Fine Arts 110 History of Western Art, 1 Midterm Study Page Updated for 2008
	Mary Prevo, Instructor

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Identification of image includes: title, culture or period,  medium, date.  For some works, we know the maker, either an architect or sculptor. The midterm will be a series of comparisons (probably five at 10 minutes a piece, but maybe six or seven at 5 minutes).  For the comparisons, you will expected to write a short essay.  To study for the midterm, review your notes, the text, and the quiz study pages (1 and 2)  with a eye to works that relate to one another either by subject, technique, patron, or composition.  Comparisons To write a successful comparison, first identify the works of art so you are sure where they fall in relation to one another.  Are they contemporary?  From the same place?  Then ask yourself, "What does this comparison illustrate?" Example: Khafre, from Giza, Old Kingdom, Egypt, diorite, c. 2570 BCE Seated Scribe, Old Kingdom, Egypt, painted limestone, c. 2510 BCE To nail the comparison, you should state explicitly that the comparison illustrates the differences between a ka statue for a ruler and a ka statue for a common person during the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt.  Use specific elements of the two sculptures to illustrate this general statement.  For example, the more expensive and permanent material used for the Pharaoh.  How do they sit? What do they hold?

In addition to the images on the quiz study pages, you are responsible for the following images from Chapter 5

Archaic Period

• Temple of Hera at Paestum (Archaic)
• Temple of Aphaia at Aegina- architecture and sculpture
• Sythnian Treasury, Delphi - architecture and sculpture

Classical Period

• Apollo with Battling Lapiths and Centaurs, fragments of sculpture from the west pediment, Temple of Zeus, Olympia, 470-456 BCE (height of Apollo 10'2")
• Kritian Boy, Acropolis Athens, c. 480 BCE, marble, height 46".
• Charioteer, Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, c. 470 BCE, Bronze, height 5' 11"
• Warrior A, Found near Riace, Italy, 460-450 BCE, bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, copper lips and nipples, height 6'8".
• Polykleitos. Spear Bearer (Doryphoros). Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450-440 BCE. Marble. 6'6".
• Kallikrates and Iktinos. Parthenon. Acropolis, Athens, 447-438 BCE.
  • Three Seated Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon. Marble. Over-lifesize.
  • Lapith Fighting a Centaur, metope relief from the Doric frieze. Parthenon, c. 440 BCE. Marble. 56".
  • Marshals and Young Women. detail of the Porcession, from the Ionic frieze, east side of the Parthenon. c. 438-432 BCE. Marble. 43' high.
• Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Nike, amphiprostyle temple, Acropolis, Athens, 427-424 BCE
  • Nike Adjusting her Sandal, parapet of the Temple of Athena Nike, Athens, ca. 410 BCE

Fourth Century Classical Greek Art

• Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos. Roman marble copy after an original of 350 BCE
• Praxiteles. Hermes and the Infant Dionysos, probably a Roman copy after a Greek original of c. 340 BCE, Marble with bits of red paint.
• Lysippos, Weary Herakles (Farnese Herakles), Roman marble copy, after bronze original of 320 BCE
• Battle of Issus, ca. 310 BCE, Roman copy, house of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy, late second or early first century BCE

Hellenistic Greek Art

• Dying Gallic Trumpeter, Chieftan and Wife, from Pergamon, Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 220 BCE, marble.
• Nike of Samothrace, from the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace. c. 190 BCE Marble.
• Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes. Laocoön and his Sons, perhaps an original of the 1st century BCE or a copy of the 1st Century CE, Marble

Vocabulary - to review.  I will be looking for evidence in your comparisons that you understand and can use the architectural and art historical vocabulary below.  

Art in General	Architecture	Sculpture	Geography/culture
patron maker or artist style abstraction stylized iconography form composition space, mass, volume perceptual (optical) representation conceptual representation proportions module canon monumental roundel	plan elevation section load-bearing wall corbel corbeled arch post and lintel menhir henge column base, shaft, capital pillar engaged column papyrus capital lotus capital ziggurat mud-dried brick glazed brick citadel palace complex pyramid mastaba rock-cut tomb temple compex hypostyle hall clerestory peristyle court obelisk	sculpture in the round relief sculpture high relief low relief sunken or negative relief register groundline hierarchic scale stele votive figure	Paleolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron age Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia Gilgamesh cuneiform writing city-state empire lamasu Egypt, Upper and Lower Ka serdab Horus Isis Osirus necropolis hieroglyphic writing cartouche city-state cuneiform polytheistic lamassu papryus mummy Book of the Dead

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