Art History Study Guide

Dipylon Amphora- 750 BC

Gemometric Period Grave marker in main cemetary Marked aristocratic woman Bands and windows=decorations on each one Important funerary scene on belly Mourners pull out hair Body laid out to be viewed, shroud is abstracted above to keep it visible The space between the legs reveal the gender AMPHORA- a tall, usually two handed vessel used for storage or when decorated as a container, or a prize in the games. Dipylon- carried on both sides

Nikandre from Delos- 650 BC

Orientalizing Period Dedicated to the far shooter Artemis Attritubes= larger than life, holes in hands, presumably for a bow 750 kilos! Worn down from the elements Daidalic style wig like hair triangular face frontal, rigid pose Inscription in First-person Dedicated by a woman, but the husband would have paid for it, men defined womens lives. Artemis, goddess of small tender things baby?

NOTE THE STYLE

Daidalic style Orientalizing period

Sounion Kouros-600 BC
Poseidons temple at Sounion Legs reconstructed-unusual, but now he stands Early Kouros abstract features ears look like top of ionic columns Nautical, unnatural hair curls muscles and features defined with more line and less curvature Typical KOUROS Left leg forward Arms at side fists are clenched in this one naked square front pose beardless (young man)

NO NAME?
Two boys funeral pinth Greeks are adjusting their artistic vocab, moving towards realism

Phrasiklea- 550 BC
Funerary w/ inscription Found in 1970s base found 19th cent Painted, dressed up in nice attire Crown of lotus blossoms (life) Holding one Lotus blossom She is wearing a necklace of pomegrantes Is this Persephone? KORE- a standing, draped female figure

Back of Phresikleias
550 BC

Example
Greeks worked around the sculptures. You can see tool marks all around

HERM.
Atotropaic- to warn away evil Always depicted the head of Hermes, until the Roman period In Archaic style (there is more of the divine in the old style) Block with phallus, shoulders head For protection Phallus=middle finger

Kroisos- 530 BC
Named for an Eastern King Anavysos Koursos Archaic period Smile-reflects the times Bugling eyes, thin eyelids More form than sounion- rounded muscles portray form rather than line Thunder Thighs

Back of Kroisos Kouros

Aristodikos- 510 (507 BC)

Means best justice Last of the Korous in Attica Short hair reflects democratic reformsno distinguishing rich from poorsculpture leaves Attica Hands knocked off to melt for stucco Details are more naturalized than earlier Kouros hands start to come forward short natural hair Pubic hair in a star show that marble workers were trying to imitate bronze additive features PICK MAN EFFED UP AND MESSED UP HIS FACE-WAY TO GO

Aristons grave stele ARISTOKLE- 530 BC

Figure in profile dressed in battle garb, barefoot and larger than life=heroising the dead No shield, artists couldnt figure out foreshortening Face painted brown Other colors pastel-ish Encaustic- burning in paints with hot wax

Other stele

Other stele
Example of foreshortening problems

Egyptian Kouros Exampl

Pinth, struts Dont evolve as much as the greeks

Bronze statue making

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Diskophoros Stele-550560BC
Frontal eye PHOROS- to carry something The discus carrier Grave stele, most likely for an athlete Archaic smile

Example of a grave stele around 550 BC

Knelauf Medusa on the bottom Typical to have the sphinx or a floral on top

ARCHERMOUS-550 BC
Winged Nike (one of the first or the first) Island of Delos Flat forehead Island style, nautical waves/curls in hair Crazy twist in torso, artists still working out naturalization of poses Holes for adornments on forehead

KROISOS REVIEW-530 BC
Day 2-revisited Kroisos

REVIEW OF ARISTICLES RELIEF

Figures shown in different positions

Trying to portray the body in motion was in development

Relief of Melos-470 BC
Circular form is a new style Early classical SEVERE STYLE

Sunion STELE- 460 BC

Poseidon sanctuary VOTIVE STELE-smaller, depicted a LIVING man Man is a victor in the games, crowning himself Holes in head for attachment of crown Artist tried for a 3/4th view with twist of torso-still trying to figure that out Young beardless- touching crown, head lowered NO HUBRIS Not life-sized=neither dead nor god

Figures with satyr?

Picture of Diskobolos- 450 BC

Discus thrower Transitional period 3 copies in Rome Looks natural because of arcs in bodynot really natural Contrapasso Dedicated to at least a three time victor- shown in action

ARTEMISIAM ZEUS- 450 BC

Transition Period Bronze found in sea with other statues, no shipwreck? Thought at first to be Poseidon, but trident would be awkward, lightning bolt= awesome Muscles are natural-looking, formed by hand Inlaid eyes, glass precious stone Silver eyelashes and copper lips Thought to be a cult statue? ANNE SAYS NO- it does not address the veiwer and it is attacking Arms to long? ANNE SAYS NO- it would look weak without the exaggeration

Ompnalos Apollo- 470-60 BC original (copy)

144BC taken in sack of Corinth Originally bronze Knee is bent, not a Kouros Where are the attributes Hands missing cant tell Beardless, young

HERM- COPY OF 420 BC original

More of divine in archaic, go back to that style for protection

Not in book Elesis Relief470-420 BC

Cat and Bird Stele- 432 BC

Aegina, funeral stele Becoming popular again Aims to show young man in everyday life Shown with young boy attendant- sad expression, mourning his master

Myrrine Lekythos- 420 BC

Funeral, to hold wine or oil as gift to dead Herms the god taking the soul to the river styx, figures mourning, saying goodbye Dead looking down=no hubris, vieled

Stele in style of Polykleitos

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