Greek Art Quiz 2

Wild Goat style oinochoe

(625 BC); 32cm (12.4'). Wild goat style oinochoe;

Analatos Amphora

- Protoattic amphora,700-675; 80cm (31.5"); • A first register of sphinxes below the lip; • A second register of male and female dancers and a piper on the elongated neck; • A third register of a chariot procession; • Elements of both geometric stile (stick- like figures, clouds) and 7th c. (mythological beasts, rosettes);

Chigi Vase

-Protocorinthian olpe made in Corinth c. 650 and exported to Etruria; • Found in an Etruscan tomb at Veio (Tuscany) in the property of Prince Mario Chigi in 1881; • 26 cm high (10.25 ") -a battle involving hoplite warfare. -The Judgment of Paris is obscured and painted under the handle. • The scene is the earliest extant depiction of the myth.

Proto-Corinthian Animal Style olpe.

-c. 650-625 BC. Height 32cm. Munich . Animal Style Olpe with black figure animals in four different registers: lions, bulls, ibex and sphinxes, c. 640-30; dotted rosette fillers; • The dotted rosettes and the upward-pointing triangles are reminiscent of the Geometric Style

Acropolis Kore

530 - 520 BC 1.82 m. Folds of the chiton merely incised on the already shaped body; • Himation falls in evenly spaced, vertically placed grooves and ridges over the breasts and the back.

Kore 675

55cm. 520 BC The drapery is used to reveal rather than to conceal bodily forms.

Sounion Kouros

580 B.C. Head larger than normal proportions would allow; • Disproportionately large almond-shaped eyes; • Perfectly symmetrical torso; • Anatomy treated as pure patterns; • Ear shaped almost like capitals of Ionic column;

Ischys Kouros

580-570. Marble. H: 15'5" (4.75m). Posture, gesture, and theme are as in Attica, but anatomy is treated in a more fluid way - almost boneless;

Youth from Delphi

625 BC (h. 19 cm); more realistic proportions; • Hair, horizontally hooped and falling in the dense masses • Looks like beehives from the back and side, and like triangles on either side of the face from the front; • Pose (left foot slightly forward, fists clenched at sides) recalls Egyptian figural art; • Known as "Daedalic" style after Daedalus, the mythical artisan from Crete.

The Nessos Amphora

625-600; handles decorative; • Winged gorgons run after each other, tongues out, fangs flashing; high knees to express figures in rapid motion; • Frieze of geese around rim; birds also on handles (Athenian owl?); • Neck depicts Herakles killing the centaur Nessos, who has violated Herakles' wife;

the Macmillan aryballos

650 BC. 7cm British Museum -Upper part rendered as a lion's head; 2.7 inches tall; • Five registers of decorations: - floral designs - striding and falling soldiers - a procession on horseback - hare and hounds - upward-pointing triangles

Griffin protome attachment for a cauldron

700-675 BC. Bronze. Height 12 3⁄5 ins (32 cm). Bri3sh Museum, London

The Mantiklos Bronze from Thebes.

700-675. Bronze. 20 cm. Boston Museum of Fine Arts • Anatomy interpreted in terms of geometric forms. Cylindrical thighs • Triangular torso • Pyramidal neck • Triangular face

Treasury of Athens

Built by Athenians after the battle of Marathon (against the Persians)at Delphi, c. 490 B.C. • Marble; H: 15'.9" Entablature: 5' 6"

Two handled neck-amphora

C. 625-600. Height 35 cm. -Orientalizing animals and mythological figures; • Beasts less carefully drawn;

Torso of a female "Daedalic" figurine.

C. 650-625 BC. Terracotta. Height: 7" (17.5 cm). Iraklion Museum Daedalic style terracotta female figurine from Crete (c. 650-625 BC; h. 17.5 cm). • Note triangular face and hair. • These figurines were usually used as votive offerings at sanctuaries.

Temple of Hera I at Poseidonia

Constructed in 550 BC, within a century after the foundation of the city; • Temple part of a larger enclosed sanctuary to Hera, a Heraion, that also encompassed later Temple of Hera II and several minor temples and altars.

metopes from Heraion

Herakles and the Kerkopes. c. 540 BC. Sandstone. Height 32 ins (81 cm). Paestum Museum THE KERKOPES, a pair of monkey-like thieves who plagued the land of Lydia, were once captured by Herakles, who was so amused with their jokes that he set them free unharmed

Nikandre Kore

From Delos (found near the Temple of Artemis), c. 640 (?). H: 1.75 m. • Earliest life-size/larger than life- size female sculpture

Twin kouroi

From Delphi • Restored height 6'6" (1.97 m) • 580 BCE • Story of their sacrifice in Herodotus I.31 • Artist's inscription: "[Poly]medes the Argive made this."

Phrasikleia

Marble, 540; H. 6'.1" (1.86m), Slender, and with finefeatures • No himation; • Jewelry; • Lotus flower in left hand;

Kore No. 674

Marble. H3' (0.92 m); 500 BC Very natural and fine features, but somber; • Complex coiffure

Peplos Kore

Marble; 530; H. 4ft (1.21m Smaller than life size and highly painted- some of it still visible; • Slight turned head, and barely advanced foot and shoulder;

Rampin Rider

Rampin Horseman (c. 550 BC. Marble with traces of red and black paint. • Head of rider found on Acropolis of Athens in 1877 and taken to the Louvre.

DORIC

STEREOBATE (first two steps) and STYLOBATE (the last step) = masonry platform on which he temple is built; • Columns without a base, but with flutes on shafts. • Flutes join in sharp ridges =ARRIS; • CAPITAL in two parts: - ABACUS = an oblong or square flat slab; - ECHINUS = a convex molding between shaft and tabacus; • Entablature above the columns consists of three parts: ARCHITRAVE = undecorated ashlar blocks; FRIEZE = with alternate series of triglyphs and metopes; CORNICE = the horizontal capping part of the flanks of the building

Temple of Athena in Poseidonia

Six columns on façade; • Thirteen on flanks; • The centre of the building asymmetrical; • No adyton or opisthodomos • Pronaos is deep, and columns are - smaller than those of the peristyle; - not aligned with the columns of the peristyle; - of Ionic order. Limestone

Sanctuaries layout

a space for crowds to gather the temenos - not necessarily demarcated by a wall: sometimes buildings defined the space e.g. at Olympia; - an altar for the central act of sacrifice - Some were built of stone and large, others only a pile or rocks.

Anavysos Kouros

ca. 530, ht. 6'4" (1.94m); reportedly found in the cemetery at Anavysos in Attica, marking the grave of Kroisos. National Museum, Athens

Lady of Auxerre,

ca. 650-625; approx. 2' 11/2" (65 cm) high .Limestone. Louvre, Paris. • Standing frontally and wearing a long skirt with incised concentric squares that were originally painted. • Large feet visible from under skirt; • Originally from Crete; • Soft limestone

Moschophoros

probably by Phaidimos -- dedication by Rhonbos around 560 B.C Hymmetian marble; height: 65" (165cm) Beard and cloak, clearly remove this figure from idea of male youth that kouros figures contained.

New York Kouros

said to be from Attica. c. 600 BC. Marble. Height 6 ft 4 1⁄2 ins (1.95 m). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Made around 600 BC; • Wears only a neckband; • "Nudity allowed the body — shared attribute of men and gods — to be fully revealed;" • Anatomy indicated by clearly defined sharp ridges and shallow grooves: - details appear to lie on the surface.