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Regional Classical Art Flashcards

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Cycladic Idols

Bronze Age (c. 3000 B.C.–1000 B.C.)

Cycladic Art

large number of marble idols found in tombs, mainly standing nude female figure with arms folded across the chest

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Palace of Knossos

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoans (Crete)

Architecture

most ambitious palace found at Knossos,
excavated by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1900)
Complicated maze of rooms (used as a residence and administrative center), multi-story,
characteristic downward tapering column, throne room (shown here)

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Faience Snake Goddess

Bronze Age (c. 1600 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete)

Sculpture

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La Parisienne

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Knossos

Painting

Fresco

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The Prince of the Lillies

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Knossos

Painting

Fresco

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Dolphin Fresco

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Knossos

Painting

Fresco

found in the Queen’s Megaron

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Toreador Fresco

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Knossos

Painting

Fresco

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Boxing Children

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Thera (Santorini)

Painting

Fresco

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Blue Monkeys

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Thera (Santorini)

Painting

Fresco

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Fisherman

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete), Thera (Santorini)

Painting

Fresco

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Harvester Vase

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete)

Vase

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Octopus Vase

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete)

Vase

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Bull’s Head Rhyton

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Minoan (Crete)

Vase

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Lion Gate

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Mycenaean (mainland Greece)

Mycenae is fortified with “cyclopean” walls, Lion Gate.

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Treasury of Atreus

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Mycenaean (mainland Greece)

tholos tomb—beehive shaped

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Mask of Agamemnon

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Mycenaean (mainland Greece)

Gold “Mask of Agamemnon” discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in shaft graves

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Warrior Vase

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Mycenaean (mainland Greece)

discovered by Heinrich Schliemann

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Pylos

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excavated by the American archaeologist Carl Blegen

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Linear B Tablets

Bronze Age (c. 3000–1000 B.C.)

Michael Ventris (1950s) deciphered Linear B tablets

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Amphora

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Pottery

two-handled vase used for storage and transport

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Krater

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Pottery

used for mixing wine with water

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Kylix

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Pottery

drinking cup

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Kantharos

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Pottery

dinking cup

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Lekythos

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Pottery

used for oils and perfumes, and for pouring funeral libations

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Protogeometric Pottery

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(c. 1000–900 B.C.)

pots were decorated with black bands, wavy lines, and simple geometric designs, concentric circles

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Geometric Pottery

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(c. 900–700 B.C.)

human and animal figures added, meander pattern, triangles

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Dipylon Vase

Geometric Pottery (c. 900–700 B.C.)

large vase that served as a grave monument, depicts a funeral scene

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Orientalizing Pottery

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(c. 700-600 B.C.)

pottery begins to show signs of influence from the East, decorative floral motifs, animals.

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Eleusis Amphora

Orientalizing Pottery (c. 700–600 B.C.)

depicts the blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus

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Black Figure Pottery

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developed c. 700 B.C.

in Corinth

the design is silhouetted in black against the reddish clay, details are scratched in with a needle

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Francois Vase

Black Figure Pottery (c. 700 B.C.)

Painter: Kleitias

depicts the wedding of Peleus and Thetis

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Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice

Black Figure Pottery (c. 700 B.C.)

Amphora by Exekias

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Red Figure Pottery

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invented c. 530 B.C.

in Athens

the figures are left red and the background is black, allows for greater detail, foreshortening

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Death of Sarpedon

Red Figure Pottery

Krater by Euphronios

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Kouros (Youth)

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Sculpture

Archaic Period (c. 600–480 B.C.)

Male, free-standing nude, with one foot forward, stiff

Hair formalized (wig-like)

Unnatural looking “archaic smile”

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New York Kouros

Archaic Period (c. 600 B.C.)

Sculpture

Kouros (Youth)

Male, free-standing nude, with one foot forward, stiff

Hair formalized (wig-like)

Unnatural looking “archaic smile”

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Anavyssos Kouros

Archaic Period (c. 525 B.C.)

Sculpture

Kouros (Youth)

Male, free-standing nude, with one foot forward, stiff

Hair formalized (wig-like)

Unnatural looking “archaic smile”

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Kore (Maiden)

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Sculpture

Archaic Period (c. 600–480 B.C.)

Female, free-standing, but always clothed

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Peplos Kore

Archaic Period (c. 530 B.C.)

Sculpture

Kore (Maiden)

Female, free-standing, but always clothed

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Calf-Bearer

Archaic Period (c. 570 B.C.)

Sculpture

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The Battle of the Gods and Giants

Archaic Period (c. 530 B.C.)

Sculpture

frieze from the Siphnian Treasury (Delphi)

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Dying Warrior

Archaic Period (c. 490 B.C.)

Sculpture

Pediment of the Temple of Aphaea at Aegina

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Kritios (Critias) Boy

c. 480 B.C.

Sculpture

marks the end of the Archaic and the beginning of the Classical Period. For the first time the figure is no longer looking or walking straight ahead, his head and the upper part of his body are turned, his weight shifts from one leg to another and his hips move (contrapposto)

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Parthenon Sculpture

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Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Sculptor: Phidias

92 metopes: North (Trojan War), East (Gigantomachy),
South (Lapiths and Centaurs), West (Amazonomachy)
Inner frieze: over 500 ft. in length, depicts Panathenaic Procession, done in low relief, skillful handling of space (as many as 6 horses shown riding abreast)
West pediment: competition between Athena and Poseidon for patronage of Athens East pediment: birth of Athena (surviving figures – Dionysus; Three Goddesses; and Demeter, Persephone, and Iris
Massive chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statue of Athena (kept in the cella) – does not survive

Elgin Marbles – the sculpture from the Parthenon displayed in the British Museum – taken there by Lord Elgin in the 19th century

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Parthenon Inner Frieze

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Sculpture

Sculptor: Phidias

over 500 ft. in length, depicts Panathenaic Procession, done in low relief, skillful handling of space (as many as 6 horses shown riding abreast)

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Dionysus

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Parthenon—East Pediment

Sculpture

Sculptor: Phidias

a surviving figure from depiction of birth of Athena

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Three Goddesses

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Parthenon—East Pediment

Sculpture

Sculptor: Phidias

a surviving figure from depiction of birth of Athena

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Demeter, Persephone, and Iris

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Parthenon—East Pediment

Sculpture

Sculptor: Phidias

a surviving figure from depiction of birth of Athena

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Zeus of Artemesium

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Bronze Sculpture

lighter than marble, allows for a variety of poses, statues show movement

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Charioteer of Delphi

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Bronze Sculpture

lighter than marble, allows for a variety of poses, statues show movement

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Discobolus (Discus-Thrower)

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Bronze Sculpture

Sculptor: Myron

only a Roman marble copy survives

lighter than marble, allows for a variety of poses, statues show movement

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Doryphorus / Doryphoros (Spear-Thrower)

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Bronze Sculpture

Sculptor: Polyclitus

survives only in marble copies,
stands in contrapposto position, represented the ideal proportions of the human body.
Polyclitus wrote a book on this subject called the Canon.

lighter than marble, allows for a variety of poses, statues show movement

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Riace Bronzes

Classical Period (5th Century B.C.)

Bronze Sculpture

lighter than marble, allows for a variety of poses, statues show movement

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Hermes and the Infant Dionysus

Late Classical Period (4th Century B.C.)

Sculpture

Sculptor: Praxiteles

elongated body, extreme contrapposto stance (S curve)

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Aphrodite of Cnidos / Knidos

Late Classical Period (4th Century B.C.)

Sculpture

Sculptor: Praxiteles

known only through copies, first life-size female nude Renowned for its beauty

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Apoxyomenos (the Scraper)

Late Classical Period (4th Century B.C.)

Sculpture

Sculptor: Lysippus; Alexander the Great’s personal sculptor, created stock representation of god-like Alexander, with tousled hair and eyes looking upward

known only from Roman copies

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Hellenistic Period Sculpture

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(323 B.C. ff.)

Sculpture is more dramatic and emotional than the Classical period, harsh diagonal lines, movement Realism: for the first time, the elderly and unattractive are portrayed

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Dying Gaul

Hellenistic Period (323 B.C. ff.)

Sculpture

from Pergamum

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Gigantomachy Frieze

Hellenistic Period (323 B.C. ff.)

Sculpture

from Altar of Zeus, Pergamum

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Winged Victory of Samothrace

Hellenistic Period (323 B.C. ff.)

Sculpture

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Laocoon Group

Hellenistic Period (323 B.C. ff.)

Sculpture

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