Greek & Roman Art

Question 1

Answer 1

Kouros

Archaic Greek

600 BCE

Question 2

Answer 2

Kritios Boy

Classical Greek

Question 3

Answer 3

Doryphoros

artist: Polykleitos

Classical Greek

450 BCE

Question 4

Answer 4

Venus de Milo

Classical/Hellenistic

150-125 BCE

The Louvre

Question 5

Answer 5

Discus Thrower

artist: Myron

Classical Greek

450 BCE

marble copy of a bronze original*

Question 6

Answer 6

Nike of Samothrace

Hellenistic Greek

190 BCE

marble*

8 feet 1 inch*

Question 7

Answer 7

Laocoon and Sons

Hellenistic Greek

1st century BCE

Rome, Italy

marble*

Question 8

Answer 8

Dying Gaul

Hellenistic Greek

230-220 BCE

marble*

6 feet 11 inches*

Question 9

Answer 9

Dionysiac Frieze (Villa of the Mysteries)

Roman Republic/Early Empire

55 BCE

Pompeii, Italy

fresco*

5 feet 4 inches*

Question 10

Answer 10

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

Roman Imperial

Rome, Italy

173-76 CE

Question 11

Answer 11

Augustus of Primaporta

Roman Imperial

1st century CE

marble*

posthumous-post death portrait commissioned by his wife*

Question 12

Answer 12

Alexander Mosaic

Mosaic featuring the Battle of Issus

House of Faun, Pompeii

80 BCE (original ca. 310 BCE)

Roman Republic (original Greek, Hellenistic)