APAH Ch. 4&5 Test: Required Pieces

Anavysos Kouros

530BCE

Artist: N/A

Anavysos, Greece

Archaic Greek

Marble with remnants of paint

• marked grave of a dead athlete

• Sponsored by an aristocratic family

• Archaic smile

• grave marker

• red on hair & eyeballs

Peplos Kore

530 BCE

Artist: N/A

Athens, Greece

Archaic Greek

Marble

• archaic smile

• only female Kore dressed this way

• round face w/ pronounced cheeks

• shows pleats of dress

• used to be pigmented

Athenian Agora

600 BCE

Artist: N/A

Athens, Greece

Hellenistic Greek

• home for politics and everyday life

• during classical period, it was home for government & buildings

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

450-140 BCE

Polykleitos

Pompeii, Italy (roman copy)

Roman copy (marble), Greek original (bronze)

• solution to the perfect man

• canon for mathematical beauty

• entire body was 7 heads

• contrapposto

• left hand held a spear

• motion while at rest

• asymmetrical balance

Parthenon

447-410 BCE

Artist: Iktinos & Kallikrates

Athens, Greece

Classical

• mathematical equation

• x=2y+1

• X = long side

• y = short side

• doric capitals

• first church, then mosque

Helios, Horses, and Dionysus

447-410 BCE

Artist: Iktinos & Kallikrates

Athens, Greece

High Classical

Marble

• middle: when Athena came out of Zeus’ head

• shows wet drapery of women

• west pediment: contest between Athena and Posideon

Temple of Athena Nike

447-410

Artist: Iktinos & Kallikrates

Athens, Greece

High Classical

Marble

• ionic

• frieze shows the Battle at Marathon against the Persians

• Nike featured dozens of times in the temple

• Nike fixing her sandal because she is on sacred ground

Grave stele of Hegeso

400 BCE

Artist: N/A

Athens, Greece

High Classical

Marble

• drapery is similar to drapery of the Acropolis

• stele refers to her as “daughter of…”

• women were viewed as property

Niobid Painter

460-450 BCE

Artist: N/A

Orvieto, Italy

High Classical

Clay

• shows Lido punishing Naobi for her hubris

• shows children seeking revenge for their mother

• red-figure painting w/ white highlights

Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun

333-316 BCE

Artist: Helen of Egypt

Pompeii, Italy

Late Classical

Tessera mossaic

• Battle of Isis

• made by female Greek artist

• tesserae used to create 3D illusion

• horse’s rear is very high quality — light to dark to create rounded form

• reflection of shield shows man’s terrified face

• Man in gold helmet is Darius

• Alexander is one without helmet to show he is fearless

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena

175 BCE

Artist: N/A

Asia Minor

Hellenstic Greek

Marble

• altar placed on a platform framed by ionic stoa-like colonnade with projecting wings of either side

• frieze image: Zeus vs. the giants

• Makes connection with Athens whose earlier defeat of the Persians were legendary

Winged Victory of Samothrace

190 BCE

Artist: N/A

Samothrace, Greece

Hellenistic Greek

Marble

• dramatic imagery

• about to take flight

• Raised wings and wet drapery

• dramatic twist of body

• contrapposto

• Nike

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Artist: N/A

Rome, Italy

Hellenistic Greek

Bronze

• artist uses hallow casting

• eyes would have ivory, glass paste, or something reflective

• face looks like he lost

• no youthful fit

• twisting of body —> looking up

• Copper acts as blood

• Broken nose and gashes

Geometric Period

• shapes

• jars

• abnormal and abstract

Archaic Period

• Archaic smile

• figuring out proportions

• not quite there yet