Upcoming week of-November 28th thru December2nd

Well, well, well...Sadly,now that our culinary indulgences are over we must be about our art historical business yet again!

This week we will be investigating the Art and Times of the Roman Republic and Empire. The Roman genius (unlike the Greeks) is one primarily of pragmatic, deliberate and insatiable acquisition and development of existing aesthetic,architectural and cultural models. For example- their absolutely brilliant uses of the basic Arch.The technique of fresco.The "concept" of democratic government. The "sense" of the divine.
To be honest with you- we might just find "US".

Note: As mentioned in class last week please be prepared to discuss chapter 10- "FROM SEVEN HILLS TO THREE CONTINENTS" the Art of Ancient Rome.

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

H. G. Wells

I can just imagine how hard all of you are studying tonight.
So...To give you a little break I thought
"Hey, Let's take a close look at Donald Trumps hair!"

AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSOR

Why sculpt a drunken old woman?
A youth of such lustful vanity to make even our jaded culture blush?
A defeated athelete or the death throes of a hated barbarian?
Why?

THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK FIGURATIVE SCULPTURE IS UNPARALLELED IN HISTORY. FROM THE RE-EMERGENCE OF SIMPLE FIGURATIVE IMAGERY IN THE GEOMETRIC PERIOD TO THE COMPLEXITY OF THE HELLENISTIC THE QUALITY OF THIS WORK IS MIRACULOUS. THE WEST IS OF AND FROM THESE PIECES-WHETHER
IN AWE OR DISGUST-THE VERY ESSENCE OF WESTERN AESTHETICS IS ESTABLISHED.


Note: The final piece is of particular interest- The Belvedere Torso was believed to have been the seminal influence on Michaelangelo's endless attempts to rival the great Hellenistic sculptors.

CreatorApolloniusCultureGreekTitleBelvedere TorsoWork TypesculptureDateCopy of original dated c. 150 BCEStyle PeriodHellenisticDescriptionThe Belvedere Torso is a fragment of a nude male statue signed by the Athenian sculptor Apollonius. It was once believed to be a 1st century BC original, but is now believed to be a copy of an older statue, likely dating to the 2nd century BC.RepositoryMuseo Pio-Clementino (Vatican City)ARTstor CollectionItalian and other European Art (Scala Archives)

CreatorHagesandros, Athenodoros, and PolydorosCultureAncient GreekTitleLaocoon and his SonsWork TypeSculptureDateCirca 175-150 BCELocationItaly
RomeMaterialMarbleMeasurementsHeight: 240 cmARTstor CollectionThe Hartill Archive of Architecture and Allied ArtsSourceData From: Hartill Art Associates Inc.Rights© Alec and/or Marlene HartillDownload Size1024,1024

CreatorPolyeuktos, 330-250 BCTitlePortrait Statue of DemosthenesDatec.280 B.CMaterialMarbleDescriptionRoman CopyRepositoryNy Carlsberg glyptotekSubjectDemosthenese
Portraits
Sculpture--Greek: Hellenistic--330-250 B.CARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024

CultureGreek, Hellenistic*TitleDrunken Old Woman with Wine Jug (Roman copy after original ca. 200-180 B.C.)LocationGlyptothek, MunichARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Art Images for College TeachingDownload Size1024,1024

CultureRomanTitleStatue of an old market womanPeriodEarly Imperial, Julio-ClaudianDate1st century A.D.MaterialMarble, PentelicMeasurementsH. 49 5/8 in. (125.98 cm)Credit LineThe Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1909 (09.39)Image Copyright NoticeImage © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

CreatorApollonios of Athens ?CultureGreekTitlePugilist Reposing (Wrestler; Seated Boxer); A Hellenistic Sovereign or Warrior [rear]Work TypesculptureDatec. 50 BCMaterialbronzeMeasurementsPugilist, height: 128 cmStyle PeriodGreco-RomanDescriptionboth works found in the foundations of the National Dramatic Theatre in Via Nazionale, RomeRepositoryMuseo nazionale romano

CultureGreek, HellenisticTitleSleeping Satyr (Barberini Faun), ca. 220 B.C.LocationGlyptothek, MunichMaterialmarbleRelated ItemGardner 10: 5-97
Hartt 4: 7-96
Gardner 11: 5-85
Janson 5: 212ARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Art Images for College TeachingDownload Size1024,1024

CultureGreek, Hellenistic (Delos)TitleAphrodite, Eros and Pan, ca. 100 B.C.LocationNational Archaeological Museum (#3335), AthensMaterialmarbleMeasurementsh. 1.29m.Related ItemGardner 10: 5-95
Gardner 11: 5-84ARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Art Images for College TeachingDownload Size1024,1024

CultureGreekTitleAphrodite (Venus de Milo); detailWork TypesculptureDatelate 2nd century BCEMaterialmarbleStyle PeriodHellenisticDescriptionThe Venus de Milo was discovered in 1820 on the island of Melos (Milo in modern Greek) in the south-western CycladesRepositoryLouvre (Paris, France)

CultureGreekTitleNike of Samothrace (Victory of Samothrace)Work TypesculptureDatec. 200-190 BCEMaterialmarbleMeasurementsH: 8 feetStyle PeriodHellenisticRepositoryLouvre (Paris, France)

CultureRomanTitleDying GaulDateoriginal from 230-220 BCEMaterialmarbleMeasurementslifesizeDescriptionRoman copy of a Hellenistic originalRepositoryMusei capitolini (Rome, Italy)

THOLOS

CultureGreek, Late Classical (Theodoros of Phokaia)TitleSanctuary of Athena Pronaia: Tholos, from ca. 380 B.C.LocationDelphi, GreeceRelated ItemGardner 10: 5-81 [det.]
Gardner 11: 5-71

CultureLysippos*TitleWeary Herakles (Farnese Hercules) [*Roman marble copy after Greek bronze original of ca. 350 B.C.E.]LocationMuseo Nazionale, NaplesMaterialmarbleMeasurementsh. 10' 5Related ItemGardner 10: 5-75ARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Art Images for College TeachingDownload Size1024,1024

CreatorLysipposCultureGreekTitleApoxyomenos (The Scraper)Date1st century CE Roman copy after an original bronze of c. 330 BCEMaterialmarbleMeasurements2.06 mRepositoryMuseo Pio-Clementino (Vatican City)ARTstor CollectionItalian and other European Art (Scala Archives)SourceImage and original data provided by SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.

Creatorafter PraxitelesCultureGreekTitleHermes with the infant Dionysus (copy?)Work TypesculptureDatec. 300-320 BCEMaterialmarbleStyle PeriodClassicalDescriptionMost likely this is a copy of Praxiteles' 4th c. BCE sculptureRepositoryArchaeological Museum (Olympia, Greece)ARTstor CollectionItalian and other European Art (Scala Archives)SourceImage and original data provided by SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.

ATHENA NIKE

CultureGreek, ClassicalTitleNike unbinding her sandal, relief figure from parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens, ca. 415-410 B.C.LocationAcropolis Museum (#973), AthensMaterialmarbleRelated ItemAdams 2: 7.30
TitleAthens (Acropolis): Temple of Athena Nike: Ext.: View from S E facadeDatec.427 B.CLocationAthens (Greece)Description(Callicrates)SubjectAthens (Greece)--Acropolis--Temple of Athena Nike
Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.CARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024

ERECTHION

CultureGreek, Classical (Mnesikles?)TitleErechtheum, Athens: detail of caryatid porch (Portico of the Maidens), view from Southeast, ca. 421-405 B.C.LocationAthens, GreeceMaterialPentellic marbleRelated ItemAdams AAT: 6.61, 6.62 [det.]

TitleAthens (Acropolis): Parthenon Ref.: curvature of the horizontal lines and the inclination of the external columnsLocationAthens (Greece)
GreekSubjectAthens (Greece)--Parthenon
Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.C
Columns
Reference
Temples--Greek
elevationsARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024
TitleAthens (Acropolis): Parthenon: reconstruction: orderLocationAthens (Greece) GreekDescriptionLoviot, 1879-80SubjectLoviot, Benoit Athens (Greece)--Acropolis--Parthenon Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.C Reconstruction (Hypothetical) Temples--GreekARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024
TitleAthens (Acropolis): Parthenon: Ext.: East - Stylobate & CrepidomaDate447-436LocationAthens (Greece)
GreekSubjectAthens (Greece)--Acropolis--Parthenon
Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.C
Temples--Greek
stylobatesARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024

TitleAthens (Acropolis): Parthenon General view Ictinus & Callicrates from NorthwestDate447-436LocationAthens (Greece)
GreekSubjectAthens (Greece)--Acropolis--Parthenon
Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.C
Colonnades
Temples--GreekARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024

ACROPOLIS COMPLEX

TitleAthens: Acropolis modelLocationAthens (Greece)SubjectAthens (Greece)--Acropolis Acropolises Architecture:Site--Greek--5th C. B.CARTstor CollectionARTstor Slide GallerySourceData from: University of California, San DiegoDownload Size1024,1024

A LONG WAY FROM SAQQARA

THE "CANON"

CultureGreek, Classical (Polykleitos)TitleSpear Bearer (Doryphoros), Roman marble copy after the original bronze figureDateca. 450-440 B.C.E.LocationMuseo Archeologico Nazionale, NaplesMaterialmarbleMeasurementsh. 6' 6Related ItemAdams AAT: 6.26 Hartt 4: 7-35 Gardner 10: 5-42 H&F 4: 4.35 Janson 5R: 183 Stokstad R: 5-54 W&S 3: 3-67ARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Digital Library Federation Academic Image CooperativeDownload Size1024,1024

CultureGreek, Classical (Myron)TitleDiscus Thrower (Diskobolos), Roman marble copy after the original bronze figureDateca. 450 B.C.E.LocationMuseo Nazionale Romano, RomeMaterialmarbleMeasurementsh. 1.54m.Related ItemAdams AAT: 6.24
Hartt 4: 7-34
Gardner 10: 5-41
H&F 4: 4.34
Janson 5R: 189
Stokstad R: 5-1ARTstor CollectionArt History Survey CollectionSourceCatalogued by: Digital Library Federation Academic Image CooperativeDownload Size1024,1024

CultureGreekTitleZeusWork TypesculptureDatec. 460 BCEMaterialbronzeStyle PeriodClassicalDescriptionSome have identified this sculpture as Poseidon instead.RepositoryNational Museum of Archaeology (Greece)ARTstor CollectionItalian and other European Art (Scala Archives)SourceImage and original data provided by SCALA, Florence/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.

CultureAncient GreekTitleCharioteer of DelphiWork TypesculptureDate478-474 BCEMaterialbronzeMeasurementsH: 5' 11DescriptionThe bronze figure was originally part of a larger group of statuary, including the chariot, four (possibly six) horses and two grooms. Some fragments of the horses were found with the statue.RepositoryArchaeological Museum (Delphi, Greece)ARTstor CollectionArt, Archaeology and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)ID Number10-02-01/39SourceImage and original data provided by Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives/ART RESOURCE, N.Y.

CultureAncient GreekTitleRiace bronze: statue of a young man with headbandWork TypesculptureDatec. 460-430 BCEMaterialbronzeDescriptionStatue larger than life-size, found in 1972 in the bay of Riace, Calabria, Italy. Greek original possibly by Phidias (460 BCE)RepositoryMuseo nazionale di Reggio CalabriaARTstor CollectionArt, Archaeology and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)ID 4