CLASSICAL ART Flashcards
Where is the dolphin fresco located
Knossos (Queens megaron)
Where is the Fisherman located
Thera (Santorini)
Toreador fresco is what culture
Minoan
What culture is the blue monkey fresco
Minoan
Where is the blue monkeys fresco
Thera (Santorini)
Where is the fisherman fresco located
Thera, Santorini
What culture made the harvester vase, octopus vase, and bulls head rhyton
Minoan
Who excavated Pylos
Carl Blegen (American)
Where is the Lion Gate located
Mycenae
What culture is the Treasury of Atreus
Mycenean (mainland Greece)
What type of tomb is the Treasury of Atreus
Tholos tomb (beehive shaped)
What type of style is the Temple of Hephaestus
Hextastyle
What order is the Temple of Zeus
Doric
What style is the Parthenon
Mixed ionic and Doric
Entrance to Athenian acropolis
Propylaia
Who designed Parthenon
Ictinus and Callicrates
What are the scrolls on top of columns called
Volutes
Who is architect of Temple of Athena Nike
Callicrates
What is the temple to Athena and Poseidon
Erechtheum
Who is the architect of the Erechthium
Mnesicles
Where is the porch of the maidens
South porch of Erechtheum
What two themes are used in Etruscan art
Statue of a woman
What two themes are used in Etruscan art
Tombs and terracotta
Who excavated Pylos
Carl Blegen
Who excavated Crete and Knossos
Sir Arthur Evans
What color is used through Minoan art
Blue
Who deciphered the Linear B tablets
Micheal Ventris
What is the term for simple lines and curves on pottery
Protogeometric
What is the Dyplon vase
Geometric amphora
What is depicted on the Eleusis amphora
Odysseus blinding Polyphemus
Who designed the Ajax and Achilles
Exekias
Who painted the Francois Vase
Kleitias
What is depicted in the Francois Vase
Peleus and Thetis wedding
Who designed the death of Sarpedon krater
Euphronius
What was a krater used for
Mixing wine and water
What was a kylix
Drinking cup with krater shape
What was a kantharos
Drinking cup with big handles
What was a lekythos used for
Oils and perfumes, pouring funeral libations
What was a kouros (youth)
Free standing nude male with one foot forward
What is a kore (maiden)
Free standing female statue
What frieze depicts a Lion eating a man
Battle of the gods and giants
frieze from Siphian treasury at delphi
Battle of gods and the giants
Where is the statue of the Dying Warrior
Pediment of the Temple of Aphaea at Aegina
What marks end of Archaic period and beginning of the Classical Period
Critias Boy
Critias boy is early..
Contraposto
Who sculpted the Parthenon Sculpture
Phidias
How many metopes in Parthenon
92
What is on the West Pediment of the Parthenon Sculpture
Athena and Poseidon fighting for patronage of Athens
What is on the East pediment of the Parthenon
Birth of Athena
What is the statue of Athena in the Parthenon made of
Gold and Ivory
Massive chryselephantine
Athena statue in Parthenon
Where was the Athena in Parthenon statue kept
In a cella
Who brought the Elgin Marbles to the British museum
Lord Elgin
Material lighter than marble and allows statues to show movement
Bronze
What was Zeus of Artemesium and Charioteer of Delphi made out of
Bronze
Who sculpted Discolobus
Myron (only Roman marble copy survives now though)
What does Doryphorus mean
Spear-Bearer
Who sculpted Dorphorus
Polyclitus (survives only in marble copies)
Who wrote Canon based on contraposto and idealized proportions
Polyclitus
What period was Riace Bronzes from
Classical period
Who did Hermes and Infant Dionysus
Praxiteles
What period did Praxiteles sculpt in
Late Classical Period
First nude female sculpted life size
Aphrodite of Cnidos
Who sculpted Aphrodite of Cnidos
Praxiteles
Alexander the Greats personal sculptor
Lysippus
Created stock representation of an idealized Alexander with eyes looking upward
Lysippus
What period did Lysippus sculpt in
Late Classical
Who sculpted Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)
Lysippus
What does Apoxyomenos mean
the Scraper
Sculpture is now more dramatic than Classical, harsh diagonal lines, movement
Hellenistic period
What period did Realism first appear
Hellenistic
What period was Dying Gaul, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Laocoon group
Hellenistic
Where was most Hellenistic period of work found
pergamum
Where was the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing found
Tarquinia
Where is the Tomb of the Triclinium
Tarquinia
Where is the Tomb of the Reliefs
Cerveteri
What tomb imitates interior of a house
Tomb of the Reliefs
What culture made the Tombs of Hunting and Fishing and Tomb of the Reliefs
Etruscans
What is the Apollo of Veii made of
Terracotta (archaic style)
What did the Apollo of Veii decorate
Temple pediment
What culture is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Etruscan
What is the Capitoline Wolf made of
Bronze
What culture was the Capitoline Wolf
Etruscan
What is the Chimaera of Arezzo made of
Bronze
What culture was the Chimaera of Arezzo
Etruscan
Charactized by its shiny black surface
Bucchero pottery
Where is the Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Forum Boarium (Rome)
What does the Temple of Fortuna Virilis combine
Greek and Tuscan traditions
Where is the Sanctuary of Fortuna
Praeneste (Palestrina)
What does the Sanctuary of Fortuna illustrate
Early use of arches, barrel vaults, and concrete
What material is the Capitoline Brutus
Bronze
the Pompey the Great bust uses what technique
Realism, inspired by Lysippus’ Alexander the Great
What does the breastplate in the Augustus Primaporta depict
Parthian standards
Where is the imperial procession
On Ara Pacis
Represents peace and prosperity of Augustan Age on the Ara Pacis
Tellus (Earth Goddess) Panel
Augustus portrayed as Jupiter seated next to Roma
Gemma Augusta
Where is the Octagonal Room
Domus Aurea
What style is used in the Octagonal Room
3rd Pompeiian style
How many arched entrances in Colosseum
80
What century was Pompeii and Herculaneum found
18th century
What style of Pompeii imitates stone masonry
First style
What style of Pompeii introduced images and landscapes surrounded by architectural frame
Second style
What style is “rational” and “naturalistic”
Second style
What fresco has two columns framing a center circular temple
Bedroom of Boscoreale
Where is the Bedroom of Boscoreale from
Villa of Fannius Synister
Where is the Bedroom of Boscoreale now
Museum of New York
What Pompeiian style denies all appearances of rationality and logic (painted solid color)
3rd style
What style is the villa of the mysteries
2nd style
What style is the Bedroom of Boscoreale
2nd style
What style is the Domus Aurea frescoes
3rd style
What style is the Boscotrecase frescoes
3rd style
What two Pompeiian styles does the 4th style combine
2nd and 3rd
What Pompeiian style is the Ixion Room (House of the Vetii)
4th style
Where is the Alexander Mosiac
House of the Faun (Pompeii)
Who is the architect of Trajans forum
Apolladorus of Damascus
Largest imperial Fora
Trajans fora
More than 2500 human figures
Trajans column
Best preserved Roman structure
Pantheon
What structure did Hadrian help design
Pantheon
Temple with modern church built inside of it
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
What is the statue of Marcus Aurelius made out of
Bronze
Where is the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Piazza Del Campidoglio
Who designed the Piazza del Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill
Michelangelo
Where is the arch of Septimius Severus located
Forum Romanum
In honor of defeat of Maxentius
Arch of Constantine
Three archways and takes monuments from (Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Hadrian)
Arch of Constantine
Lacks spatial depth, non-naturalistic approach
Arch of Constantine
Largest building in Ancient Rome
Basilica of Maxentius
Only north aisle remains
Basilica of Maxentius
Process of working metal from behind
Repousee
Applying paint to wet plaster
Fresco
Red-vase painter used foreshadowing
Euthymides
What is a composite column
Ionic and Corinthian
Where is the Tellus panel
Ara Pacis Augustea
Which temple only has 3 columns still standing
Temple of Hera, Olympia
What is the Parthenons northern metopes about
Trojan war
What is the order of the Temple of OLYMPIAN Zeus at Athens
Corinthian
What is the term for the triangular space between the springing and center of an arch
Spandrel
What material is the Portland Vase
Cameo Glass
Who discovered Mask of Agamemnon
Heinrich Schliemann
Designed the Propylaia
Mnesicles
Vase that depicts blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus
Eleusis Amphora
Where is the Winged Victory of Samothrace
Louvre
What emporer had villa in Tivoli
Hadrian
Where was the Mantiklos Apollo discovered
Thebes
Greek temple with no roof
Hypaethral
Central panel of Mosiac
Emblema
Method (used in tomb of Atreus) of spanning a passageway
Corbeled Arch
What were kouros used for
Grave markers
where is the mosiac of Christ as the good shepherd in the mausoleum of Galla Placida
Ravenna
What columns were in the interior of the Parthenon
Ionic
What material are the Vaphio cups
Gold
Where was the Harvester Vase found
Hagia Triada
What material was the statue of Jupiter (Capitoline Jupiter)
Terra cotta
What was on the frieze around the Alter of Zeus and Athena in Pergamum
Gigantimochy
Who built the Sanctuary of Fortune at Praeneste
Sulla
Who’s arch is between Temple of Castor and Temple of Divine Julius
Augustus
What year was the Colossus of Rhodes built
300 b.c.
What painted the Battle of Issus
Philoxenes
What frieze would you find at Zeus at Olympia
Lapiths and Centaurs
Technique used in Greek friezes in which heads of animals and people are on the same level
Isocephaly
Sculpture that uses canon of proportions
Doryphorus
Study of history and development of coins
Numismatics
This Pompeiian villa features religious ritual involving a young girl
Villa of Mysteries
Used in Faiyum portraits, pigment is suspended in hot wax
Encaustic
What year did red-figure begin
530 b.c.
