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Early and High Classical Greek Art Flashcards

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Archaic period

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ended in 480 BCE

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Severe style

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480-450 BCE

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High Classical

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450 BCE

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contrapposto

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weight shift

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hubris

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arrogance/pride

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nemesis

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divine retribution

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fluting

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vertical indentations

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freestanding

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sculpture you can walk around

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Doric

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triglyphs and metopes

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Ionic

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frieze

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severe style

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show a seriousness that contrast with the Archaic smile

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Lapiths

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northern Greek people

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theatron

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place for seeing, where people would sit and watch plays

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generational curses

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if one ancestor is cursed so is your entire lineage

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Personified…

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human figures showing off geographical features

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Inlaid eyes…

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reappear multiple times throughout ALL cultures and across centuries

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personification

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representing something as a person that is typically non-human

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Lekythors

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used for perfume/oils and would be buried with the dead

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Delian League

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478-431 BCE

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amphi

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porches at both ends

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peripteral

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columns all the way around

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cella/naos

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main chamber

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entasis

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slight swelling of center of column shafts

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Greeks were very…

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…proud of their own bodies

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Panathenaic

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all Athens, celebration and birthday of Athena

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Clothing in Early Classical art

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concealed the body

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clothing in High classical art

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revealed the body

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high classical representation of goddesses

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fully clothed but clothes are still revealing, have a natural body shape

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chryselephantine

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gold and ivory, Athena Parthenos was made of this

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delian league

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478-338 BCE

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Peloponnesian War

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431-405 BCE

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Erechtheion

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420s BCE, Ionic order, extensive use of decorative moldings, built on a hill and also housed many sacred things so the building was built around it, hence the weird shape

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Pulling veil away…

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…is a standard gesture for married women in greek art

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