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Greek Art
Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acropolis | literally, a "high city," a Greek temple complex built on a hill over a city |
| Amphora | a two-handled Greek storage jar |
| Architrave | a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature |
| Canon | a body of rules or laws; in Greek art, the ideal mathematical proportion of a figure |
| Caryatid (male: atlantid) | a building column that is shaped like a female figure |
| Cella | the main room of a Greek temple where the god is housed |
| Contrapposto | a graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees |
| Cornice | a projecting ledge over a wall |
| Entablature | the upper story of a Greek temple |
| Frieze | a horizontal band of sculpture |
| Kiln | an oven used for making pottery |
| Kouros (female: kore) | an archaic Greek sculpture of a standing youth |
| Krater | a large Greek bowl used for mixing water and wine |
| Kylix | A Greek drinking cup |
| Metope | a small relief sculpture on the facade of a Greek temple |
| Mosaic | a decoration using pieces of stone, marble, or colored glass, called tesserae, that are cemented to a wall or a floor |
| Pediment | the triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture |
| Peristyle | a colannade surrounding a Greek temple |
| Propylaeum (plurarl: propylaea) | a gateway leading to a Greek temple |
| Relief sculpture | sculpture that projects from a flat background. A very shallow sculpture is called a bas-relief |
| Shaft | the body of a column |
| Tholos | an ancient Greek circular shrine |
| Trigylph | a projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple |
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