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| the early phase of Archaic Greek art, so named because of the adapting of forms & motifs from the acient Near East & Egypt |
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An ancient Greek wide - mouthed bowl from mixing wine and water. |
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| Greek, young woman. An Archaic Greek statuary type depicting a young women. |
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Greek young man. An Archaic Greek statuary type depicting a young man. |
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| A rule, for example, of proportion. The ancient Greeks considered beaty to be a mater of 'CORRECT"proportion and sought a canon of proportion, for the human figure and for buildings. |
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| reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality, e.g., "a basic story line"; "a canonical syllable pattern." |
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| The Archaic smile was used by Greek Archaic sculptors, especially in the second quarter of the sixth century BCE, possibly to suggest that their subject was alive, and infused with a sense of well-being. To viewers habituated to realism, the smile is flat and quite unnatural looking, although it could be seen as a movement towards naturalism, if such a move is sought. One of the most famous examples of the Archaic Smile is the Kroisos Kouros. |
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| A vertical, weight-carrying architectural member, circular in cross-section and consisting of a base sometimes omitted a shaft and a capital. |
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| The uppermost member of a column serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel. In classical architecture, the form of the capital varies with the order. |
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| The Ionic order column forms one of the three orders or organizational systems of classical architecture, the other two canonic orders being the Doric and the Corinthian. (There are two lesser orders, the stocky Tuscan order and the rich variant of Corinthian, the Composite order, added by 16th century Italian architectural theory and practice.) |
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The Doric order was one of the three orders or organizational systems of Ancient Greek or classical architecture; the other two canonical orders were the Ionic and the Corinthian. In their original Greek version, Doric columns stood directly on the flat pavement (the stylobate) of a temple without a base; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus at the intersection with the horizontal beam (entablature) that they carried. |
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| in classical architecture, the triangular space (gable) at the end of the building formed by the ends of the sloping roof above the colonade also, an ornamental feature having this shape. |
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| In early Greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a lighter background of natural, reddish clay, with linear details incised through the silouettes. |
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