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Art Hum Review: Kouros/Kore (female): 600BC/530BC Standing figures from Greek or Egypt Egypt: More realistic, clothes

thes Greek: Carved in round, nude, more interest in movement Kore: Women, clothed, offerings, no muscles, parallel feet

Kritios Boy: Before 480BC Kouros boy with shifted weight, called contrapposto

Doryphoros: By Polykleitos, 450-440BC Based on perfect male proportions Originally made of bronze

Discus Thrower: By Myron, 450 BC Showed a lot of movement Relaxed face because Greeks liked to be able to control emotions since it was rational

Praxiteles: 350-340 BC First female nude Still has her clothing by her side and has water jug for bath Thighs together Manly face

Greek Buildings Architects > artists Temples Post-lintel No arches Doric: o Subdivided frieze (metope and triglyph) o Fatter o Male Ionic o Rest on base o Continuous frieze o Female

Parthenon: By Iktinos and Kallikrates, 448-432 BC First destroyed by Persians

Made of marble Held with metal vaults, no cement Elongated Doric exterior Housed Athena effigy, which is atop of relief of Pandora and Chaos Pediment sculptures carved in the round and bolted Originally had 4 metopes o Only the battle of lapiths and centaurs (Centaurmachy) survives Battle of the rational vs irrational Humans have fabric, centaurs have pelt Facial hair versus better grooming Dead bodies always look good Wave fabric to show victory Parthenon Frieze: 442-438 BC o Contains a few stories, such as Periclean Athens, human sacrifice, procession of the Great Panathenaia

Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Amiens France: 1220-1269 AD by Robert Luzarches, Thomas de Cormont, Renaud de Cormont Also dedicated to Saint Firmin, a local saint of Amien Main entrance is not for ordinary people Crossing serves as a modular unit for each bay cross shaped Clerestory, triform, arcade (top to bottom) Composite columns Nave, crossing, choir (front to back) Light of God comes in from stained glass windows Apostles look very much like Christ and very clothed Archivolt, tympanum, jamb figures, quatrefoils, trumeau

Italian Gothic was very different from French Gothic. Italian had more colors and mosaics inspired by the Byzantine. It was also symmetrical.

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