![]() ARHI4010/6010: Classical and Hellenistic Greek Art Dr. Frances Van Keuren, University of Georgia Works Not Illustrated in Textbooks and Ancient Textual Commentary STUDY GUIDE #2 fvankeur@aol.com |
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Original sculptures have an "O" and copies have a "C" next to their name. The material named within parentheses is that of the original sculpture. Click on image for larger view. |
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Middle
Hellenistic Period, 250-160 B.C.
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Doidalsas Crouching or Bathing Aphrodite (originally with Eros ?),
perhaps in Bithynia (bronze ?), rococo with baroque composition go to ancient texts |
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Boethos Boy with Goose (marble or bronze), rococo with baroque composition Photograph from AICT go to ancient texts go to ancient texts |
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| C Polykles Sleeping Hermaphrodite (bronze), rococo with baroque composition | ![]() |
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Epigonos Menelaos & Patroklos, perhaps in Athena Sanctuary at
Pergamon (bronze), baroque go to ancient texts go to ancient texts |
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| Reconstruction
of Acropolis of Pergamon, Staatliche Museen, Berlin the Athena sanctuary,
where the three Gaul Monuments were located, is directly above the uppermost
seats of the theater. go to ancient texts |
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| Plan
of Athena sanctuary, the Acropolis of Pergamon, showing the round Gaul Monument
in the center of the precinct, and the two rectangular Gaul Monuments in
the south part of the precinct. Reconstruction of round Gaul Monument, Athena Sanctuary, Pergamon (bronze), baroque. |
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| Gaul
Monument, Athena Sanctuary, Pergamon (bronze), baroque go to ancient texts |
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| Epigonos'
Dying Trumpeter, from one of the Gaul Monuments in Athena Sanctuary at Pergamon
(bronze), baroque go to ancient texts go to ancient texts go to ancient texts go to ancient texts |
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| Drunken
Old Woman, perhaps showing a participant in Ptolemaic festival of Adonis,
Alexandria, Egypt (see J.J. Pollitt, Art in the Hellenistic Age,
1986, p. 143; purpose of festival was to celebrate death and resurrection
of Adonis, who was shared between Aphrodite and Persephone and often identified
with Near Eastern fertility god Tammuz); according to an alternate theory,
woman would be connected with Dionysiac cult (see William R. Biers, The
Archaeology of Greece, 2nd ed., 1996, p. 303) go to ancient texts |
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| Pythokritos Nike from Sanctuary of Kabeiroi at Samothrace (Parian marble), Baroque. Reconstruction of fountain with Nike alighting on ship. From Heiner Knell, Die Nike von Samothrake, 1995, p. 79. | ![]() |
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Pythokritos
Nike from Sanctuary of Kabeiroi at Samothrace (Parian marble), Baroque |
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