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- 3. a style of column in which the capital is decorated with a scroll or mushroom-like capital
- 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.
- 9. Plan The ANcient Greek city design that involved a grid-system using right angles
- 14. The name of the 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.
- 17. 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 ______
- 18. The most complex Greek column design, the capitals are ornately decorated to look like lavish leaves and flowers
- 19. 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
- 22. 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 admired by all.
- 23. 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.
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- 1. This idea used in Greek art that states that emphasizing the beauty human body, it brings importance to humanity and humans themselves
- 2. The final period of Greek art, in which artists focused more on
- 5. 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.
- 6. A Classical sculptural pose that explores a more relaxed style than art in the Archaic period. It is characterized by its dynamism and naturalism.
- 7. 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
- 8. The crowning (top part) of a column
- 10. An open-air structure that serves as a marketplace; a center location for socialization
- 11. A row of columns (colonnade) around the cella of a temple
- 12. A sculpture is ________ when it is larger-than-life
- 13. Located in the center of a Greek temple, this room would contain a statue or idol of the city’s deity.
- 14. 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
- 15. The earliest style of column with very little to no capital decoration
- 16. In Greek Architecture, a band of decoration that sits atop and across the columns and below the structure’s roofline.
- 20. 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
- 21. Art consisting of a design made of small pieces of colored stone or glass
- 24. Greek pottery, a mixing bowl with handles on both sides.