Art History "Greek"

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Frieze

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A horizontal band, decorated with moldings or patterns, either painted or carved, usually at the upper end of a wall

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contrapposto

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technique of sculpting a human figure in a pose that shows the weight of the body in balance, the engaged leg is in the forward position

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Entablature

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The upper part of an architectural order, being the part placed above the columns, usually constituent of architrave, frieze, and cornice

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Pediment

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The triangular area over the entablature in Classical Greek architecture, formed by the ends of a sloping roof and the cornice; the upper portion

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Architrave

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The main horizontal beam at the bottom of an entablature

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Cornice

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Any projecting ornamental molding along the top of a building, wall, arch, etc; also, the topmost projecting part of an entablature in a Classical Greek building

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Metope

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The carved or plain areas between the Triglyphs in the frieze of a Doric building

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Triglyph

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A group of three vertical ridges alternating with a plain metope in the frieze of a Greek Doric building

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Entasis

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The subtle convex swelling of a Classical Greek column shaft

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Caryatid

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A support or column in the form of a human figure, usually female

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Encaustic

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A method of painting on a ground, with colors dissolved in hot wax

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Amphora

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A storage jar having an egg-shaped body, a foot and two handles, each attached at the neck and shoulders of the jar

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Hydria

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A large jug used to carry water

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Personification

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Aspects of nature assumes human characteristics and forms through their gods

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Capital

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The top element of a column

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Base

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The bottom element of a column

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Polis

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A Greek city-state

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Terra Cotta

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Reddish earthen-ware clay

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Democratic

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The Greeks had this kind of society

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Athens

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The center of Greek culture

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Acropolis

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Stood above the city of Athens

Was crowned with temples

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Polis

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Athens was a Greek city-state, also known as this

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Archaic
Classical
Hellenistic

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The three eras of sculpture/art

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Doric
Ionic
Corinthian

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Three systems of construction

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Doric

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Developed in the mainland areas of Greece

NO BASE AND A PLAIN CAPITAL

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Ionic

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Developed on the islands and coast of Asia Minor

HAD A BASE AND THE CAPITAL WAS SCROLL-LIKE

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Corinthian

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Developed during the Hellenistic period

HAD A BASE AND THE CAPITAL WAS FASHIONED AFTER THE acanthus LEAF

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Wood

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The earliest Greek temples were made of this

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Upper

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Decoration played an important role in the design of the Greek Temple, and was mainly located on the … portion of the columns

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Narrative

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Art that tells a story

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Parthenon

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Dedicated to Athena

Most famous Greek temple

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Athena

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Goddess of wisdom and war

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Iktinos

Kallikrates

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these architects built the Parthenon

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Ceramicus

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The area in which the patterns lives in Athens

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Red figureware

Black figureware

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Two main styles of Greek vase-painting

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Baked Earth

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What terra cotta means