Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Geometric Krater
740 B.C.E.
Geometric Greek
Athens, Greece
ceramic
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Mantiklos Apollo
700-680 B.C.E.
Orientalizing Greek
Thebes, Greece
bronze
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Exekias
Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game
540-530 B.C.E.
Archaic Greek
Vulci, Italy
Athenian black-figure amphora
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Kroisos
530 B.C.E.
Archaic Greek
Anavysos, Greece
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Peplos Kore
530 B.C.E.
Archaic Greek
Athens, Greece
marble
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Polykleitos
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
450-440 B.C.E.
High Classical Greek
Pompeii, Italy
Roman marble copy after bronze original
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Iktinos and Kallikrates
Parthenon
447-438 B.C.E.
High Classical Greek
Athens, Greece
marble
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Phidias
Panathenaic Procession Frieze, Parthenon
447-438 B.C.E.
High Classical Greek
Athens, Greece
marble
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Praxiteles
Aphrodite of Knidos
350-340 B.C.E.
Late Classical Greek
Knidos, Greece
Roman copy of a marble statue
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Polykleitos the Younger
Theater at Epidauros
350 B.C.E.
Late Classical Greek
Epidauros, Greece
stone
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander
Aphrodite from Melos (Venus de Milo)
150-125 B.C.E.
Hellenistic Greek
Melos, Greece
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
Laoco�n and His Sons
early 1st century C.E.
Hellenistic Greek
Rome, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Apulu (Apollo)
510-500 B.C.E.
Early Etruscan
Veii, Italy
painted terracotta
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Banqueters and Musicians, Tomb of the Leopards
480-470 B.C.E.
Early Etruscan
Tarquinia, Italy
wall painting
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Capitoline Wolf
500-480 B.C.E.
Late Etruscan
Rome, Italy
bronze
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Aule Metele (Arringatore, Orator)
early 1st century B.C.E.
Late Etruscan
Cortona, Italy
bronze
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Head of an Old Man
mid-1st century B.C.E.
Roman Republic
Osimo, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Tholos, Second Style Wall Painting, Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor
50-40 B.C.E.
Roman Republic
Boscoreale, Italy
fresco
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Gardenscape, Second Style Wall Painting, Villa of Livia
30-20 B.C.E.
Early Roman Empire
Primaporta, Italy
fresco
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Augustus of Primaporta
early 1st century C.E.
Early Roman Empire
Primaporta, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Imperial Procession, Ara Pacis
13-9 B.C.E.
Early Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Colosseum
70-80 C.E.
Early Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
brick, concrete, and marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Column of Trajan
112 C.E.
High Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Pantheon
118-125 C.E.
High Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
brick, concrete, and marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius
175 C.E.
High Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
bronze
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Basilica Nova
306-312 C.E.
Late Roman Empire
Rome, Italy
brick, concrete, and marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
House-Church
240-256 C.E.
Early Christian
Dura-Europos, Syria
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
The Good Shepherd, the story of Jonah and Orants, Catacomb of Saints
Peter and Marcellinus
early 4th century C.E.
Early Christian
Rome, Italy
frescoed ceiling
Title
Date
Period
Location
Old St. Peter�s Basilica
319 C.E.
Early Christian
Rome, Italy
Title
Date
Period
Location
Santa Costanza
337-351 C.E.
Early Christian
Rome, Italy
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
359 C.E.
Early Christian
Rome, Italy
marble
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Christ as Good Shepherd, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
425 C.E.
Early Christian
Ravenna, Italy
mosaic
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Justinian as World Conqueror (Barberini Ivory)
mid-6th century C.E.
Byzantine
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
ivory
Artist
Title
Date
Period
Location
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus
Hagia Sophia
532-537 C.E.
Byzantine
Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Justinian, Bishop Maximianus, and Attendants, San Vitale
547 C.E.
Byzantine
Ravenna, Italy
mosaic
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Theodora and Attendants, San Vitale
547 C.E.
Byzantine
Ravenna, Italy
mosaic
Title
Date
Period
Location
Medium
Virgin (Theotokos) and Child between Saints Theodore and George Icon
6th or early 7th century C.E.
Byzantine
Mount Sinai, Egypt
encaustic on wood
Krater
a jar or vase of classical antiquity having a large round body and a
wide mouth and used for mixing wine and water
Additive
a substance added to something in small quantities, typically to
improve or preserve it
Archaic Smile
used by Greek sculptors, to suggest that their subject was alive, and
infused with a sense of well-being
Kouros
modern term given to free-standing ancient Greek sculptures
in Ancient Greek it means "youth, boy,
especially of noble rank
Kore
an archaic Greek statue of a young woman, standing and clothed in
long loose robes
Peplos
a rich outer robe or shawl worn by women in ancient Greece
Amphora
ancient vessel form used as a storage jar
sometimes decorated with black-figure painting
Black-Figure Painting
chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted
in blackslip on a red clay body
Canon of Proportion
proportions based on the "fist", measured across the
knuckles, with 18 fists from the ground to the hairline on the forehead
Contrapposto
an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of
the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the
hips and legs
Colosseum v. Theater at Epidauros
colosseum: round arch(i), concrete(i)
theater at epidauros: use of natural landscape(i)
both: stone, made for the use of entertainment, circle architecture
Pantheon v. Parthenon
...
Aule Metele v. Augustus of Primaporta
...
Veristic Portraiture
the artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter
instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature
Lost wax casting
Multi-step process for making hollow life-size bronze sculpture
Mosaic
tiny cut stones or glass laid in cement
Encaustic
Pigment mixed with hot wax
Label
Nave, Aisle, Atrium, Altar, Transept, Apse
Icon
painting of sacred people that is usually prayed to
Theotokos
title of Mary, mother of jesus
...
Ionic
Corinthian
Doric
Engaged
Etruscan Characteristics
lively
additive: terra cotta, lost wax casting, bronze
heavily stylized, late etruscan greater naturalism even realism
stylistic influence of cultures contacted through trade
5 periods of Ancient Greek Art
Geometric
Orientalizing
Archaic
High Classical
Late Classical
Hellenistic