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In this course, we will study the art of Classical Antiquity. The different units of the course reflect the main chronological stages in art development in Ancient Greece and Rome, from the coming together of the Greek city-state and the emergence of “geometric art” (around 900 B.C.) to the fourth century A.D. shift that took place within Roman culture and art due to the growing influence of Christianity. We will begin by underlining the unity of our subject matter: Rome not only conquered Greece, but it assimilated Greece’s cultural and artistic accomplishments. In fact, much of what we know of Greek art today we learned through Roman copies.
We will also explore the development of Greek architecture, sculpture, and painting up to the Hellenistic period, when Greek art began to influence new parts of the globe through the conquests of Alexander the Great. We will also study the ways in which naturalism and idealism came together as Greek art developed over time. Next, we will turn our attention to Roman art, studying its development from the time of the Roman Republic, a period that overlaps with Greece’s Classical and Hellenistic periods, to the waning of the Western Roman Empire. You will learn that while Roman art was, to a large extent, inspired by Greek art, it also developed its own distinctive characteristics. The artistic traditions of Ancient Greece and Rome ultimately served as the foundation for the art of the Western world; these traditions continue to reverberate to the present day.
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Welcome to ARTH 202. Below, please find general information on this course and its requirements.
Course Designer: Elisabeth Miller
Primary Resources: This course requires you to learn from a multiplicity of free online resources. The following resources are among those we will be using repeatedly throughout the entirety of the course:
- Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s online textbook, Smarthistory.org
- Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History”
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s “Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History”
- Diana E. E. Kleiner, Roman Architecture (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed March 10, 2011) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0. The original version can be found here.
Requirements for Completion: In order to complete this course you will need to work through each unit of the course and pass the Final Exam with a score of 70% or higher. If you do not pass the exam, you may take it again. Most units are comprised of readings, lectures, and videos. Some resources, specifically those from the Open University, also include activities that will help you assimilate the material.
Time Commitment: This course should take you approximately 104 hours to complete. The time advisories listed under each unit title will help you organize your calendar. Units are unequal in the time investment they require on your part so you may want to take a look at the time advisories for each unit before you begin the course. For example, Unit 1 should take you 20 hours to complete. Perhaps you can sit down with your calendar and complete half of subunit 1.1 (about 2.5 hours) on Monday night; the rest of subunit 1.1 (about 2.5 hours) on Tuesday night; half of subunit 1.2 (about 2.5 hours) on Wednesday; the rest of subunit 1.2 (about 2.5 hours) on Thursday; etc.
Tips/Suggestions: Reading the material and listening to the lectures alone will not be sufficient to retain the information you are required to have assimilated before you take the Final Exam. You will need to take careful notes and spend time reviewing. The instructional boxes accompanying the links to the course resources will help you focus your study.
Learning Outcomes showclose
- Explain why ancient Greek and Roman art can be studied together as “the art of Classical Antiquity.”
- Trace the timeline of major events in Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Link important developments in the history of Ancient Greece and Rome to specific geographical contexts.
- Explain how important historical developments and social-historical contexts had an impact on art’s evolution in Ancient Greece and Rome.
- Identify the important stylistic and technical developments of Ancient Greek and Roman art.
- Discuss important artworks, presenting relevant information on each work’s historical context and constitution.
- Discuss important artists in terms of the style of their work.
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√ Have access to a computer.
√ Have continuous broadband Internet access.
√ Have the ability/permission to install plug-ins or software (e.g., Adobe Reader or Flash).
√ Have the ability to download and save files and documents to a computer.
√ Have the ability to open Microsoft files and documents (.doc, .ppt, .xls, etc.).
√ Have competency in the English language.
√ Have read the Saylor Student Handbook.
√ Have completed ARTH101: Art Appreciation and Techniques, ARTH110: Introduction to Western Art History—Pre-Historic to High Gothic, and ARTH111: Introduction to Western Art History—Proto-Renaissance to Contemporary Art.Unit Outline show close
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Unit 1: Greek Art: Early Classical Antiquity
In this unit, we will study Greek art from 900 B.C. to the early 600s B.C. During this period, the area experienced an economic revival after what is sometimes referred to as the “Dark Age” of Greece. Along with enjoying renewed trade with other regions, Greece held its first Olympic Games and rich traditions in literature and the arts began to develop.
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The period spanning from around 900 to 700 B.C. is known as the “geometric period” in art because of the predominance of geometric shapes in the forms and designs of sculpture and pottery painting. During the Archaic Period (from the 7th century B.C. to the early 5th century B.C.), Greece increased its trading activities with Eastern areas. As a result, Eastern influences became characteristic of the period’s art, as did an emphasis on the human figure. Archaic architecture is distinguished by its novel architectural “grammar,” or its unique combination of structural elements and ornamentation.
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1.1 What Is Classical Antiquity?
- Reading: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Zucker’s “Ancient Greece and Rome”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Zucker’s “Ancient Greece and Rome” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this short article in order to understand why the study of Ancient Greece and Rome is often described as the study of “Classical Antiquity.”
Terms of Use: The article above is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (HTML). It is attributed to SmartHistory.org and the original version can be found here (HTML).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Ancient Literature and Language: A Brief History of Early Ancient Civilization: Historical Overview of Greece and Rome”
Link: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Ancient Literature and Language: “A Brief History of Early Ancient Civilization: Historical Overview of Ancient Greece and Rome” (PDF)
Instructions: Via the link above, please scroll down to and read the passage titled “Historical Overview of Ancient Greece and Rome.”
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerives 2.0 Generic (HTML). It is attributed to Mark Damen and the original version can be foundhere (HTML).
See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: The Open University’s “Introducing the Classical World: Ancient Time” and “Introducing the Classical World: Ancient Places,” and “Introducing the Classical World: The Geography of the Classical World”
Links: The Open University’s “Introducing the Classical World: Ancient Time,”(HTML) “Introducing the Classical World: Ancient Places,” (HTML) and “Introducing the Classical World: The Geography of the Classical World” (HTML)
Instructions: Please click and read the links above, as well as the documents linked to those webpages. Additionally, please complete the activities in order to reinforce your grasp of the forces that shaped the timeline of Classical Antiquity.
Terms of Use: This resource is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike License: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Zucker’s “Ancient Greece and Rome”
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1.2 Early Classical Antiquity in Greece
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1.2.1 Introduction to Greek History and Mythology
- Reading: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: A Very Brief Outline of Greek History (to A.D. 1453)”
Link: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: A Very Brief Outline of Greek History (to A.D. 1453)” (PDF)
Instructions: Please read this article for a brief outline of Greek History. Keep in mind that while you should read the entire article, this course studies in particular only some of the periods discussed: the geometric period, the archaic period, the classical period, and the Roman period in Greece.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (HTML). It is attributed to Kevin T. Glowacki and the original version can be found here (HTML).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s "Chapter 3: Ancient Literature and Language: An Introduction to Classical Mythology” and “Chapter 4: Homer and the 'Iliad’”
Link: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Chapter 3: Ancient Literature and Language: An Introduction to Classical Mythology” (HTML) and “Chapter 4: Homer and The Iliad (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these two passages for an introduction to classical mythology and Homer’s The Iliad, both of which formed the subject matter of many artworks of classical antiquity.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (HTML). It is attributed to Mark Damen and the original version can be found here (HTML) and here (HTML).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: A Very Brief Outline of Greek History (to A.D. 1453)”
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1.2.2 The Geometric Period, 900-700 B.C.: A Cultural Rebirth
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1500 to 1000 B.C.: Southern Europe” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 1000 to 700 B.C.: Southern Europe”
Link: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1500 to 1000 B.C.: Southern Europe” (PDF) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 1000 to 700 B.C.: Southern Europe” (PDF)
Also available in: PDF, EPub Format and HTML (See links below).
Instructions: Please read these two passages in order to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the beginning of Classical Antiquity as well as the Geometric era.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (HTML). It is attributed to Jack E. Maxfield and the original version can be found here (1500 to 100 B.C.) and here (1000 to 700 B.C.) (HTML, PDF, EPub).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1500 to 1000 B.C.: Southern Europe” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 1000 to 700 B.C.: Southern Europe”
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1.2.3 Arts in the Geometric Period
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Geometric Art in Ancient Greece”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History:” The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Geometric Art in Ancient Greece” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the visuals that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Please read the articles that accompany the images.
Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use displayed on the webpage above.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Pafford’s “Lecture 3: The Geometric” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.2.3”
Link: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Pafford’s “Lecture 3: The Geometric” (YouTube) and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.2.3” (PDF)
Instructions: Please view Professor Pafford’s video lecture via YouTube in its entirety (about 54 minutes); this lecture is part of a series of recordings for a course on Ancient Greek art taught at Santa Clara University by Isabelle Pafford. Take notes on the characteristics of Geometric art. Since no visuals accompany these recordings, please open the mini-gallery linked above to view the images referenced in the lecture.
Terms of Use: The linked material above from Santa Clara has been reposted by the kind permission of Isabelle Pafford, and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: you may share and remix them under the conditions that you correctly attribute them and that you do not use them for commercial purposes.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Geometric Art in Ancient Greece”
- 1.3 The Archaic Period, 700-480 B.C: Art in a Period of Increased Trade and Expansion
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1.3.1 The Archaic Period: Historical Background
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans”
Links: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe” (PDF) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans” (PDF)
Also available in: HTML and EPub (See links below)
Instructions: Please read these two passages in order to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of “archaic art.”
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (HTML). It is attributed to Jack E. Maxfield and the original version can be found here (700 to 601 B.C.) and here (600 to 501 B.C.) (HTML, EPub and PDF).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans”
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1.3.2 Arts of the Archaic Period: Overview
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Greek Art in the Archaic Period”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Greek Art in the Archaic Period” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the photographs that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the article itself. Please read the articles that accompany the visuals.
Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use displayed on the webpage above.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Greek Art in the Archaic Period”
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1.4 Architecture in the Archaic Period
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1.4.1 What Is a Greek Temple?
- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: What Is a Greek Temple?”
Link: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: What Is a Greek Temple?” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this short passage in order to get a general sense for the place and function of the temple within ancient Greek society.
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- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: What Is a Greek Temple?”
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1.4.2 Layout and Orders
- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Architectural Styles”
Link: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Architectural Styles” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage in order to get a sense for the styles and conventions developed during the Archaic Period as well as an overview of the development of styles throughout Ancient Greek history as a whole. Note that during the Archaic Period, the Doric and Ionic orders of architecture were established.
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- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Architectural Styles”
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1.4.3 Architecture and Sculptural Ornamentation
- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Decoration”
Link: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Decoration” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage in order to get a sense for the way in which sculptural ornamentation came to be integrated into architectural conventions.
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- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: Decoration”
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1.4.4 The Acropolis of Athens in the Archaic Era
- Web Media: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis,” “The Acropolis: General Views,” and “The Archaic Acropolis”
Links: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis,” (PDF) “The Acropolis: General Views,” (PDF) and “The Archaic Acropolis” (PDF)
Instructions: Read “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis” for a sense of its development through different time periods. Then, click “The Acropolis: General Views” to look at the images of the acropolis, and read the captions for a general sense of the acropolis’ visual appearance and layout. Finally, click “The Archaic Acropolis” to look at the images, read the captions, and take notes on the Archaic elements of architecture within the acropolis.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (HTML). It is attributed to Kevin T. Glowacki and the original version can be found here (The Acropolis), here (General Views) and here (The Archaic Acropolis) (HTML).See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis,” “The Acropolis: General Views,” and “The Archaic Acropolis”
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1.5 The Archaic Period: Monumental Sculpture
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1.5.1 The Kouros
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 5: The Kouros: Walk Like an Egyptian, Only Naked” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.1”
Link: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 5: The Kouros: Walk Like an Egyptian, Only Naked” (YouTube) and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.1” (PDF)
Instructions: This recording is part of a course on ancient Greek art taught at Santa Clara University by Isabelle Pafford. Please view this entire video lecture (approximately 52 minutes) via YouTube, and take notes on the characteristics of the Kouros as well as its function. The discussion on the Kouros, a type of monumental sculpture that emerged in the Archaic period of Greek art, really starts at the six minute mark. Because no visuals accompany these recordings, please click on the “gallery” above to view some of the images referenced in the lecture. Though some of these links may not be the specific ones Professor Pafford bases her lecture on, they illustrate her points well.
Terms of Use: The linked material above has been reposted by the kind permission of Isabelle Pafford, and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Monica Hahn and Brian Seymour’s “New York Kouros”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Monica Hahn and Brian Seymour’s “New York Kouros” (Adobe Flash)
Also available on:
iTunes
Instructions: Please watch this video (3:43 minutes) for a discussion of the Kouros’ archaic sculpture. Pay particular attention to the video’s presentation of the nude, idealism and naturalism, stylization, and the Egyptian influence. For iTunes, select the link and choose podcast number 5.
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- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 5: The Kouros: Walk Like an Egyptian, Only Naked” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.1”
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1.5.2 The Korai
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 6: Korai, Nymphs, and Respectable Ladies” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.2”
Link: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 6: Korai, Nymphs, and Respectable Ladies” (YouTube) and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.2” (PDF)
Instructions: This recording is part of a course on ancient Greek art taught at Santa Clara University by Professor Pafford. Please view the entire video lecture linked above via YouTube (51:30 minutes). Professor Pafford begins speaking about the Korai, the female counterpart to the Kouros, at the 10 minute mark. Listen to the lecture until you are 10 minutes away from its end. Please take notes on the Korai’s characteristics, role, and function. Because no visuals accompany these recordings, please go to the gallery linked above to view the artworks Professor Pafford mentions and discusses.
Terms of Use: The linked material above from Santa Clara has been reposted by the kind permission of Isabelle Pafford, and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: you may share and remix them under the conditions that you correctly attribute them and that you do not use them for commercial purposes.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Isabelle Pafford’s “Lecture 6: Korai, Nymphs, and Respectable Ladies” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.5.2”
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1.6 The Archaic Period: Pottery Painting
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1.6.1 Introduction to Greek Vessels
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Shapes: Introduction,” “Shapes: Amphorae,” “Shapes: Kraters,” “Shapes” Other Vessels for Carrying Liquid,” “Shapes: Pouring Vessels,” “Shapes: Cupes and Other Drinking Vessels,” “Shapes: Small Closed Shapes,” and “Shapes: Other Shapes”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Shapes: Introduction,” “Shapes: Amphorae,” “Shapes: Kraters,” “Shapes: Other Vessels for Carrying Liquid,” “Shapes: Pouring Vessels,” “Shapes: Cups and Other Drinking Vessels,” “Shapes: Small Closed Shapes,” and “Shapes: Other Shapes”
Note: All websites are in HTML format.
Instructions: Please click and read the webpages above. Click on the links within the text for visuals.
Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use displayed on the webpage above.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Shapes: Introduction,” “Shapes: Amphorae,” “Shapes: Kraters,” “Shapes” Other Vessels for Carrying Liquid,” “Shapes: Pouring Vessels,” “Shapes: Cupes and Other Drinking Vessels,” “Shapes: Small Closed Shapes,” and “Shapes: Other Shapes”
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1.6.2 The Influence of the East in 7th Century Pottery
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Orientalizing”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: "Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Orientalizing” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above and read the passage “Orientalizing” to get a sense of the eastern influence on 7th century B.C. Greek pottery.
Terms of Use: Please respect the copyright and terms of use displayed on the webpage above.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: The University of Colorado’s “Classics Exhibit: Timeline: Geometric and Orientalizing Periods” and “Orientalizing Pottery”
Links: The University of Colorado’s “Classics Exhibit: Timeline: Geometric and Orientalizing Periods” (HTML) and “Orientalizing Pottery” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to The University of Colorado’s webpage linked above, and scroll down to the thumbnail images under “Geometric and Orientalizing Periods.” View the last three images. Then, click on the highlighted number beside the thumbnail images to read about specific vessels. Finally, click and read “Orientalizing Pottery.”
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Orientalizing”
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1.6.3 Black-Figure Pottery Painting
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Pafford’s “Lecture 8: The Aesthetics of Black Figure” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Sub-subunit 1.6.3”
Link: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Pafford’s “Lecture 8: The Aesthetics of Black Figure” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 1.6.3” (PDF)
Instructions: This recording is part of a course on Ancient Greek art taught at Santa Clara University by Isabelle Pafford. Please view the video lecture in its entirety (approximately 19 minutes). Because no visuals accompany these recordings, please click on the “gallery” linked above. Though these images may not be the exact works to which Professor Pafford refers, they will give you a sense for the stylistic developments of black-figure pottery she discusses.
Terms of Use: The linked material above from Santa Clara has been reposted by the kind permission of Isabelle Pafford, and can be viewed in its original form here. Please note that this material is under copyright and cannot be reproduced in any capacity without explicit permission from the copyright holder. The images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License: you may share and remix them under the conditions that you correctly attribute them and that you do not use them for commercial purposes.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops’ Cave”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops’ Cave” (YouTube)
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iTunes
Instructions: Please watch this video (8:22 minutes), which discusses a black-figure vase. For iTunes, select the link and scroll down to podcast number 35.
Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: YouTube: Santa Clara University: Professor Pafford’s “Lecture 8: The Aesthetics of Black Figure” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Sub-subunit 1.6.3”
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1.6.4 Black-Figure Pottery Painting: The Corinthian Tradition
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Corinthian Pottery: An Introduction”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: "Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Corinthian Pottery: An Introduction" (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above, and read the passage “Pottery: Techniques and Styles: Corinthian Pottery: An Introduction.”
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Pottery: Techniques and Styles, Corinthian Pottery: An Introduction”
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1.6.5 The Attic Tradition: Black- and Red-Figure Pottery
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images above the article itself. View only the photographs of Black-Figure vases, and read the articles that accompany those visuals. Since there are names associated with specific artworks, try to get a sense for artists’ individual styles, particularly Exekias.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Euphronios, Attic Calyx-Krater”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Euphronios, Attic Calyx-Krater” (Adobe Flash)
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Instructions: Please watch this video (6:37 minutes), which presents a red-figure vase. Pay particular attention to the discussions surrounding the topics of red-figure painting, naturalism, eastern influence in archaic art, the subtle representation of emotion, the profile face, and the purpose of the “calyx-krater.” For iTunes, select the link and scroll down to podcast number 93.
Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: iTunes U: Oxford University: John Boardman’s “Treasures of Oxford-Athenian Drinking Cup”
Link: iTunes U: Oxford University: John Boardman’s “Treasures of Oxford-Athenian Drinking Cup” (iTunes U)
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Instructions: This recording is available through iTunes. When you go to the link above, please click on track 1. Watch this short video, in which John Boardman discusses a red-figure Athenian drinking cup and what its shape reveals about Greek culture, its material, and the red-figure drawing inside of it.
Terms of Use: This open educational resource is licensed under a Creative Common Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike: you may share and adapt the work under the conditions that you correctly attribute it, that you do not use it for commercial purposes, and, that in the case you adapt and distribute it, you do so under a similar license.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques”
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Unit 1 Assessment
- Assessment: The Saylor Foundation’s “Quiz 1”
Link: The Saylor Foundation’s “Quiz 1” (PDF) and “Quiz 1 Answer Key” (PDF).
Instructions: Please take the above quiz. Please answer the 15 questions within one hour without consulting the course content. Once you have completed the quiz, you may consult the answer key for help in evaluating your work.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Assessment: The Saylor Foundation's "Essay 1"
Link: The Saylor Foundation's "Essay 1" (PDF) and “Essay 1 Answer Key” (PDF).
Instructions: Please write a short critical essay discussing an artwork with which you have become acquainted through the course. As well as identifying the artwork, you should describe and discuss its form, function, and meaning, as well as its historical and art-historical significance. Please write this essay within one hour without consulting the course content. Once you have completed the assignment, you may consult the answer key for help in evaluating your work.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Assessment: The Saylor Foundation’s “Quiz 1”
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Unit 2: Greek Art: Classical Art, 480-323 B.C.
The period that produced what we now term “Greek Classical art” began around 480 B.C., with the end of the Persian invasions of Greece. A period of peace and unification followed Greek victory. By the middle of the century, the foundations of a democratic system were in place. In Athens, the statesman Pericles was an active promoter of the arts; he began to develop ambitious architectural projects for the acropolis. The fourth and fifth centuries B.C. were to become known as the “Golden Age” of Greek Art. New levels of naturalism and idealism were achieved and merged in the depiction of the human figure as well as in the construction of buildings.
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- 2.1 The Classical Period: 480-323 B.C.
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2.1.1 Historical Background
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece (the 2nd Center of Civilization), Upper Balkans” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1000 to 700 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans”
Links: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece (the 2nd Center of Civilization), Upper Balkans” (HTML, PDF, or ePUb) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans” (HTML, PDF, or ePub)
Instructions: Please read these two passages in order to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of “classical art.”
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece (the 2nd Center of Civilization), Upper Balkans” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1000 to 700 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans”
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2.1.2 The Development of Art in the Classical Period
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480-323 B.C.)”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480-323 B.C.)” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the images that accompany the overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the article itself. Read the articles that accompany the slides.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Art of Classical Greece (ca. 480-323 B.C.)”
- 2.2 Early Classical Art
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2.2.1 The Temple of Zeus at Olympia
- Web Media: SUNY Oneonta’s “Temple of Zeus at Olympia”
Link: SUNY Oneonta’s “Temple of Zeus at Olympia”
Instructions: This resource will serve as an introduction to the temple of Zeus at Olympia as well as a visual “companion” to Dr. Gillian Shepherd’s lecture below. Make sure to go to the suggested links within the text and to take the “tour” of Ancient Olympia. It should take you approximately 30 minutes to look through this page and take the virtual tour of Olympia.
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- Web Media: The Powerhouse Museum’s “Virtual Olympia”
Link: The Powerhouse Museum’s “Virtual Olympia”
Instructions: Please go to the website above and view the first seven videos. They are reconstructions of different parts of the sanctuary and temple of Zeus at Olympia as they may have appeared in ancient times. These videos should take 15 minutes to watch.
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- Lecture: iTunes U: La Trobe University: Dr. Gillian Shepherd’s “The Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia”
Link: iTunes U: La Trobe University: Dr. Gillian Shepherd’s “The Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia”
Instructions: Please listen to the lecture linked above. Shortly after the 23 minute mark, Dr. Shepherd begins discussing the Temple of Zeus. Please pay close especially close attention to discussion of the Temple of Zeus. It is nonetheless recommended that you listen to the first part of the lecture for some historical background as well as to get a feel for the way the temple relates to the larger sanctuary. Please look at the images on SUNY Oneonta’s page “Temple of Zeus at Olympia” while listening to the lecture. You are not required to listen to the last 12 minutes of lecture. It should take you about 40 minutes to listen to the parts of the lecture indicated in these instructions.
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- Web Media: SUNY Oneonta’s “Temple of Zeus at Olympia”
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2.2.2 The Charioteer of Delphi
- Web Media: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Charioteer of Delphi”
Link: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Charioteer of Delphi” (HTML and QuickTime)
Instructions: Please read this passage on the “Charioteer of Delphi,” a prime example of the Severe Style of the early Classical period.
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- Web Media: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Charioteer of Delphi”
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2.2.3 Development of the Lost-Wax Technique
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the images that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the article itself. Take careful notes on the importance of the Lost-Wax technique in the Classical period, and then read the articles that accompany the slides.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. David Drogin’s “Bronze Casting”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. David Drogin’s “Bronze Casting” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this video to gain an understanding of the Lost-Wax technique. Note: you will have viewed this video once before if you have taken the ARTH101: Art Appreciation and Techniques course.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “The Technique of Bronze Statuary in Ancient Greece”
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2.3 Architecture in the Classical Period
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2.3.1 The Acropolis of Athens: The Parthenon
- Web Media: iTunes U: The Open University: “The Acropolis and the Parthenon”
Link: iTunes U: The Open University: “The Acropolis and the Parthenon” (iTunes U)
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Instructions: This is a series of short clips from the Open University made available through iTunes. Please listen to or watch “The Acropolis and the Parthenon,” “The Panathenaia and the Panatheniac Way,” “The Acropolis,” “The Parthenon,” “The Parthenon: Pediments and Metopes,” “The Parthenon Frieze,” and “Plan Drawings” (all the tracks that have an audio or video component to them). Note that the other tracks are transcripts. Each audio/video clip lasts between one and six minutes.
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- Reading: PBS: Gary Glassman’s “Nova Interview with Jeffrey Hurwit”
Link: PBS: Gary Glassman’s “Nova Interview with Jeffrey Hurwit” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this interview with the art historian Jeffrey Hurwit for a discussion of the Parthenon.
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- Web Media: YouTube: PBS’s “Secrets of the Parthenon”
Link: YouTube: PBS’s “Secrets of the Parthenon” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this video exploring the Parthenon’s construction in its entirety (approximately 53 minutes).
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- Reading: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: The Parthenon,” “Reading Greek Temples: Refinements,” and “Reading Greek Temples: Decoration”
Links: Reed College: Ellen Millender and Alex Nice’s “Reading Greek Temples: The Parthenon," (HTML) “Reading Greek Temples: Refinements,” (HTML) and “Reading Greek Temples: Decoration” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these three passages.
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- Web Media: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—The Parthenon”
Link: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—The Parthenon” (HTML)
Instructions: Please look at the images of the Parthenon and read the captions to get a sense for its visual aspect, constitution, and organization.
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- Web Media: iTunes U: The Open University: “The Acropolis and the Parthenon”
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2.3.2 The Acropolis of Athens: The Temple of Athena Nike
- Reading: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike (427-424 B.C.)”
Link: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike (427-424 B.C.)” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this short illustrated lecture discussing the Temple of Athena Nike on the Acropolis of Athens.
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- Reading: Reading: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Temple of Athena Nike”
Link: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Temple of Athena Nike” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage on the “Temple of Athena Nike” for more context on this structure.
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- Web Media: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—Athena Nike”
Link: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—Athena Nike”(HTML)
Instructions: Please look at the images of the Temple of Athena Nike and read the captions to get a general sense for its placement and visual characteristics.
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- Reading: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Temple of Athena Nike (427-424 B.C.)”
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2.3.3 The Acropolis of Athens: The Erechtheum
- Reading: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Erechtheum Lecture”
Link: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Erechtheum” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this short illustrated lecture, discussing the Erechtheum on the Acropolis of Athens.
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- Web Media: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—The Erechtheion”
Link: The Stoa Consortium: Kevin T. Glowacki’s “The Ancient City of Athens: The Acropolis—The Erechtheion” (HTML)
Instructions: Please look at the images of the Erechtheion and read the captions to get a general sense for its context, placement, and visual characteristics.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Erechtheion: Caryatid and Column”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Erechtheion: Caryatid and Column” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this video for a discussion of the Caryatid, a type of sculpture intimately linked to the architecture of the Erechtheion.
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- Reading: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Erechtheion”
Link: Ancient-Greece.org’s “Erechtheion” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage on the “Erechtheion” for more context on this structure.
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- Reading: Illinois State University: Dr. J’s “Lecture: Illustrated Erechtheum Lecture”
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2.4 Classical Art: Sculpture
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: The Classical Period”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: The Classical Period” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above. When you are finished reading the first page, make sure you click on the links for pages 2 and 3; read all three pages of the article.
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: The Classical Period”
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2.4.1 The Parthenon and the “Phidian” Style
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Sculpture from the Parthenon’s East Pediment”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Sculpture from the Parthenon's East Pediment” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 5-minute video for a discussion of a sculpture by Phidias, a fifth century sculptor in charge of the sculptural program of the acropolis of Athens under the statesmen Pericles. Pay close attention to discussion of his style.
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- Web Media: iTunes U: UMBC Humanities and Social Science Forum: “The Parthenon East Metopes”
Link: iTunes U: UMBC Humanities and Social Science Forum: “The Parthenon East Metopes” (iTunes U)
Instructions: Available through iTunes, this recording is part of a humanities and social sciences course held at UMBC. Please scroll down and watch track 7 of this series (approximately 1 hour and 4 minutes).
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “Parthenon Frieze”
Link: SmartHistory.org’s “Parthenon Frieze” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this brief, 5-minute video for a discussion of relief sculptures by Phidias on the frieze of the Parthenon.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Sculpture from the Parthenon’s East Pediment”
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2.4.2 Polykleitos and Cannons
- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Classical Greek Sculpture”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Classical Greek Sculpture” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this 9-minute video, which discusses a sculpture by Polykleitos, a sculptor famous for having formulated a cannon of proportions that he used in his sculptures. Note the process by which ancient artworks can end up in a museum. Pay close attention to the description of “contrapposto” and the idea of a unified whole governing the sculpture.
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- Reading: Suny College at Oneonta: Dr. Allen S. Farber’s “Polyclitus’s Canon and the Idea of Symmetria”
Link: Suny College at Oneonta: Dr. Allen S. Farber’s “Polyclitus’s Canonand the Idea of Symmetria” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage on the ideals of balance and proportion that took form in Polyclitus’s sculpture.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Classical Greek Sculpture”
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2.5 Classical Art: Red-Figure Painting and White-Ground Painting
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Culture’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Culture’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques (HTML)
Instructions: You will have read this article once before in subunit 1.6.5. Please quickly read it again, and view the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images above the text. Read the articles that accompany the slides for all of the vessels that were made during the Classical period in between the years 480 and 323 B.C.
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- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Culture’s “Athenian Vase Painting: Black- and Red-Figure Techniques”
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2.6 A Few Examples of Late Classical Art
- Reading: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive “Sculpture: The Classical Period”
Link: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: The Classical Period” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above. When you are finished reading the first page, make sure you click on the link and read through the following page as well.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org’s “After Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)”
Link: SmartHistory.org’s “After Praxiteles, Venus (Roman Copy)” (Adobe Flash)
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Instructions: Please watch this 9-minute video for a discussion of a Roman copy of a sculpture by Praxiteles, a renowned fourth century sculptor. For iTunes, select the link and scroll down to podcast number 91. Pay close attention to discussion of nudity and of the purpose of the reproduction in its original Roman context, and then pay attention to the purpose of the original Greek sculpture in its context.
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- Reading: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive “Sculpture: The Classical Period”
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Unit 3: Greek Art: Hellenistic Art, 323-31 B.C.
The Hellenistic period of Greece began after Alexander the Great's conquests. His conquests spread “Hellenism,” or Greek culture, to the Mediterranean basin and beyond. A vast new geographical context acted upon and changed the Greek cultural tradition while the model of the city-state declined (and Athens’ prominence along with it). The period’s visual arts are characterized by, among other things, an ever-increasing naturalism and a focus on representing intense emotion through the human figure. Meanwhile, new trends in architecture and architectural planning reflected a new social order. By the middle of the second century B.C., Romans had conquered a large part of Greece, and the assimilation of Greek culture and art began in earnest.
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- 3.1 The Hellenistic Period
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3.1.1 The Hellenistic World
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Greece, Upper Balkans”
Links: Jack Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans,” (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Greece, Upper Balkans,” (PDF)
Also available in: HTML, EPub (See links below)
Instructions: Please go to the links above. For the first link on Europe from 400 to 301 B.C., please read the sections on Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, and the Upper Balkans. For the second link on Europe from 300 to 201 B.C., please read the sections on Greece and the Upper Balkans. Try to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of Hellenistic art and the geography of the Hellenistic empire.
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 200 to 101 B.C.: Southern Europe: Greece, Upper Balkans,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 100 B.C. to 0: Greece, Upper Balkans”
Links: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 200 to 101 B.C.: Southern Europe: Greece, Upper Balkans,” (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 100 B.C. to 0: Greece, Upper Balkans” (PDF)
Also available in: HTML, EPub (See links below)
Instructions: Please go to the links above. For the first link on Europe from 200 to 101 B.C., please read the sections on Greece and the Upper Balkans. For the second link on Europe from 100 B.C. to 0, please read the sections on Greece and the Upper Balkans. Try to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of Hellenistic art and the geography of the Hellenistic empire.
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Jack Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 400 to 301 B.C.,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 300 to 201 B.C.,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 200-101 B.C.,” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East 100 B.C. to 0”
Links: Connexions: Jack E. Jack Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 400 to 301 B.C.,” (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 300 to 201 B.C.,” (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 200-101 B.C.,” (PDF) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 100 B.C. to 0” (PDF)
Also available in: PDF, EPub (See links below.)
Instructions: Please go to the links above. Try to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of Hellenistic art and the geography of the Hellenistic empire.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (HTML). It is attributed to Jack Maxfield and the original version can be found here: “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 400 to 301 B.C.,” (HTML, PDF, EPub) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 300 to 201 B.C.,” (HTML, PDF, EPub) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 200-101 B.C.,” (HTML, PDF, EPub) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: The Near East: 100 B.C. to 0” (HTML, PDF, EPub)See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Jack Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 400 to 301 B.C.;” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 300 to 201 B.C.;” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 200 to 101 B.C.;” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 100 B.C. to 0”
Links: Jack Mansfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 400 to 301 B.C.”; (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 300 to 201 B.C.”; (PDF) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 200 to 101 B.C.”; (PDF) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 100 B.C. to 0” (PDF)
Also available in: HTML, EPub (See links below.)
Instructions: Please go to the links above. For each link, please focus on the sections on Northeast Africa, North Central Africa, and Northwest Africa. Again, try to get a sense for the historical context surrounding the production of Hellenistic art and the geography of the Hellenistic empire.
Terms of Use: The article above is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (HTML). It is attributed to Jack Maxfield and the original version can be found here: “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 400 to 301 B.C.”; (HTML, PDF, EPub) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 300 to 201 B.C.”; (HTML, PDF, EPub) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 200 to 101 B.C.”; (HTML, PDF, EPub) and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa: 100 B.C. to 0” (HTML, PDF, EPub)See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: Lisa M. Lane’s “Lisahistory: The Hellenistic World”
Link: Lisa M. Lane’s “Lisahistory: The Hellenistic World” (HTML and Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please listen to the first forty minutes of this lecture, which introduces Hellenistic culture and art.
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Eastern Mediterranean Islands, Greece, Upper Balkans,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Greece, Upper Balkans”
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3.1.2 Culture and the Arts
- Reading: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Ancient Literature and Language: Hellenistic Literature”
Link: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Ancient Literature and Language: Hellenistic Literature” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above and read the passage titled “Hellenistic Literature.” This passage includes a discussion of Hellenistic visual arts. Scroll to the top of the webpage for a link to a PowerPoint presentation complete with images.
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- Reading: Utah State University: Mark Damen’s “Ancient Literature and Language: Hellenistic Literature”
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3.1.3 Arts in the Hellenistic Period
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, and view the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Art of the Hellenistic Age and the Hellenistic Tradition”
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3.2 Architecture and the City
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3.2.1 Athens during the Hellenistic Era
- Reading: Archaeology of the City of Athens: Charalampos Bouras’ “The City of Athens during the Hellenistic Period”
Link: Archaeology of the City of Athens: Charalampos Bouras’ “The City of Athens during the Hellenistic Period” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, taking notes on how the spread of Hellenism and a new social-historical context had an impact on the cradle of classical art that was Athens.
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- Reading: Archaeology of the City of Athens: Charalampos Bouras’ “The City of Athens during the Hellenistic Period”
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3.2.2 A Remote Hellenistic City: Ai Khanoum
- Reading: Wikimedia’s “Ai Khanoum”
Link: Wikimedia’s “Ai Khanoum” (HTML)
Instructions: Please view this map so as to situate Ai Khanoum in its geographical context.
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- Web Media: Livius.org’s “Alexandria on Oxus”
Link: Livius.org’s “Alexandria on Oxus” (HTML)
Instructions: This webpage will serve as the basis for understanding Rachel Mairs’ article, which is assigned below. Please read it and view the accompanying images.
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- Reading: Academia.edu: Oxford University: Rachel Mairs’ “The Temple with Indented Niches at Ai Khanoum: Ethnic and Civic Identity in Hellenistic Bactria”
Link: Academia.edu: Oxford University: Rachel Mairs’ “The Temple with Indented Niches at Ai Khanoum: Ethnic and Civic Identity in Hellenistic Bactria” (Adobe Flash or PDF)
Instructions: Please read page 1, the last paragraph of page 3, and pages 4 to 16. This article provides a specific example of the ways in which various cultural influences mingled and impacted the remote Hellenistic city of Ai Khanoum, one of Alexander the Great’s conquests. The author also explores the ways in which the city and its structures reflected ethnic and civic identities. Please take notes on the specifics of the site and try to identify the author’s main arguments. What can the city and its buildings tell us about the spread of Hellenism?
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- Reading: Wikimedia’s “Ai Khanoum”
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3.2.3 Domestic Architecture
- Reading: WiredSpace: Rex Martienssen’s “The Hellenistic House, with Special References to Examples at Delos”
Link: WiredSpace: Rex Martienssen’s “The Hellenistic House, with Special References to Examples at Delos” (Microsoft Word)
Instructions: Please go to the webpage above, scroll down to the section titled “Files in this Item,” and click on “View/Open.” Read Rex Martienssen’s article, which focuses on the layout of Hellenistic houses while emphasizing their classical structures. Try to assess the ways in which Hellenistic culture built on and broke with classical traditions in the field of architecture and planning.
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- Reading: WiredSpace: Rex Martienssen’s “The Hellenistic House, with Special References to Examples at Delos”
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3.3 Sculpture
- Reading: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Hellenistic Sculpture”
Link: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Hellenistic Sculpture” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above for a brief introduction to Hellenistic sculpture.
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- Reading: Oxford University’s Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Hellenistic Sculpture”
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3.3.1 Portraits
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Portraits”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Portraits” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above. Then, go to all three of the subsequent pages by clicking on the numbers situated on the bottom right side of the webpage. Though the passage treats the art of portraiture in a variety of different time periods, pages 3 and 4 treat of Hellenistic art specifically. Read all four pages to get a sense for the elements that distinguish Hellenistic period portraiture from that of other historical eras of ancient Greece.
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Sculpture: Portraits”
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3.3.2 Single Figures and Deities
- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Dying Gaul”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Dying Gaul” (Adobe Flash)
Also available on:
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Instructions: Please watch this video (approximately 3:30 minutes), which presents a Roman copy of a Hellenistic sculpture. Pay close attention to the video’s discussion of the colonial context of the original artwork, the subject matter, and the characteristically Hellenistic emphasis on emotion.
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: Deities”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: Deities” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above and view the images to get a sense for general trends in the representation of deities during the Hellenistic period.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Nike of Samothrace”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Nike of Samothrace” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch this short, 3-minute video, which discusses Hellenistic characteristics of sculpture through the example of the Nike of Samothrace.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Brian Seymour and Monica Hahn’s “Hellenistic Art at the Metropolitan: Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Brian Seymour and Monica Hahn’s “Hellenistic Art at the Metropolitan: Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman” (HTML)
Instructions: Please watch this short, 5-minute video that discusses both the figure if a deity and of an old woman. Take notes on the characteristics of Hellenistic sculpture as they are expressed in these examples.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Dying Gaul”
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3.3.3 Groups: New Compositions and Treatment of Space
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: Narrative Groups”Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: Narrative Groups” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above and view the images to learn about the new sense of space expressed in the period’s narrative sculpted groups.
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: Narrative Groups”
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3.3.4 Sculpture in Provinces
- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: The Remoter Kingdoms”
Link: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: The Remoter Kingdoms” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above and view the accompanying images to get a sense for how the style of Hellenistic sculpture varied due to differing geographical contexts.
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- Reading: Oxford University: Beazley Archive: “Hellenistic Period: Sculpture: The Remoter Kingdoms”
- 3.4 Painting
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3.4.1 Pottery Painting
- Reading: The University of Colorado’s “Classics Exhibit: Hellenistic Pottery”
Link: The University of Colorado’s “Classics Exhibit: Hellenistic Pottery” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above in its entirety and explore any of the links included within the text.
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- Reading: The University of Colorado’s “Classics Exhibit: Hellenistic Pottery”
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3.4.2 Painted Funerary Monuments
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Mark B. Abbe’s “Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Mark B. Abbe’s “Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article on early Hellenistic paintings from Alexandria. Take careful notes on the pictorial devices used during this era. View the images that accompany the overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text and read the articles that accompany the slides.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Mark B. Abbe’s “Painted Funerary Monuments from Hellenistic Alexandria”
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3.4.3 Mosaics
- Reading: Cardiff University: Ruth Westgate’s “Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods”
Link: Cardiff University: Ruth Westgate’s “Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods” (HTML)
Instructions: The above webpage is composed of abstracts of papers written by Ruth Westgate from Cardiff University. These can serve as an introduction to mosaics and their role within Hellenistic culture. Please read the webpage in its entirety.
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- Reading: Cardiff University: Ruth Westgate’s “Greek Mosaics of the Classical and Hellenistic Periods”
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3.5 Other Arts
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Hellenistic Jewelry”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Hellenistic Jewelry” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article on Hellenistic jewelry in the context of Alexander’s conquests. View the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the slides.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Hellenistic Jewelry”
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3.6 From Hellenistic to Roman: The Example of Cyprus
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article on Cyprus’ material culture, which was a part of the Hellenistic empire before it fell under Roman control. Please view the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the slides.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus”
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Unit 4: Rome: Art of the Etruscans and the Roman Republic
The legendary origins of the city of Rome situate the city’s birth in the 8th century B.C., the era of “geometric art” in Greece. In the fifth century B.C., the Roman Republic was established. By this time, the Romans had gained influence over the Italian peninsula by conquering the most important civilization of its time and place: the Etruscan civilization. The Roman Republic’s art was influenced by Greek and Etruscan antecedents, but it took realism to new levels by emphasizing individual traits in the rendering of the human figure and face.
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4.1 The Etruscans
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4.1.1 The Etruscan Civilization
- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1000 to 701 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy”
Link: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 1000 to 701 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” (HTML) “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” (HTML) and “Europe, 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy” (HTML)
Also available in: (1000 to 701 B.C.)
PDF
Also available in: (700 to 601 B.C.)
PDF
Also available in: (600 to 501 B.C.)
PDF
Instructions: You already viewed these webpages at an earlier stage of this course. Though it is recommended that you read the entirety of each page again to get a sense for parallel developments in Greece and Rome, focus especially on the “Italy” passages this time around.
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- Reading: University of Notre Dame: Professor Elizabeth Mazurek’s “The History of Ancient Rome: Etruscans and Greeks in Pre-Roman Italy, 8th to 5th Centuries B.C.E.”
Link: University of Notre Dame: Professor Elizabeth Mazurek’s “The History of Ancient Rome: Etruscans and Greeks in Pre-Roman Italy, 8th to 5th Centuries B.C.E.” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these lecture notes and view the photographs and reconstructions.
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 1000 to 701 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 700 to 601 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 600 to 501 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy”
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4.1.2 Etruscan Art
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Etruscan Art”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Etruscan Art” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, and view the images that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images above the text. Read the articles that accompany the slides, and familiarize yourself with the artworks, their style, and their content.
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- Lecture: iTunes U: Montgomery County Community College: Maggie Hobson Baker’s “The Etruscans”
Link: iTunes U: Montgomery County Community College: Maggie Hobson Baker’s “The Etruscans” (iTunes U)
Instructions: This recording is available through iTunes and is part of a series of recordings for Maggie Hobson Baker’s course on art from prehistoric times to the Renaissance taught at Montgomery County Community College. Please scroll down to track 7 of this series, titled “The Etruscans” and view the entire lecture (32 minutes).
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway’s “Etruscan Art”
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4.2 Rome and Its Origins
- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy”
Link: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please take notes while listening to and watching this lecture on the founding of Rome and the beginnings of urbanism in Italy. This video should take approximately 1 hour and 14 minutes to view.
This lecture is made available through Open Yale Courses, a series of open, free lectures by Yale Faculty.
Terms of Use: Diana Kleiner, Roman Architecture, (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed March 7, 2011) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0. The original version can be found here.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Beginnings of Urbanism in Italy”
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4.3 Roman Art in the Republican Period: 509 B.C. through 27 B.C.
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4.3.1 Historical Background
- Reading: Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” and “Europe, 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy.”
Link: Jack Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe: 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,”; “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,”; and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy.”
Note: All of the links above are in HTML format, and are also available as PDF or ePub downloads.
Instructions: You have already viewed some of these webpages in subunits 2.1 and 3.1. Though it is recommended that you read the entirety of each page again to get a sense for parallel developments in different geographical locations, focus on the “Italy” passages.
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- Reading: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 200 to 101 B.C.,” “Europe, 100 B.C. to 0,” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa, 100 B.C. to 0”
Links: Connexions: Jack E. Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 200 to 101 B.C.,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 100 B.C. to 0,” and “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Africa, 100 B.C. to 0”
Note: All of the links above are in HTML format and are also availabe as PDF or ePub downloads.
Instructions: You have already viewed some of these webpages in subunits 2.1 and 3.1. Please make sure you read those pages in their entirety.
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- Reading: Maxfield’s “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 500 to 401 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” “A Comprehensive Outline of World History: Europe, 400 to 301 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy,” and “Europe, 300 to 201 B.C.: Southern Europe: Italy.”
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4.3.2 The Republic
- Reading: University of Notre Dame: Professor Elizabeth Mazurek’s “The History of Ancient Rome: The Early Roman Republic: The Struggle of the Orders”
Link: University of Notre Dame: Professor Elizabeth Mazurek’s “The History of Ancient Rome: The Early Roman Republic: The Struggle of the Orders” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read these lecture notes and view the links provided.
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- Reading: University of Notre Dame: Professor Elizabeth Mazurek’s “The History of Ancient Rome: The Early Roman Republic: The Struggle of the Orders”
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4.3.3 Art in the Roman Republic
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Roman and Greek Art’s “The Roman Republic”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Roman and Greek Art’s “The Roman Republic” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article and view the images that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images located above the article. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Lecture: Internet Archive: Sacramento State University: Francesca Tronchin’s “Republican Art” and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 4.3.3”
Link: Internet Archive: Sacramento State University: Francesca Tronchin’s “Republican Art” (MP3) and The Saylor Foundation’s “Gallery for Subunit 4.3.3” (PDF)
Instructions: Please go to the above webpage, and listen to Professor Tronchin’s lecture on Republican art. Because no visuals accompany the lecture, go to the gallery above, which is divided into five different sections, emulating the structure of Professor Tronchin’s course.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Roman and Greek Art’s “The Roman Republic”
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4.3.4 Greek and Etruscan Antecedents, Roman Innovations: The Temple of Portunus
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Temple of Portunus”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Temple of Portunus” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 3-minute video on the Temple of Portunus, a Roman temple from the Republican Period. Take notes on the ways in which the temple takes Greek architecture as a model and identify its Etruscan characteristics. What combination of elements makes it “Roman”?
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Temple of Portunus”
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4.3.5 Building Innovations
- Lecture: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture”
Link: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please listen to and watch this lecture on the building innovations introduced by the Romans as early as the Republican era. This video lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 11 minutes to view.
This lecture is made available through Open Yale Courses, a series of open, free lectures by Yale faculty.
Terms of Use: Diana Kleiner, Roman Architecture, (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed March 7, 2011) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0. The original version can be found here.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Lecture: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Technology and Revolution in Roman Architecture”
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4.3.6 Sculpture: The Art of Portraiture
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, leaving out the two last paragraphs, which the course will address later. View the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the photographs of artworks made in the era of the Roman Republic. Do not read the articles accompanying the photographs of artworks made in the era of the Roman Empire.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian”
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4.3.7 The First and Second Styles of Painting
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the article’s first four paragraphs, and view the images in the first and second styles that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the slides to become familiar with the represented artworks, both in terms of style and content.
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- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Early Roman Interior Decoration”
Link: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Early Roman Interior Decoration” (YouTube)
Also available in:
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Instructions: Please listen to and watch this lecture starting at the 37-minute mark (with the beginning of a discussion of interior decoration and painting).
This lecture is made available through Open Yale Courses, a series of open, free lectures by Yale faculty.
Terms of Use: Diana Kleiner, Roman Architecture, (Yale University: Open Yale Courses), http://oyc.yale.edu (Accessed March 7, 2011) License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0. The original version can be found here.See a broken link? Please let us know!
- Web Media: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting”
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4.3.8 Roman Villas and Their Art: From Republic to Empire
- Lecture: iTunes U: UMBC Humanities and Social Science Forum: “Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibiting Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples”
Link: iTunes U: UMBC Humanities and Social Science Forum: “Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibiting Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples” (iTunes U)
Instructions: This recording is available through iTunes and is part of a series of recordings in the humanities and social sciences held at UMBC. Please scroll down to track 23 of this series, select “View in iTunes,” and watch the entire lecture (45 minutes).
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- Lecture: iTunes U: UMBC Humanities and Social Science Forum: “Pompeii and the Roman Villa Exhibiting Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples”
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Unit 5: Rome: The Empire
The expansion of Rome saw the emergence of new building technologies, the achievement of startling engineering feats, and notable developments in urban planning. The Art of the Empire glorified the emperor, but also the state and social structure. In the third century, the Empire was divided from within and weakened by numerous invasions. In 323, Constantine, the first Christian emperor, moved the empire’s capital to Byzantium, leaving the “Western Empire” to its decline.
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5.1 The Roman Empire
- Web Media: The Open University’s “The Roman Empire: Introducing Some Key Terms”
Link: The Open University’s “The Roman Empire: Introducing Some Key Terms” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the link above. From the table of contents situated on the webpage’s left pane, go through all of the sub-units of this unit. View the webpages themselves as well as the linked documents and videos.
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- Lecture: Lisa M. Lane’s “Lisahistory: The Roman Empire”
Link: Lisa M. Lane’s “Lisahistory: The Roman Empire” (HTML and Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Please watch and listen to this lecture (approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes), which will introduce you to the Roman Empire. Pay particular attention to discussion of Roman cities, streets, and structures.
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- Web Media: The Open University’s “The Roman Empire: Introducing Some Key Terms”
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5.2 Art and Power: The Emperors
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, leaving out the last paragraph, and view the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images located above the article. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Augustan Rule (27 B.C.-14 A.D.)”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Augustan Rule (27 B.C.-14 A.D.)” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, and view the images that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images located above the article. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)”
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5.3 Rome’s Design and Buildings before Constantine: Center of an Empire
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5.3.1 Augustus: Rome as a Work of Art to the Glory of the Empire
- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome”
Link: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please listen to and watch this lecture from the 20 minute mark up to the 53 minute mark. Dian Kleiner discusses the transformation of Rome under Augustus, its first emperor. Take careful notes on discussion of the forum.
This lecture is made available through Open Yale Courses, a series of open, free lectures by Yale faculty.
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- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome”
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5.3.2 Architectural Theory in the Time of Augustus: Vitruvius
- Reading: Tufts University: Perseus Projects’ version of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture: “Preface for Part I,” “Preface for Part II,” “Preface for Part III,” “Book I: Chapter I: The Education of the Architect: Section 3,” “Book I: Chapter 2: The Fundamental Principles of Architecture,” “Book I: Chapter 3: Section I,” “Book I: Chapter 3: Section 2,” and “Introductions.” Note: Vitruvius’ “De architect
Links: Tufts University: Perseus Projects’ version of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture: “Preface I” “Preface II” and “Preface III” “Book I: Chapter 1: The Education of the Architect: Section 3,” and “Book I: Chapter 2: The Fundamental Principles of Architecture,” “Book I: Chapter 3: The Departments of Architecture,” and “Introductions”
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Instructions: Click on the links and read “Preface I,” Preface II,” and “Preface III” for Vitruvius’ dedication of the book to Augustus. Then, read “Book I: Chapter 1: The Education of the Architect: Section 3” in order to get a sense for the role of the architect according to Vitruvius. Next, using the table of contents situated on the webpage’s left pane, read “Book 1: Chapter 2: The Fundamental Principles of Architecture” section 1 through 9. Take notes on Vitruvius’ theories concerning the relationship between architecture and the human body; the ideals that govern the art of architecture; the way Greek orders are and should be used; and the relationship among a structure, its site, and its function. Afterwards, again using the table of contents, read both section of “Book I: Chapter 3: The Departments of Architecture.” Lastly, the “Introductions” link takes you to section 1 of Book II’s introduction. Read through all of the Book II’s Introduction sections, and use the table of contents to select and read the introductions for Books III through X (Preface I through III served as Book I’s introduction).
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- Reading: Tufts University: Perseus Projects’ version of Vitruvius’ Ten Books of Architecture: “Preface for Part I,” “Preface for Part II,” “Preface for Part III,” “Book I: Chapter I: The Education of the Architect: Section 3,” “Book I: Chapter 2: The Fundamental Principles of Architecture,” “Book I: Chapter 3: Section I,” “Book I: Chapter 3: Section 2,” and “Introductions.” Note: Vitruvius’ “De architect
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5.3.3 Vespasian and Titus’ Colosseum
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Colosseum”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Colosseum” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this video on the Colosseum (approximately 8:30 minutes). Take notes on everything relating to the structure’s original context of creation, its function, its design, its relation to Greek amphitheater architecture, its use of specifically Roman techniques and materials, and its Roman character.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Colosseum”
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5.3.4 Emperor Hadrian’s Pantheon
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “The Pantheon, Rome”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “The Pantheon, Rome” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 8-minute video on the Pantheon, a structure built to house statues of gods during the era of the Empire. The Pantheon is renowned for its architectural innovations. Take notes on everything relating to the temple’s context of creation, structure, use of material, and content.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “The Pantheon, Rome”
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5.3.5 Portus
- Web Media: Humbox’s “Portus”
Link: Humbox’s “Portus” (Adobe Flash)
Instructions: Click on “Download” below the screen to launch the video. Please watch this short video on archeological research conducted in Portus (Rome’s main port in ancient times). Please pay careful attention to the discussion of the city’s original function and role, the building techniques used in its construction, and the ways in which archeologists use fieldwork and 3D imagery to understand and bring ancient structures back to life.
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- Web Media: Humbox’s “Portus”
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5.3.6 Homes
- Web Media: iTunes U: The Open University Podcasts: “Imperial Rome and Ostia: Insulae”
Link: iTunes U: The Open University Podcasts: “Imperial Rome and Ostia: Insulae” (iTunes)
Instructions: Please scroll down to track 15, and click on “View in iTunes” to launch the video. Watch this short, 5-minute video, available through iTunes. It will give you an idea for the types of buildings that the Roman population lived in.
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- Web Media: Vroma.org: Barbara F McManus’s “Sample Plan of a Roman House”
Link: Vroma.org: Barbara F McManus’s “Sample Plan of a Roman House” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read the webpage above, and click on the different sections of the plan to learn more about the uses of each room.
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- Reading: The British Museum’s “The Roman House”
Link: The British Museum’s “The Roman House” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this short passage that differentiates the dwellings of the Roman commoners from those of wealthier Romans.
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- Web Media: iTunes U: The Open University Podcasts: “Imperial Rome and Ostia: Insulae”
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5.4 Sculpture in the Roman Empire before Constantine
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5.4.1 Monuments: Symbolism through Specificity of Events and Figures
- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome”
Link: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch and listen to this lecture from the 52 minute mark through the end for a discussion of the “Ara Pacis Augustae,” an altar built in honor of Augustus.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “The Arch of Titus”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “The Arch of Titus” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 5-minute video on the Arch of Titus, a monument commissioned by Emperor Domitian in honor of his brother’s victories. Take notes on the arch’s original function and context of creation; its form and structure; and the style, form, and content of its relief sculptures.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Column of Trajan”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Column of Trajan” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 5-minute video on the Column of Trajan, a column built in honor of Emperor Trajan’s victories in the Dacian Wars. Take notes on the original intent behind the creation of the column, its structure, what it depicts, how it glorifies Trajan, and how it expresses ideas of empire.
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- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: From Brick to Marble: Augustus Assembles Rome”
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5.4.2 Equestrian Statues
- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius”
Link: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please watch this 4-minute video on the equestrian sculpture of Marcus Aurelius, a bronze sculpture produced around the year 176 A.D. Take notes on its form and content.
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- Web Media: YouTube: SmartHistory.org’s “Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius”
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5.4.3 The “Augustus Prima Porta” and Imperial Sculpture
- Reading: Suny College at Oneonta: Dr. Allen S. Farber’s “Roman Power and Roman Imperial Sculpture”
Link: Suny College at Oneonta: Dr. Allen S. Farber’s “Roman Power and Roman Imperial Sculpture” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this passage on Roman Imperial Sculpture, taking especially careful notes on the Prima Porta statue of Augustus. The passage additionally discusses the “Ara Pacis;” it is recommended that you also read that section to reinforce what you learned earlier in this course.
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- Reading: Suny College at Oneonta: Dr. Allen S. Farber’s “Roman Power and Roman Imperial Sculpture”
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5.4.4 Portraiture
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian” (HTML)
Instructions: You have viewed this webpage earlier in the course, while studying Republican art. Please read this article again, this time focusing on the last two paragraphs. View the images that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the photographs of the artworks that were made in the era of the Roman Empire.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Rosemarie Trentinella’s “Roman Portrait Sculpture: Republican through Constantinian”
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5.4.5 Sarcophagi
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Heather T. Awan’s “Roman Sarcophagi”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Heather T. Awan’s “Roman Sarcophagi” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article on the ornamentation of Roman Sarcophagi. View the images accompanying the text by clicking on the thumbnail photographs situated above the article itself. Please read the articles accompanying the images.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Heather T. Awan’s “Roman Sarcophagi”
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5.5 Painting in the Roman Empire Before Constantine
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting” (HTML)
Instructions: You have already viewed this article in the section devoted to “Painting in the Roman Republic.” Please re-read the paragraphs describing the third and fourth styles of painting, and view the photographs that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the photographs.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “The Augustan Villa at Boscotrecase” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article on the painted decoration of a luxurious villa built in the time of Augustus. View the photographs that accompany this overview by clicking on the thumbnail images situated above the text. Read the articles that accompany the photographs.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Department of Greek and Roman Art’s “Roman Painting”
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5.6 Roman Provinces
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Jean Sorabella’s “Art of the Roman Provinces, 1-500 A.D.”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Jean Sorabella’s “Art of the Roman Provinces, 1-500 A.D.” (HTML)
Instructions: Please read this article, and view the images that accompany it by clicking on the thumbnail images located above the article. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Reading: The Open University’s “Exploring a Roman-African City: Thugga”
Link: The Open University’s “Exploring a Romano-African City: Thugga” (HTML)
Instructions: Please go to the link above. From the table of contents situated on the left pane of the webpage, go through all the sub-units of this unit. View the webpages as well as the linked documents and videos and then complete the suggested exercises.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Jean Sorabella’s “Art of the Roman Provinces, 1-500 A.D.”
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5.7 Art of the Late Empire
- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)”
Link: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)” (HTML)
Instructions: You have viewed this webpage in subunit 5.2. Please re-read this article, this time focusing on the last two paragraphs, and view the last five thumbnail images located above the article. Read the articles that accompany the visuals.
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- Web Media: SmartHistory.org: Valentina Follo, Dr. Beth Harris, and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Arch of Constantine”
Link: SmartHistory.org: Valentina Follo, Dr. Beth Harris, and Dr. Steven Zucker’s “Arch of Constantine” (Adobe Flash and HTML)
Instructions: Please watch this video (11 minutes) and then read the following article discussing the Arch of Constantine, which was built in Rome in honor of Constantine in 315 A.D. Take notes on the historical context of its creation. Be sure that you are able to discuss what the arch commemorates and identify its structural elements as well as the style, form, and content of its relief sculptures. Please also take notes on the way Constantine chose to represent himself.
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- Lecture: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Rome of Constantine and a New Rome”
Link: YouTube: Yale University: Diana Kleiner’s “Roman Architecture: Rome of Constantine and a New Rome” (YouTube)
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Instructions: Please listen to this lecture on the artistic commissions made under Constantine’s rule. Viewing this lecture should take approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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- Reading: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Christopher Lightfoot’s “The Roman Empire (27 B.C.-393 A.D.)”
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Final Exam
- Final Exam: ARTH202: Final Exam
Link: Saylor's ARTH202 Final Exam
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- Final Exam: ARTH202: Final Exam
