Courtauld Year One Images

45 flashcards · History · by m w

  1. Black-Figure amphora by Exekias (c.540BCE) Depicts Achilles murdering Penthesilia

  2. Wedgewood Hamilton vase (c.1790)

  3. Silver Kyli showing Bellerophon killing the chimaera (c470BCE) Found in the Seven Brothers Barrow

  4. Red-Figure Kylix by Douris (c.500BCE) Shows the leader of the Symposium, the Symposiarch

  5. What is their shape and function? 1. 2. 3. 4.

    Amphora - Holds liquids like wine, oil and water Krater - Mixes wine and water together Psykter - Holds ice and is then placed in a Krater to cool the wine Kylix - To drink from

  6. Red-Figure kylix by Douris (480BCE) Depicts a couple having sex

  7. Caylx-Krater attributed to Peleus Painter (c440BCE) The Apostheosis of Homer

  8. Kouros from Sounion (c.600-580BCE)

  9. Cycladic sculpture of a female figure from Aegean Greece (2600-2400BCE)

  10. The Terracotta arm Xian China (c.210BCE)

  11. Head of Augustus (24BC) Bronze, found in Meroe, Sudan

  12. Kore (c.520)

  13. What are they and what do their terms translate to in English? 1. 2.

    Kore - Female Youth or Maiden (plural is Kourai) Kouros - Male Youth (plural is Kouroi)

  14. Kouros (c.550BCE)

  15. Statue A, found off the sea of Riace (c.460-450BCE) Cast bronze, found in the sea, 1975

  16. Doryophorus by Polykeitos (c.440BCE) Doryphorus translates as spear carrier, reffered to as 'The Canon' by the artist

  17. Fallen Warrior (c.490-475BCE) The West pediment of the Temple of Aphaia at Aigina

  18. Name the location and architectural terms associated:

    The Parthenon, west facade (c.440BCE) Entablature: the horizontal section above the columns Pediment: often triangular section topping a facade Metope: the square space between triglyphs, undr the pediment Frieze: a band of decorative relief carving

  19. Metope on the Parthanons south facade (c.440BCE) Depicts a lapith (from the mythological Greek tribe Lapiths) fighting a centaurs.

  20. A marble from the Parthanons east pediment (c.440BCE) Could depict Ares, Dionyssos, Herakles or Theseus.

  21. Pheidias' Chryselephantine statue of Athena (c.100AD) Chryselephantine refers to the gold and ivory materials, this photo shows a copy.

  22. Lacoon and his sons (c.200BCE) Marble

  23. The Suicide of the Celts (c. first century AD) Found in Pergamon, an example of Hellenistic scultpure

  24. Capitoline Venus, Praxiteles' Aphrodites of Knidos (c.350BCE)

  25. Alexander Mosaic, floor tile in the House of the Faun (after 333BCE) in Pompeii Depicts the Battle of Issus between ALexander the Great and Darius III of Persia

  26. Footprint of the Buddha, relief carving (c. 200-300BCE)

  27. What do these rocks represent and what are they?

    Baetyl of Aphrodite at Paphos, Cyprus. (a sacred stone that Aphrodite) Holy stone of Emesa coin (depicts the sun god), Syria coin (c.250BCE)

  28. Sculpture Prima Porta Augustus (Augustus Ceasar) (c. 1st century AD) 2.8 meters tall, the marble is designed to tower imposingly.

  29. Fayyum portrait, Egypt (c.200-300)

  30. Septimus Severus and family (c.200AD) minus Geta.

  31. Christ as a nobleman from the Arcophagus of Junius Bassus (359AD) Is found in the Vatican treasury, sculpted into a relief from marble.

  32. Icon of Christ in Saint Catherines monastery, Egypt (c.500) Christs face is throught to be a splicing of two faces to represent the joined duality of being god and human.

  33. 1 of 4 panels on a small, ivory box depicting the life of Christ (c.420) This panel shows Christ crucified, Judas hanged with the 40 pieces of silver he was paid for betraying Christ. The other figures are assumed to be the Madonna, St John the Baptist and Nicodemus.

  34. Mosaic of the Transfiguration in the domed ceiling of the Sant Appollinaire in Classe, Ravenna (c.549AD)

  35. 1. 2.

    Arch of Constantine, Rome (312-25AD) Commissioned to celebrate Constantine the Great's victory over Maximillian in 312

  36. The Mandylion of Genoa (c.800) The frame is c. 14th Century

  37. Which 4 biblical stories are told in this photo?

    Left and Right panel: New Testament showing Matthew the Evangelist (symbolized by the man) and Mark the Evangelist (signified by the lion) Over arch: Old Testament showing Moses twice, burning the bush and tending the Jethro flock Under Arch: Old Testament showing Abraham and Abel

  38. Justinian and Theodora mosaic tile in Ravenna (548AD)

  39. The Church of Saint Catherine in Sinai (548-65AD) Christ is shown here with wings, flanked by three disciples: Peter, James, and John. On reaching the mountain top, they were joined by Moses and Elijah upon which Christ transfigured into dazzling light.

  40. The Buddha at Bamiyan, Afghanistan, destroyed in 2001

  41. Who is this and why was he placed in a river?

    This is a statue of Edward Coulston from 1895. He was deposed from his pedestal in the 2020 Black Lives Matter rally in Bristol, England due to his huge financial dedication to the city while actively participating in the Slave Trade. The act was symbolic.

  42. What is this painting and why was it damaged?

    The Rokeby Venus or Venus of the Toilet by Diego Velasquez (1647-1651) This painting was attacked by Mary 'Slasher' Evans who was a suffragette in 1908. She damaged the painting to question the objectification of women's bodies in academic spaces.

  43. Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (691-2) Built by Abd al-Malik of the Umayyad Dynasty

  44. Margarito of Arezzo altarpiece (c.1260) Virgin and child amongst gold leaf scenes.

  45. Betrayal panel from the Scrovengi Chapel (c.1000AD)