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Quiz 2
Art history
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 2
10/20/2009

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Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Nike of Samothrace

Time: Hellenistic

 

Notes: diagonal lines are notable, statue signifies victory. Statue was seen from below and placed in a niche of a hillside.

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Demosthenes

Artist: Polyeuktos

Time: Hellenistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Artist: Alexandros

Title: Aphrodite" or "Venus de Milo"

Time: Hellenistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: The Dying Gaul

Artist: Epigonos

Time: Hellenistic

 

Notes: This is a depiction of a dying Gaul warrior. Blood is coming out of the fatal wound which is charasteristic of the dramatics of Hellinistic art. The Gaul is depicted as being non Greek by giving them a non greek hairstyle, as well as the necklace he is wearing, unlike previous depictions of forigners as monsterous.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Artists: Paionios of Ephesos and Daphnis of Miletos

Title: temple of Apollo

Place: Didyma

Time: Hellenistic

 

Notes: dipteral columns are used meanind two rows of columns. The temple is hypaethral meaning it is open to the sky. Preists would give oracular statements from Apollo. (Definition: Resembling or characteristic of an oracle.)

Term

[image]

Note: Image is not the same as the book

Definition

Title: Priene

Time: Hellenistic

 

Notes: city used a hippodamian plan, meaning a city layed out on a grid. it was seen as the ideal city. There was an agora or marketplace in the center of the city. It also contained a stoa which was multifunctional. it had columns on it's long front sideit was a way of organizing regularizing space. It also had a gymnasium and a stadium.

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Head of man

Time: Republican Roman

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Temple of Portunus

Place: Rome

Time: Republican Roman


Notes: The temple is atop a podium. It is a mix of Roman and Greek inspiration, it took a greek concept and made it roman.

Term
[image]
Definition

Name: Sanctuary of Fortuna

Place: Praeneste (Palestrina)

Time: Republican Roman


Notes: Made of a series of terraces. It uses concrete as a building material as well as others.

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Forum

Place: Pompeii

Time:Republican Roman

 

Notes: The forum is surrounded by a colonnade. It contains a curia meaning meeting house.

 

Term

Arch Types:

1. Groin Arch

2. Barrel Vault

3. Dome

Definition

1.

[image]

2.

[image]

3.

[image]

Term

[image][image]

NOTE: NOT IMAGES SEEN IN BOOK

Definition

Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus

Title: Forum of Trajan

Place: Rome

Time: High Imperial Roman

 

Notes: The land was altered to make a flat space for the forum. Apollodorus did not want to offend the merchants already using the land, so he built them an indoor mall to coninue their work. The Forum of Trajan included a large Hemicycle, or large semi-circular room. The Forum was lined with over life size statues depicting Dacians as prisoners of war.

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: column of Trajan, Forum of Trajan

Place: Rome

Time: High Imperial Roman

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Title: Pantheon

Place:Rome

Time: High Imperial Roman

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Title: apotheosis, column of Antoninus Pius

Place: Rome

Time: High Imperial Roman

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Marcus Aurelius

Time: High Imperial Roman

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Orestes sarcophagus

Time: High Imperial Roman

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Title: Colosseum (or Flavian amphitheater)

Place: Rome

Time: Early Imperial Rome

 

Notes:

The Romans believed that everything had to be decorated, so things had to function but also be visually appealing. Colosseum is built by the Flavian Dynasty who took over after Nero's suicide. Social status decided where you would be allowed to sit. The higher up you sat the lower your status was.

Term
[image]
Definition

Title: Vespasian

Time: Early Imperial Rome

 

Notes: The style of this statue is completely different from Nero's statue. This is because nobody liked Nero and Vespasian wanted to seem completely different from him as a Flavian leader.

Term

[image]

 

Definition

Title: Flavian Woman

Time: Early Imperial Roman

 

Notes: This is also a Flavian Statue, but unlike Vespasian's statue, This one is very elegant. The hair is an actual hairstyle of the time.

Term
[image][image]
Definition

Title: Triumph of Titus, arch of Titus

Place: Rome

Time: Early Imperial Roman


Notes: The arch shows people proceeding to town in the same direction as people would be going through the arch to head in to town. You need to know the picture with the horses, which shows the emperor in triumph and is associating with divinities (gods) The goddess of Victory is seen.

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