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50 Cards in this Set
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Polis |
City (Akropolis) |
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Krater |
Vessels made from pottery...highlights which period the Greeks were in... |
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Pythia |
human medium to communicate Apollo's word |
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oracle |
supernatural being, who holds spiritual commands |
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Treasury |
house to protect Greek city-states offerings--included in Sanctuaries |
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Caryatid |
a sculpture of a draped female figure acting as a column supporting an entablature |
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Black-figure style |
Archaic period version of pottery. Used a black slip and carved out the humans with it |
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Red-figure style |
Opposite version of Black-Figure...more realistic and was easier to get the details |
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White Ground |
Type of ancient Greek pottery which the background color of the object was painted with a slip that turns white during firing..the figures and details were added by painting on or incising into slip---popular in classical period as funerary objects |
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Stylus |
tool used with wet clay to create designs |
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Slip |
underglaze of a pottery piece |
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Corinth |
Port city where luxury wares from Near East Egypt influenced artists...(orientalilzing style occurred here) |
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Olpe |
Ancient Greek vessel without a spout |
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rosettes |
stylized flowers around the rim of a pottery piece |
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Entasis |
Slight curve in a column so it appears in an optical allusion to be straight |
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Kouros/Kouroi |
Archaic Male Statue--they were nearly almost always nude, represented gods, warriors, athletes--fertility=ancestors |
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Kore/Korai |
Archaic Female Statue Always clothed These statues are less life like than Egypt, but took different parts of their ideas |
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Peplos |
draped rectangle cloth that draped across the shoulder--blouse effect, women would wear them |
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Classical |
Three Phases- Classical period (480-450BCE) High Classical Period (450-400BCE) Late Classical Period (400-323 BCE) Described as humanism, rationalism, idealism |
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Canon of Polykleitos |
Polykleitos created a bronze statue (Spear Bearer) and utilized Canon measurement to earn exact proportions |
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Contrapposto |
presenting standing figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation around a central axis that dominates classical art. |
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Hollow casting |
allowed for greek artists to create more free standing statues with arms extending--dont topple over as easy |
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Perikles |
Leader who conquered Athens and Created Akropolis Athens--picking up the pieces of a broken city. Considered arrogant |
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Pheidias |
Supervised the rebuilding of Akropolis (friends with Perikles) |
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Peloponnesian Wars |
no common enemy...Golden age between Sparta and Athens created turmoil between the two...Athens became the greater, more cultured of the two |
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Acropolis |
Most famous in Athens, seated at the top of the city--religious and ceremonial center as well as a treasury and later a fortress -- persians would destroy it but Perikles would rebuild |
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Refinements of design |
Curved upward to create illusion of seeing all columns instead of them wavering off in distance |
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Canon |
system of rations between a basic unit and the length of a various body parts |
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Stele |
upright stone slab |
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Polygnotos |
Active 475-450 BCE as one of most famous artists of time...created illusion of spatial recession in landscapes, rendering female figures clothing to transparent drapes and conveying human emotion |
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Painted Stoa |
long roofed hallway with columns on either side |
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Pausanias |
Greek writer who knew of the Pediment structure |
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Mosaic |
mixing pieces of glass onto hard structure |
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Tesserae |
small cubes used to create mosaic |
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Pliny the Elder |
Roman observer who praised Greek work |
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Philoxenos of Eretria |
Created Alexander the Great Confronts Darius the III |
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Helen of Egypt |
The Great Confronts Darius could have been created by |
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Alexander the Great |
Created Conquest against persians...branched out , occupied Egypt, found seaport--Alexander the great confronts darius III |
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Philip of Macedon |
Defeated Athens and rapidly took Greek cities until his death--his son Alexander took over |
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Darius III |
Persian leader conquered by Alexander the Great |
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Battle of Actium |
31 BCE ends the Hellenistic Period |
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Cleopatra |
Her death marks the end of the Hellenistic Period |
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Corinthian Order |
stylized acanthus leaves that rise from a convex band--continous frieze..stepped out architrave just a few more |
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Orchestra |
Circular area used for theatre performance |
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Skene |
architectural back drop to theatre |
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Proscenium |
The stage |
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Baroque |
anti-classical break away art |
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Pergamon |
Experimental hub of breaking away from the pattern and far advancing hellenistic art |
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Attalos I |
Victory over Gauls...creating giant monument for it |
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Eumenes II |
Dying Gaull statue was executed during his reign |