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Minoans, looks like a mural but put media on a damp plaster surface.
Fresco = fresh |
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Dry fresh
What cave people did |
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Palace of Minos
Embedded stones in clay
Terracotta pipes
3-story elevation
light/air wells |
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Minoan columns.
bigger at top, smaller at bottom (opposite of what columns are usually like) |
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Lion's gate
Post and beam over doorway
Triangular opening above doorway - angled stones put on top of each other are CORBELED. This is a corbeled arch. |
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Part of the wall that extends and hangs out
What we called cantilevered |
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Interior of the treasury of Atreus.
BEEHIVE VAULT |
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| Refers to ceilings and usually a rounded/curved ceiling |
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One room structure with entrance
Royal audience hall |
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Largest temple in Athens
Built to honor Athena Parthenos (goddess of war and wisdom)
Has a COLONADE: row of columns supporting a roof to create covered walkway |
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| Row of columns that supports a roof that creates a covered walkway |
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Recreation of what Parthanon looked like when first built
Colonade |
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Pediment
Figure with helmet is depiction of Athena |
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Athena
Goddess of War and Wisdom |
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Oldest, simplest, most used by greeks
Shaft: Concave (curve inward), vertical grooves called Flutes
Capital: Square, flat
Considered masculine |
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Column, vertical post
Made of two parts: Major part, lower part is the Shaft |
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| Part of capital directly on top of shaft |
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| Square, flat tablet on top of Echinuse |
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On top of Column
3 distinct parts, from lowest to highest:
Architrade/Epistyle
Frieze
Cornice |
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Lowest part of Entablature
Simple horizontal beam on top of column |
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On top of Architrade.
Has border or secondary repetitive decoration
Originally was on outside of building |
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| Molding that goes across the top of wall and outlines pitch of roofline |
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Fluted shafts but NARROWER, flatter flutes than doric
Scalloped edges at top and bottom
Capital has scrolling loops called VALUTES
Second most used column by greeks
More feminine than doric |
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| Doric on left, ionic on right |
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Most elaborate
Fluting even narrower than ionic
Has scalloped detail
Round turned base
Capital has tiny volutes, stylized leaves (Acanthus) |
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Shaft/column is human figure, on top of head is a very elaborate crown of some sort
Functioning column |
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| in Caruatid when head is slightly forward or hands up supporting weight |
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Greek word for chair
Most copied chair in history
legs splay out
simplicity, clean lines, elegant curves, back like a backwards S shape |
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Shipping jar
can be filled with olive oil, wine, etc
Big scale |
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Also called Fret border
Squares that create running bond |
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French word that means to guage.
Intertwined circles |
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| Anthemion or Palmette Border |
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| Most used decorative motif in history |
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only male figures shown nude,
Archaic smile: only human being smiled |
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Classical style
Females are also nude |
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| when the weight is shifted (of a sculpture's legs) |
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