Greek Art Flashcards
Jar for storing wine and oil. Egg shaped body and 2 curved handles
Amphora
A sacred or holy structure for worship
Sanctuaries
Wide mouthed pitcher
Olpe
Stylized flower forms
Rosettes
Black figures painted on red clay ground
Black-figure technique
Columned pavilion that’s open on 3 sides
Stoa
Collums carved in the form of clothed women on a pedestal with capitals on their heads
Caryatids
A platform or base supporting a structure or other monument
Pedistal
Horizontal elements above columns
Entablature
Plain or 3 panel architrave and a continuous frieze set off by richly carved moldings
Ionic order
Bottom element in entablature
Architrave
Middle element in entablature
Frieze
Triangular gable formed by enblature and ends of sloping roof or ranking cornice
Pediment
Sacred area reserved for worship
Temenos
Covered, open space in front of entrance
Porches
Arrangement, proportions, and appeared of colums and lintels
Elevations
Shaft sits directly on stylobate without a base, fluted with sharp edges, and necking is transition to capital. Consists of rounded echinus and tablet like abacus and roofline with acroteria
Doric order
Varient of Ionic order developed for interior use. Capitals were stylized and decorated with acanthus leaves extending from astragal
Corinthian Order
Principle interior room of a temple
Cella
Flat slab on top of capital that’s under the entablature
Abacus
Collum that swells in the middle and contract at the top and bottom
Entasis
Enclosed vestible
Pronaos
System of proportions in classical architexture
Orders
Architectural element used for support or decor
Column
Main vertical section of a column
Shaft
Sculpted block on top of collumn
Capital
Section of shaft
Drum
Floor of the temple
Stylobate
Set of steps that form the temple’s base
Stereobate
Channeled with sharp edges
Fluted
Cushion like circular element below abacus of Doric Capitol
Echinus
Rectangular block between metropes of Doric Frieze
Triglyphs
Carved or painted rectangular pannel between Triglyphs
Metopes
Topmost projecting horizontal element
Cornice
Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements
Acroteria
Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements
Actroteria
Flat surfaces separating flutes
Fillets
Continuous sculptured or decorated frieze
Volute
Stylized leaves
Acanthus
Convex band
Astragal
Clay fired over low heat
Terracotta
Statue of a woman
Kore
Male statue
Kouros
Conventional closed-liped convention
Archaic smile
Wine cup
Kantharos
Mixture of clay and water
Slip
Technique in which design or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument
Incising
Red figured on a black background
Red-figure technique
Kramer with handles curved up like petals
Calyx Krater
Social gathering of rich and powerful men
Symposium
Convention of presenting standing figures with opposing alternations of tension around a central axis
Contrapposto
Broad, flat cup
Kylix
Pot used as a wine cooler
Psylter
Circular painting
Tondo
Wine jug
Oinochoe
City on top of a hill
Akropolis
Process though artists strive to make forms and figures attain perfection, baser in pervading cultural values or personal ideals
Idealization
Marketplace
Agora
Raised platform
Podium
Grid plan
Ortagonal
Water jug
Hydra
Type of ancient Greek pottery in which the background is colored with a slip that turns white when fired
White-ground
Opaque water-based medium mixed with glue or egg white
Tempura
Slim pil vase with one handle and a narrow mouth
Lekythai
Image formed by arranging small colored stone or glass pieces and affixing them to a hard, stable surface
Mosaic
Small peices of stone or glass, or other objects that are pieced together to create a mosaic
Tesserae
Circular neck ring worn by Celtic warriors
Tore
All foreigners the Greeks considered uncivilized
Barbarian
Artistic styles in which aspects of works are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or to elicit an emotional response
Expressionism
