Questions from Midterms Flashcards
Term that means 1 leg forward giving life to the structure
Contrapposto
From of Greek architecture that serves as a Council house & covered meeting place for elected officials
Bouleuterion
Term for the Greek furniture footstool
Threnys
Type of theater for horse and chariot races
Hippodrome
In theater parts: It is a structure serving as backdrop for the acting area or dressing room
Skene
A beehive tomb or ___ “ round building”
Tholos
Architecture: a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb
Pyramids
A kind of pottery that was small pots in which women stored their cosmetics, powder, and jewelry
Pyxis
A pose in which the weight of the body is balanced on one leg while the other is free and relaxed.
Contrapposto
Who was the very first recorded Egyptian architect?
Imhotep
The industry used vegetable pigment as well as the purple extracted from ___
Oyster
What kind of marble is Parthenon made of?
Pentilic
An early Egyptian joinery for furniture
Mortise & Tenon
These female figurines incorporating snakes were fashioned on Crete from as early as 6000 BCE. They are associated with water, regenerative power, and protection of the home. On her crown is a wild cat.
Snake goddess
It is characterized by movement; towards increasing naturalness and freedom of form during the classical age
Severe style
A kinds of pottery that is a version with upright handles, a lid, and a more distinct neck and is often made in one piece with the stand. It is usually associated with marriage rituals
Lebes Gamikos
Material that almost looks like kaolin. It is made of powdered quartz and coated with the vitreous paste, it was an earthenware fired to a glass like shine in almost all colors
Faience
the Hellenistic sculptures define that beauty was less important than _____
Emotions
This architecture is the edifices built during the New Kingdom to honor one or more of the gods
Pylon
Technique in interior flooring in which the individual pieces were larger and cut to fit a pre-determined abstract arrangement
Opus Sectile
Which of the pyramids of Giza is the largest?
Khufu
A wall carving wherein the design is made prominent by raising it from the surface or the background of the material
Relief
This was based on the Greek Ideology: Balance and moderation in all things also known as ___
Golden mean
The Mycenean ruins are fortress on a hill that is entered through the ___
Lion gate
Osiris symbolized by the color ___
Green
What do you call a plan of a typical Egyptian home that consists of a reception room, living room, and private areas?
Tripartite plan
A type of interior wall treatment wherein stone is imitated through painting
Incrustation
What is the color of the capitals in pillars found in Knossos palace?
red
Who was the sculptor of the famous Discobolus
Myron
What do you call this rule whereby heads are always shown in profile and torsos from the front, these guidelines marked the beginnings of a formal approach to art
Law of Frontality
The column shaft itself is composed of individual sections and concave grooves known as ___, with a base and capital
Fluting
The God that dominated the kingdom of Pharaoh Akhenaten
Aten
Who was the sculptor of the famous Apoxyomenos?
Lysippus
A portico that contained 6 columns
hexastyle
It is a term that contained Greek interior space used as a woman’s sitting area
Gynaeceum
He was one of the architects of the Parthenon
Callicrates
Which is not one of the Aegean fashions
chlaine
A part of an Egyptian interior that means roofed gallery
Loggia
Aegean Palace Complexes strongly influenced by cultures of ___ & ___
Egyptian & Near East
Painting technique that attempts to depict reality by using devices to create the illusion of a thin dimension in flat painting
Fore Shortening
A kind of pottery that was used to contain perfume, oil and is often depicted in case paintings being used by athletes during bathing
Aryballos
A city that is like a huge pedestal, it was crowned with a group of magnificent buildings that symbolized the glory of Athens
Acropolis
It is a Greek plaza/court, meeting place and platform for speakers
Agora
The Greeks have ___; while the Mycenaeans have ___ as their room for worship
Cella; and Megaron respectively
In Egyptian painting: Men are colored reddish brown; females in ___
yellow
Name the basic parts of an Egyptian column except for one which is:
Frieze
A kind of Cretan writing only used for records and inventories
Linear B
The story is told of a great Labyrinth or maze built beneath the palace at Knossos to house the fearsome ____
Minotaur
An athenian vase painter reversed the color scheme of the Black Figure Style
Psiax
She was an Egyptian queen and the Great Loyal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. She and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshipped one god only
Nefertiti
The _____ civilization came into being around 3000 BCE on the island of Crete.
Minoan
It is a carved, generally stone case in which a linen-wrapped mummy was placed
Sacrophagus
A Hieroglyphics that means the “eye of Horus” is
Wedjat
Greek age of art which is the start Construction of the oldest Doric and Ionic temples and Life-size stone statues
Archaic Age
This was the most common of Egyptian furniture and served as a symbol of authority
Faldstool
The Mycenaean palaces included a ____, the center of where offerings are made
Megaron
Aegean Fashion: There are also flounces sewn to their skirt and these might form a ____ pattern in brown and beige or brown and light blue
Chekered
In Greek architecture, it is a series of columns standing in one line position
Colonnade
It is a term for Greek interior space used as a men’s dining room
Andron
A tapering, four sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex
Obelisk
Ionic fashion: the term was first applied to a certain textile but was later designated as a piece of clothing regardless of the material
Chiton
In Egyptian interiors, the floors were colored ___ like the meadows of the Nile
green
Interior design: A roofed porch upheld by column
Portico
Which is not one of the common building materials of Egyptian architecture?
Marble
A temple space where only one or two rooms are dedicated to a god or goddess as a symbolic home
Cella
Inside the pyramid is a solid limestone, except for passageways and a few rooms called
Galleries
In Egyptian hieroglyphics, what does the “sma” mean?
Union
