ART 221 Exam Two Review

Here are a sample of slides from the second

portion of the course. Use these to help you

review the terms and concepts from class

discussion and the readings.

The format of the second exam will be similar

to the first, asking you to identify artworks by

culture and discuss them by type, function, or

materials.

The Ancient Aegean World.

Cycladic Art

Lyre player

(3000-2500 BCE)

Citadel at Mycenae. C. 1340, 1250, 1200 BCE.

Lion Gate, Mycenae, as it appears today. c. 1250 BCE.

Height of sculpture approx. 9’ 6".

Octopus jar (1500 BCE) Minoan Stirrup jar with octopus (1200–1100 BCE) Mycenean

Ancient Greece.

Dipylon Vase - amphora

Geometrical Style (750 BCE)

Greek

Black-figure amphora

Exekias - painter and potter

Achilles and Ajax playing dice

(540 BCE)

Black-figure kylix

Exekias - painter and potter

Dionysus crossing the sea

(535 BCE)

Kouros “standing youth” (570 BCE) Peplos Kore (530 BCE)

The Greek Orders.

Kallikrates and Iktinos. View of the Parthenon, Acropolis. 447–432 BCE.

View of the Acropolis,

Athens. c. 447–432 BCE.

Polykleitos. Spear Bearer

(Doryphoros).

Roman copy after the original

bronze of c. 450–440 BCE.

Zeus or Poseidon (460 BCE)

Greek Bronze found in

Mediterranean sea

Nike (Victory) of

Samothrace.

c. 180 BCE (?). Height 8’ 1”.

Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes.

Laocoön and His Sons. Probably the original of 1st century BCE or

a Roman copy of the 1st century CE. Height 8’.

The Ancient Roman World.

She-wolf (500-480 BCE) Etruscan

Figures of Romulus and Remus, added in Renaissance

Reclining Couple on a Sarcophagus from Cerveteri.

c. 520 BCE. Length 6’ 7”.

Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors.

End of 1st century BCE or beginning of 1st century CE. Height 5’ 5”.

Verisitic vs. Idealizing

Head of an Old Man (1st century BCE)

Republican portrait

Emperor Claudius (50 CE)

Imperial portrait

Augustus of Primaporta. Early 1st century CE. Height 6’ 8”.

Dorphorus, or Spear Bearer (450 BCE)

Imperial Roman marble copy of

Greek Bronze original

Emperor Claudius as Jupiter (50 CE)

Pont Du Gard. Late 1st century BCE.

Height above river 160’, width of road bed on lower arcade 20’.

Colosseum, or Flavian

Amphitheater

(72-80 CE)

Rome

Pantheon (118-125 CE)

Rome

Arch of Constantine (312 CE) Rome

Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova). 306–313 CE.

Colossal marble statue of Constantine

Head approximately 8 feet high;

Overall height of figure: 40 feet

Rome (315 CE)

Reconstruction of the Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine

(Basilica Nova).

Jacopo Grimaldi. Interior of Old St. Peter's.

1619 copy of an earlier drawing.

Reconstruction Drawing, Old St. Peter's Basilica. c. 320–327;

atrium added in later 4th century. Approx. 394’ long and 210’ wide..

Church of Santa Costanza. c. 350. Rome – Early Christian

Santa Costanza (ca. 350 CE)

Rome

Harvesting of grapes - example of syncretism

Catacombs

The Good Shepherd, Orants, and the Story of Jonah.

Late 3rd–early 4th century.

Hagia Sophia (532-537 CE)

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorias of Miletus, Architects

Istanbul, Turkey

Plan of the Church of Hagia Sophia.