CLST Final

The main sculptor of Alexander the Great was

Lysippus

The main temple in Olympia was dedicated to

Zeus

Praxiteles was especially famous for

Marble sculpture

Kouroi and Korai were

grave markers

Lysippus wrote

a new “canon”

All of the works of Polyclitus are known via

Roman copies

The first fully naked female statue was sculpted by

Praxiteles

Which artists worked on the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

Skopa, leochares, timotheus, bryaxis

Pediment of the temple of Zeus

• the oath of pelops and oinomaos

• war between lapitas and centaurs (pirtoo’s wedding)

Works of Phidias

• statue of zeus at Olympia

• Athena promachos

• Athena Parthenos

Date

5th century

Stoa Poikile

Painted Colonnade

The Stoa Poikile was located

In the Agora in athens

What was depicted in the Stoa Poikile

• Battle of Marathon

• Fall of Troy

• Amazonmachy

Myron worked in

Bronze

The altar of Pergamon is dedicated to

Zeus

The Altar of Pergamon celebrates

a victory over the Gauls

Monument and century

• Altar of Pergamon

• 2nd century

Facts about sculpture

• the original was in pergamon

• it is part of a larger victory monument

• the original was made of bronze

Opus vermiculatum

type of mosaic

Kouros

Male or standing nude youth

Kore

Female or standing draped maiden

Early classical period

more lifelike than archaic art and characterized by simplified body features and less ornamental surfaces

Artemision bronze

• recovered from a roman shipwreck near cape artemesion

• Zeus or poseidon?

• Severe style

The Riace Bronzes

• Bronze A

• Bronze B

• Public Statuary

• Greek bronze original

Stoa Poikile

• mythic battle between Theseus and the Amazons

• Fall of Troy to the Greeks led by Agamemnon

• Battle of Oenoe

• Battle of Marathon

Perikles (the ruler of Athens) chief artist

Phidias

The porch of the Caryatides

Who designed the Parthenon

• Iktinos

• Kallikrates

Date of the Parthenon

447 and 438

Decorations of the Pantheon

• Poseidon and Athena (pediment)

• Amazomachy (Metopes)

• Centauromachy (metopes)

• Birth of Athena (pediment)

• gigantomachy (metopes)

• sack of Troy (metopes)

What is the Athena Parthenos made out of

gold and ivory

skopa

s curve

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

tomb of Mausolus, ruler of Caria

Alexander the great

• worked wtih some of the most famous artists of the 4th century

Polyclitus

Frist canon

Alexander Mosaic

Battle of Issus 333 BCE or Battle of Gaugamela (331)

Sinopia

usually a monochrome preparatory drawing made on a mortar substrate

What is opus vermiculatum

type of mosaic work frequently used in Hellenistic and Roman times

Gigantomachy

Mythological battle between the god of mount Olympus and Giants