Art History Midterm Flashcards
Neolithic Revolution
most important development in human history
Çatalhöyök (Turkey): housing
timber posts and beams filled in with mud brick, then plastered
trilithion
3-piece configuration (2 posts + lintel)
lintel
horizontal
Bluestones
- smaller stones (slightly blue when wet)
- Preseli Hills Wales
Athena
goddess of war, reason/knowledge, handicraft
daughter of Zeus
Acropolis, Athens
birth place of democrecy
Persian War
destruction of the (earlier) buildings (480 BCE), including the temple of Athena Reconstruct/on under Perikles, ruler of Athens
Parthenon
Designer 7 Sculptor
- designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates, 447-432 BCE
- sculpture: Pheidias
Acropolis, Athens
NORMS AND FORMS
- regularity
- mathematical precision
- subtle optical adjustments: entasis
Pediment
triangular feature of entablature on Parthenon, Athens
Iconography
Eikon (image) + graphite (writing) around parthenon
Metope
lapith versus centaur battle
inner wall
frieze of the panathenaic procession = celebration of Athenas birth
Erechtheum
porch with caryatid figures (women take place of columns)
polychromy (multi-colour)
colour applied to a surface; usually some kind of paint
Pantheon, Rome
120-127 CE
rotunda
round building, often with dome
Maison Carée (Roman temple), Nîmes (France)
19 BCE
Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang
221-206 BCE
Antiques
- ancient word
- time period
- multiple settings
“classicism” classical
- aesthetic features
- enduring appeal
- style
- multiple settings and cultural forms
terracotta
“cooked earth”
