The test is cumulative but it will be much more heavily weighted towards the material since the midterm. The test will consist of three parts:

1. Slide Identifications: images shown individually or in pairs with specific questions on identifying characteristics and/or how they relate to the culture or chronological period.

2. Short answers including terms identifications and recognition of specific styles, objects and sites.

3. Essays. You will be given a selection of topics/questions, probably five,  from which you will answer three. The topics may consist of various objects, periods, styles, and media.

Example: Using examples, discuss the similarities and differences among Attic Black Figure and Red Figure vase painting (This will require some combined knowledge of BOTH textbooks, course reader and lecture material).

Dates:

You should be able to give a 5-10 year date range for important people, developments, and objects of the historical period. For the prehistoric phases you should know cultural period and/or century at least. The dates are provided on the word lists and/or in your textbooks.

Chronological Chart

Painting Media and Techniques:

• where painting occurs in the Bronze Age, Iron Age, Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods
  
• painting techniques of the Bronze Age, Archaic and Classical periods
  
• vase painting techniques by period in the Archaic and Classical periods
  
• importance of major sites and monuments or objects
• peripheral areas with evidence for contemporary painting in the Greek world (Etruria, South Italy, Phrygia, Lydia, Lycia)
  

Bronze Age (Minoan Crete, Cyclades and Mycenaean Civilization):

• Old Palace Period and New Palace Period vase painting styles and themes
  
• Wall painting--key themes: landscapes/seascapes, bulls and bull-leaping, religious themes and rituals, mother goddess
• evidence for contact with the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt (eg. bull-leaping painting at Avaris)
• Thera--exceptionally well preserved site of Akrotiri--buildings. etc; wall paintings--style, location and themes
• Late Helladic (LH) I: Mycenae shaft graves: sudden wealth, but not influx of new people
  foreign contact, esp. with Minoans
  art shows Minoan influence, esp. in religious scenes
• LH II: developing states
  tholos tombs--beehive shape, corbelled dome roof, relieving triangle
• LH III: palaces: key sites Pylos, Tiryns, Mycenae; megaron unit the central part
  kingdom administration--Linear B tablets, excavation, survey all reveal something
  pottery styles and their importance for chronology

Iron Age:

• Proto-geometric vase style and the innovations that created it
• know the vase shapes and what the most common ones would have been used for

Geometric-Archaic periods:   ProtoCorinthian to Early Corinthian

• cultural history
  8th century renaissance
  colonies; writing rediscovered (from Phoenicians); rise of polis; burial scenes and mythology beginning to appear in Geometric vase-painting

  7th century orientalizing influence begins--in vase painting, textiles, sculpture etc., vases pick themes from Greek mythology
  6th century orientalizing motifs continue in vases, Ionic temples, but Greek forms become standardized
  

• vase-painting
  • geometric designs; silhouette figures c. 750; narrative art by 700
  • 700-580: proto-Attic vases show mythological scenes; early Black Figure and the rise of popularity and quality in Athenian vase painting
  • MC and LC vase painting - the downward spiral of Corinthian ceramics; votive plaques in ceramic and wood - relationship to vase ptg and free ptg?
    
  • 580-520: Attic Black Figure: Amasis Painter, Exekias esp. important; styles, trends, themes
  • Special vases for export and for specialized uses, ie. Panathenaic Amphorae
  • pottery styles in other regions such as Laconia and Boeotia
  • painting not on pots - funerary and votive plaques
  • late 6th century as the age of experimantation in vase painting techniques, Andokides Painter
    
  • 530 onward: Attic Red Figure: Euphronios and other Pioneers esp. important
  
  
• sculpture-- painting incorporated for free-standing and relief; note especially use of paint on grave steles
  

• architecture--the development of monumental sacred architecture and its possible painted elements over time
• Siphnian Treasury and its relation to Red Figure
  

• c. 500, change in all areas:
  c. 510 Athens throws off tyranny and settles for democracy
  c. 500 Persians threaten Greeks in Turkey; Greek revolt is put down by 494, but Persians vow to pay Greeks back
  490 B.C. they invade; Athenians beat them in battle at Marathon

• Athenian success in repelling Persians (490, 480) makes them preeminent in Greece
• Athens develops an increasingly repressive control of polises it controls
• general resentment culminates in the Peloponnesian War, in which Sparta and many other polises take on Athens in war, and ultimately beat her (in 404 B.C.)

• vase-painting
• Red Figure - Kleophrades Painter and Berlin Painter esp. important
• Whiteground: shapes, function and themes
• later Red Figure, esp. cup painters and new composition styles of late 5th century, ie. Eretria Painter, Medias Painter

• Free Painting: artists, paintings and the evidence for them

• grave stele
• tomb paintings of Lefkadia and Vergina

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