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CHAPTER 5
HUMANITIES
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| VITRUVIAN MAN | "BECAME A SYMBOL FOR THE CENTRALITY OF THE IDEALLY PROPORTIONED HUMAN BEING IN AN IDEALLY PROPORTIONED UNIVERSE." SKETCH MADE LATER BY LEONARDO DE VINCI |
| ACROPOLIS | HILLTOP WITH PERSEVERED TEMPLES IN ATHENS; GREECE FAMOUSE SITE; "CITY ON TOP OF A HILL"; WITH ARCHITECTURE DESIGNED BY PHEIDIAS |
| GREEK CANNON | SET OF RULES FOR DETERMINING PHYSICAL PROPORTION "MAN IS THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS" |
| BLACK FIGURE | AN EARLY ARCHAIC STYLE OF VASE PAINTING IN WHICH DARK SLIP FORMS ARE CREATED OVER RED BACKGROUND |
| ARCHAIC SCULPTURE | EARLY GREEK SCULPTURE CARVED OR CAST THAT WAS MODELED AFTER THE EGYPTIAN FORMAL POSE, EXHIBITING STIFF POSES WITH SMILE MALES WERE DEPICTED NUDE BUT WOMEN WHERE CLOTHED |
| COLUMN ORDERS | DORIC, IONIC, & CORINTHIAN |
| APOLLO BELVEDERE | HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL "GREEK GOD" SCULPTURE THAT IS A ROMAN COPY OF HELLENISTIC STATUW NUDE WITH DRAPE |
| DISCOBOLUS | FAMOUS HELLENISTIC BRONZE SCULPTIRE ORUGINALLY BY MYRON, RECONSTRUCTED AS ROMAN MARBLE |
| KRITIOS BOY | EARLY KOURES EXAMPLE OF CONTRAPPOSTA IN 480 BCE |
| CHARIOTEER & WARRIOR | EXAMPLE OF WARLY BRONZE CASTING & IDEAL BODY PROPORTION IN SCULPTURE |
| NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE | HELLENISTIC STYLE SCULPTURE KNOWN FOR ITS' FLOWING DRAPE & WINGED FORM, MISSING HEAD & ARMS |
| ZEUS (OR POSEIDON) | ONE OF THE FEW SURVIVING BRONZE FIGURES WITH OUTSTRETCHED ARMS THAT ONCE HELD A WEAPON, NUDEM & IDENTITY UNKNOWN |
| PARTHENON | FAMOUS WELL-PROPORTIONED GREEK DORIC TEMPLE |
| CONTRAPPOSTA | A SENSE OF WEIGHT SHIFT POLYKLEITOS WAS A SCULPTOR WHO CREATED THIS |
| HELLENISTIC | LATE GREEK STYLE AS ALEXANDER THE GREAT EXTENDED THE GREEK CULTURE |
| TEMPLE OF ATHENA NIKE | THE SMALL IONIC TEMPLE TO THE RIGHT OF THE PARPYLAIA OR ENTRANCE GATE OF THE ATHENA ACROPOLIS |
| KOURES | YOUNG MEN OR MALE SCULPTURE FORM USUALLY NUDE |
| CLASSICAL | REFERS TO THE CULTURE OF ANCIENT GREECE & ROME 9IT'S STYLE & A TIME PERIOD 400-480 BCE) |
| ALTER OF ZEUS, PERGAMON | THEATRICAL STAIRWAY ASCENDS TO THE SHRINE AT THE TOP GREAT SCULPTURE INCLUDING ATHENA BATTLING ON THE FRIEZE |
| PEDIMENT | TRIANGLE FORM OF TEMPLE PLAN WHERE SCULPTURE IS FOUND |
| ERECHTHEIM | FAMOUS FOR ITS' CARYATIDS ON THE "PORCH OF MADIANS" |
| KORE | YOUNG MAIDENS OR FEMALE SCULPTURE FORM ILLUSTRATES EVIDENCE OF ONCE BEING PAINTED |
| DIPYLON VASE | GEOMETRIC PERIOD FUNERARY KRATER |
| LAOCOON | ILLUSTRATES AN EPISODE OF TROJAN WAR, WHEN THE PRIEST WARNED TROJANS & HE & HIS SON WERE STRANGLED BY POSEIDON'S SNAKES |
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