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Western Art History
Greece and Roman
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Art History
Undergraduate 3
09/14/2013

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Title: Herakles & A Centaur

Style: Geometric

Culture: Greek

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Title: Corinthian Black-Figure Amphora

Style: Orientalizing

Culture: Greek

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Title: Kouros

Style: Archaic

Culture: Greek

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Title: Spear Thrower

Culture: Greek

Style: Classical

 

Polykleitos

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Title: Parthenon

Culture: Greek

Style: classical

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Title: The Erectheum
Style: Classical
Culture: Greek
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Greek Classical Orders of Architecture

 

Doric: plain

Ionic: volute (inside curl)

Corinthian: acanthus leaves

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Title: Aphrodite of Knidos
Culture: Greek

Style: Classical

 

Praxiteles 

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Title: The Boxer

Style: Hellenistic

Culture: Greek

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Title: Lacoon and his Sons

Style: Hellenistic

Culture: Greek

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Title: Pantheon

Style: Hadrian..?

Culture: Roman

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Title: Ara Pacis- Alter of Peace

Style:

Culture: Roman

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Title: Al-Khazneh

Culture: Roman

Style: ?

 

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Title: Roman Sacrophagus

 

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Title: Marcus Aurelius

Style: Equestrian 

Culture: Roman

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Second Style- Fresco

Villa of Publius Fannius Synistor

 

North of Pompeii

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Title: Portrait of Man and Woman

Style: Pompeii?

Culture: Roman

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Title: Emperor Constantine

Culture: Roman

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Term
Acropolis
Definition
high city
Term
Aqueduct
Definition
an artificial channel for conveying water, typically in the form of a bridge supported by tall columns across a valley.
Term
Arcade
Definition
a covered passageway with arches along one or both sides.
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Basilica
Definition
a large oblong hall or building with double colonnades and a semicircular apse, used in ancient Rome as a court of law or for public assemblies.
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capital
Definition
head (refers to position at the top of the column
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Caryatid
Definition
a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.
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Colonnade
Definition
a row of columns supporting a roof, an entablature, or arcad
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Column
Definition
A supporting pillar consisting of a base, a cylindrical shaft, and a capital
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Contrapposto
Definition
Torso shifts and right hip and shoulder lowered. "Positioned against" Slight turn
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Effigy
Definition
a sculpture or model of a person.
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Entablature
Definition
a horizontal, continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns or a wall, comprising the architrave, frieze, and cornice
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Free standing
Definition
not supported by another structure.
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Fresco
Definition
a painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it drie
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Frieze
Definition
a broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, esp. on a wall near the ceiling.
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Hellenistic
Definition
of or relating to Greek history, language, and culture
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In Situ
Definition
in its original place.
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loggia
Definition
a gallery or room with one or more open sides, esp. one that forms part of a house and has one side open to the garden.
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Lost Wax Process
Definition
the process by which a bronze or brass is cast from an artist's sculpture
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Metope
Definition
a square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze
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Mosaic
Definition
a picture or pattern produced by arranging together small colored pieces of hard material, such as stone, tile, or glass
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Zeus/Jupiter
Definition

King of Gods

 

Husband & brother of Hera

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Hera/Juno
Definition
Queen of Gods, women, marriage and maternity
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Athena/Minerva
Definition

Goddess of war

 

daughter of zeus

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Ares/Mars
Definition

War, carnage, strife, blind courage

 

son of Zeus & Hera

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Apollo/Phoebus
Definition

Son of Zeus and Leto

 

Solar light, reason, prophecy, medicine, music

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Niche
Definition
a shallow recess, esp. one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament
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Oculus
Definition
a round or eyelike opening or design, in particular. (usually at top)
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3 orders
Definition

Doric

Ionic

Corinthian

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Pediment
Definition
the triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical style, typically surmounting a portico of columns
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Sacrophagus
Definition
a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece
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Volute
Definition
a spiral scroll characteristic of Ionic capitals and also used in Corinthian and composite capitals.
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