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Art in the Classical Idea
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Images Greek Art

Berlin Kore
570-560 BCE/Archaic Period
marble with remnants of red paint, 6’ 3”

 

Kallikrates
Temple of Athena Nike/Classical Period
Acropolis, Athens
c. 425 BCE/Classical Period

 

Kallikrates and Iktinos
Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens
447-438 BCE/Classical Period

Kore, from Chios(?)
c. 520 BCE/Archaic Period
marble, 21 7/8”

 

Kritios Boy/Kritian Boy
c. 480 BCE/Classical Period
marble, 46”

 
Krosios (?)/Anavysos Kouros
c. 525 BCE/Archaic Period
marble, 6’ 4”

 

Lady of Auxerre
c. 650-625 BCE/Orientalizing Period
limestone, 2’ 1 1/2”

 

Lysippos
Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)
Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 330 BCE/Classical
Period

Marble, 6’ 9” high

 
Marshals and Young Women , from the Parthenon frieze
c. 438-432 BCE/Classical Period
marble, height 43”
 

Mnesikles
Erechtheion
(includes the Porch of the Maidens/Caryatid Porch
Acropolis, Athens
430s-405 BCE/Classical Period

 

Myron
Discobolus (Discus Thrower)
Roman copy after bronze original c. 450 BCE/Classical Period Marble, 5’ 1”

 

New York Kouros
c.580 BCE/Archaic Period
marble with remnants of paint, 6’ 4”

 

Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal
c. 425 BCE/Classical Period
marble, 42 “

 

Peplos Kore
c.530 BCE/Archaic Period
marble, 48”

 

Pheidias
Athena Parthenos , in the cella of the Parthenon
Acropolis, Athens
c. 438 BCE/Classical Period
Model of the lost statue, which was approximately 38’ tall, gold

and ivory
 

Polykleitos
Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Roman copy after the original bronze of c. 450-440

BCE/Classical Period
marble, 6’ 6”

Praxiteles
Aphrodite of Knidos
Roman copies after the original marble of c. 350 BCE/Classical

Period
marble, 6’ 8” high
 

Praxiteles or his followers
Hermes and the Infant Dionysos
Probably Hellenistic or Roman copy after a 4 th-century BCE original marble, with remnants of red paint on the lips and hair/

Classical Period
7’ 1” high
 

Temple of Hera II
c. 460 BCE/Archaic Period
Paestum , Italy

 

Three Goddesses from the east pediment of the Parthenon
C. 438-432 BCE/Classical Period
Marble, left figure 4’ 5” high

 

Warrior A/Riace Bronze
c. 460-450 BCE/Classical Period
bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth and copper lips

and nipples, 6’ 8”
 

Zeus
c. 460-450 BCE/Classical Period
bronze, 5’ 11”

 

Images Roman Art

Augustus of Primaporta
Copy of a bronze original ca. 20 BCE
Marble, 6’ 8”
 

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
C. 176 CE
Bronze, originally gilded 11’ 6”

 

Head of a Roman Patrician/Head of an Old Roman
C. 75-50 BCE
Marble, approx 1’ 2”

 

Maison Carrée
Nimes , France
C. 20 BCE

 

Temple of Fortuna Virilis ( Temple of Portunus)
Rome
Late second century BCE
Stone, originally overlaid with stucco in imitiation of the

gleaming white marble temples of the Greeks
 

Images Italian Renaissance

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, Polydoros
Laocoön and His Sons
Probably the original of the 1 st century CE or

a Roman copy of the 1 st century CE/Hellenistic Greek
Marble, 8’ high
 

Sandro Botticelli
Birth of Venus
Ca. 1484-1486/Early Renaissance
Tempera on canvas, 5’ 8 7/8” x 9’ 1 7/8”

 

Donatello
David
Ca. 1428 -1432 BCE/Early Renaissance
Bronze, 5’ 2 1/4” high

 

Donatello
Gattamelata (equestrian statue of Erasmo da Narni)
Padua , Italy
1443-1453/Early Renaissance
Bronze, approx 12’ 2” high

 

Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man
c. 1490/High Italian Renaissance
Ink, 13 1/2 x 9 5/8”

 

Michelangelo
David
1501-1504/High Italian Renaissance
Marble, 13’ 5” high

 

Raphael
School of Athens
Stanza della Segnatura
Vatican Palace, Rome
c. 1509-1511/High Italian Renaissance
Fresco, 19 x 27'

 

Titian
Bacchanal
c. 1518/ Venetian Renaissance
oil on canvas, 5’ 8 7/8” x 6’ 4”

 

Images Neoclassicism

Antonio Canova
Napoleon as Mars the Peacekeeper
1803-1806
Marble with gilded bronze staff and figure of Victory, 11' high

 

Antonio Canova
Pauline Borghese as Venus
1808
Marble, 79” length

 

Jacques-Louis David
Madame Récamier
1780
oil on canvas, 5’ 8” x 7’ 11 3/4”

 

Jacques-Louis David
Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard
1800-1801
Oil on canvas, 8’ 11” x 7’ 7”

 

Jacques-Louis David
Oath of the Horatii
1784
Oil on canvas, 10’ 8 1/4” x 14’

 

Horatio Greenough
George Washington
1832-1841
Marble, 12’

 

Jean-Antoine Houdon
George Washington
1788-1792
Marble, 6’ 2” high

 

Thomas Jefferson
Monticello , near Charlottesville, Virginia
1770-1784, 1796-1806

 

Thomas Jefferson
The Rotunda, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
1822-1826

 

Thomas Jefferson
Virginia State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
1785-1789

 

Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Corncob Capital and Tobacco Leaf Capital,
Designed for the US Capitol, Washington DC
c. 1815

 

Hiram Powers
Andrew Jackson
1835
Marble, 34” high

 

Hiram Powers
The Greek Slave
1843
marble, 5’ 5 1/2”

 

William Thornton, Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bullfinch
United States Capitol, Washington, DC,
1792-1850, enlarged by Thomas Ustick Walter in 1851-1865

 
 
 
 
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