APAH Ancient Greece Review: Crossword Puzzle

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  1. 2. The most complex Greek column design, the capitals are ornately decorated to look like lavish leaves and flowers
  2. 3. An open-air structure that serves as a marketplace; a center location for socialization
  3. 6. In Archaic sculpture, a standing male youth, nude, and in a rigid, conventional pose. These youthful figures often served as grave markers or votive figures
  4. 7. The final period of Greek art, in which artists focused more on creating art that is expressive and naturalistic
  5. 8. The earliest style of column; features very little to no capital decoration
  6. 12. In Greek Architecture, a band of decoration that sits atop and across the columns and below the structure’s roofline.
  7. 18. The crowning (top piece) of a column
  8. 19. Plan The Ancient Greek city design that involved a grid-system using right angles
  9. 20. This style of pottery involves painting the outline of the decorational figures with slip (which eventually turns black), and leaving the figures themselves the color of the pottery. The background is filled in around the figures, as seen in the Niobides Krater.
  10. 21. A row of columns (colonnade) around the cella of a temple
  11. 22. In Greek Mythology, a representation of the battle between the Olympian gods and the Giants in antiquity. A famous depiction of this can be seen in The Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon
  12. 23. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
  13. 24. a style of column in which the capital is decorated with a scroll or mushroom-like design
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  1. 1. A Classical sculptural pose that explores a more relaxed style than art in the Archaic period. It is characterized by its dynamism and naturalism.
  2. 4. The name of the periods mean “early”; during this time, statuary evolved, and artists began to explore the human form through kouros and kore statues.
  3. 5. This sculptor was fascinated by the thought of “the perfect human form”. He developed a set of proportions for artists to use to help create beautiful, harmonious works called the canon.
  4. 6. Greek pottery, a mixing bowl with handles on both sides.
  5. 9. Located in the center of a Greek temple, this room would contain a statue or idol of the city’s deity.
  6. 10. The high point of Greek Civilization, art from this period has an emphasis on the perfect human form, along with beginning to use contrapposto. The conventions from this period are so appreciated that they have become the standard for the art world and are admired by all.
  7. 11. This idea used in Greek art that states that emphasizing the beauty human body, it brings importance to humanity and humans themselves
  8. 13. A sculpture is ________ when it is larger-than-life
  9. 14. Many of the works that are considered today to be Greek art are actually Roman duplicates. Although these replicas are made in marble, most Greek sculptors actually would have used ______
  10. 15. The name of this period of art in Greece that immediately followed its dark age after the fall of the Mycenaeans. The most common motif was the meander, or greek fret, a decoration consisting of interlocking geometric lines.
  11. 16. Wet Drapery technique Used in sculpture and invented by Phidias, this style has a figure’s clothing clinging to its body as if its attire were wet. This highlights the forms of the body while keeping the subject matter’s modesty in mind
  12. 17. In Archaic sculpture, a standing female youth in elaborate drapings and a rigid conventional pose. These youthful figures served as grave markers or votive figures