Art and Market Flashcards
What are the building requirements? (6)
- Architects
- Overseer
- Labourers and skilled craftsmen
- Design committees (head artists, workshop and team of artists, painters)
- Secretary (keep track of wages)
- Funding
Describe the Temple of Asklepios (4)
- 5 year production period
- Medium size temple
- Larger temples take about 10 years (Parthenon and Temple of Zeus)
- Cost 6,000 drachmas ($1 mil)
Explain the funding of a temple (4)
- Very expensive
- Cost mostly went to labour than materials
- Labour: quarrying (half of cost), shipping/transportation, shaping stone, construction, finishing features
- Avg. Greek made 1 drachma/day
List where funding architecture comes from (4)
- Civic or cult treasuries
- War booty
- Individual patronage
- Subscription/taxes
Describe the production of bronze statues (6)
- Marble statues could take up to a year, bronze is faster
- More labour intensive, equipment, and energy
- Bronze= tin and copper (mined and far transporation)
- Estimated cost = 3,000 drachmas
- Comissioned by city, less likely by individuals
- Small figurines and mirrors were purchased by everday people
Describe pottery production (5)
- More modest commodity
- Clay is more easily acccessible
- Required a kilk and fiel
- 3 stages: oxidation, reduction, oxidation
- Pottery was fired in batches
Explain the cost of pottery (3)
- Pricing differed between decorated, vase type, siezes, materials
- Record (trademark and owernship, sometimes pricing) underneath vessels
How were pottery distributed? (5)
- Local: pottery sells directly to consumer
- Exporting: bought whole sale and sold retail through trader/merchant
- Emporium: large market or trading center
- Popular location: Etruria in Italy
- Artists could tailor artowrk to local or exported market trends
Identification (6)
Megarian Bowl
* Late 3rd century
* Found in Thebes
* Made of teracotta with black glaze
* Style of drinking cup
* Figural scene on belly shows Hades abducting Persephone
* Mass produced using molds (mold made with stamps and fired)
How was art exported to Rome? (3)
- Begins in 4th century BCE
- Rome conquered most of Italy and mainland Greece (Hellenistic)
- Interest in Greek Art by Roman elite to decorate house, villas, and public spaces
Describe artists and workshops (4)
- Could be mobile to relocate for work
- Movement brought exchange of ideas and techniques
- Migration of artists in 5th cent. BCE brought red-figure workships in Southern Italy
- Migration to Rome for meeting demand in Hellenistic period and onward
Explain the social status of skilled workers (4)
- Local Artists
- Metics (foreign or non-Athenian citizens)
- Slaves (assistants in workshops and labors for buildings), not sculptors or paintors
Artists could reach degree of fame that extended beyond life, charge premium, and receive civic honours
Explain art education (4)
- Additional source of income for talented artists
- Many came from affluent families (well-educated, wrote books)
- Art institutions and apprenticeships
- Can be passed down from father to son
