Chapter 5 Vocabulary

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  1. 4. Sculpture - sculpture that projects from a flat background. A very shallow relief is called a bas-relief
  2. 5. - the main room of a Greek temple where the god is housed; a row of columns surrounding a space within a building such as a court or internal garden or edging a veranda or porch
  3. 6. (pl: propylaea) - a gateway leading to a Greek temple
  4. 11. - an asymmetrical arrangement of the human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with while balancing those of the hips and legs.
  5. 13. temple design - A more ornate form than Doric or Ionic;the capital consists of a double row of acanthus leaves from which tendrils and flowers grow, wrapped around a bell-shaped echinus.
  6. 17. (male: Atlantid) - a building column that is shaped like a female figure
  7. 18. - In classical architecture, the triangular space at the end of a building, formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonnade; also, an ornamental feature having this shape.
  8. 19. - a low protective wall along the edge of a roof, bridge, or balcony.
  9. 20. - a continuous flat coping or pavement supporting a row of architectural columns
  10. 21. - “high city”; a Greek temple complex built on a hill over a city
  11. 22. - a colonnade a surrounding a building or court
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  1. 1. cornice - either of two straight, sloping cornices on a pediment following or suggesting the slopes of a roof.
  2. 2. - The architects of the PArthenon believed that perfect beauty could be achieved by using harmonic proportions. The ratio for larger and smaller parts was (x=2y+1) i.e. a plan of 17 x 8 columns
  3. 3. - a projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple
  4. 7. - building with a portico (porch that leads to an entrance of a building) at each end and no columns across the sides
  5. 8. - upper story of a greek temple; a horizontal part in classical architecture that rests on the columns and consists of architrave, frieze and cornice
  6. 9. temple design - one of three architectural orders, characterized by fluted columns and capitals with scroll like elements.
  7. 10. temple design - oldest and simplest of the three orders of classical Greek architecture; no base
  8. 12. - body of a column
  9. 14. - a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature
  10. 15. - a decorative band, usually, but not always, above a doorframe or on the wall near the ceiling.
  11. 16. - a small relief sculpture on the facade of a Greek temple