S3_Art

• Phidias: (Artist) Parthenon's statue of Athena, statue of Zeus at Olympia, famous for chryselephantine (gold and ivory) statues that were huge, workshop in Olympia
• Myron: (Artist) Diskobolus (the discus thrower), Originally bronze
• Praxiteles of Athens: (Artist) Aphrodite of Knidos (the first nude female life sized statue), Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, etc.
• Caryatids/Karyatids: Pillars that were statues of women for architectural support, famous ones on the porch of the Erechtheum; Also called korai
• Doric: The earliest pillar, common west of Corinth, very simple
• Ionic: Followed the Doric, common east of Corinth, Doric Column + the scrolly things at the base and top
• Corinthian: Followed the Ionic, found in Corinth, Doric Column + acanthus leaves around the base and top
• Kore: an archaic statue of a maiden
• Kouros: an archaic statue of a male figure
• Herms: Fertility statues with a head on a block of stone, often found at crossroads
• Terracotta: (Pottery type) found at Tanagra (Hellenistic era)
• Orientalizing: first pottery style
• Geometric: second pottery style
• Black Figure: third pottery style
• Red Figure: fourth pottery style
• White Ground: fifth pottery style
• Tanagra figurine, any of the small terra-cotta figures dating primarily from the 3rd century bc, and named after the site in Boeotia, in east-central Greece, where they were found. Well-dressed young women in various positions, usually standing or sitting, are the main subject matter of the statuettes.
• Composite: Corinthian + Ionic
• What made Aphrodite of Knidos special?

  first life-sized nude woman statue
• According to a story related by the 1st-century-bc Roman architectural writer Vitruvius, caryatids represented the women of Caryae, who were doomed to hard labour because the town sided with the Persians in 480 bc during their second invasion of Greece.