Art Identification Images IHUM 201 Exam 1

Geometric Period
Title: Dipylon Amphora (or Dipylon Krater)

Orientalizing
Corinthian Olpe

Archaic
Kouros (nude young male youth)

Anavysos Kouros (Kroisos)
displays significantly more naturalistic muscular rendering and organic modeling than earlier kouroi.

Peplos Kore
Kore (clothed young maiden); wearing a heavy peplos garment; subtle Archaic smile

Kritios Boy
No "Archaic smile"
Weight shift

Black Figure
Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game

Red figure
Euphronios Krater (also called the Sarpedon Krater)

Temple of Hera I
Doric order and Archaic period
Pronounced entasis: The columns swell noticeably in the middle and taper at the top,
Wide, flaring capitals
very bulging columns, wide capitals

Parthenon
Doric order, Classical period (High Classical)
plain capitals, slight entasis, and a frieze of alternating triglyphs and metopes
pediments held sculpture, and an Ionic frieze

Erechtheion, a temple on the Acropolis in Athens
Ionic temple built during the Peloponnesian War
caryatids (sculpted female figures) replace columns
Ionic columns with volute capitals

Discus Thrower (Discobolus) by Myron
Severe (Early Classical) style.
Myron = motion
Frozen action

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polyclitus
Polyclitus = proportion
ideal human proportion

Hermes and the Infant Dionysos by Praxiteles
Late Classical style
Praxiteles = pose (s-curve)

Apoxyomenos (Scraper) by Lysippus
Late Classical style.
Lysippus = space

Dying Gaul (also called the Dying Galatian)
Hellenistic = emotional and dramatic

Nike of Samothrace
Hellenistic style — motion and drama

Aphrodite of Melos, better known as the Venus de Milo
Hellenistic style — sensual s curve

Laocoön and His Sons
Late Hellenistic style: extreme pain and emotion
The gods punished him for warning against the Trojan Horse

Arch of Titus
Roman triumphal arch celebrating Titus's capture of Jerusalem in 70 CE

Verism (Roman Republic)
Hyper-realistic portraiture that shows age, wrinkles, and individual features. Reflects Roman values: experience, seriousness, and service to the state. Contrast with Greek idealism (the perfect, unlined face).

Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) in Rome
processional frieze
Ara Pacis = peace and piety
Imperial Roman

Augustus of Prima Porta
Imperial Roman
Idealized political propaganda

Colosseum
Imperial Roman
Massive concrete arch and vaulting structure; tiered exterior engaged columns: Doric at base, Ionic middle, Corinthian upper level. (fancier as you go up)

Exterior of the Pantheon
Imperial Roman
dome and central opening (oculus)

Interior of the Pantheon
Open interior

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
Imperial Roman