ARTH 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Polykleitos, Ancient Greek Temple, Cyclopean Masonry
13 Nov 2017
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Schematic human figure in profile - but frontal eye. Black-figure olpe: a little jug that you can pour from - you bring water and wine separately and then put them together and pour it from the olpe. Achilles and ajax playing dice: used for burial of woman, attic black figure, great heroes of the trojan war, uncommon for exekias to do because usually you see warriors fighting, this is more human. Sleep and death krater - also created by euphronios - shows the actual bleeding of the wounds. "lekythos" or lekythoi if you have multiple: all white - with freehand painted, broken contour lines - do(cid:374)"t see a(cid:374)(cid:455)thi(cid:374)g else like this u(cid:374)til the i(cid:373)pressio(cid:374)ist ti(cid:373)e period. Funerary use - left at the gravesite - only used once in a ceremony. Ferryman on the dead - to bring you across the river.
