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Greece
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Regarded humankind as the highest creature of nature - closest thing to perfection
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Krater
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Refers to the vessels handled shape, traditionally used for mixing ceremonial beverages
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Kouros and kore
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Kouros is Greek for male youth and Kore is for female youth
Greeks created life sized freestanding statues of nudes |
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Classical art
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Emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion
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Contrapposto
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Italian for counterpose. The counterpositioning of parts of the human figure about a vertical axis, as when the weight is placed on one foot causing the hip and shoulder lines to counterbalance each other
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Parthenon
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Designed and built as a gift to Athena Parthenos, goddess of wisdom
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Entasis
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The slight swelling or bulge in the center of a column, which corrects the illusion of concave tapering produced by parallel straight lines
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Metopes
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A square panel, often decorated with relief sculpture, placed at regular intervals above the colonnade of a classical Greek building
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Pediment
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A shelf above the colonnade on the short ends of a classical Greek temple. A triangular space below the gable roof
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Capitals
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The top part or head of a column or pillar (3 types)
1. Doric - simple, geometric, and sturdy 2. Ionic- taller and more decorative 3. Corinthian - complex and organic |
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Hellenistic
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Greek-like. The transition to hellenistic coincided with the decline of Athens as a city-state after it fought a useless war with Sparta
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Hellenistic period art
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More dynamic and less idealized. It contrasts with classical Greek art in that it is more expressive and shows exaggerated movement
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Rome
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New force in the Mediterranean. By the second century, Rome had become the major power in the western world
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Romans
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Practical, less idealistic than Greeks. Their greatest achievements were in civil engineering, town planning, and architecture.
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Portico
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A porch attached to a building, supported with columns. Usually surrounded by a triangular pediment under a gable roof
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Coffer
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In architecture, a decorative sunken panel on the underside of a ceiling
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Catacombs
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Underground burial places in ancient Rome. Christians and Jews often decorated the walls and ceilings with paintings
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Basilica
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A roman town hall, with 3 aisles and an apse at one or both ends. Christians appropriated this form for their churches
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Apse
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A semicircular end to an aisle in a basilica or a Christian Church. In Christian churches and apse is usually placed at the eastern end of the central aisle
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San vitale
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The most important sixth century byzantine church in Ravenna
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The middle ages in Europe
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The one thousand years that followed the fall of the Western roman empire. They came between the fall of the roman empire and the rebirth of Greco-Roman ideas
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Animal style
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Developed by the eurasian nomads beginning in the late second Millennium BCE and lasting into the early middle ages in Europe. Based on abstracted forms of animals, often interlacing. Usually appears on personal adornment items, weapons, and horse fittings
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Romanesque
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A style of European architecture prevalent from the ninth to the twelfth centuries with round arches and barred vaults influenced by roman architecture and characterized by heavy stone construction
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Gothic
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Primarily an architectural style that prevailed in western Europe from the 12th through the 15th centuries, characterized by pointed arches, ribbed vaults, and flying buttresses, which made it possible to create stone buildings that reached great heights
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Flamboyant
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"flame-like". A style of late Gothic architecture characterized by intricate decorations and sinuous curves
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Humanism
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A philosophy or attitude concerned with the interests, achievements, and capabilities of human beings rather than the abstract concepts and problems of theology or science
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Renaissance
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Period in Europe from the late 14th through the 16th centuries, which was characterized by a renewed interest in human-centered classical art, literature, and learning
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Genre paintings
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A type of artwork that takes as it's subject everyday life, rather than civic leaders, religious figures, or mythological heroes. Flourished in Flanders and Holland between the 16th and 18th centuries
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Rocco
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French meaning "rock work". This late baroque style used in interior decoration and painting was characteristically playful, pretty, romantic, and visually loose or soft
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High Renaissance
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1490-1530. Italian art reached a peak of accomplishment in florence, Rome, and Venice. Leonardo, Michaelangelo, and raphael.
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Baroque
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1600-1770. Artists used the Renaissance techniques to move art in the direction of drama, emotion, and splendor.
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