Slide List-Exam 2

Female Figures-Cycladic

-Geometric shape
-Very strict Canon of proportion
-Wide variety of scale
-The figure is a female
-100s of these have been found (VERY few male)
-Found inside graves
-Showed evidence of repair, used (utilitarian), needed in present life and after life
-No written records.
-Can't stand on its own (lays down)
-Originally painted in red and blue, sometimes green.
-Eye paintings on figure

Queen's Megaron (fresco and general architectural design- Minoan

-Main point is sea animals; dolphins, fish,
-Vibrate colors = yellows, blues, and reds, natural pigments found on the island
-Many different types of binding agents used in the paints
-Wide border, repetitions of curvilinear stuff

Citadel (general architectural design)-Mycenaean

-Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman and Aphrodite handed her over to Paris
-The citadel has an extreme defense structure
-The walls were rebuilt at least 3 times.
-They got reservoirs underground.
-30 feet high and 20 to 25 feet THICK walls-
-There were no bricks, instead there were stones that’s been piled up.
-Cyclopean

Dipylon Amphora-Archaic Greece

-Repetition!!
-Found in a cemetery.
-Marked a grave for a woman.
-Different shapes for the men.
The bottom piece was missing, making water just go through.
-Offer libations- “pour one out”.
-Different patterns on the top. Horizontal bands
-Width is exactly half of its height.
-Neck: half the height of its body
-The details include the repetition, the black color stands out from the terracotta color.
-Hands over the head meaning sadness.
-More like they are doing the *sad* macarena

Kroisos (or "kouros")-Archaic Greece

-Reliance on a standard.
-Hair and overall body conforms to a pattern.
-Reliance on lines.
-To mark the grave of a man named Kroisos.
-Face appears calm (no suffering).
-Face is like a mask.
-Smiling indicated life.

Peplos Kore (or "kore")-Archaice Greece

-Pattern on the hair and clothes.
-Rectangular looking ass
Arms are to be cut off because they were holding something specific.
-Was painted multiple times

Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice- Andokides Painter, Archaic Greece

BIlingual vase: red figure on one side (left), black figure on other side (right)
Playing dice. Achilles and ajax

Doryphoros (or "Spear-Bearer") Polykleitos, Classical Greece

-Illustrate his mathematical ideas.
-Another name for Doryphoros is canon(ideal standard by which other things are measured)
-It displays an inner reality, symmetrica,
-Canon of proportion is self-referential
-The original sculpture is lost.

Parthenon (incl. sculptural reliefs to support your ideas)-Ilktinos and Kallikrates, Classical Greece

-Diagram of 9:4 ratio
-Overall length to overall width
-Temple front width to its height
-Distance between the columns
-Curves in the Parthenon
-The end of the stylobate are 12 cm lower than in the center;
-The curvature is also in the entablature;
-The tops of the columns lean in by 7cm;
-The corner columns are slightly thicker

Apoxymenos (or the "Scraper")-Lysippos, Hellenistic Greece

-Hellinistic

• Lysippos Apoxyaomenos (Scraper), c. 330 BCE marble (Roman copy) height 6’9” NICE -Lysippos was the only one who could make official portraits of Alexander the Great.

• “That guy can make portraits of me only” -Ratio 1:8 is still used today. -Reaches out, engaged with the viewer, holding tool and scraping off sweat, oil, dirt -Not self contained but engaging with the viewer -Need to walk full 360 to get full image (in the round) -S curve of the body unbalanced -More emotional thought in hellinistic (more pathos than ethos)

Aphrodite of Knidos-Praxiteles, Hellenistic Greece

-First monumental nude statue of a goddess
-Gods lose their grandeur and become more human like, but stay very beautiful
-Emphasis on sensuality
-Put on display in the center of a room.
-She has a band on her arm
-This roman copy was damage and as usual, the original greek sculpture is lost.

Frieze at Pergamon-Hellenistic Greece

-detail of the gigantomachy frieze of the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon (restored)
-High relief
-Coming into the viewers space
-Emotional essence
-Interaction with environment
-Intense drama
-PATHOS
-Deeply carved

Nike of Sampthrace-Hellenistic

-Originally placed on a fountain
-Diagonals, motion, interaction with the real world
-The sensuality of the gods,
-Appeals to senses

mirror (with engraving of Kalkhas)-Etruscan

-examining the liver of this sacrificed animal
-highly spiritual figure with wings (not an angel)
-Etruscans were extremely religious, very devout, superstitious
-Researched flight of birds, thunderstorms
-Priests were very powerful
-Woman owned this mirror

sarcophagus (from Ceveteri)-Etruscan

-Greeks would not incorporate women into the sculpture
-Woman is enjoying a banquet with her husband
-The hands are big
-Faces are expressing joy
-Optimism for the afterlife
-Holding an Egg representing fragility of life
-Poses and positioning are bizarre
-Flat feet
-Emphasis on upper body

Funerary relief (of the Gessii)-Rome Republic

-Virtuous women were shown holding their robes to their chest
-Patrician in the middle, looks older (like a monke)
-Slave died, Patricia commissioned this, the lady oversaw the making of the sculpture
-Living depicted next to dea DISTINCTLY ROMAN

"fourth style" wall painting from Pompeii (incl. all three other style)- Rome, Republic or Early Empire

1. Masonry style used stucco and painted plaster to imitate masonry (more expensive stone)

2. Architectural style Painted windows to show the outside world, illusion of 3D space (linear perspective!!! Screw you renaissance the romans did it first) also atmospheric perspective

3. Ornate style Monochromatic areas of color, appears like a flat image

4. Intricate style combines all three styles,

Augustus of Primaporta- Rome, Early Empire

-Propaganda!! (again)
-Inspired by Etruscan and Greek art specifically The orator and Df the arm with The Orator
-Posing of the legs with Doryphoros
-Stating he is the conquered and inheritor of Greece (everyone knew Greece was a BIG deal)
-Parts of the hair is referenced to Alexander the Great
-Not heroic and nude but he is wearing a Cuirass
-barefooted
-(detail of cuirass) Augustus of Primaporta
-Realm of the Heavens and the Earth
-Why does he have a belly button and nipples on the armor?????????
-Represents the diplomatic victories of Augustus
-Bringing home the legacy of old great roman
-associated with him: peace, ties to the past, victory, glory

Ara Pacos Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace)-Rome, Early Empire

-34 ½ feet long
-Made using marble.
-The message is GOD DAMN MOTHER FUCKING PROPAGANDA. >:( Smh
-Don't be a menace quote: “MESSAGGGGEEEE”
-Divine ancestry of Augustus
-Front
-Two longer sides are processions of people.

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)-Rome, Early Empire

-Opening performance lasted 100 DAYS
-80 radial barrel vaults and round arches
-All perfectly aligned
-Represented architectural orders that made the bottom feel heavier than the top, leading your eye upward
-Over 2000 live animals died for our joy.

Column of Trajan- Rome, High Empire

-Commemorates military victory against the Dacians
-Trajan's ashes are stored in the square base
-Bronze sculpture of himself as a “heroic nude”
-Eventually replaced by christian saint
-Detail of spiral bands: 650 ft long of continuous narration
-25% scenes of the spiral are of combat (150 scenes)
-Did not want to detract from people
-the backgrounds were used to show different scenes

Pantheon-Rome, High Empire

-Hadrian rebuilt the pantheon again but decided to add a rotunda
-Included pictures of old popular emperors (Augustus/Trajan)
-Marvel of concrete Architecture
-Diameter is the same as the height

Equestrian stature of Marcus Aurelius-Rome, High Empire

-He’s wearing civilian clothing
-Defeated enemy originally at his feet

funerary (Fayum) portraits-Rome, High Empire

-Egypt part of the Roman Empire, combination of egyptian, greek, and roman traditions
-Over 900 found
-Painted portraits, attached to bodie (less expensive than death masks)
-Blending of Greek, Egyptians and Roman traditions
-Painting - classical greek tradition, 4 color palette
-Naturalism, people are more realistic
-They're REAL PEOPLE, real humans!!
-Turned head = ethos, inner thoughts
-The Egyptians still mummify the bodies minus the fancy ass death mask
-Accurate portraits of specific people
-RED YELLOW BLACK WHITE: I need that Bob Ross color palette

Portrait group of the Tetrarchs- Rome, Late Empire

-Rule by 4, one ruler in the east and one is the west
-I SAW THIS BOAT IN HALF. Rather I saw the Roman Empire in two.
-Augustus has the beard while the Caesar doesn’t
-The message is PROPAGANDA i meant the sign of unity and solidarity, so united we look the same
-Made out of purple marble.
-They All ruled together before Diocletian retired.
-Once again a civil war showed up until MY BOY CONSTANTINE said i'm use flex tape and fix the empire.
-Purple marble = reserved only for imperial use, rich people
-Repetition of how they are depicted = shows unity