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Chapter 5 ~ Art of Ancient Greece

 

Artist: Myron
Title: Discus Thrower (Diskobolos)
Medium: Marble
Size: height 5'11" (1.55 m)
Date: Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450 BCE
Source/Museum: National Museum, Rome
 

 

 

Artist: n/a
Title: Ancient Greece
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
 

 

 

Artist: n/a
Title: Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: 6th–3rd century BCE
Source/Museum: n/a

 

 

Artist: n/a
Title: Centaur
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 14 ⅛" (36 cm)
Date: Late 10th century BCE
Source/Museum: Lefkandi, Euboea / Archaeological Museum, Eretria, Greece
 

 

 

Artist: Attributed to the Hirschfeld Workshop
Title: Funerary Vase (Krater)
Medium: Ceramic
Size: height 42 ⅝" (108 cm)
Date: c. 750–700 BCE
Source/Museum: Dipylon Cemetery, Athens / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1914 (14.130.14)

 

 

Artist: n/a
Title: Man and Centaur
Medium: Bronze
Size: height 4 5⁄16" (11.1 cm)
Date: c. 750 BCE
Source/Museum: Perhaps from Olympia. / The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.2072)
 


 

Artist: n/a
Title: Pitcher (Olpe)
Medium: Ceramic with black-figure decoration
Size: height 11 ½" (30 cm)
Date: c. 600 BCE
Source/Museum: Corinth / The British Museum, London
 


 

Artist: n/a
Title: Temple of Hera I, Paestum (Ancient Poseidonia) and Hera II (In Foreground)
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: c. 550–540 BCE (Hera I) and c. 470–460 BCE (Hera II)
Source/Museum: Italy
 


 

Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction of the West Façade of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra (Corfu) c. 600–580 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: After G. Rodenwaldt and H. Schleif
 


 

Artist: n/a
Title: Gorgon Medusa
Medium: Limestone
Size: height of pediment at the center 9'2"  (2.79 m)
Date: c. 600–580 BCE
Source/Museum: Detail of sculpture from the west pediment of the Temple of Artemis, Korkyra / Archaeological Museum, Korkyra (Corfu)

Artist: n/a
Title: Reconstruction Drawing of the Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi. c. 530–525 BCE
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: n/a
 

Artist: n/a
Title: Battle Between The Gods and the Giants
Medium: Marble
Size: height 26" (66 cm)
Date: c. 530–525 BCE
Source/Museum: Fragments of the north frieze of the Treasury of the Siphnians, from the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi / Archaeological Museum, Delphi

 

 

 
   
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