GJCL Classical Art History

Welcome to the GJCL Classical Art website! To prepare for the Classical Art test at State Convention 4/12/2024, 1) study our blog posts, 2) review old tests with their accompanying images (available for download below), and 3) read the books about Greek and Roman art recommended for the NJCL test (Susan Woodford, The Art of Greece and Rome [1982] and especially John Boardman, ed., The Oxford History of Classical Art [1997]).

Saturday, April 8, 2023

A Roman Garland Sarcophagus in New York

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This sarcophagus was found in 1889 in a tomb near Capranica, a modern municipality about 40 miles to the northwest of Rome, not fa...
Sunday, April 7, 2019

Hadrian's Villa: The Pecile

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The largest of all Roman villas was that built (and probably designed) by the emperor Hadrian near Tibur (modern Tivoli). Its largest p...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

The Judgment of Paris on a Pyxis

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This small vase -- it is less than seven inches tall with its lid and less than five without it -- is a pyxis (pl. pyxides ), a...
Friday, April 5, 2019

Funerary Relief of the Decii

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This relief of Luna marble was found near a columbarium on the Via Ostiensis, the much-traveled road that connected Rome with Ostia...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Early Greek Painting: the Metopes from Thermon

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While vases are our chief source for early painting in Greece, there are some survivals in other media. Among these are painted terrac...
Saturday, March 31, 2018

Early Hellenistic Coins from Rhodes

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In the course of his conquests (336-323) Alexander the Great set up many mints (26 are known) to turn the booty captured from the Persia...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

The Forum Transitorium

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It is late in the reign of Domitian (ruled AD 81-96). The emperor Domitian is about to make a major change in the area of the Imperial ...
Friday, April 14, 2017

The Villa Iovis

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The ruins of Tiberius' clifftop retreat on Capri, the "Villa Iovis."  The church and statue (upper left) are of course ...
Thursday, April 13, 2017

The Kouros from Delphi

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In an earlier post it was noted that most Daedalic figures are female.  Here we consider a male example: a bronze statuette of a...
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