Three Essay Questions Each Worth 30% of the Final Test Grade

VA17 Art History I

FINAL EXAM

Three essay questions each worth 30% of the final test grade.

1. “Lapith and Centaur” versus “Scenes of a Dionysian Mystery Cult”

“Percussion, salt and honey. “Every now and then they would bite

A quivering in the thighs; themselves savagely and as a climax cut

He shakes me all over again, their arms with the sharp knives they

Eros who cannot be thrown, carried…Then he called upon his hands to

Who stalks on all fours inflict the necessary punishment and

Like a beast.” snatching up one of the whips that these half

Sappho men carry…gave himself a terrific flogging.

The ground was slippery with the blood

that oozed from the knife cuts and

wounds…”

Apuleius, from The Golden Ass

Contrasting these two works of art, and the accompanying works of literature, describe how Greek and Roman cultures dealt with intense sexual and aggressive passions.

2. “Toreador Fresco Versus “Colosseum”

Use these two artifacts of “games” to contrast Minoan and Roman cultures.

3. “Charioteer of Delphi” Versus “Ashurnasirpal II Killing Lions”

Contrast the ways these Greek and Assyrian sculptures used animals to convey narrative meaning and cultural values.

VA17 Art History I

Slides for Final Exam

Aegean Art

Idol from Amorgos, 2500 BC, Cycladic

Staircase from Knossos, 1500 BC, Minoan

The Queen’s Megaron from Knossos, 1500 BC, Minoan

Rhyton in the Shape of a Bull’s Head, 1500-1450 BC, Minoan

Snake Goddess, 1600 BC, Minoan

Toreador Fresco, 1500 BC, Minoan

Octopus Vase, 1500 BC, Minoan

Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1250 BC, Mycenaean

Rhyton in the Shape of a Lion’s Head, 1550 BC, Mycenaean

Vaphio Cups, 1500 BC, Mycenaean

Lion’s Gate, 1250 BC, Mycenaean

Greek Art

Dipylon Vase, 800 BC, Geometric

Exekias, Dionysus in a Boat, 540 BC, Archaic

Psiax, Herakles Strangling the Nemean Lion, 525 BC, Archaic

Kouros, 600 BC, Archaic

Kroisos, 525 BC, Archaic

Calf-Bearer, 570 BC, Archaic

Rampin Head, 560 BC, Archaic

Hera of Samos, 570 BC, Archaic

Peplos Kore, 530 BC, Archaic

Dying Warrior (from Aegina), 490 BC, Archaic

Herakles (from Aegina), 490 BC, Archaic

Ictinus and Calicrates, Parthenon, 448-432 BC, Classical

Ktitios Boy, 480 BC, Classical

Polykleitos, Doryphorus, 450 BC, Classical

Zeus (Poseidon?), 460-450 BC, Classical

Myron, Discobolus, 450 BC, Classical

Dionysus (from Parthenon) 435 BC, Classical

Lapith and Centaur (metope from Parthenon), 440 BC, Classical

Nike (adjusting her sandal), 410 BC, Classical

Scopas, Battle of the Greeks and Amazons, 359 BC, Hellenistic

Praxiteles, Hermes (with baby Dionysus) 320 BC, Hellenistic

Lysippus, Apoxymenos, 330 BC, Hellenistic

Dying Trumpeter (Dying Gaul), 230 BC, Hellenistic

Barbarini Faun, 220 BC. Hellenistic

Pergamun Alter, 180 BC, Hellenistic

Nike of Samothrace, 200 BC, Hellenistic

The Loacoon, 100 BC, Hellenistic

Roman Art

Pont du Gard, 100 AD, Roman

Colosseum, 80 AD, Roman

Pantheon, 125 BC, Roman

Market Gate from Miletus, 160 AD, Roman

Aulus Metellus, 100 BC, Roman

Roman Patrician with Busts of His Ancestors, 100 BC, Roman

Augustus of Primaporta, 20 AD, Roman

Imperial Procession (from Ara Pacis), 13 PC, Roman

Column of Trajan, 106 AD, Roman

Vespasian, 75 AD, Roman

Portrait of a Lady, 90 AD, Roman

Trajan, 100 AD, Roman

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, 161 AD, Roman

Philippus the Arab, 244 AD, Roman

Arch of Constantine, 312 AD, Roman

Scenes of a Dionysian Mystery Cult (Villa of Mysteries), 50 BC Roman