Test 2 key terms

Question 1

Kybisis

Answer 1

The bag that Perseus carried Medusa’s head in.

Question 2

White-ground

Answer 2

Chalky white slip applied, figures painted in outline, dilute glaze for details and large areas of colour.

Question 3

Myron

Answer 3

worked from 480-440, best known for representation of Gods and heroes. But his most famous is that of a cow.

Question 4

Polykleitos

Answer 4

treaties setting out new rule/mathematical standard of representing the ideal male figure.

Question 5

Baroque

Answer 5

drama and theatricality.

Question 6

Rococo

Answer 6

fanciful and frivolous

Question 7

Hellenistic baroque

Answer 7

theatricality, deep carving, contrasts of light and shade, drama through twisting heads and bodies, emotional intensity.

Question 8

Strigil

Answer 8

what athletes used to rid themselves of sweat.

Question 9

Dexiosis

Answer 9

handshake motif.

Question 10

Praxiletes

Answer 10

Career from 370-330, headed his own sculpting school, worked on the mausoleum of Halicarnassus.

Question 11

Lysippos

Answer 11

long career of 360-320s, spans late Classical and early Hellenistic. His worls are characterized by Praxitilean proportions, interaction with space and multiple view points.

Question 12

Symplegma (symplegmata)

Answer 12

wrestling figures with sexual connotations.

Question 13

Paradoxographoi

Answer 13

‘recorders of marvels’ such as Bolos of Mendes