1. Funerary Vase (Krater), Dipylon Cemetery, or Dipylon Vase
Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
Medium: Ceramic, 42” high
Date: c. 750–700 BCE, GEOMETRIC PERIOD
Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Used as a grave marker near Athens
Mourners tearing hair with grief
Geometric patterns, shapes representing mourners (not realistic)
Note: no reference to afterlife (like on Egyptian funerary art)
Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
Title: Funerary Vase (Krater)
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 42 ⅝" (108 cm)
Date: c. 750–700 BCE
Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1914 ( )

2. Title: Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher)
Artist: n/a
Title: Corinthian Olpe (Pitcher)
Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration
Size: height 11 ½"
Date: c. 600 BCE Orientalizing Period
Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London
Significance:
Black figure vase
Shows Eastern/Oriental influence with motifs of imaginary animals, plant forms, from Near East, Asia Minor & Egypt
Artist: n/a
Title: Pitcher (Olpe)
Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration
Size: height 11 ½" (30 cm)
Date: c. 600 BCE
Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London

3. 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

4. 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
Foreshorteing … 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

5. Not a flashcard but be familiar with this … what type of building
Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi. c. 530–525 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
Not a flashcard but be familiar with this … what type of building
Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, c BCE archaic period; filled with relief pedients, caryatids acting as columns, varying depth of relief.

6. Title: Anavysos Kouros Medium: Marble with remnants of paint
Size: height 6'4" (1.93 m)
Date: c. 530 BCE - Archaic Period
Source/Museum: Cemetery at Anavysos, near Athens / National Archaeological Museum, Athens
Significance:
More naturalistic than New York Kouros (Standing Youth)…
Archaic style-wiglike hair, archaic smile, stiffly posed showing Egyptian influence
Male statues always nude (female Kore statues usually wore clothing)
Originally on a grave, inscription honoring fallen war hero killed by Ares the war god
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 / National Archaeological Museum, Athens

7. Dying Warrior, artist unknown Medium: Marble, about 6’long
Date: c. 500–490 BCE, Archaic Period..West pediment marked end of Archaic period, more into early classical, East pediment is more rigid sculptures
Source/Museum: Temple of Aphaia, Aegina (now located in Munich)
Set standard for pediment sculpture, twisted form turning in space, fitting corner of triangle
Artist: n/a
Title: Dying Warrior
Medium: Marble
Size: length 6' (1.83 m)
Date: c. 500–490 BCE
Source/Museum: Sculpture from the left corner of the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina / Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich

8. Shows fragments reconstructed including the Dying Warrior
Note the triangular composition

9. Marks beginning of Early Classical Period, transitioning away from rigid archaic poses and geometric shapes
Artist: n/a
Title: Kritian Boy
Medium: Marble
Size: height 3'10" (1.17 m)
Date: c. 480 BCE
Source/Museum: From Acropolis, Athens / Acropolis Museum, Athens
Kritian Boy, Marble, 3’10”, 480 BCE Early Classical, Kritios?, contrapossto, natural pose, lifelike. Found in Acropolis.

10. Spear Bearer (doryphoros, Achilles)
Polykleitos, Roman Copy of orig. bronze 450 BCE
6’11”
Illustrated Polykleitos canon of proportions which included symmetria, relationship of weight bearing and non weight bearing leg
Dynamically balanced pose (spear is lost)
Artist: Polykleitos
Title: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros), also known as Achilles
Medium: Marble (tree trunk and brace strut are Roman additions)
Size: height 6'11" (2.12 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450–440 BCE
Source/Museum: National Archeological Museum, Naples

11. Found in sea near Riace, Italy
Riace Warrior,
Artist Unknown
High Classical period
BCE
Found in sea near Riace, Italy
Impossibly idealized musculature
Detailed glass eyes, silver teeth, copper lips
Face is of older man, body of idealized Greek athlete
(We saw these in Art Made the World, remember?)
Artist: n/a
Title: Warrior A (back)
Medium: Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips and nipples.
Size: height 6'9" (2.05 m)
Date: c. 460–450 BCE
Source/Museum: Found in the sea off Riace, Italy / National Archeological Museum, Reggio Calabria, Italy

12. Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos) Medium: Marble
Artist: Myron
Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE (classical period)
Source/Museum: National Museum, Rome
Idealized Olympic athlete
Balanced form
Humanism philosophy
Closed vs. open, curves vs. angles, moment of tension
Artist: Myron
Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE
Source/Museum: National Museum, Rome

13. Flashcard image (Temple of Athena Nike)

14. Nike Adjusting Her Sandal, Artist unknown
Marble, 3’6”, 410 BCE High Classical
Fragment of relief decoration from Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens
Temple was built amphiprostyle plan with porch at each end, Ionic style
Wings balance her pose
Virtuoso sculptor of the clingy drapery as Nike balances to adjust her shoe
Artist: n/a
Title: Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal
Medium: Marble
Size: height 3' 6" (1.06 m)
Date: Last quarter of the 5th century (perhaps 410–405) BCE
Source/Museum: Fragment of relief decoration from the parapet (now destroyed), Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens / Acropolis Museum, Athens

15. Model of the Acropolis, 447-432 BCE - Recognize this area.
Artist: n/a
Title: Model of the Acropolis, Athens
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 447–432 BCE
Source/Museum: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

16. Artist: Kallikrates and Iktinos
Title: Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. View from the Northwest.
Medium: Pantelic marble
Size: n/a
Date: 447–432 BCE
Source/Museum: n/a
The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens. Nw View, BCE, Kalikrates & Iktinos
Proportions 4:9, balanced views, narrowing space of corner columns. Glorified Athens and Athena, masterpiece of sculpture/architecture, Marble. Pediment sculpture only survives in fragments. Independence, self confidence, pride. Inspired architecture worldwide, including 19th century US. Symbolizeds human ideals.

17. Artist: n/a
Title: Erechtheion. View From The East. Porch of The Maidens At Left; North Porch Can Be Seen Through The Columns of The East Wall
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 421–406 BCE
Source/Museum: Acropolis, Athens
Erechtheion. View From The East. Porch of The Maidens At Left; North Porch Can Be Seen Through The Columns of The East Wall BCE Acropolis, Athens

18. Erechtheion, Acropolis, Athens. Porch of the Maidens
420 BCE, CLASSICAL PERIOD
KNOWN FOR CARATYID COLUMNS in classical poses, closure symmetry and rhythm
Erected under Perikles building programs to revitalize Athens
Mythical location where Poseidon and Athena had a contest over who would rule Athens
Artist: n/a
Title: Porch of The Maidens (South Porch), Erechtheion
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: Temple 430s–406 BCE; porch c. 420–410 BCE
Source/Museum: Acropolis, Athens

19. Aphrodite of Knidos, Praxiteles Marble, 6’8” high, (Roman copy)
350 BCE (Late Classical)
Presently located in Vatican museum, Rome
1st Greek female nude goddess
(other female nudes were courtesans, etc.)
Humanized mature woman, ready to bathe, everyday activity rather than idealized battle scene or athletic event.
Possibly merging Babylonian goddess Ishtar with Aphrodite, Ishtar was almost always shown Nude
Gradual acceptance of female nudes in Greek art
Artist: Praxiteles
Title: Aphrodite of Knidos
Medium: Marble
Size: height 6'8" (2.04 m)
Date: Composite of two similar Roman copies after the original marble of c. 350 BCE
Source/Museum: Vatican Museums, Museo Pio Clementino, Gabinetto delle Maschere, Rome

20. Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens Corinthian columns
Built & rebuilt during 520 BCE to 132 CE
Artist: n/a
Title: Temple of the Olympian Zeus, Athens; Acropolis in Distance
Medium: n/a
Size: Height of columns 55"5" (16.89 m)
Date: Building and rebuilding phases: foundation c. 520–510 BCE using the Doric order; temple designed by Cossutius, begun 175 BCE, left unfinished 164 BCE, completed 132 CE using Cossutius’s design and the Corinthian order
Source/Museum: n/a

21. Dying Gallic Trumpeter (flashcard) Epigonos? 220 bce
Sanctuary of Athena in Pergamon
Expressionism characteristic of Hellenistic art
Gauls were Celtic people conquered during this period
Roman copy from garden of Julius Caesar
Artist: Epigonos (?)
Title: Dying Gallic Trumpeter (back)
Medium: Marble
Size: height, 36½" (93 cm)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE
Source/Museum: Capitoline Museum, Rome

22. Flashcard Image
Original 2nd century BCE
Maybe Roman copy
Pergamene style - complex composition illustrating episode from Trojan War…
Laocon told Trojans to beware Greeks bearing gifts (Trojan Horse)
Gods retaliated….

23. Nike (Victory) of Samothrace Marble, 8’ high
180 BCE Hellenestic Period
Located in Louvre, Paris
Pergamene style, very theatrical
Heavy wings balance forward thrust of body
Masterpiece with draperies, motion
Commemorates military victory at sea (landing on ship’s prow)
Artist: n/a
Title: Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
Medium: Marble
Size: height 8'1" (2.45 m)
Date: c. 180 BCE (?)
Source/Museum: Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace / Musée du Louvre, Paris

24. Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo) Marble, 150-100 BCE, Hellenestic
Artist unknown
Located at Louvre
Renewed interest in styles of Praxiteles and Lysippos,
heavier proportion of High Classical period but twisting perspective of Hellenestic period
Drapery falling off gives note of erotic tension
Artist: n/a
Title: Aphrodite of Melos (Also Called Venus de Milo)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 6'8" (2.04 m)
Date: c. 150–100 BCE
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris