Art History Chapter 5
Terms
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- humanity
- Only applied to those who could speak Greek.
- Barbarians
- Anyone who could not speak Greek.
- Another name for City-State
- polis
- Another name for community
- deme (hence "democracy")
- Sanctuaries
- sites throughout Greece thought to be sacred to one or more gods.
- Temenos
- Palatial home for the gods.
- Treasuries
- used to store valuable offerings
- stadium
- for athletic events
- another word for navel
- omphalos
- oracle
- a place where a god was believed to communicate with humans by means of cryptic messages delivered through a human intermediary, or medium.
- colonnade
- row of columns
- stoa
- columned pavilion open on three sides
- halos
- outdoor pavement
- Archaic
- old or old-fashioned
- Hellenistic
- Greek-like (final period of Greek art)
- cross-hatching
- characteristic of Proto-Geometric art.
- slip
- mixture of water and clay
- register
- band
- negative spaces
- open space between sculptures. makes the piece pleasing from every view.
- porch
- projects from the house, supported by columns, sheltered the door
- gable
- triangular area formed by a steeply pitched roof
- facade
- front wall
- megaron
- From the Mycenaean palace.
- cella
- (naos) Large audience hall that became main room of the temple.
- Naos
- (cella) Large audience hall that became main room of the temple.
- Pronaos
- temple's vestibule Small reception area that preceded the naos (cella)
- olpe
- wide-mouthed pitcher
- rosettes
- stylized flower forms
- gloss
- clay slip mixed with metallic color pigments
- monumental
- large scale
- elevations
- the arrangement, proportions, and appearance of the columns and the entablatures.
- peristyle
- row of columns that surrounds the cella on all four sides
- entablature
- tall lintel area
- cornice
- slightly projecting topmost element of the entablature.
- entasis
- refinement to the column where the centers swell.
- adyton
- small room at the end of the cella proper
- caryatids
- columns carved in the form of draped women
- antae
- square pillars
- in antis
- between the pillars
- pedestals
- supported a statue or vase
- kore (korai)
- young woman statue
- kouros (kouroi)
- young man statue
- Archaic smile
- close lipped smile used to enliven the expressions of figures.
- attribute
- Identifying symbol
- peplos
- draped rectangle of cloth, usually wool, folded over at the top, pinned at the shoulders, and belted to give a bloused effect.
- encaustic painting
- mixture of pigments and hot wax
- chiton
- like the peplos but fuller
- himation
- cloak draped diagonally and fastened on shoulder.
- volute krater
- a large vessel with scroll shaped, or volute, handles
- amphora
- large, all purpose storage jar
- maenads
- Dionysos' (Bacchus) female worshipers (Romans called them Bacchantes)