Greece Flashcards

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Idealized

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Better looking than normal people, sometimes the best someone can look.

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Registers

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information in bands in a work of art.

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Tholos

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A circular structure

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White Ground

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Ceramics with white figures and a white background

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Entableture

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lintel part of column usually with relief carvings

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Pediment

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triangular structure at the top of a column

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Archaic smile

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smile seen only in sculptures from the archaic period

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Corinthian Order

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Thin column with acanthus leaf capitol.

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Contrapposto

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casual pose, creates s shape of the body, all weight is put on one leg

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Theater

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Wide open space seating thousands, used for expression and religious purposes.

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Polytheistic

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believing in multiple gods

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Portico

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The main entrance to a greek temple, usually consists of columns in a post and lintel structure.

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Column

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round structure usually supporting a roof with a base an capital

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Base

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The bottom part of a column

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Propalaia

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Found in the Acropolis of Athens, Doric order style building with ionic entableture on the inside.

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Kore

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atchaic statue of women

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Columnade

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series of columns in a straight line usually with entableture on top

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Drum

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sections making up a doric style order

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Panathenatic way

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The sacred way to a greek temple

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Rosettes

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flowers found on ceramics during the oriental period

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Fluting

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pointy edges on an order

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Orthogonal city plan

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planing of housing in a mathematic and geometric way

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Kouros

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archaic statue of men

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Volute krater

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krater vase with spiraled handles

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canon of polykleitos
6 1/2-7 heads
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Acanthus leaves
the capitol of corinthian order columns
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Cella
part of a temple where the image of a god is placed
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Black Figure
controlling the oxegyn and heat in a kiln creates this figure, made from slip
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Bouleuterion
seat of an olympian senate
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Frieze
a continuos picture meant to represent motion or a scene in motion ussually alon entableture.
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Capital
top of a column
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Foreshortening
further back things are lower relief closer things are higher relief
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Expressionism
expressing a feeling through a piece of art/act
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Acropolis
city on top of a hill
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Fillet
flat edges on columns
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Volute scroll
capital on an ionic order
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Stoa
a columnade roofed building
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Caryatid
Female figure in place of a column
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Ionic
Flute and fillet, base and voluted capital
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Agora
public area
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battle between the gods and the giants
archaic sculpture shows expressionalism
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Temple of Hera
archaic shows devotion to gods
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Ajax and Ekelies playing a game
Archaic by Exekias