7 Unit 2: Ancient Greece Visual ID & Analysis

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title & siting: Athenian Agora (Athens) artist & culture: unknown Athenian style: Archaic -Hellenistic Greek date of creation: 600-1500 bce materials & technique: carved and fit stone form & content: Base of the Acropolis, large plaza bisected by the Pananthaneic way, Bouleterion, Tholos, Stoa, Mint, Temples, boundary stone

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title & siting: Anavysos Kouros (grave site, Anavysos, Greece) artist & culture: unknown Archaic Anyvosan Greek style: date of creation: 530 bce materials & technique: carved marble form & content: highly symmetrical, idealized (nude, left foot forward, archaic smile, hands at sides, static pose, youthful) male subject; INSCRIPTION: “Stay and mourn at the monument for dead Kroisos whom violent Ares destroyed, fighting in the front ranks.”

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title & siting: Peplos Kore (Erecetheion, Acropolis, Athens, Greece) artist & culture: Archaic Greekstyle: date of creation: 530 bce materials & technique: carved marble form & content: static posed, robed, idealized (archaic smile, patterned hair,  female figure, one armraised, garment is likely not a peplos and decorative program of animals suggest Artemis

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title & siting: Niobides Krater artist & culture: Niobid painter style: Archaic (Severe style) date of creation: 460-450 bce materials & technique: black-figure terracotta form & content: a large krater depicting the myth of Niobe, featuring figures of both gods and mortals, showcasing, some dynamism in figures, emotional expressions and a sense of depth through multiple implied ground lines

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title & siting: artist & culture: style: date of creation: materials & technique: form & content:450-440BCE, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)

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title & siting: Parthenon (Acropolis, Athens, Greece) artist & culture: Phidias, Ikttinos, Kallikrates and Pericles style: Doric-Classical Greek date of creation: 447-410bce materials & technique: fortified, terraced, carved stone and (pentelic) marble form & content: Athena Parthenos, fortified rocky outcropping, or limestone plateau atop of which a program of sacred buildings and sculpture PARTHENON—mathmatically organized (x = 2y + 1, ergo 17:8 columns); two windows in cella; floor curves up for flooding; terminal columns thicker so as to appear the same as other columns from vantage; Ionic elements on Doric temple, interior Ionic frieze depicting the Pananthenaic Procession, including the PLAQUE OF THE ERGASTINES, and some Ionic capitals (Phidias, high classical; contrapposto, drapery movement, idealized beautry); statute of Athena inside (Phidias) in gold and elephantine ivory, feat. harmony, ideal beauty, order; Delian League treasury; West pediment Birth of Athena; East pediment Athena v. Poseidon; Metopes (all Doric)  Centauromachy, Trojan War, Gigantomachy, Amazonomachy; 

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title & siting: Nike Adjusting Her Sandal (Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Greece) artist & culture: Workshop of Agorakritos style: High Classical date of creation: ca. 410 bce materials & technique: caved marble form & content: Dynamically posed figure out-of-balance (late classical style, emphasizing movement) and sensorialized, but still idealized drapery and figuration

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title & siting: The Grave Stele of Hegesos (Dipylon cemetery, Athens) artist & culture: Kallimachos (Athens. Greece) style: High Classical Greek date of creation: 410 bce materials & technique: carved, painted marble form & content: Stela, standing contrapposto figure before seated figure of subjec examining (painted in) jewelry from jewelry boxt; inscription identifying Hegesos and her father; 

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title & siting: Nike of Samothrace (Winged Victory of Samothrace) artist & culture: unknown, Hellenistic Greek style: Hellenistic Greek date of creation: 190 bce materials & technique: form & content: Dynamically posed sculpture of the goddess Nike, perched on the prow of a battleship and featuring intricate drapery that appears wet and moved by wind, 

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title & siting: Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon (acropolis of Pergamon) artist & culture: unknown Attalid artist, Attalid Kingdom style: Hellenistic Greek date of creation: ca. 200-150 bce materials & technique: high relief form & content: U or C shaped architectrual structure featuring a grand staircase leading to a great frieze depicting the Gigantomachy, emphasizing dramatic movement, pathos through dramatic high relief sculptures.

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title & siting: Seated Boxer (Boxer at Rest) artist & culture: Apollonius style: Hellenistic date of creation: 100 bce materials & technique: bronze, cire perdue (casting) with copper and glass inlays form & content: Depicting a seated boxer with a muscular, defeated physique, showcasing detailed realism and expressive emotion. ,

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