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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| geometric | style of greek art during the 9th and 8th centuries characterized by abstract geometric ornament and schematic figures |
| 3 classical orders of architecture | doric order ionic order corinthian order |
| pronaos | the space or porch in front of the cella of an ancient greek temple |
| cella | the chamber at the center of a greek temple |
| peristyle | a colonade (a row of columns) all around a cella and its porch(es) |
| styleobate | the uppermost course of the platform of a classical greek temple which supports the columns |
| kouros | a greek statue of a young man |
| archaic smile | the smile that appears of all ancient greek archaic statues indicating that the person is alive |
| kore | greek statue of a young woman |
| peplos | a simple, long belted garment of wool worn by women in ancient greece |
| amphora | an ancient greek two handled jar used for general storage purposes usually to hold wine or oil |
| exekias | ancient greek vase painter and potter from athens (achilles and ajax playing a dice game) |
| euphronios | ancient greek vase painter and potter from athens (herakles wrestling antaios) |
| black figure | a technique of vase painting the corinthians invented in which artists painted black silouhettes and then icised linear details within the forms |
| red figure | opposide of black figure. what was previously black became red and vice versa. the painter outlined the figures and then colored the background black |
| symposium | an ancient greek banquet attended solely by men |
| kriotos boy | kriotos |
| contrapposto | the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to anoyther part (usually hips and legs on way, shoulders and chest another) creating a counterpositioning of the body about its central axis (weight shift) |
| riace warrior (bronze) | contrapastto |
| portrait of pericles | kresilas |
| 'golden age' | political ideaology of augustus for athens eualing that of athens under pericles |
| acropolis | high city, usually the site of the city's most important temples |
| parthenon | a temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, completed 432 bc |
| phidias | Greek sculptor, painter and architect who designed the statues in the partheon |
| panatheniac festival | athens/parthenon |
| polykleitos | greek scultptor of classical antiquity. sought to portray the perfecrt man and to impose order on human movement |
| (doryphoros)spear bearer | polykleitos |
| canon | a rule, for example, of proportion. greeks considered beauty to be a matter of 'correct' protortion and sought a canon of proportion |
| lord elgin | bought the greek marble sculptions that once belonged to the parthenon |
| nike | the winged female personification of victory |
| stele | a carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events |
| praxiteles | of athens. renowened attic sculptor. he was the first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue |
| hellenistic | the term given to the art and culture if the roughly 3 centuries between the death of alexander the great (323 bc) and the death of queen cleopatra (30 bc) when egypt became a roman providence |
| laocoon | Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican. warned the trojans to not accept the trojan horse |
| cerveteri sarcophagus | cerveteri sarcophagus |
| terracotta | hard baked clay used for sculptors and as a building material |
| tumuli | latin for burial mound |
| necropolis | greek 'city of dead' (cemetary) |
| tufa | variety of limestone used for tombs |
| capotine wolf | legend of founding of rome (remus romulous) |
| terracotta | hard baked clay used for sculptors and as a building material |
| tumuli | latin for burial mound |
| necropolis | greek 'city of dead' (cemetary) |
| tufa | variety of limestone used for tombs |
| capotine wolf | legend of founding of rome (remus romulous) |
| aule metele (orator) | Romano-Etruscan |
| roman portraiture | Roman portraiture is characterised by unusual realism and the desire to convey images of nature in the high quality style often seen in Ancient Roman art. |
| verism | true to natural apperance, superrealistic |
| denarious | the standard roman silver coin from which the word penny ultimately derives |
| barrel vault | an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve (or pair of curves, in the case of a pointed barrel vault) along a given distance |
| groin vault | produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. |
| concrete | a building material invented by the romans and consisting of |
| pax romana | was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD. |
| forum | the public square of an ancient roman city |
| mount vesuvious (pompeii) | s a stratovolcano in the Gulf of Naples, Italy, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) east of Naples and a short distance from the shore |
| pliny the elder/pliny the younger | naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire |
| basilica | a public building for legal and other civic proceedings |
| coffers | a sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or a ceiling |
| basilica | a public building for legal and other civic proceedings |
| coffers | a sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault or a ceiling |
| oculus | the round central opening of a dome |
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