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Who is this?

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Demeter

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What quote is this painting depicting?

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“Love grows cold without Ceres and Bacchus”

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What is the context behind this painting?

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Demeter is searching for her daughter Persephone

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Who is this?

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Artemis

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Who is this and what is she doing?

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Leto; turning farmers into frogs for dirtying her clean drinking water

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What is the context of this scene?

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Leto sent her children Apollo and Artemis to kill all 14 children of Niobe because she made a hubristic statement towards “The Great Mother” aka Leto

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Who is this?

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Leto pregnant with Apollo and Artemis

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What is the story behind this sculpture?

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Diana (Artemis) is punishing Actaeon for seeing her nudity while she was bathing by turning him into a deer and his own dogs kill him

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Who is pictured?

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Niobe and her dying children

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Who is this?

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Apollo

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Who is this?

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Apollo

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What is this scene depicting?

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The death of Laocoon and his two children

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Who is this?

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Asclepius

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Who are the group of women attending to Apollo?

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The Muses

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Who is this?

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Sibyl

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Who is this?

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Athena

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What is the context of this scene?

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Athena is beating Arachne for out performing her in their weaving contest

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Who is pictured?

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Athena inspecting Arachne after turning her into a spider

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What might this statue have been holding in her hand?

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A crown to award her victor

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Who is this?

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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?

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Classical
- Unrealistic proportions
- Very dull hues & value contrast
- No facial expressions

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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?

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Renaissance
- Balanced composition & long slender proportions for human body
- Still weak value contrast but multiple monochromatic hues
- Still expressionless

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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?

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Baroque
- Highly exaggerated proportions, chunky figures
- Chaotic & dense arrangements
- Highly emotional
- Strong value contrast & polychromatic hues

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What is happening in this artwork?

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Phaethon is struggling to drive his father Helios’s chariot

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Who is pictured in this artwork and how is it a diachronic scene?
Philemon and Baucis are welcoming Zeus and Hermes into their home even though they are disguised as mortals. In the background you can see the old couple transforming into trees, which doesn’t happen until the end of the story.
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Who is pictured?
Aphrodite and Hephaestus
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Who is this?
Hephaestus
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Who is this?
Hermes
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Who is this?
Hermes
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Who is pictured?
Europa and Zeus as a bull
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Who is this?
Icarus
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Who is this?
Ares
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Who is this?
Ares
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Mannerism - strange and uncommon stories depicted - odd composition with hidden Easter eggs - distorted human bodies (stretched torso, contorted features etc)
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Rococo - whimsical composition with flora and fauna - pastel colors - depictions focused on love and happiness
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Neoclassicism - paintings look like a photo, very realistic - simple and static composition, each figure very defined - architecture incorporated to help tell the story
37
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Romanticism - intentionally loose brush stroke - faces in shadow, expressions and emotions left to interpretation of the viewer - intense multiple hues of color
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Pre-Raphaelites - intense focus on nature - moved back to realism and attention to detail - vibrant and bright colors - even lighting with few shadows
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Symbolism - unrealistic dream-like depictions - bold/exaggerated light and color - dark themes to appeal to the viewers emotion/imagination - metallic hues
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Cubism - complete rejection of naturalism/realism - fractured and angular figures - 2D flat depictions - limited hues
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What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Surrealism - enough detail to be recognizable but not realistic in nature - unnerving and disturbing depictions/themes - not always a deeper meaning just a bizarre nature - attempt at subconscious expression
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Who is this?
Dionysus
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Who is this?
Dionysus
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Who is this?
Pan
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Who’s pictured?
Zeus and Semele

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