Kritian BoyDate / Time Period:480 BCE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*Contrapposto pose makes figural pose believable *Complete break of foreign influences*Turn of the head eliminates extreme frontality

Disk Thrower

Date / Time Period:450 BCE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Myron

Significance:*Ideal face is expressionless*Vigorous, believable movement*Roman copies of Greek originals was a huge industry

Spear Bearer

Date / Time Period:450 BCE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Polykleitos

Significance:*Canon was based on Pythagorean Theorems*Spear bearer is his canon physically manifested*Great balance of tension and relaxation*Height of sophistication of Greek figural sculpture

ParthenonDate / Time Period:440 BCE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Iktinos and Kallikrates

Significance:

*Built using extorted money from the Dellion League*Shows Athens is powerful*Shows Athens overcoming adversity*Architects use optical refinements to make it look perfect

-Base-raised by 5 inches, columns on corners are thicker and closer together

Athena Attacking the Giants

Date / Time Period:150 BCE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*Story eludes to the Pergamon defeat of the Barbarians*Shows violent action*Drama is indicative of turmoil in the period

Laocoön and his sons

Date / Time Period:10 CE / Ancient Greece

Artist:Athanadoeos, Hegesandros, and Polydoros

Significance:*violent action is indication of the Hellenistic Period*message: do no anger the Greek gods

Apollo

Date / Time Period:500 BCE / Etruscan

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*excel at terracotta sculptures*highly skilled *depicts one of the 12 labours of Hercules*clothed and has deeper stride than Greek kouros*heavily influenced by Greek kouros figures

She-WolfDate / Time Period:500 BCE / Etruscan

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*about the legendary founding of Rome*babies were added*meant to look ferocious (protecting her young)*Etruscans: excessively good @ metal skills

Head of a Man

Date / Time Period:250 BCE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*portrait bust*made for the wealthy*paraded through the streets during celebrations*embrace brutal realism*embracing age and all types of people

Garden SceneDate / Time Period:180 BCE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*excel at terracotta sculptures*highly skilled *depicts one of the 12 labours of Hercules*clothed and has deeper stride than Greek kouros*heavily influenced by Greek kouros figures

Augustus of Primaporta

Date / Time Period:10 CE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*Augustus was 1st to use Greek art to a high degree*very influenced by ‘Spear Bearer’*standing in orator pose*wearing armor to show he is fighting along side them*Cupid ties Augustus to the gods*shown younger to make him look more powerful

Ara Pacis

Date / Time Period:10 BCE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*dedicated to Augustus and reign of peace*all relief sculptures are about Augustan Power*originally faced the rising sun an Augustus’ birthday-Sept 3

Imperial Procession

Date / Time Period:10 BCE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*depicts an actual event*see children and elderly, never seen in Greek art*Augustus is promoting childbirth to repopulate Rome

Pont-du-GardDate / Time Period:80 BCE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*supplied 100 gallons per day to every person from 30 mi.

away*great deal of skill to build*would not have been built without the rounded arch*with a few repairs, it could be used today

Colosseum

Date / Time Period:80 CE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*one of the largest structures ever*the influence for all coliseums today*would not have been built without rounded arches and

cement

Dome of the Pantheon

Date / Time Period:125 CE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*a temple for all the Roman gods*one of the best preserved Roman temples*shows concrete’s fullest potential*different concrete mixes, different weight in the dome*2 circles: vertical symbolizes the sky ; horizontal symbolizes

earth

The Tetrarchs

Date / Time Period:300 CE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*tetrarchs are shown identical to represent equal power*meaning is more important than the representation (realism)*the fear displayed is a result of the turmoil in the period

Arch of Constantine

Date / Time Period:315 CE / Ancient Roman

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*dedicated to his victory over Maxentius*the largest triumphal arch of it’s time*using recycled sculpture to connect himself with past great

emperors

The Good Shepherd, the story of Jonah, and orants

Date / Time Period:400 CE / Late Antiquity

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*image of ‘the good shepherd’ is a syncretic image*orant figures are displayed (arms stretched out in praise)*tells the story of Jonah*references to the resurrection of Jesus

Harvesting of Grapes

Date / Time Period:340 CE / Late Antiquity

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*mozaics are the preferred decoration for early Christian

church*might be a referrance to Baccus or to Christ*possibly a syncretic image

Christ as the Good Shepherd

Date / Time Period:425 CE / Late Antiquity

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*the halo and the use of purple for importance has Roman

origin*sycretic image

Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well

Date / Time Period:600 CE / Byzantine

Artist:Unknown

Significance:*one of the first illuminated manuscripts of it’s time*use of purple and silver means it was made for important person*personification of spring is of a Roman source*tells the story of Rebecca and Eliezer

Hagia SophiaDate / Time Period:535 CE / Byzantine

Artist:Anthemius and Isidorus

Significance:*about imperial power and Christian glory*modification of the central plan*largest pendentives for the period*Byzantine people use a lot of gold

-color of the sky in heaven*the dome looks like it’s resting on a cushion of air

Interior of Hagia Sophia(535 CE)

Date / Time Period:535 CE / Byzantine

Artist:Anthemius and Isidorus

Significance:*about imperial power and Christian glory*modification of the central plan*largest pendentives for the period*Byzantine people use a lot of gold

-color of the sky in heaven*the dome looks like it’s resting on a cushion of air