Test 2

Question 1

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Name: Figurine of a woman from Syros

Period: Cycladic

Significance: mostly women, painted with eyes, triangular, found in graves, not much known about figures

Question 2

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Name: Male lyre player from Keros

Period: Cycladic

Significance: might be part of a funerary ritual, highly stylized

Question 3

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Name: Marine Style octopus jar

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: form influences the content, octopus engulfs the roundness, very informal and relaxed, reflects the life of Cretans near the ocean

Question 4

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Name: Harvester’s vase

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: singing, interest in anatomy/ ribcage showing, rattle - sistrum (Egyptian) - trade

Question 5

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Name: Magazine from the palace at Knossos

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: storage place, pithoi- large jar, city had running water, clay pipes, bathroom, highly developped,

Question 6

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Name: Procession fresco (Palace at Knossos)

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: buon fresco, carrying a boxer vase, colorful, profile view, dressed in high fashion, care-free lifestyle, styled hair

Question 7

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Name: Minoan woman or goddess (La Parisienne)

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: Fashion

Question 8

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Name: Ladies in Blue Fresco

Period: Middle Minoan

Significance: highly decorative, a lot of movement, evidence of Minoan civilization in Egypt during Amarna period, inspiration for art deco

Question 9

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Name: Bull leaping from the palace at Knossos

Period: Minoan

Significance: religious sport, sacred bull, dark (male) figures and light (women) figures, bull is elongated, emphasizes movement

Question 10

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Name: Snake Goddess from the palace at Knossos

Period: Minoan

Significance: fertility icon

Question 11

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Name: Rhyton in the shape of a bull’s head

Period: Minoan

Significance: case or cup for libations to the gods, holds wine,

Question 12

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Name: Lion Gate, Mycenae

Period: Mycenaean

Significance: strategic for war archers, corbeled arch with lions or griffins surrounding a pillar, sacred pillar, inspired Greek with imagery in triangle shape

Question 13

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Name: Treasury of Atreus (Tholos Tomb)

Period: Mycenaean

Significance: bee hive shape, corbelled arch entrance, long dromos, buried dead only until the soul was taken

Question 14

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Name: Funerary Mask

Period: Mycenaean

Significance: not idealized, made of Mycenaean gold

Question 15

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Name: Inlaid dagger blades from lion hunt

Period: Mycenaean

Significance: Cretan style, war themed

Question 16

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Name: Vaphio Cups

Period: Mycenaen

Significance: known for goldwork, bulls depicted on cups, repoussé- raised surface of cup, war subjects

Question 17

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Name:
a. Hydria (Water Jar)

b. Lekythos (Oil flask for funerals)
c. Krater (Mixing bowl for wine and water)
d. Amphora [Storage jar (wine, corn oil, honey)]
e. Kylix (Drinking cup)
f. Oenochoe (Wine pouring jug)

Period: Greek

Significance:

Question 18

Answer 18

Name: Kroisos (Kouros)

Period: Archaic Greek

Significance: grave marker, influenced by Egyptians, stylized hair, free-standing

Question 19

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Name: Peplos Kore

Period: Archaic Greek

Significance: painted in certain parts, encaustic painting, first full life size figures

Question 20

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Name: Kore from the Acropolis

Period: Greek

Significance: gravestone marker, Ionic figure, influenced by Meopotamia

Question 21

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Name: Temple of Hera I (Basilica)

Period: Archaic Greek

Significance: megaron, experimental phase,

Question 22

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Name: Gigantomachy (detail of the north frieze of the Siphnian Treasury)

Period: Archaic Greek

Significance: Apollo and Artemis persue a fleeing giant, originally had painted labels for the gods and goddesses

Question 23

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Name: Temple of Hera II

Period: Early Classical Greek

Significance: Doric temple modeled closely with on the Olympian shrine of Zeus

Question 24

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Name: Pericles

Period: Classical Greek

Significance: artist Kresilas made a noble man seem nobler, idealized images in which humans appeared godlike

Question 25

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Name: Parthenon, Iktinos and Kallidrates Period: Classical Greek Significance: harmonic proportions, peripital collonnade, optical illusion with spacing of columns, Doric

Question 26

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Name: Parthenon replica Period: Significance: Classical Greek architecture was an inspriation to many architects

Question 27

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Name: East Pediment of Parthenon (pediment sculptures) Three Goddesses; Hestia, Dione, Aphrodite Period: Classical Greek Significance: the thin and heavy folds reval and conceal the body forms, Phidias designed the compositions and his assistants executed it

Question 28

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Name: Erechtheion Period: Classical Significance: an Ionic temple with fine decorative details, honored Athena and contains a wooden the ancient wooden image of her that was the goal of the Panathnaic Festival procession

Question 29

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Name: Column types Period: Greek Significance: doric- square column bases, ionic, curved column bases, leave column bases

Question 30

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Name: Temple of Bassae Period: Significance:

Question 31

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Name: Epidauros theatre, Polykleitos the Younger Period: Macaedonian Significance: situated on a hillside to support the stone seats, overlooks a circular orchestra, setting for the performances of ancient Greek Dramas

Question 32

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Name: Charioteer Period: Early Classica Greek Significance: hollowed bronze, lost wax method (cier perdu), many copies of Greek sculpture done by Romans, victory statue

Question 33

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Name: Kritios Boy Period: Early Classical Greek Significance: earliest example of contrapposto, relaxed stance with leg out and hips tilted, absence of archaic smile, not as stylized

Question 34

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Name: Riace Warrior Period: Classical Greek Significance: contrapposto, polykleitos canon- relaxed arm and leg, natural/ nude (ideal)

Question 35

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Name: Poseidon/ Zeus Period: Classical Significance: more realistic body for a god, lifesize, throwing a lightening bolt or triton

Question 36

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Name: Discus Thrower (Discobolos), MYRON Period: Classical Greek Significance: marble copies with supporting elements

Question 37

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Name: Doryphoros (Spearbearer), POLYKLEITOS Period: Classical Greek Significance: canon- resolution of opposites, Roman copies have supporting elements

Question 38

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Name: Hermes holding Dionysis, PRAXITELES Period: Classical Greek Significance: Roman copy or Greek originally?

Question 39

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Name: Nike alighting on a warship (Nike of Samothrace) Period: Greek Hellenistic Significance: not a relaxed figure, in motion, draped clothing,

Question 40

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Name: Laocoön Period: Greek Hellenistic Significance: movement, narrative, human drama, highly realistic (technical virtouosity), not a copy, discovered in High Renaissance, influenced Michaelangelo

Question 41

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Name: Dying Gaul, EPIGONOS Period: Greek Hellenistic Significance: torc on neck, hair is matted, narrative, human drama/emotion, technical virtouosity

Question 42

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Name: Venus de Milo Period: Hellenistic Greek Significance: pose is unknown, armless, epitome of beauty and sensuality

Question 43

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Name: Boy Strangling Goose Period: Hellenistic Greek Importance: conversation starter, human interest

Question 44

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Name: Stoa of Attalos II Period: Late Hellenistic Significance: Doric order on bottom ionic on top, attempt to organize the Agora, gift from king to Athens

Question 45

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Name: Lion Hunt from Pella, GNOSIS Period: Late Hellenistic Significance: mosaic with shading, tessarae, natural colored stones

Question 46

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Name: Model of a typical 6th Century Etruscan Temple Period: Etruscan Significance: Prostyle temple, wooden columns further apart, not fluted

Question 47

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Name: Apulu (Apollo) Period: Etruscan Significance: Terra cotta, personalized sculpture, molds, Greek god, movement

Question 48

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Name: Sarcophagus of a reclining couple Period: Etruscan Significance: archaic smile, Egytian influence

Question 49

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Name: Interior of the tomb of reliefs Period: Early Etruscan Significance: the most elaborate Cerveteri tomb, painted stucco reliefs cover its walls and piers, everyday items left as reminders of the houses of the living

Question 50

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Name: Interior of the Tomb of the Leopards Period: Archaic Etruscan Significance: large hand figures, Greek figures

Question 51

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Name: Capitoline Wolf Period: Etruscan Significance: Romulus and Remus born from gods, mythology

Question 52

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Name: Chimera of Arezzo Period: Etruscan Significance: composite monster, the Greek hero Bellepheron slew, wounded beast ready to attack

Question 53

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Name: Roman portrait Period: Roman Significance: not idealized, Vatican

Question 54

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Name: Portrait Bust of a Flavian woman Period: Early Roman Significance: stylized hair

Question 55

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Name: Mummy Portrait of a Man Period: Early Roman Significance: adopted practices of ancient Egypt and Greece, encaustic, wood wrapped around mummy, attempt at realism

Question 56

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Name: Temple of Portunus Period: Early Roman Significance: influenced by Greeks (columns, steps), and Etruscans (prostyle, no statues in pediment), engaged columns, pseudoperipital, marble covered veneer

Question 57

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Name: Arch of Titus Period: Roman Significance: depicted the sack of Jeruselem, high relief panels, rounded arch new Roman architecture, coffered ceilings (Parthenon)

Question 58

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Name: Palatine Hill Period: Significance:

Question 59

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Name: Ara Pacis Augustae Period: Early Roman Empire Significance: Augustus sought to present his new order as a Golden Age, celebrates the emperor's most important achievement - the establishment of peace

Question 60

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Name: Procession of the imperial family Period: Early Roman Empire Significance: depict recognizable individuals, Augustus promoted marriage and childbearing

Question 61

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Name: Colosseum Period: Flavian Significance: a complex system of barrel vaults, gladiator combats and animal hunts

Question 62

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Name: Pantheon Period: High Roman Empire Significance: traditional facade masked its revolutionary cylindrical drum and its huge hemispherical dome, interior symbolized both the orb of the earth and the vault of the heavens

Question 63

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Name: Pont du Gard Period: Early Roman Empire Significance: Roman engineers constructed roads and bridges, aqueduct bridge brought water from a distant mountain spring to Nimes

Question 64

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Name: Plaster casts of the victims of Mt. Vesuvius eruption Period: Significance:

Question 65

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Name: First Style wall painting in the fauces of the Samnite House Period: Roman Republic Significance: aim was to imitate costly marble panels using painted stucco relief, style is Greek in origin and another example of the Hellenization of the Republican architecture

Question 66

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Name: Dionysiac mystery frieze, Second Style Period: Roman Republic Significance: illusion of imagery of three dimensional, the figures act out the initiation rites of the Dionysiac mysteries

Question 67

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Name: Gardenscape, second style Period: Roman Republic Significance: picture window, to suggest recession- atmospheric perspective

Question 68

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Name: Detail of a Third Style wall painting from cubiculum Period: Roman Republic Significance: delicate linear fantasies

Question 69

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Name: Fourth Style wall paintings, House of Vetti Period: Roman Republic Significance: illusionism, motifs on monochromatic background, fragments of buildings

Question 70

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Name: Column of Trajan Period: High Empire Significance: continuous spriral narrative frieze, served as Trajan's tomb, the band increase in width as it reaches the top (foreshortening)

Question 71

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Name: Colossal head of Constantine Period: Late Empire Significance: revive the Augustan image of an eternally youthful ruler, one fragment of an enthroned Jupiter-like statue of the emperor holding the orb of world power

Question 72

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Name: Arch of Constantine Period: Late Empire Significance: sculptural inspiration from monuments fo Trajan, Hadrian, and Marcus Arelius, sculptors recut the heads of the earlier emperors to substitute Constantine's features

Question 73

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Name: Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs Period: Late Empire Significance: Diocletian established the tetrarchy to bring order to the Roman world, depicted the four corulers as nearly identical partners in power

Question 74

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Name: Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius Period: High Empire Significance: superhuman grandeur, outstretched arm as a greeting or offer of clemency, an enemy once cowered underneath the horse's foot, use of emotional features of the face

Question 75

megaron

Answer 75

a large rectangular room at the center of the citadel

Question 76

magazine

Answer 76

-storage area

Question 77

encaustic

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wax medium paint

Question 78

triglyphs

Answer 78

characteristic at the end of the roof beam, decorated

Question 79

metapies

Answer 79

visual scenes on a temple

Question 80

entabliture

Answer 80

triangle structure above a temple, sometimes filled with sculptures

Question 81

entasis

Answer 81

the swelling in the middle of the columns, optical illusion

Question 82

stylobate

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the platform where the temple sits

Question 83

agora

Answer 83

the city/ town center (ancient marketplace)

Question 84

gigantomachy

Answer 84

battle between the Greeks and the gods

Question 85

technical virtuousity

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highly realstic depictions of anatomy

Question 86

castrum

Answer 86

Roman military camp