PSID Quizzes Flashcards
Small, covered Greek theaters
Odeon
The capital city of Mycenaean civilization
Troy
A sculpture carved from the chest up; usually with a pedestal base
Bust
A type of sculpture made of ivory and gold
Chryselyphantum
A clay mold technique mainly for frontal figures typified by a front facing head similar to the Egyptian “law of frontality”
Daedalic Stule
Roman counterpart to the Greek agore
Metope
Chief building material of the Greeks
Marble
A roman bath house
Thermae
Columns with twisted shafts
Solomonic shafts
An upper story projecting window supported by corbels
Oriel window
Literally means rebirth
Renaissance
Also known as proto-baroque
Mannerism
An underground water garden
Grotto
Popular motif used during the Rococo period
Cockleshell
The lower 1/3 of a wall
Dado
Reigning monarch during the French Neo-classic period
Francis XVI
The Villa Capra or Rotonda (architect)
Andrea Palladio
The Monticello (architect)
Thomas Jefferson
The Versailles Palaceo (architects)
Charles Le Brun
Francois Mansart
The Dome of the Cathedral of Florenceo (architect)
Filippo Brunelleschi
Tempiettoo (architect)
Donato Bramante
St. Paul’s Cathedralo (architect)
Christopher Wren
Facade of the St. Peter’s Basilicao (architect)
Carlo Madera
Petit Trianono (architect)
Gabriel
Capitoline Hillo (architect)
Michelangelo di Buonarotti
Paris Opera Houseo (architect)
Charles Garnier
Gardens of Versailleso (architect)
Andre’ le Notre
Palazzo Rucellaio (architect)
Leon Battista Alberti
Fountain of Trevio (architect)
Gianlorenzo Bernini
Sub period in prehistoric painting wherein cave paintings were developed; presence of gender and specie identification
Paleolithic
Type of support formed by a series of arches placed consecutively
Vault
A Mesopotamian truncated pyramid with a shrine on top
Ziggurat
Egyptian tombs for pharoahs
Pyramids
Egyptian law that decrees that the body of a figure in the round must not be twisted in any way
Law of Frontality
The worship of many gods
Polytheism
Ancient form of Egyptian writing using pictographs
Heiroglyphics
Group of people that continually shifts their place of abode in search for food
Nomad
Egyptian temples devoted to the worship of the pharaoh as a god
Mortuary
Wedge-shaped writing found in Mesopotamia
Cuneiform
A pillared hall in w/c the roof rests on column and is applied to the many columned hall of an Egyptian temple
Hypostyle
A type of support made of mud, brick, or cement; each side rises from the top of a side wall in a curve, and meets the curve from the other side wall in the center
Arch
Considered as the fertile crescent
Mesopotamia
Chief building material of Egypt
Limestone
Religious art representing Christ, the Virgin, the saints, the apostles that flourished during the Byzantine period
Iconography
Painting on wet plaster
Fresco
Romanesque grotesque attached to downspouts with the body of a monkey, the wings of a bat and the head of a monster
Gargoyle
Period in history where icons where destroyed
Iconoclastic age
Sculptural material used extensively during the Byzantine period
Ivory
A type of carving in which the design is made prominent by raising it form the background
Embossed
Type of prehistoric magic used to appease the gods
Propriation
The capital city of Assyria
Nineveh
Earliest symbol for Christians
Ichtus
Male sculptures used as columns
Atlantes
Castles (period)
Romanesque
The Flavian Amphitheater (period)
Roman
Cathedral of Notre Dame (period)
Gothic
Church of the Holy Wisdom (period)
Byzantine
Hanging Gardens of Babylon (period)
Babylonian
Manila Cathedral (Period)
Romanesque
Mud huts (period)
Paleolithic
Pantheon (period)
Roman
Parthenon (period)
Greek
Pyramids at Giza (period)
Egyptian
Reed houses (period)
Pre-porto Sumerian
San Sebastian Church (period)
Gothic
Thermae of Caracalla (period)
Roman
Ziggurat of Ur (period)
Sumerian
Optical illusion perceived only in the shafts of Doric columns
Entassis
