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I uploaded a word document where it shows exactly what to do. If you have any questions, let me know. art101gettyvillaspr20der_1.doc Unformatted Attachment Preview Art 101 Getty Villa Museum Assignment REVISED SPRING 2020 Value: (100 points) Due: Sunday, May 31st 10 PM _______________________________________________________________________________________ Getty Villa Museum Instructions: • PART I (50 points): Your assignment is to visit the Getty Museum website and to answer the following questions from the museum’s collection. Search the museum’s antiquities collection by clicking on the following link: Getty Museum’s Antiquities Collection • Once you have found the work of art, read its description. You may find links for podcasts at the bottom of the description. • Click on “Related Media” to listen to the audio recording about the work of art. • Click on “Bibliography” for hotlinks to additional reading. • PART II (50 points): Write a short essay (2 pages maximum) with a discussion about Homer’s The Odyssey. Make sure to follow the instructions carefully when researching and writing this short essay. __________________________________________________________________________________________ First Floor: (Answer the following about the museum’s Cycladic, Greek & Etruscan collection.) 1. Locate the Harp Player. (Cycladic, 2700 - 2300 BCE, Marble, 85.AA.103) from the Early Cycladic period was likely made from natural abrasives to gently grind the stone. What abrasives were likely used? a. b. 2. Search for the Female Figure of the Early Spedos Type. (Cycladic, 2700-2500 BCE, Marble, 88.AA.79). Although the role and meaning of the figures is unknown, how have some scholars interpreted these Cycladic female figures and what roles might they have played ? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Proceed to Gallery 104, locate the Prize Vessel from the Athenian Games. (Attributed to the Marsyas Painter, Greek, Athens, 340 - 339 BCE, Terracotta, 79.AE.147). How many jars (vessels) would be given to the victor? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ What do the inscriptions say on the left side of Athena? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 1 What do the inscriptions say on the right side of Athena? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Find the Woman Wearing a Peplos. (Greek, c. 475 BCE, marble, 77.AA.114) What are the characteristics that identify the sculpture from the Archaic period? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Locate the Pitcher with Lions and Panthers. (Attributed to painter of Malibu, Greek, c. 625 BCE, 85.AE.89) What characterizes the pitcher or olpe from the Orientalizing period? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Locate the Grave Stele Philoxenos and his Wife, Philoumene. (Greek, c. 400 BCE, marble, 83.AA.378) What do we suppose the handshake symbolizes on this funerary monument? How do we know the name of the figures depicted on this gravestone? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Locate the Attic Black-Figure Neck Amphora (Storage Jar with Theseus Slaying the Minotaur). (Workshop of Exekias, Greek, c. 550 BCE, Terracotta, 85.AE.376). How would you describe the vessel e.g. type, figures, subject? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Find the Attic Red-Figure Kalpis (Water Jar with Herakles Wrestling the Nemean Lion). (Attributed to Aegisthus Painter, Greek, 470 BCE, Terracotta, 86.AE.230) How would describe the scene of Herakles wrestling the lion? Does it appear obvious that Herakles will accomplish his first labor? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 9. Find the Statue of Hercules (Lansdowne Herakles). (Roman, c. 125 CE, Marble, 70.AA.109.1) The idea of the hero was perfected in ancient Greece. For the Greeks, heroes existed on a cosmological level between 2 humans and gods. According to the poet Hesiod, heroes were a godlike race of humans who had lived in a previous age. Although they themselves were mortal, the heroes attracted the attention, and often the protection of, the immortals. In another tradition, heroes emerged when gods and men were still living together as a generation of children of half-mortal, half-divine parentage. In their strength, their passions, and their achievements, the heroes far surpassed ordinary humans. All heroes are nevertheless mortal and in time confront their mortality. Yet even in death a hero may surpass ordinary peoples, for the glorious deeds that have brought him to his death may also bring him everlasting renown. Some, like the great hero Herakles (whom the Romans called Hercules), actually became gods after death. What are the attributes that help identify this statue as Herakles/Hercules? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Find the Pithos with the Blinding of Polyphemos (Workshop of the Calabresi Um, Etruscan, 650-625 BCE, Terracotta, 96.AE.135.a) According to the story of The Aeneid as told by Virgil, what is happening in the scene depicted on the front of this vessel? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 11. Find the Candelabrum with a Dancer. (Etruscan, 500-450 BCE, Bronze, 96.AC.129.2) Where would one find these candelabrum? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 12. Find the Statue of a Victorious Athlete (The Getty Bronze). (Greek, 300-100 BCE, Bronze with inlaid copper, 77.AB.30) Where do we think the statue originally came from and why? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 13. Find the Wreath (Greek, 3rd-2nd century BCE, Gold, 92.AM.89.1) These gold wreaths were modeled after floral wreaths to imitate those of _________________, a tree sacred to Apollo. 3 14. Locate Portrait of Alexander the Great. (Greek, c. 320 BCE, Marble, 73.AA.27) How would portraits of Alexander the Great be identified? a. b. c. 15. Who do we know was the designated sculptor of portraits depicting Alexander the Great? ____________________________________________________________________________________ 16. Locate the Grave Naisakos of Apollonia. (Greek, c. 100 BCE, Marble with polychromy, 74.AA.13) What does the pomegranate reference? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Roman Art Collection 1. From the location of Villa at Boscoreale, many fine Bronze Vessels were uncovered. This Amphorae. (Roman, 1-79 CE, Bronze, 72.AC.129) displayed at the museum were used to hold ____________________ at banquets. The handles of the vessel on the left are decorated with heads of ________________________________ and _________________________. 2. Locate the bronze statue of Infant Bacchus .(Roman, c. 1-100 CE, Bronze with silver and copper, 96.AB.139) Bacchus was a god of what? Describe some interesting features about this particular sculpture in the way that it looks? What materials other than bronze is this made of? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 3. Locate the Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Life of Achilles (Roman, 180-220 C.E., Marble, 95.AA.80.1). Burial in a sarcophagus was a popular custom during the period from about 150 to 250 A.D. Sarcophagi were mass produced in a few centers, one of which was Athens. Athenian sarcophagi were carved on all four sides and often surmounted with reclining figures. Can you describe the event unfolding in the front panel as interpreted from Virgil’s The Aeneid during the Trojan War? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4 ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Find the Portrait Head of Augustus. (Roman, c. 25-1 BCE, Marble, 78.AA.261) Portraits of Augustus served as symbols of his political agenda rather than corresponding to his physical features as described in written sources. How would portraits of Augustus be identified? Identify those characteristics features in his portraits. ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Find Portrait of a Woman with Divine Attributes. (Roman, c. 50 CE, Marble, 57.AA.19). What are some of her divine attributes? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 6. Find the Cinerarium with Lid. (Roman, about 20-40 C.E. Marble with traces of pigment, 72.AA.113). What was this chest used for and what color is the residue of pigment? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 7. Find Statue of a Man Wearing a Toga. (Roman, 50-100 CE, Marble, 76.AA.7). What material would the Roman Toga typically be made of? Who would wear this garment? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 8. Find Statue of Jupiter (Marbury Hall Zeus) (Roman, 100-1 BCE, Marble, 73.AA.32). What attributes are missing to help us identify this god? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 5 9. Locate Statue of Venus Genetrix. (Roman, 100-200 CE, Marble, 96.AA.213) Describe why this figure of Venus appears realistic. What does the word Genetrix mean in Latin? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 10. Find the Sarcophagus representing a Dionysiac Vintage Festival. (Roman, 290-300 CE, Marble, 2008.14) What do depictions of making wine suggest in this Roman sarcophagus? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ 6 PART II: Short Essay Odysseus and the One-Eyed Cyclops Length: 2-typed pages maximum, MLA format Value: 50 points Theme: Analysis of art telling the story of Homer’s Odysseus and the One-Eyed Cyclops FORMAT INSTRUCTIONS Format: 12 pt. font; Times New Roman; 1-inch margins on each side; top and bottom, MLA Format General Structure: 1. Introduction with your thesis statements 2. Supporting Paragraph(s). Each paragraph must start with a sentence that defines your discussion in the paragraph below 3. Conclusion: Not merely a summary of what you discussed above but a larger discussion of your original thesis. Part A: Read the following excerpts from Homer’s The Odyssey (Book IX) to give context to the scenes telling the story of Odysseus confrontation with the One-Eye Cyclops, Polyphemus Poetry in Translation website: Homer’s The Odyssey http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Odyssey9.htm Part B: View TWO works of art You are to view the following TWO works of art that depict scenes from Homer’s The Odyssey retelling the events of Odysseus and his encounter with the One-Eyed Cyclops. You may search the works of art from the Getty website (There is information to be located here): http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/ 1. Pithos with the Blinding of Polyphemos (Workshop of the Calabresi Um, Etruscan, 650-625 BCE, Terracotta, 96.AE.135.a) 2. Attic Black-Figure Column Krater (Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops Cave), (Greek Attic, second half of 6th century B.C., Terracotta, (96.AE.303 ) Part C: Write your essay comparing the poem to the works of art. Here are sample questions to consider in your discussion once you have read the poem and viewed the works of art You may choose your own questions when evaluating the literature to the artworks. • How can you relate the poem to the scenes depicted on the works of art? Is the narration depicted on the works of art in way different than what you read in the poem? If so, provide a brief description of what sees different in your analysis. • How has the artist chosen to illustrate these scenes of the story? • In your opinion, which artwork best illustrates the scenes depicted, the vases or the statuette? • How would you describe Odysseus? How does he react to the situations he finds himself in? Odysseus is known as the quickwitted and wily one. Does this story support his nickname? Why or why not? 7 ... Purchase answer to see full attachment