Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Erechtheion temple chapter 5
Monday, October 26, 2015
What: Kritios Boy Marble 2' 10" the first statue to show how a person naturally stands. Sculptor depicts the weight shift from one leg to another (contrapposto) The head turns slightly and the youth no longer smiles.
Who:Ploykleitos Historians once thought it was the work of the sculptor Kritios- is one of the most important statues in the history of art.
Where: The Acropolis, Athens Greece
When: ca. 480 BCE
Which: Early Classical Greek- inspired by Egyptian unnatural Archaic pose statues
How:Symmetria of all the parts to one another.
Who:Ploykleitos Historians once thought it was the work of the sculptor Kritios- is one of the most important statues in the history of art.
Where: The Acropolis, Athens Greece
When: ca. 480 BCE
Which: Early Classical Greek- inspired by Egyptian unnatural Archaic pose statues
How:Symmetria of all the parts to one another.
Dipylon Krater
What: Geometric Krater, one of the earliest examples of Greek figure painting. Over 3ft tall. Marked a mans grave and the bottom was left open to enable visitors to pour libations in honor of the dead or to allow rain water to drain or both. pictures depict the mans funeral.
Who: ?
Where: Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece
When: ca. 740 BCE
Who: ?
Where: Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece
When: ca. 740 BCE
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Francois Vase
What: Kleitias and Ergotimos, Francois Vase (Athenian black-figure volute krater)
From Chiusi, Italy, ca. 570BCE. 2' 2" high. Signed by both painter and potter, has more than 200 mythical figures in five registers, the same format as on Geometric and Orientalizing vases. Black figure technique is a base of black, each clay layer is painted. The painter scratches off the layers to reveal the colors.
Stele of Ennatum (of the vultures)
Great Temple Parthenon
Iktinos, parthenon
Who: architect was Iktinos What: The Parthenon, greatest Greek temple. Temple of Athena Parthenos. When: 447-438 BCE. Where: Athens, Greece, Acropolis of Athens. Why: built due to a century-long effort by Greek architects to design a building with perfect proportions. Influenced by philosopher Pythagoras of Samos, who believed that beauty resided in harmonic numerical ratios. How: the dimensions were calculated in terms of a fixed proportional scheme. A all- encompassing mathematical formula, gave a perfect result.
Peplos, Kore
What: Peplos Kore By a unknown Archaic sculptor
From the Acropolis, Athens, Greececa. 530 BCE Marble, 4' high
A stylistic "sister" to the Anavysos kouros. Unlike men, women are always clothed in Archaic statuary. This kore is a votive statue of a goddess wearing four garments. She held her identifying attribute in her missing left hand.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Bronze statue By POLYKLEITOS
Pompeii, Italy ca. 450-440 BCE
Polykleitos sought to portray the perfect man to impose order on human movement. Achieved through harmonic proportions and a system of cross- balancing for all parts of the body.
The Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) is the culmination of the evolution in Greek statuary.
Pompeii, Italy ca. 450-440 BCE
Polykleitos sought to portray the perfect man to impose order on human movement. Achieved through harmonic proportions and a system of cross- balancing for all parts of the body.
The Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) is the culmination of the evolution in Greek statuary.
Head of Odysseus
Sculptor- Athanadoros, Hagsandros and Polydoros of Rhodes
From the villa of Tiberius, Sperlonga, Italy,
Early first century CE.
a variation on the Laocoon's Aeneid was the head of Odysseus depicting the blinding of the Cyclops
From the villa of Tiberius, Sperlonga, Italy,
Early first century CE.
a variation on the Laocoon's Aeneid was the head of Odysseus depicting the blinding of the Cyclops
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