Saturday, January 1, 2011

Unit 2: Postcards/Images


Two greek sculptures, two vase painting, two classical building

Greek sculpture: Man and Centaur [bronze] Greek, mid-8th century BC, Height: 11.10cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Greek sculpture: Peplos Kore [marble] Greek, 6th century BC, Height: 118cm, Acropolis Museum, Athens Greece (found at Acropolis, west of Erectheoin, near the Parthenon)

Vase painting: Panathenaic black-figure amphora depicting a foot race [pottery] Greek, 5th century BC, Musee Municipal Antoine Vivenel, Compiegne, France

Vase painting: Red-figured calyx-krater depicting birth of Pandora [pottery], Attributed to the Niobid painter, 460-450 BC, Height: 49.5cm, British Museum (found at Altamura, Puglia, Italy)

Classical building: Neue Wache (New Guard House), Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1816-1818, Berlin, Germany

Classical building: Parthenon, 447-438 BC, Athens, Greece

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