Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop Medium: Ceramic, 42” high Date: c. 750–700 BCE, GEOMETRIC PERIOD Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Used as a grave marker near Athens Mourners tearing hair with grief Geometric patterns, shapes representing
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Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop Medium: Ceramic, 42” high Date: c. 750–700 BCE,
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Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase
Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
Medium: Ceramic, 42” high
Date: c. 750–700 BCE, GEOMETRIC PERIOD
Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Note: no reference to afterlife (like on Egyptian funerary art)
Artist: n/a
Title: Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher)
Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration
Size: height 11 ½"
Date: c. 600 BCE Orientalizing Period
Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London
Significance:
•Black figure vase
•Shows Eastern/Oriental influence with motifs of imaginary animals, plant forms, from Near East, Asia Minor & Egypt
Artist: Exekias
Title: The Suicide of Ajax
Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration, 27" high (69 cm)
Date: c. 540 BCE Archaic Period
Source/Museum: Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
•Stunning composition with shape of figure echoing form of vase, balanced between uprights of shield & tree.
•Shows drama of moment when Ajax will throw himself on his sword.
•Black figure ceramic.
Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter)
Title: Death of Sarpedon
Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration, 18" high
Date: c. 515 BCE, Archaic Period
Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Euphronius best known red figure artist, illustrating a story from the Iliad, Sleep & Death carry dead Trojan warrior from battlefield
Balanced composition, rhythm of decorative bands echoing the shape of the body and Hermes, guide to the Underworld
Foreshorteing … such as Sarpedon’s left leg
Not a flashcard but be familiar with this … what type of building
Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, c. 530-525 BCE archaic period; filled with relief pedients, caryatids acting as columns, varying depth of relief.
Title: Anavysos Kouros
Medium: Marble with remnants of paint
Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)
Date: c. 530 BCE - Archaic Period
Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Significance:
More naturalistic than New York Kouros (Standing Youth)…
Proportions 4:9, balanced views, narrowing space of corner columns. Glorified Athens and Athena, masterpiece of sculpture/architecture, Marble. Pediment sculpture only survives in fragments. Independence, self confidence, pride. Inspired architecture worldwide, including 19th century US. Symbolizeds human ideals.
Erechtheion. View From The East. Porch of The Maidens At Left; North Porch Can Be Seen Through The Columns of The East Wall 421-406 BCE Acropolis, Athens
Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens.
Porch of the Maidens
420 BCE, CLASSICAL PERIOD
KNOWN FOR CARATYID COLUMNS in classical poses, closure symmetry and rhythm
Erected under Perikles building programs to revitalize Athens
Mythical location where Poseidon and Athena had a contest over who would rule Athens
Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles
Marble, 6’8” high, (Roman copy)
350 BCE (Late Classical)
Presently located in Vatican museum, Rome
1st Greek female nude goddess
(other female nudes were courtesans, etc.)
Humanized mature woman, ready to bathe, everyday activity rather than idealized battle scene or athletic event.
Possibly merging Babylonian goddess Ishtar with Aphrodite, Ishtar was almost always shown Nude
Gradual acceptance of female nudes in Greek art
Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens
Corinthian columns
Built & rebuilt during 520 BCE to 132 CE
Dying Gallic Trumpeter (flashcard)
Epigonos? 220 bce
Sanctuary of Athena in Pergamon
Expressionism characteristic of Hellenistic art
Gauls were Celtic people conquered during this period
Roman copy from garden of Julius Caesar
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Flashcard Image
Original 2nd century BCE
Maybe Roman copy
Pergamene style - complex composition illustrating episode from Trojan War…
Laocon told Trojans to beware Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan Horse)
Gods retaliated….
Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
Marble, 8’ high
180 BCE Hellenestic Period
Located in Louvre, Paris
Pergamene style, very theatrical
Heavy wings balance forward thrust of body
Masterpiece with draperies, motion
Commemorates military victory at sea (landing on ship’s prow)
Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
Marble, 150-100 BCE, Hellenestic
Artist unknown
Located at Louvre
Renewed interest in styles of Praxiteles and Lysippos,
heavier proportion of High Classical period but twisting perspective of Hellenestic period