Classical Art & Archeology - Quiz 8
Reconstructed view of Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia
2nd or 1st century BCE; Praeneste (Palestrina), Italy
Opus incertum
Roman walls built of irregularly shaped stones facing a concrete core; "uncertain work"
Agias of Pharsalos
bronze - Lysippos; marble - Roman copy; 333-332 BCE; Delphi
Boxer at Rest
bronze with copper inlay; 3rd-1st century BCE; Rome
The Worried Man of Delos
bronze; 100 BCE; Delos
Piraeus Athena
bronze; 350 BCE or a later copy; Piraeus, Athens or Delphi
Knidian Aphrodite
marble - Praxiteles; marble - Roman copy; 350-340 BCE;
Nike of Samothrace
marble; 225-125 BCE; Samothrace
Portrait Head of Alexander the Great
marble; 300-150 BCE; Alexandria, Egypt
Boy from the Sea off Marathon (or "The Marathon Youth")
possibly Praxiteles; bronze; 330 BCE; Marathon, Greece
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
possibly Praxiteles; marble; early 3rd to mid 1st century BCE; Olympia, Greece in opisthodomos of Temple of Hera
Exedra
semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing