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Classics 232//Exam 2
Archaic and Classic art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome
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10/22/2016

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  • Temple of Apollo
  • 640 BCE
  • Thermon, NW Greece
  • Archaic style
  • change from late geometric apsidal to 7th century elongated building w/ peristyle. Rows of columns inside building, Corinthian roof tiles, architectural decorations in the form of painted ceramic revetments

 

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  • Temple of Hera
  • Olympia
  • 600 BCE
  • Early archaic doric
  • long plan (6x16 columns) wood gradually replaced by stone, upper walls covered by plaster stucco, echini are low and bulging, gradually become more angular and narrow
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  • West pediment 
  • Temple of Artemis at Corfu
  • 580 BCE
  • Doric 
  • high relief sculpture, gorgon medusa in center, chrysaor and pegasus, panthers, scenes from trojan war, dead giants in corners of pediment
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  • Siphnian Treasury: east pediment
  • Delphi
  • 530 BCE
  • Archaic ionic
  • unity of theme: apolloa and herakles fighting foe tripod of delphi; zeus in center as god of justice. central and corner groups are different. god represented in human form=anthropomorphic. 1st ionic building on greek mainland
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  • Siphnian Treasury frieze
  • Delphi
  • 530 BCE
  • Archaic Doric
  • battle between gods and giants, north frieze, gigantomachy=battle of olympian gods against giants
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  • Eurytos Column Krater
  • late 7th century BCE
  • Louvre
  • Archaic
  • neck handled krater with multiple registers
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  • Francois Vase
  • 570 BCE
  • Chiusi, Italy
  • Archaic
  • vase by painter Kleitias and potter Ergotimos; side A: calydonian boar hunt, patrokles' funeral games, wedding of peleus and thetis, achilles ambushing troilos, animal frieze; side B: theseus and athenians arrive in crete, lapiths fight centaurs, wedding procession, animal frieze
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  • Ajax and Achilles playing a game
  • 540-530
  • Archaic
  • Black figure amphora by Exekias
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  • Ajax preparing to commit suicide
  • 530 BCE
  • Archaic
  • Black figure amphora by Exekias
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  • Nikandre
  • Delos
  • Late 7th century
  • Archaic
  • Oldest life-size greek marble statue, plank like figure, daedalic style, inscription on side of skirt=eastern custom
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  • Kriophoros
  • Thasos
  • late 7th century BCE
  • Archaic
  • Oldest colossal greek statue, daedalic style, unfinished, male nudity, stiff pose (egyptian), size inspired by egyptian colossal statues
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  • New York Kouros
  • 600 BCE
  • prob Attic grave
  • Archaic
  • Monumental statue set up as votice in sanctuaries and as grave markers; made of marble
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  • Anavysos Kouros
  • 530 BCE
  • Anavysos, Attica
  • Archaic
  • grave marker over life size
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  • Peplos Kore
  • 530 BCE
  • Peplos
  • Archaic
  • grave marker, marble
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  • Sant'Omobono Sanctuary
  • Rome
  • 6th century
  • Archaic
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  • Terracotta Acroteria of Hercules and Minerva
  • 530-500 BCE
  • Rome
  • archaic
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  • Gold Tablets in Area C
  • Temple A, Pygri Sanctuary
  • 510-490 BCE
  • two tablets in Etruscan w/ Phoenician translation
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  • East Pediment: Battle from Seven Against Thebes
  • Temple A, Pyrgi Sanctuary
  • 510-490 BCE
  • Archaic
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  • The Altar of the Twelve Gods
  • Athenian Agora
  • Archaic
  • 522-521 BCE
  • sanctuary; place of refuge, dedicated by Peisistratos, used as a central mileston for Athens: center of Athens
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  • Forum Romanum; Eastern End: Regia
  • 6th century
  • Rome
  • Archaic
  • rebuilt severa phases; an assembly place; early roman people divided into three tribes
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  • West pediment of Temple of Aphaia
  • 500-490 BCE
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