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Art is the objection of feeling is…

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Modern

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Assess physical properties is called what?

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Formal analysis

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Identify a subject matter or symbolism is called…

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Iconography

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Cultural context is called what?

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Iconology

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Visually distinct characteristics that relate to an artist, region, period, etc is….

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Style

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Common to chronological period is called…

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Period style

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Individual artists is a….

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Personal style

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Common to geographical area is..

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Regional style

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Used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, Romans through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance is called what?

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Tempera

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Pigment suspended in water, applied to lime-plaster surface is…

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Fresco

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Applied to damp plaster surface is called….

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Buon fresco

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Applied to dry plaster surface is….

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Fresco secco

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Three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials - typically stone, wood or metal is called what?

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Sculpture

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Meant to be seen in the round is….

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Freestanding sculpture

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Freestanding; projects from a background surface is….

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Relief sculpture

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Slight projection from a surface is called what?

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Low-relief sculpture

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More than half of the circumstance of the modeled form projects from the surrounding surface is….

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High-relief sculpture

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18
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Substitution of one material for another is…

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Casting

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19
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Mold is destroyed to remove hardened cast; only one work created is…

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Lost wax casting (bronze hollow-casting)

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Removing unwanted materials from sculpture; subtractive process is called…

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Carving

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Dense stone, not easily molded in Chinese is…

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Diorite

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Both the process & product of planning; designing & construction

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Architecture

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Practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface is…

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Painting

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Hard/brittle; only ground down by filling is…

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Jade

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Simplest building technique; pile stones atop one another without mortar is called…

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Masonry

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Stones cut or shaped before use is….

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Dressed

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Semicircular arch supported by columns or piers are called….

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Round (Roman) Arch

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Composite construction material composed of aggregate- lime mortar, volcanic sand, water, small stones is called…

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Concrete

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Hemispherical, semi-hemispherical, pointed is called….

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Dome

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(hunter/gatherer):
emergence of “representation” in painting & sculpture is called what?

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Paleolithic

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31
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No feet; carved from pregnant woman’s perspective is called what?

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McDermott

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Sculptures to communicate friendly intentions; fertility & intermarriage between clans is called….

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Gamble

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33
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(herdsmen/farmer):
emergence of monumental sculpture & architecture is called what?

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Neolithic

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Predetermined scheme: lack of streets, entrances in roof is called….

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Agglutinative architecture

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35
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Artificial hill; honoring the dead is…

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Cairn

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36
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Stones held in place by weight of those on other side is…

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Corbelled vault

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37
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Tomb with long stone corridor leading to burial chamber is called…

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Passage grave

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38
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(Great stones) is called…

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Megaliths

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Engraved with linear designs are called

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Entropic images

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Circular megalithic with stone arrangement is called…

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Henge

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41
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Nucleus of every city is called….

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Temple

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High platform is

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Ziggurat

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Gift of gratitude to deity is called…

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Votive offering

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Commemorate stele

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Commemorate event or mark grave

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Lower Egypt (north)

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Agriculture and animal husbandry

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Upper Egypt (south)

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Hunting and is distance from civilizations.

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People, animals, boats (travel down river of life/death) is called…

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Funerary scene

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Palette

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Stone slab, with circular depression

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Incarnation of Horus while alive, Osiris when dead is called…

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Pharaohs

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Linen wrap is called…

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Nemes headress

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Serdab

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Central room

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Removal of flaws, extrapolate ideal features; unaging, unchanging, beautiful is called…

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Idealism

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Nearly identical on the left and right side is called…

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Bilateral symmetry

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Ideal set of anatomical ratios is called…

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Canon of proportions

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Tombs hidden inside is called…

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New kingdom

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Great monuments (tombs emphasized over temples) called…

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Old kingdom

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Hunting scenes reference Horus hunting his father’s (Osiris) murderer (Seth) is called…

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Allegorical

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Abstract figures, rigidly aligned is called…

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Return to Conservatism

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Aegean civilization disappeared by Homer’s time; transformed into golden age of heroes is called…

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Homer’s Iliad

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Which king demanded 14 youths from Athens to feed Minotaur?

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King Minos

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Succeeded in slaying with Ariadne’s help, then abandons her on Naxos is…

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Theseus

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(“House of the Double Axes”-sacrificial slaughter) is…

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Labyrinth

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Relieve weight is called what?

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Relieving triangle

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Near East origin

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Heraldic

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Beehive-shaped

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Tholos tombs

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“Man is the measure of all things”
(no god-kings, centered in material world) is called

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Protagoras

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Vessel for mixing water and wine is called…

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Krater

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Renewed contact with foreign cultures are…

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Composite monsters

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Rosettes

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Stylized flowers

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Dark shaped against pale buff is called…

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Black figure technique

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Kouros

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Youth

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Kouroi

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Young, athletic males

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Kore

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Always clothed

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Four piece garment of goddess is called

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Peplos

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Main room where the cult statue would be placed is called…

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Cella

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Slight curvature outward Heavy, closely spaced columns is called…

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Entasis

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Altar outside at east end (facing sun)
Temple proper housed is called

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Cult statue

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Greek temples are

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Mathematical balance and harmony of cosmos

79
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Dionysos holds what?

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Kantharos

80
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Amphora is a?

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Storage jug

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Maenads is a…

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Female worshippers

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Dionysos

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Present offering of a rabbit or deer.

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Symposium

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Greek social gatherings of men.

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Patroclus

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(Achilles’ “friend” killed by Hector (Zeus’ revenge)

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Achilles

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Fights for his body for funerary rites; returns, kills Hector (Athena- pro-Greek)

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Balanced composition

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Diagonals balanced by lance-bearers.

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Sculptural masses

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Closed, compact, invite one to walk around (not in).

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Archaic

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Fleshed-out anatomy, but rigid frontal or profile.

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Classical art

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Humanism, rationalism, and idealism.

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Life-likeness

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Eyeballs of bone/ colored glass; silver teeth, eyelashes; copper lips, nipples.

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Bronze hollow- casting

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Greater range of motion; outstretched limbs.

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Hollow-cast bronze

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Greater range of motion/poses.

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Contrapposto/chiastic

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X-shaped

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Entasis

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Slight curvature outward.

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Panathenaic

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(“all Athenian”) Festival procession: every 4 years

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Late classical

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Narrative Gesture draws attention to nudity.

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Pliny

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Some men were “overcome with love;” priests to watch men around.

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Hellenistic baroque

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Theatrical gestures, pathos, and drama.

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Multi-media experience

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Prow of ship, crashing waves (hear and smell from fountain and waves below), feel wind billowing chiton.

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Pathos

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Experience tragic, painful death of figures.

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Tragically heroic

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Portrait-like head-ideal body.

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