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EXAM #2 STUDY GUIDE
1. Temple of Apollo (Didyma) culture : Hellenistic Greek period : 313 BCE -Replaces an earlier temple that was destroyed by the Persians -This was temple for oracles (future telling by Lipithia) -translates the wills of the god -not understandable -laurel leaves -10 columns on the front + 21 on the sides (2x+1 classical proportion) -inspires awe in visitors -forest of columns = natural home of Apollo -there is a wall before the cella with ramps on either side to take you down and away from the outside world -> progress to an open courtyard with small temple for Apollo -maze like details (tunnels) -the experience is what matters (evoking emotion) -there are stairs meant for the gods (large) and stairs for humans (small)
2. Altar of Zeus (Pergamon) culture : Hellenistic Greek period : 175 BCE
-victorious monument from King Attalos and his conquest with the Gauls -this monument was built on a mountain -there are ionic columns with the frieze below (play with your expectations) -the viewer is made to feel small (pulling on your senses) -relief : battle of gods vs. giants (Mount Olympus) -metaphor for Attalos'victory -crawling out of the wall (life-like) -cosmic crisis -> gods will win -emotional strain -> PATHOS dynamic + diagonal forms (exaggerated)
3. Sleeping Satyr
culture : Hellenistic Greek period : 200 BCE
-drunk + lustful -do not want to wake him because he is a powerful creature -we are seeing him in a vulnerable moment -open composition
4. Tomb of the Shields and Chair (Cerveteri)
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EXAM #2 STUDY GUIDE
culture : Etruscan period : 550 BCE -this is from the Necropolis of Cerveteri -carved out of tufa -there are banquet + funerary couches -this is a burial unit from a military family -the houses of the living look like the Etruscan tombs -retrospective -> imitates real life -prospective -> place of living for the dead for the after like -the houses and tombs ALSO look like their temple plans -which is the center focal point? (trying to make houses and tombs look like temples out of a religious importance?) -divine representation may = immorality
5. Athenian House
culture : Classical Greek period : 5th Century BCE
-compact space -built around courtyard -2 floors -terracotta roof -wood frame + mud brick -the work spaces = the female spaces -all connected house; however, this are separate female and male spaces -Andron -> room of Greek symposium (men's area) -decorated with pebble mosaic floors -house decor was plain -> little interest in spending money except with the pebble mosaics -weaving -> female virtue -mosaic -> monochromatic, scenes of the hunt (arete) -panther with god Dionysus (symposium = wine drinking) -women led secluded lives for virtue (lack of opportunities) -civic duty = reproduce citizens
6. Kylix (three examples) culture : Archaic Greek period : 500 BCE -mother, child, and maiden working (man looking over) -drinking vessel -ask about in section
7. House of Neptune and Amphitrite (Herculaneum)