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AH - Aegean To Imperial Rome > Vocab > Flashcards

Vocab Flashcards

1
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Main reception hall of a Mycenaen palace, consisting of a rectangular hall with a central hearth, fronted by an open, columned porch

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Megaron

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Originally from the greek word for “double axe,” this term commonly means a maze

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Labyrinth

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In Mycenaen architecture, a beehive-shaped tomb with a circular plan

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Tholos

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Passageway into an ancient tomb

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Dromos

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5
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Half man half bull creature from ancient myth

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Minotaur

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The principle room in a temple or church (often referred to as the cella)

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Naos

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Having a single row of pillars on all sides in the style of the temples of ancient Greece

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Peripteral

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(maiden) archaic greek statue of a young woman

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Kore

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(youth) archaic greek statue of a young man

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Kouros

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The battle between the gods and the giants in Greek myth

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Gigantomachy

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The highly patterned ritual that included the lying state of the corpse

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Prothesis

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Porch or transitional space connected to the most sacred interior room

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Pronaos

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(the people) the common people of a Greek city-state

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Demos

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(1) Shapes, postures, movements, gestures are limited and typical; the Archaic artist generalizes

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Fixed visual formulas

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(2) Artificial and symmetrical rendering of details like musculature, drapery, and hair; repetition of patterns

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Impulse for pattern

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(3) archaic art accepts surface as the foundation of form

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Domination of surface and plane

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(4) line delineates form; shapes (musculature, drapery) are drawn, not modeled

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Linearity

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18
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(5) embellishment and lavish display are archaic ideals - not simplicity and austerity

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Ornamentality

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Plenty of violence and death in arachaic art, there is almost no pain or suffering (action at violent climax with no emotion)

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Explicitness and impassivity

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20
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Ultimate purpose of greek temples

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To be home for the god

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21
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Altar and religious ceremonies were held __.

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Outside

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22
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The classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation on either side of a central axis to give figures a sense of the potential for movement (the asymmetrical balancing of the human body)

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Contrapposto

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23
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A statue made of gold and ivory

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Chryselephantine

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The visibale harmony of definable parts within a unified whole

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Symmetria

25
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Inner character, habit or self-discipline

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Ethos

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A festival held every 4 years in athens where a new peplos was presented to an ancient wooden statue of Athena

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Panthenaic Festival

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Stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building

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Caryatid

28
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This person was responsible for the restoration of the Parthenon

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Perikles

29
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This sculptot created a work that epitomizes the intellectual rigor of classicak statuary design, illustrating his theory of symmetria

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Polykleitos

30
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Two elements of classical sculptures

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Ethos, contrapposto

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A small block of stone, tile, glass, or other material used in the construction of a mosaic

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Tessera

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A building, especially a large and stately one, housing a tomb or tombs

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Mausoleum

33
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Your immediate personal reaction an experience

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Pathos

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This sculptor created the first monumental nude statue of a goddess in the greek world

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Praxiteles

35
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This sculptor was very favored by Alexander the great

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Lysippos

36
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This sculptor depicted gods with a youthful sensuousness that suggests their willful capriciousness towards humans

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Praxiteles

37
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This sculptor changed the proportion to 1:8 and challenged the stark opposition between sculpture and its environment, merging the two

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Lysippos

38
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A cylindrical container used by wealthy women as cases for toiletry articles

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Cista

39
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A brooch used to fasten garments in antiquity

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Fibula

40
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A monumental earth mound

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Tumulus

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A metalworking technique for creating patterns or images in relief by hammering or pressing from the reverse side of a metal sheet

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Repousse

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A procress in art that brings diverse elements together to produce something entirely new

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Syncretism

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An interest in the faithful reproduction of the immediate visual and tactile appearance of subjcts (hyper-realism)

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Veristic

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In ancient roman architecture, a secular building, used as a law court and for public assemblies

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Basilica

45
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With opening or windows

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Fenestrated

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Public open space in a Roman city or town, originally used as a market; the center if political and administrative activities

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Forum

47
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Information, especially viased or misleading

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Propaganda

48
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This Roman is celebrated for his resignation from power

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Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus

49
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With rectilinear and organic patterns against a monochromatic background, this style emphasizes the ornamental value of the design

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Third style

50
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This style is a Roman adaptation of an earlier Greek practice of imitating costly marble

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First style

51
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In the garden scene at the Villa of Livia, the painter successfully used this style to suggest depth and hejgjten the effect of viewing an actual landscape

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Second style

52
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Often described as uniting aspects of all the preceding styles

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Fourth style

53
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A recessed decorative panel used to decorate ceiling or vaults

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Coffer

54
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An extended period of stability, domestic peace in the Roman empire

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Pax Romana

55
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(double theater) an open circular or oval building with a central space surrounded by tiers of seats for spectators

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Amphitheater

56
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Circular opening in the center of a domr or in a wall

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Oculus

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