Art history exam 2

1- Male Harp Player  2600BCE Cycladic, Aegean

2- Bull Leaping Ritual 1500BCE Minoan, Aegean

3-Landscape with Swallows (Spring Fresco) 1650BCE Minoan Aegean

4-Octopus Flask 1500BCE Minoan, Aegean

5-Inlaid Dagger Blade 1500BCE Mycenean, Aegean

6-Lion’s Gate from the citadel at Tiryns 1300BCE Mycenean, Aegean

7-Kouros Figure, 600BCE Geometric Archaic, Greece

8- Temple of Hera I 550BCE Geometric Archaic, Greece

9-Kritos Boy 480BCE Classical, Greece

10-Parthenon 447-438BCE Classical, Greece

11-Three Goddesses 438BCE Classical, Greece

12-Nike Adjusting Her Sandal 410BCE

13-Monument to Lysikrates 334BCE Classical, Greece

14-Aphrodite of Melos 150BCE Hellenistic, Greece 

15- Dying Gaul 220BCE Hellenistic, Greece

16-Capitoline Wolf or She-wolf of the Capital 500BCE Etruscan

17-Temple of Portunus 75BCE Republic, Rome

18- Gardenscape 30BCE Republic, Rome

19-Villa of Agrippa 10BCE Republic, Rome

20-The Ixion Room of the House of Vettii 70CE Republic, Rome

21-Augustus of Primaporta 20BCE Early Empire, Rome

22-Pont-du-Gard 16BCE Early Empire, Rome

23-The Flavian amphitheater 70CE Early Empire, Rome

24-The Arch of Titus 81CE Early Empire, Rome

25-The Column of Trajan 112CE High Empire, Rome

26-Pantheon 125CE High Empire, Rome

27-The Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius 175CE High Empire, Rome

28-Arch of Constantine 312CE Late Empire, Rome

Aegean Minoan Characteristics

1 - Aegean

2 - Minoan (structure)

3 - aquatic influence

4 - movement

5 - life affirming

Aegean Mycenaean Characteristics

1 - Aegean

2 - Mycenaean

3 - land based Aggression

4 - movement

5 - life affirming

Greek Geometric archaic characteristics

1 - Greek

2 - geometric archaic

3 - easily recognizable geometric shapes

4 - even distribution of weight

5 - Egyptian influence

Greek temple Doric characteristics

1 - Greek

2 - Doric

3 - column is flush to the stylobate

4 - plain capital

5 - Triglyph pattern

Ionic characteristics

1 - column is not flush to stylobate

2 - the capital uses scroll decorations

3 - a relief narrative

Greek classical characteristics

1 - Greek

2 - classical

3 - shifting of weight

4 - idealized

5 - naturalism

• direct gaze only works if they have a head

• Form beneath drapery is one she didn’t include in the notes but take note

Greek Hellenistic characteristics

1 - Greek

2 - Hellenistic

3 - realism

4 - interaction of the figure with its environment

5 - popular subjects in Hellenistic work (real people)

Rome (architecture)

1 - Rome (architecture)

2 - Greek influence

3 - concrete

4 - status driven

5 - emphasis on size

6 - rounded arch

Incrustation painting style

1 - incrustation

a - panels of colored blocks

b - concrete mixed with marble dust

Illusionism painting style

2 - Illusionism

a - making a space feel small or large based on color

b - variety of narratives

Ornate painting style

3 - Ornate

• Relies on the vignette small composition that appears to be floating, surrounded by an ornamental frame (usually in a bedroom which makes it more intimate)

Intricate painting style

4 - Intricate

Combination of the three preceding styles

(Emphasizes your status)