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
