergamon

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