Greece, Rome, And Jewish/Christian Flashcards
Archaic smile
The curved lips of an ancient Greek statues in the period of 600 to 480 BC E usually interval rated as a way of animating facial features.
Example is the Metropolitan Kouros.
Basilica
A large rectangular building often build with a CLERESTORY, side AISLES separated from a center NAVE buy COLONNADES, and APSE at one or both ends. originally Roman centers for administration later adapted to Christian church use
Contrapposto
Italian term meeting used to describe the classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alterations attention and relaxation on either side of the central axis to interview the figures with a sense of potential for movement
Apse
A large semi circular in polygonal and usually vaulted recess on the in wall of the building in a Christian church it is often contains the altar the Ups city old is the adjective of describing the condition of having such a space.
Frieze
The middle element of an entablature between the architrave in the cornice. usually decorated it was sculpture painting or moldings. also any continuous flat band with relief sculpture or painted decorations.
Example: treasury of Siphnians
Kouros
Greek statue of young Man or boy.
Metropolitan Kouros.
Orant
Of hey standing figure represented praying with outstretched and upraised arms.
Syncretism
A process whereby artist assimilate and combine images and ideas from different cultural traditions, beliefs and practices, giving them new meanings.
The good Shepard
Verism
style in which artist concern themselves with describing the exterior likeness of a object or person, usually by rendering it’s visible details in a finely executed, meticulous manner.
Metropolitan Kouros
Archaic Greece
Marble
Kritios Boy
Early classical Greece
Akropolis, Athens
Marble
Kallikrates and iktinios (building)
High classical Greece
Athens
Lapith fighting a centaur
Headless man
High classical Greece
Athens
Marble
Polykleito
Spear bearer
Hi classical Greece
marble
Praxiteles Hermes and the dionysos
Late classical Greece
Marble
Praxiteles
Aphrodite of knidos
Late classical Greece
Marble
Nike of samothrace
Hellenistic
Cereveteri
Marble
Reclining couple on sarcophagus
Etruscan
Cerveteri
Terra cotta
Portrait head of an elder from scoppito
Republican Rome
Marble
Aulus metellus the orator
Republican Rome
Bronze
Pony du gard
The arches
Republican Rome
Nimes
Augustus of primaporta
Early imperial Rome
Marble
Ara Pacis augustae
Square building inside
Early imperial Rome
Rome as the location
Marble
Flavian amiphitheater
Early imperial Rome
Rome as a location
Column of Trajan
High imperial Rome
Rome
Marble
Pantheon
High imperial Rome
Rome as a place
Dome of the Pantheon
High imperial Rome
Rome
Concrete Brick and marble
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
High imperial Rome
Rome
Bronze
Caracalla
Late Imperial Rome
Marble
The Tetrarchs
Late Imperial Rome
Constantinople and venice
Porphyry
Audience hall of Constantius Chlorus
Late Imperial Rome
Trier
Arch or Constantine
Late Imperial Rome
Rome
Constantine the great
Late Imperial Rome
Rome
Marble
Wall with Torah niche
Jewish
Dura-Europos
Tempera on plaster
Good shepherd orients in the story of Jonah
Early Christian
Rome
Santa Sabina, interior
Early Christian
Rome
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Early Christian
Rome
Marble
The good shepherd
Galia Placidia Ravenna
Early Christian
Mosaic
Sanctuary
A A sacred or a holy enclosure used for worship. In ancient Greece and Rome, consisted of one or more temples and an altar. And Christian architecture the space around the altar in a church was called a chancel or a Presbytery. Example is Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi.
