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Figure 5.1 Geometric krater, from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, ca. 740 BCE. Approx. 3’ 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Meander: key patternAround the relief-Horizontal bands withAbstract angular motifs
No depthFrontal eyesFlat Silhoettes No sense of real space
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Figure 5.2 Hero and centaur (Herakles and Nessos?), ca. 750–730 BCE. Bronze, approx. 4 1/2” high. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Stiff but deliberately Proportioned…Hierarchy of scale?
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Figure 5-3 Mantiklos Apollo, statuette of a youth dedicated by Mantiklos to Apollo, from Thebes, Greece, ca. 700–680 BCE. Bronze, approx. 8” high. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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Figure 5.4 Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes, from Rhodes, Greece, ca. 625–600 BCE. Approx. 1’ 2” high. British Museum, London.
Corinthian Period:Influenced by the East:
Black figure painting
Incised with details
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Figure 5-7 Lady of Auxerre, statue of a goddess or kore, ca. 650–625 BCE. Limestone, approx. 2’ 1 1/2” high. Louvre, Paris.
Daedalus was a great artist rumored To have built the labyrinth…heEven worked in Egypt…
How can you tell? This was a compliment paid to him to have a styleNamed for him…