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Greek Art Vocab
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Art History
12th Grade
10/12/2010

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ACROPOLIS

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Meaning 'high city'

A Greek temple complex

Located on a hill over the city

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AMPHORA

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- two-handled Greek jug/storage jar

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ARCHITRAVE
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- a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature**

http://www.pitt.edu/~medart/image/glossary/architrave.jpg

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CARYATID

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- a building column shaped like a human figure

- must be long haired and robed to support building

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CELLA*

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- the main room of a Greek temple where the god is housed

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CONTRAPPOSTO*

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- a relaxed, graceful position

- tilted shoulders and hips

- bent knees

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CORNICE*

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- a projecting ledge over a wall

http://chestofbooks.com/architecture/Building-Construction-V3/images/23-String-Course-Cornice-392.jpg

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ENTABLATURE*

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- the upper story of a Greek temple

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Entablature_(PSF).png

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FRIEZE*

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- the horizontal band of a sculpture

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KILN*

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- an oven used for making pottery

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KOUROS

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- a male figure in Archaic style

- a youth standing

- often nude

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KRATER*

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- a large Greek bowl used for mixing water and wine

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KYLIX*

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- a Greek drinking cup

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METOPE**

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- a small relief sculpture on the facade of a Greek temple

http://www.goddess-athena.org/Museum/Temples/Troy/Troy_Metope.jpg

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MOSAIC*

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- a deocration of pieces using stone, marble or colored glass, called TESSERAE (cube tile), that are cemented to a wall or a floor

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PEDIMENT*

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- a triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture

http://content.answcdn.com/main/content/img/oxford/Oxford_Architecture/0198606788.aedicule.1.jpg

 

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PROPYLAEUM/PROPYLAEA*

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- a gateway leading to a Greek temple

http://www.greece-athens.com/pages_images/6.jpg

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RELIEF SCULPTURE

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- sculpture that projects from a flat background

- bas relief: low relief

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SHAFT

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- the body of a column

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THOLOS*

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- an ancient Greek circular shrine

http://www.gottwein.de/hell2000pl/tholos.gif

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TRIGLYPH

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- a projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple

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