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Entered through memorial gate , Parsanoss
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Baule Spirit Spouse,
late 20th century
Flashcard-Geometric Krater from Diplyon Cemetery
Story telling in art is back!!
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Alberto Giacometti, City Square, Bronze, 1948
Flashcard image-Corinthian Olpe
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Flashcard image-black figure vase
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, Boulognesur-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.
Be familiar with amphora, olpe, krater
Don’t have to memorize the rest.
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Artist: Amasis Painter
Flashcard image
Title: Dionysos with Maenads
Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure
decoration
Size: height of amphora 13" (33.3 cm)
Date: c. 540 BCE
Source/Museum: Bibliothèque Nationale de
France, Paris
EXAMPLE OF BLACK FIGURE PAINTING,
POTTER WAS AMASIS
PAINTER IS UNKNOWN BUT DID A LOT OF
PIECES
WOMEN OFFERING A GIFT TO THE GODS
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
Foreshortening … such as Sarpedon’s left leg
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White figure vase
Classical period
Also has tempera paint
applied
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Know/recognize this Order
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Know, recognize this order
Know, recognize this order
Recognize/know prostyle temple
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Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)
Know what a PERISTYLE is!!! Parthenon
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Flashcard Image - Early Classical Period
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Flashcard image
Artist: n/a
Title: Anavysos Kouros
Medium: Marble with remnants of paint
Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)
Date: c. 530 BCE
Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens /
Three Purposes of Statuary
1. Dedication to a god(dess)
2. Memorial to a man
3. Represent or embody a god
Greek Influence on Western
Culture
• You are going to do a treasure hunt at
home… must bring in an object, picture
or thing (no fair just finding something
on internet)
• Could be postcard, book, DVD,
photograph, poem, etc etc etc even
something from a textbook (math,
literature, etc.)
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