Supplementary review images
Nota bene:
These are images that we have
seen in class but are not available to study in the HC image database.These do NOT represent all
(or even most) of the images that you need to know for the class.
TO THE FIRST HOUR EXAM (February 22)
Minoan Sculpture (i.e. sculpture from the island of Crete)
Harvester Vase, overview (steatite, c.1500);
drawing;
detail
Mycenaean sculpture
Carved Ivory Triad (c.1350)
The Orientalizing Period (600s BC=7th century BC) and the Daedalic Style
Mantiklos "Apollo", ca.700-650 BC;
inscription on legs;
detail of head
Kore
Ornithe, c.575–550 BC, a kore from
the Genelaos base in the Sanctuary of Hera on the island of Samos
Treasuries
Siphnian Treasury
Treasury of the Athenians
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi
Temple of Aphaia at Aegina
The Berlin Foundry Cup (This
one was discussed at some length in the video that we watched on techniques
of bronze sculpture.)
TO THE SECOND HOUR EXAM (April 10)
The Riace Bronzes
The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
Metopes
The Parthenon
The West Pediment
The East Pediment
The Frieze
The Cult Statue
Temple of Athena Nike ca. 420s BC
The Great Master Problem and Polykleitos
A Handful of Works that Probably Are Copies
- Definite Copies (but not of a known Master Sculptor): The Erechtheion Caryatids (pre 409 AD):
original of Caryatid C;
original of Caryatid D;
copy of Caryatid C;
copy of Caryatid D
- Probable Copy of a lost Greek original: The Tyrannicides (originals
missing, but dated to about 475 BC);
a 5th century BC vase painting
- Probable Copy of a Lost, Greek Original: The Discobolus of Myron,
bronze original from about c.450 BC
- "'Do you mean the discus-thrower,' said I, "the one bent over in the position
of the throw, with his head turned back toward the hand that holds the discus,
with one leg slightly bent, looking as if he would spring up all at once with
the cast?' 'Not that one,' said he, 'for that is one of Myron's works, the
discus-thrower you speak of.'"
Lucian, Philopseudes (The Lover of Lies)
- "What work is there which is as distorted and elaborate as that Diskobolos
of Myron? But if anyone should criticize this work because it was not
sufficiently upright, would he not reveal a lack of understanding of the art,
in which the most praiseworthy quality is this very novelty and difficulty?"
--Quintilian Institutio Oratoria
- Pretty good Chance It's a Copy: Cnidian Aphrodite, possible original of c.350 BC
- Apollo Sauroktonos, possible original of c.350 BC
And then there is the rest of Roman Ideal Sculpture
- What is the relationship of this to a lost Greek original? To the Cnidian
Aphrodite? The Esquiline Venus, 1st century BC
- What is the relationship of this to a lost Greek original? To the Cnidian
Aphrodite? Medici Venus
- probably NOT a copy: Belvedere Apollo, a 2nd century AD sculpture in Rome,
and the Ganymede statue on which its onetime identification as a copy of a 4th century BC sculpture was based.
How this applies to Polykleitos
Funerary reliefs
Archaic
Classical
Votive and Document reliefs
The Temple of Apollo at Bassae, ca.420--OR 400?
The Temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, ca. 360-340 BC
Female Nudity and Drapery
- cf. the nearly contemporary Cnidian Demeter, worshipped
in a temple only a few hundred yards away from the Cnidian Aphrodite, ca. 340
The Nereid Monument, Xanthus, ca. 400-380 BC
The Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, ca. 360-340 BC
Lysippus
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