Entered through memorial gate , Parsanoss
Baule Spirit Spouse, late 20th century
Flashcard-Geometric Krater from Diplyon Cemetery
Story telling in art is back!!
Alberto Giacometti, City Square, Bronze, 1948
Flashcard image-Corinthian Olpe
Artist: Exekias Title: Achilles and Ajax Playing A Game Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration Size: height of amphora 2' (61 cm) Date: c. 540 BCE Source/Museum: Vatican Museums, Rome
Flashcard image-black figure vase
Title: The Suicide of Ajax 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, Boulogne-sur-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. Artist: Exekias Title: The Suicide of Ajax Medium: Ceramic amphora with black-figure decoration Size: height of amphora 27" (69 cm) Date: c. 540 BCE Source/Museum: Château-Musée, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France
Be familiar with amphora, olpe, krater Don’t have to memorize the rest.
Artist: Amasis Painter 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: Amasis Painter 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
Flashcard image 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 Artist: Euphronios (painter) and Euxitheos (potter) Title: Death of Sarpedon Medium: Ceramic calyx krater with red-figure decoration Size: height of krater 18" (45.7 cm) Date: c. 515 BCE Source/Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Also has tempera paint applied White figure vase Classical period Also has tempera paint applied Artist: Style of the Achilles Painter Title: Woman and Maid Medium: White-ground and black-figure decoration on a lekythos, with additional painting in tempera Size: height of lekythos 15 ⅛" (38.4 cm) Date: c. 450–440 BCE Source/Museum: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Francis Bartlett Donation of 1912 (13.201)
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Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)
Know what a PERISTYLE is!!! Parthenon
Flashcard Image - Early Classical Period
Three Purposes of Statuary Dedication to a god(dess) Memorial to a man 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 Dedication to a god(dess) Memorial to a man 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.)