ap art history ch 4~5
aegean & greek art
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- exekias
- an ancient artist of the black-figure technique
- kouros
- archaic greek sculpture of standing male
- repousse
- to push back; a type of metal relief sculpture in which the back side of a plate is hammered to form a raised relief on the front
- entablature
- the upper story of a greek temple
- corbel arch
- a vault formed by layers of stone that gradually grow closer together as they rise until they eventually meet
- relief sculpture
- sculpture that projects from a flat background. a very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief
- trigylph
- a projectiong grooved element alternating with a metope on a greek temple
- stoa
- in ancient greek architecture, an open building with a roof supported by a row of columns parallel to the back wall
- Fresco
- a painting technique that involves applying water-based paint onto a freshly plaster wall. the paint forms a bond with the plaster that is durable and long lasting
- centaur
- in ancient greek mythology, a fantastical creature with the front or top half of a human and the back or bottom half of a horse
- skene
- in ancient greek, a building behind the playing area that was originally a hut in which actors changes masks/costumes.
- agora
- an open square/space used for public meetings or buisness in ancient greek cities
- pericles
- athenian statesman and general
- entasis
- the convex profile in the shaft of a column
- krater
- large greek bowl used for mixing water and wine
- contrapposto
- a graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees/weight shift/one foot tension one foot relaxed
- amphora
- a two -handled greek storage jar
- kiln
- an oven used for making pottery
- pediment
- the triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture
- cella
- the main room of a greek temple where the god is housed
- acropolis
- high city, a greek temple complex build on a hill over a city
- atlantid
- male figured column
- metope
- small relief sculpture on th efacade of a greek temple
- orchestra
- in ancient greek theatres, the circular piece of earth with a hard and level surface on which the performance took place
- dorians
- a member of Hellenic people who entered the modern Greece lands from North ca.1100BCE
- kore
- archaic sculpture of female
- tholos
- circular shrine
- propylaeum
- a gateway leading to a greek temple
- cavae
- the seating area in ancient greek/roman theaters
- herakles
- greek hero/great strength
- caryatid
- female figured column
- frieze
- a horizontal band of sculpture
- cornice
- a projecting ledge over a wayy
- kylix
- greek drinking cup
- architrave
- a plain, unornamented litel on the entablature
- foreshortening
- the use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visuale contradiction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight
- olympiad
- a celebration of the ancient/modern olympic games
- ionians
- a member of ancient Hellenic people who inhabits Attica, Asian Minor, and the Aegean Islands
- euphronius
- ancient, master artist of the red-figure technique
- megaron
- a rectangular audience hall in aegean art that has a two-column porch and four columns around a central air well
- lord elgin
- A british who dismantled the many Parthenon sculpture by the ships
- mosaic
- a decoration using pieces of stone, marble, or colored glass, called tesserae, that are cemented to a wall or a floor
- portico
- a roofles colonnade, also an entrance porch
- siren
- in ancient greek mythology, a creature tht was part bird, part woman
- shaft
- the body of a column
- cyclopean masonry
- a type of construction that uses rough, massive blocks of stone pilled one atop the other without mortar. Named for the mythical Cyclops