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Cards in this set: Term {image:http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Greek_Geometric_Krater.jpg|center} Definition Name:Dipylon Krater Location: the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece Date: ca. 740 BCE Period: Geometric Period -One of the earliest examples of paintings on pots -Marked the grave of the Athenian Man -Hole in the bottom for practical and/or ritual purposes Term {image:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Kouros/KroisosKouros.jpg|center} Definition Name:Kroisos Location:Greece Date:ca. 530 BCE Period: Archaic Period -Marked a Grave -Archaic Smile, Naturalist Term {image:http://www1.hollins.edu/faculty/saloweyca/Athenian%20Woman/Nadia%20Manifold/Portrayal%20of%20Women%20Throughout%20Greece_files/image003.jpg|center} Definition Name:Peplos Kore Location: the Acropolis, Athens, Greece Time: ca. 530 BCE. Period: Archaic Period -Wore Peplos, a column shaped garment -might be either a maiden or g-ddess Term {image:http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1039/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1039-15322.jpg|center} Definition Name: François Vase Artist:Kleitias and Ergotimos Date: ca. 570 BCE. Period: Archaic Period -Volute Shaped -200 figures in 6 registrars -shows various greek mythology Term {image:http://images.library.wisc.edu/ArtHistory/S/1/t/278613t.jpg|center} Definition Name: Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game Artist: Exekias Time: ca. 540–530 BCE. Period: Archaic Period -Two Soliders playing a dice game -one is saying 4 the other is saying 3 -calm before the storm moment Term {image:http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/BRGPOD/92569_b~Attic-Red-Figure-Calyx-Krater-Depicting-Herakles-Wrestling-with-Antaeus-from-Cervetri-circa-510-BC-Posters.jpg|center} Definition Name: Herakles wrestling Antaios Artist: Euphronios Date: ca. 510 BCE. Period: Archaic Period -Shows the middle of a fight -Renders human anatomy -Red Figure Technique: pigment applied to background, no paint on figures -Middle of Story, no Climax Term kouros Definition an archaic Greek statue of a young man. Term Kore Definition A statue of woman produced in Ancient Greece Term red-figure Definition In later Greek pottery, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background, with painted linear details; the reverse of black-figure painting. Term black-figure Definition In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silhouettes. Term Megaron Definition a free-standing, more or less square room entered at one side through one or more anterooms and a two-columned porch Term Doric Order Definition characterized by, among other features, capitals with funnel-shaped echinuses, columns without bases, and a frieze of triglyphs and metopes. Term Ionic Order Definition characterized by, among other features, volutes, capitals, columns with bases, and an uninterrupted frieze. Term Capital Definition The uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. Term Metope Definition The panel between the triglyphs in a Doric frieze, often sculpted in relief. Term Triglyph Definition A slightly projecting rectangular element of the DORIC FRIEZE characterized by two or three vertical cuttings. Term Volute Definition A spiral, scroll-like form characteristic of the ancient Greek Ionic and the Roman Composite capital. Term Entasis Definition The convex profile (an apparent swelling) in the shaft of a column Term Pediment Definition In classical architecture, the triangular space (gable) at the end of a building, formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonnade; also, an ornamental feature having this shape. Term {image:http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/classic/wilson/archaic/aphaiae.jpg|center} Definition Name:Dying warrior Location: West pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Date: ca. 500–490 BCE Period: Archaic Period -No archaic smile -Looking down in saddness -Beard, old looking Term {image:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/LX/ThAphaiaWVII79.jpg|center} Definition Name:Dying warrior Location: the east pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina Date: ca. 490–480 BCE. Period: Archaic Period -Nature Perfected -Archaic Smile -Doesn't look in pain or hurt Term Definition Term {image:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Olympia/ZeusPedimentOlympia2.jpg|center} Definition Name: East pediment Location: Temple of Zeus at Olympia Date: ca. 470-456 BCE Period: Classical Period -Nature Perfected -natural but idealized -Chariot Race btwn Pelops vs Oinomas -Calm Before the Storm Moment -Roughly Se-metrical Term {image:http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Cities/OlympiaS002.jpg|center} Definition Name: Seer Location: from East pediment, Temple of Zeus at Olympia Date: ca. 470-456 BCE Period: Classical Period -View Empathizes with Seer because like the seer, the viewer knows what happens at the end of the story depicted at the East pediment Term {image:http://history.hanover.edu/courses/art/sgreboy.jpg|center} Definition Name:Kritios Boy Date: ca. 480 BCE Period: Classical Period -Body is shifting to the left -Naturalistic pose Term {image:http://faculty.etsu.edu/kortumr/07hellenicgreece/htmdescriptionpages/19warriordesc.jpg|center} Definition Name: Riace Warrior Date: ca. 460-450 BCE Period: Classical Period -Bronze -Found in a Shipwreck -One of a very few amount of Bronze sculptures preserved Term {image:http://veronica2305.tripod.com/images/GrkH3-x.gif|center} Definition Name:Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) Artist: Polykleitos Date: ca. 450–440 BCE Period: Classical Period -Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original -based on pthyagorous -Underlying Harmonic Proportions that are found in everything beautiful -Chlastic Balance, X shape of engaged muscles and relaxed muscles -Controposto stance Term {image:http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/Everyone%20Else/images/parthenon-and-the-acropolis.jpg|center} Definition Name: Parthenon Artist: Iktinos and Kallikrates Location: the Temple of Athena Parthenos, The Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Date: 447–438 BCE. Period: Classical Period -Doric Order On the Exterior -Ionic Order on the Interior -Covered in archeticual sculpture -Nothing is straight, all lines are curved slightly Term Delian League Definition alliance formed by Athens with other city-states after Persian wars; later taken over by Athens and became Athenian empire. Term Contrapposto Definition the disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part (usually hips and legs one way, shoulders and chest another), creating a counter-positioning of the body about its central axis Term stylobate Definition The third of three steps of a Greek temple on which the columns rest Term Canon Definition a rule or especially body of rules or principles generally established as valid and fundamental in a field or art or philosophy Term chiastic Definition made or covered with gold or ivory Term {image:https://people.creighton.edu/~ees33175/Aesthetics_course_website/Aesth_images/Ancient-Greece/Parthenon-3_Goddesses1.jpg|center} Definition Name: Goddesses (Hestia, Dione, and Aphrodite?) Location: east pediment, Parthenon, Date:ca. 438–432 BCE. Period: Classical Period -shows 2 g-ddesses -sculpture shows the g-ddesses wearing very sheer fabric, with their bodies showing through Term {image:http://www.thecityreview.com/lonelg.gif|center} Definition Name: Details of the Panathenaic Festival procession frieze: Horsemen of north frieze, gods and goddesses, elders and maidens of east frieze, Date: ca. 447–438 BCE. Period: Classical Period -Outside the Dipylon Gate -Festival for "new outfit" for Athena Statue -people in the world are shown: idealized middle age people -top part has more depth on it than the bottom Term {image:http://www.honors.umaine.edu/images/hon111/acropolis/Erechtheion%20Porch%20of%20Maidens%20II.jpg|center} Definition Name: Erechtheion Location: Acropolis, Athens, Greece Date: ca. 421–405 BCE. Period: Classical Period -needed to be at the acropolis despite poor areas to construct on -holds the tree of Athena, and Posidens salt water rock -honors Athena, houses another Athena Statue -Ionic Order Term {image:http://www.parosweb.com/white-marble/images/greek-statues/hermes-praxiteles.jpg|center} Definition Name: Hermes and the infant Dionysos Artist: Praxiteles Date: ca. 340 BCE. Period: Late Classical -Marble copy after an original -interaction btwn g-ds -balance shift -s curve- similar to controposto -people are longer and thinner than before Term {image:http://www.travelingclassroom.org/tcf/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/praxit_aphroditi_knidos.jpg|center} Definition Name: Aphrodite of Knidos Artist: Praxiteles Date: ca. 350–340 BCE. Period: Late Classical -Roman marble copy after an original -first nude female; first nude g-ddess -g-ddess of love: evokes a sexual errotic tone -suceeded in representing an idol Term {image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZ7yX2QnpqE/RlyGDk9DwXI/AAAAAAAAAak/FD3cYLuFIHo/s320/grave+stele+hunter+340.jpg|center} Definition Name: Grave stele of a hunter Date: ca. 340-330 BCE Period: Late Classical - Idealized figure =represents the dead -Older philosopher, contemplation= represents a living person -Young Boy crying- represents a living person -Sad Dog- represents a living person Term {image:http://open-site.org/img/chirone/009Apoxyomenos.jpg|center} Definition Name: Apoxymenos (Scraper) Artist: Lysippos Date: ca. 330 BCE. Period: Late Classical -Roman marble copy after a bronze -conntraposto stance -athletic- arm sticking out into space -scraping oil/sand to clean from athletics -engagment of body by viewer Term {image:http://sonjakcheca.files.wordpress.com/2007/03/battle_of_issus.jpg|center} Definition Name: “Battle of Issus,” Artist: Philoxenos of Eretria Date: ca. 310 BCE Period: Late Classical -mosaic copy from Pompeii -Alexander; great big eyes, looking up, curly hair -Battle between Alexander/ Darius III -Optical tricks represented Term Strigil Definition A strigil was a small, curved, metal tool used in ancient Greece and Rome to scrape dirt and sweat from the body before effective soaps became available. Term Tesserae Definition mall stone cubes used to make mosaics Term {image:http://www.myeport.com/published/u/hs/uhse002/slideshow/22/54.19357.G.jpg|center} Definition Name:Athena battling Alkyoneos, detail of the gigantomachy frieze, Location: the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, Turkey Date: ca. 175 BCE Period: Hellenistic Period -based on parthenon pediment -violent movement -shows Athena's birth Term {image:https://mywebspace.wisc.edu/ndcahill/web/t/ndc2507t.jpg|center} Definition Name: Gallic chieftain killing himself and his wife Artist: Epigonos Location: Pergamon, Turkey Date: ca. 230–220 BCE -Roman marble copy after a bronze original -center of the attalid group -intensely expressive faces -woman's limp/lifeless -theatrical gestures Term {image:http://dakar-extra.org/wiki/images/thumb/6/6c/Old_roger.jpg/180px-Old_roger.jpg|center} Definition Name: Old market woman Date: ca. 150–100 BCE. Period: Hellenistic Period -old woman carrying chickens and fruits/veggies -face is wrinkled, back is bent over -spirit seems broken -no one knows the purpose of the statue Term {image:http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/upload/thumb/7/78/300px-Ac.laocoon.jpg|center} Definition Name: Laocoön and his sons Artist: Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes Date: early 1st century CE Period: Hellenistic Period -based on a group of hellenistic masterpiece depicting Laocoon and sons -represents g-ds punishing laocoon for trying to warn Troy of the Trojan horse Term {image:http://www.lifeinitaly.com/images/img/Etruscan-temple.jpg|center} Definition Name: Model of an Etruscan Temple Date: sixth century BCE Period: Etruscan -model of a typical temple -wooden columns and roofs -wall were sun-dried bricks -narrow staircase for entrance -Greek style doric columns Term {image:http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/romancivimages2/10apollo.jpg|center} Definition Name: Apulu (Apollo) Artist: Vulca of Veii (attrib.) Location: from Veii Date: ca. 510-500 BCE Period: Etruscan -Energy and Excitement -from temple in Veii -Brightly painted and depicts rippling folds of a toga garment Term {image:http://images.library.wisc.edu/ArtHistory/S/3/t/190115t.jpg|center} Definition Name: Tomb of the Reliefs Date: 3rd cent BCE Period: Etruscan -most elaborate of underground tombs in decoration -accommodated several generations of one family -domestic purpose Term {image:http://www.designboom.com/history/3/14.gif|center} Definition Name: Sarcophagus with reclining couple Location: Cerveteri Date: 520 BCE Period: Etruscan -reclining at a dinner party -woman is there which was unheard of before -shows no influence of the after life -No death ritual Term Terra Cotta Definition an unglazed hard-baked clay pottery; a reddish brown colour Term Necropolis Definition cemetery: a tract of land used for burials Term Cerberus Definition the three-headed dog guarding the entrance to Hades Term {image:http://www.the-romans.co.uk/gallery1/full/founding01_smaller.jpg|center} Definition Name: Capitoline Wolf Location: Rome, Italy Date: c. 500-480 BCE Period: Etruscan -Symbol of Rome -Associated with Roman Republic - 2 babies (Romulus and Remus) drinking the wolfs milk -Completed by Atrusion Artists -blends different styles Term {image:http://www.myeport.com/published/u/hs/uhse002/slideshow/23/16.14490.G.jpg|center} Definition Name: Aule Metele (Orator) Location: Cortona, Italy Date: early first cent BCE Period: Etruscan -Addressing the crowd -expert bronze casting -depicts a main of high standards, because of his toga and high laced boots Term {image:http://www.portunus.co.uk/images/temple.jpg|center} Definition Name: Temple of Portunus Date: ca. 75 BCE Period: Roman Republic -g-d of ports and harbors -greek style; ionic columns/pediments -Etruscan style; Oriented to front/podium -built out of Roman stone stuccoed with marble Term {image:http://www.myeport.com/published/u/hs/uhse002/slideshow/24/4.21410.G.jpg|center} Definition Name: Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia Location: Palestrina Date: begun ca. 100 BCE Period: Roman Republic -made out of concrete -Rounded buildings -named after Fortuna= G-ddess of Fortune -Top of building- held a cave with a fortune teller in it Term {image:http://www.sphsgator.net/sphsteachers/trewinj1/Head%20of%20Patrician%20web.jpg|center} Definition Name: Head of a Roman Patrician Date: ca. 75-50 BCE Period: Roman Republic -Veristic= all realism very detailed -age meant power and wisdom -associated with religion and family -portrait of family member, showed status Term {image:http://www.fpa.ysu.edu/~slsmith/ecbyzwebpage/gessii_relief.jpg|center} Definition Name: Funerary relief with portraits of the Gessii Date: ca. 30 BCE Period: Roman Republic -3 relief portraits -L/R= Slaves that were set free -M= The Slave Owner who set them free Term {image:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/images/pompeii_art_vettii.jpg|center} Definition Name: House of the Vettii Date: rebuilt 60-79 CE Period: Roman Republic -Upper-class lifestyle -Implovian- space for recieving guests -garden with small rooms surrounding it Term Experiential Definition Of, related to, encountered in, or derived from experience Term Bellerophon Definition a mythical hero of Corinth who performed miracles on the winged horse Pegasus Term Impluvium Definition the basin in an atrium for the collection of rain water, normally connected to a cistern Term Tablinum Definition A central room off the atrium of a Roman house. Term {image:http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/SC-Augustus.jpg|center} Definition Name: Augustus of Primaporta (Augustus as a general) Date: early 1st cent. CE copy of a bronze of ca. 20 BCE Period: Early Roman Empire -quotes earlier scupltures -hands out gesture to people -wearing roman armor -Cupid is featured, because he claims to be the son of venus, and cupid is also a son of venus -conntraposto stance -quoting earlier works to make up for his young age Term {image:http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IFX8gKvNmlY/RbIYeL874tI/AAAAAAAAAAU/QiXsacblfCQ/s320/ara+pacis+outside+view.JPG|center} Definition Name: Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace) Location: Rome Date: 13-9 BCE Period: Early Roman Empire -Alter of peace relates to Pax Romanana -depict the procession to commence building -built in a four year period Term {image:http://wings.buffalo.edu/AandL/Maecenas/rome/domus_aurea/ac991416.jpg|center} Definition Name: Domus Aurea (Golden House) of Nero Artist: Severus and Celer Date: 64-68 CE Period: Early Roman Republic -120 foot statue of himself marking his home -innovated use of concrete -famously covered in precious materials -self indulgent space Term {image:http://www.rogersandall.com/images/notes_3.jpg|center} Definition Name: Portrait of Vespasian Date: ca. 75-79 CE Period: Early Roman Empire -Roman General takes over Roman Flavian Dynasty -brings back the aged philosopher-like look -veristic Term {image:http://www.virginmedia.com/microsites/technology/slideshow/vm-tech-gallery/7wonders/img_6.jpg|center} Definition Name:The Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater) Location:Rome Date:ca. 70-80 CE Period: Early Roman Empire -big public works project -built on Neros "private" land -made in barrel vaults in concrete -base: Doric Order -2nd Row: Ionic Order -Top: Corinthian Order Term {image:http://www.planetware.com/i/photo/arch-of-titus-rome-ir014.jpg|center} Definition Name: Arch of Titus Date: after 81 CE Period: Early Roman Empire - details of the ‘Spoils of Jerusalem,’ ‘The Triumph of Titus,’ and ‘The Apotheosis of Titus’ -commemorates activities of Titus -shows the people carrying the treasures of the Jewish Temple Term {image:http://fr.mercatiditraiano.it/var/museicivici/storage/images/musei/mercati_di_traiano/sede/area_archeologica/foro_di_traiano/93711-3-ita-IT/foro_di_traiano_large.jpg|center} Definition Name: Forum of Trajan Artist:Apollodorus of Damascus Location:Rome, Italy Date: ded. 112 CE Period: High Roman Empire -statue of trajan in the middle -vasilica- largly used for trials -2 libraries behind the Vasilica Term {image:http://www.moyak.com/researcher/resume/papers/trajan1.jpg|center} Definition Name: Column of Trajan Location: Rome Date: dedicated 112 CE Period: High Roman Empire -bronze sculpture of Trajan -decorated all the way up the column -Images of campaign all the way up -Trajan appears a lot recognizable and idealized Term {image:http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/artandarchitecture2/markets.jpg|center} Definition Name: Markets of Trajan Artist: Apollodorus of Damascus Location: Rome Date: 100-112 CE Period: High Roman Empire -Market place -equivalent to a modern day malll Term {image:http://www.abcroma.com/Pantheon5.jpg|center} Definition Name: Pantheon Location:Rome Date: c. 118-125 CE Period: High Roman Empire -Temple dedicated to all the roman g-ds -commemorates old temple that was on the land -on a high podium -Corinthian Columns, sculptures in pediment Term {image:http://www.bible-history.com/past/images/marcus_aurelius.jpg|center} Definition Name:Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius Date: c. 175 CE Period: High Roman Empire -bronze preserved b/c it was thought to be constantine -similar gesture to Augustus, gesture of mercy -beard, looks old= philosopher and knowledgeable -On a horse, military association , control -wearing a toga= not wearing armor Term {image:http://www.historyforkids.org/learn/romans/history/pictures/severus_family.jpg|center} Definition Name: Septimius Severus, Julia Domna, Geta and Caracalla Date: c. 200 CE Period: Late Empire -Depicted Septimius Severus, wife, and 2 sons -Geta's picture was scratched out when his brother killed him and took over rome -Marcus has a beard= which was a tribute to the older leaders with philosopher beards Term {image:http://www.utexas.edu/courses/romanciv/Romancivimages23/tetrarchs.jpg|center} Definition Name: The Tetrarchs Date: c. 305 CE Period: Late Roman Empire -Showed the 4 rulers (2 Augustus and 2 Ceasars) -Each Pair was holding their counterpart -Abstract and Stylized -No individual likeness -made out of Prophiry: Hard purple stone Term {image:http://www.abcroma.com/Arco_Costantino_N1.jpg|center} Definition Name: Arch of Constantine Location:Rome Date: 312-315 CE Period: Late Roman Empire -Typical roman form -next to forum -symbols from previous empirical artworks= weird because that usually is to disrespect the past rulers but this seems to flatter or honor them Term {image:http://wwwdelivery.superstock.com/WI/223/1039/PreviewComp/SuperStock_1039-15161.jpg|center} Definition Name:Constantine Date:315-330 CE Period: Late Roman Empire -Giant sculpture -bronze surrounding it -re-carved portrait -youthful, idealized, looking up