ARTH 2300 Exam#2

GREECE Artifact Highlights

Geometric Krater

  • Location: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens

  • Date: c. 740 BCE

  • Material: Terra-cotta

Exekias, Amphora with Achilles and Ajax

  • Location: Athens

  • Date: c. 540 BCE

  • Material: Black-figure terracotta

Peplos Kore

  • Location: Acropolis, Athens

  • Date: c. 530 BCE

  • Material: Marble with pigment

Statue of a Kouros

  • Location: Kerameikos, Athens

  • Date: c. 580 BCE

  • Material: Marble with pigment

Kouros of Kroisos

  • Location: Anavysos, Attica

  • Date: c. 530 BCE

  • Material: Marble with pigment

Delphi Charioteer

  • Location: Delphi

  • Date: c. 470 BCE

  • Material: Bronze

ROME Artifact Highlights

Polykleitos, Doryphoros

  • Location: Unknown (Roman copy from Pompeii)

  • Date: c. 450 BCE

  • Material: Marble (Roman copy of bronze original)

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Parthenos (Parthenon)

  • Location: Athens

  • Date: c. 447–438 BCE

  • Material: Marble

Pheidias, Athena Parthenos

  • Location: Athens (original was in Parthenon)

  • Date: c. 438 BCE

  • Material: Gold and ivory (lost)

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

  • Location: Knidos

  • Date: c. 350 BCE

  • Material: Marble

Rape of Persephone

  • Location: Unknown (Late Hellenistic, possibly Greece or Egypt)

  • Date: c. 350 BCE (or later)

  • Material: Mummy portrait (tempera on wood)

Alexander Mosaic

  • Location: Pompeii (Roman copy)

  • Date: c. 100 BCE

  • Material: Mosaic (tesserae)

Arringatore (The Orator)

  • Location: Unknown (possibly Etruria)

  • Date: c. 90 BCE

  • Material: Bronze

Wall Paintings, Boscoreale

  • Location: Boscoreale (near Pompeii)

  • Date: c. 50–30 BCE

  • Material: Fresco

Gemma Augustea

  • Location: Unknown (Roman imperial workshop)

  • Date: c. 10 BCE

  • Material: Onyx

Augustus of Prima Porta

  • Location: Prima Porta (near Rome)

  • Date: c. 20 BCE

  • Material: Marble

Arch of Titus

  • Location: Rome

  • Date: c. 81 CE

  • Material: Concrete and marble

Statues of Flavian Women, Aphrodisias

  • Location: Aphrodisias (Asia Minor)

  • Date: c. 90 CE

  • Material: Marble

Column of Trajan

  • Location: Rome

  • Date: c. 113 CE

  • Material: Marble

Pantheon

  • Location: Rome

  • Date: c. 118–125 CE

  • Material: Concrete, marble, and granite

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

  • Location: Rome

  • Date: c. 175 CE

  • Material: Bronze

Berlin Tondo (Panel Painting of Severan Dynasty)

  • Location: Unknown (possibly Egypt)

  • Date: c. 200 CE

  • Material: Tempera on wood

Basilica Nova

  • Location: Rome

  • Date: c. 306–312 CE

  • Material: Concrete and brick

Colossal Enthroned Portrait of Emperor Constantine

  • Location: Rome (Basilica of Maxentius)

  • Date: c. 313–324 CE

  • Material: Marble