viewer’s attention longer for them to be able to appreciate the piece even more. The way artists use these techniques is their way of expressing a story or idea. The Terracotta calyx-krater‚ currently on display at the Metropolitan Art Museum‚ is a perfect example of how detail goes a long way in any art form. With this krater‚ although huge in size‚ only the most ambitious craftsmen would take it upon themselves to decorate (). Originally decorated with abstract designs‚ toward 800 BCE‚ humans and animals
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writes home” is a black figure Volute Krater similar in shape to the Black-figure Volute Krater made by an Anonymous Greek painter between 525 and 500 BC. The Pot shares many resemblances with the one used in Herakles writes home which lets me make the assumption that the shape of the pot in the lithograph is a Volute Krater. Both of their middle body pieces are the in shape with large top which gets smaller the further towards the bottom it goes but Black figure Volute Krater has more of a slant to where
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Museum Paper I went to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts on Stanford Campus on 2/28/13. I saw a lot of sculptures and vases there. They are very beautiful and interested. The most interested one I think was Kleophon Painter‚ “Volute Krater”‚ ca. 430 BCE‚ Greece‚ red-figure terra cotta vase‚ size 26’ ¾” * 19’ *19’. Hazel D. Hansen Fund‚ 12‚ 1972 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. This vase is located in the Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center from the classical period between 479-323 BCE
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Capitals 2. The middle section of the horizontal entablature in ancient Greek order. Frieze 3. The square areas between the triglyphs in the frieze area of the entablature. Metope 4. Ionic columns have capitals with a scroll like motif called volutes. 5. 6. Decorative vertical or raised lines on a column are called? flutes 7. The elements of an order are- column with capitals‚and the entablature compose of architrave frieze and cornic. 8. Half-round decorative columns are called? engaged
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Amphora Hydria Kylix Volute krator Geometric Style EXEKIAS‚ Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game (detail from an Athenian black-figure amphora)‚ from Vulci‚ Italy‚ ca. 540–530 BCE. Geometric krater‚ from the Dipylon cemetery‚ Athens‚ Greece‚ ca. 740 BCE. Kroisos‚ from Anavysos‚ Greece‚ ca. 530 BCE. Marble‚ 6’ 4” high. Peplos Kore‚ from the Acropolis‚ Athens‚ Greece‚ ca. 530 BCE. Marble‚ 4’ high. Zeus (or Poseidon?)‚ from the sea off Cape Artemision‚
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Chapter 1-Pre-Historic Art Key Terms Attributes- Symbolic object or objects that identify a particular deity‚ saint‚ or personification in art Ceramics- Wares made of baked clay Corbel vault- Dolmen- Prehistoric sculpture made up of or more large stones supporting a large‚ flat‚ horizontal slabs Capstones- The final topmost stone in corbel arch or vault which joins the sides and completes the Structure Henge- Circular area enclosed by stones or wood posts set up by Neolithic
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1. ______ triglyph 2. ______ Polykleitos 3. ______ Pericles 4. ______ encaustic 5. ______ Myron 6. ______ entasis 7. ______ cella 8. ______ Dionysus 9. ______ Praxiteles 10. _____ amphora 11. _____ abacus 12. _____ volute 13. _____ Propylaia 14. _____ Exekias 15. _____ centaur 16. _____ Iktinos and Kallikrates 17. _____ Athena 18. _____ architrave 19. _____ caryatid 20. _____ pediment s. developed classic canon of proportions t. top part of a capital that
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I am Ales Hero! I know that I am the strongest and attractive man here. With a few years behind me‚ I have become wise and handsome. In public I must painstakingly compose myself in the certain manner that we are required to do so. Tonight is a different story! I shall show everyone who I truly am! I am a warrior‚ a lover‚ and a leader! Tonight‚ I will show every man and woman in this room who the real hero is‚ and that is Ales Hero! This symposium is the best even of the year for us men. The experiences
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got its name "Meiping". The pottery of the Geometric kratar is from the Dippylon cemetery in the Greek time period; with the size of 3’4 1/2’” located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ in New York. The Greek culture vase is modified as a funerary krater featuring a mourning and procession in honor the deceased.
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THESIS STATEMENT: In my paper I will focus on issues including the significant background of the Euphronius Vase‚ the reconstruction of the Greek vase itself‚ and Euphronios choosing a myth popular in Athens for half a century and transforming it in his own supreme style‚ which shed significant light on the complex history and ethnical issues related to this work of art. I will argue that a known literary model can be helpful in elucidating the details of a painted scene and a Corinthian fragment
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