History of Art: The Greeks, Overview

Will be creating specific case studies for revision as well, this is more for a general brush up on terms and facts.

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Top step of a Greek temple is called?
Stylobate
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The bottom steps of a Greek temple are called?
Stereobate
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The treasury is called?
Opisthodomous
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A section of a column is called?
Drum
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Front porch of temple?
Pro-naos
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Centre of temple?
Naos/Cella
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Another name for post and lintel?
Trabeated
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What is the purpose of entasis?
To correct the visual illusion of concavity produced by a straight shaft
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The bottom of a column is called?
Base
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Hellenistic is what part of the Greek period?
The third
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Classical is what part of the Greek period?
The second
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Archaic is what part of the Greek period?
The first
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What are columns in antis?
The small columns between square posts
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What is the difference between a pilaster and an engaged column?
A pilaster serves only an ornamental purpose, whereas an engaged column supports the structure above
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What are the key features of a Doric column?
Baseless column with simple capital, masculine
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What are the key features of an Ionic column?
Column with volutes, egg and dart pattern, feminine
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What are the key features of a Corinthian column?
Column with a boss, acanthus leaves, astragal, young maiden
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Chryselephantine refers to?
The gold and ivory overlay on a statue
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The caryatids (columns carved into female forms) on the Erechtheion are for what purpose?
The burden of the betrayal of Athens by the people of Caryae
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More cohesive word for "the space between columns"
Intercolumnation
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A portico is?
A roof supported by columns, open
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A shaft is?
The main section of a column
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The spike between the decorative indents of a column is known as?
Arrist
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What are the indents in a column?
Fluting
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The raking cornice is also referred to as?
Pitched roof
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What do you get when you combine the stereobate and the stylobate?
Krepidoma
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Middle of pediment, sculptural arrangements can be found here
Tympanum
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Doric columns were developed in the...?
West
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Ionic columns were developed in the...?
East
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Decoration that resembles teeth?
Dentils
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Baby volute (Great name for future child) is called?
Helix
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Cause I hate you, what's an acroterion?
Architectural ornament placed on a flat base called the acroter or plinth, mounted at the apex of the pediment
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One of a series of horizontal bands, each projecting beyond the one below to form the architrave in the Ionic and Corinthian orders
Faciae
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Making out involving love bites, also this thing: a short plain concave section between the capital and the shaft of a classical Doric or Tuscan column
Necking
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Flat slab on top of a capital, of which supports the architrave (try and remember what that is okay)
Abacus
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An ovolo molding, especially one having an outline with several radii or one carved with an egg-and-dart pattern. the prominent circular molding supporting the abacus of a Doric or Tuscan capital. Also called cymatium.
Echinus
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a tablet in A Doric frieze with three vertical grooves alternating with metopes
Triglyph
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Square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze
Metope
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A small band between the flutes of a column
Fillet
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Main beam resting across the tops of columns
Architrave
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First statue from classical antiquity known to use contrapposto
Kritios
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A cornice is?
A horizontal decorative moulding that crowns the building before the pediment
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The entablature is the name for?
The architrave, frieze, and cornice together
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Where can you find the frieze?
Between the architrave and the cornice
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What parts make up the capital in a Doric column?
Abacus, echinus, necking
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What type of decoration is usually found in an ionic column?
Egg-and-dart
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What does Acropolis mean?
The highest point of the city
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Who was Pericles?
Leader of Athens after the Greco-Persian wars
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How did the Greeks win the wars?
Naval victory at the bay of Salamis
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How did the victory over the Persians benefit Athens?
Allowed them a period of economic stability, allowing them to show off their cultural prowess
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How did Pericles want to get the project of rebuilding the Acropolis established?
Democratically
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Name the buildings in the Athenian Acropolis.
The Propylaea, the Parthenon, Temple of Athena Nike, Erechtheum
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Who were Iktinos and Kallikcrates?
Architects of the Athenian Acropolis
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What did Pheidias design?
The statues of the goddess Athena on the Athenian Acropolis, namely the Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon, and the Athena Promachos, a colossal bronze which stood between it and the Propylaea
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What does Parthenon mean?
Home of the virgin
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What column orders are used in the Parthenon?
Doric and Ionic
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What is the optical refinement used on the columns called?
Entasis
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What is so special about the angle of 60 degrees?
The symbol of Athena and the view you should view the Parthenon from
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What is Athena's animal symbol?
The Owl, a symbol of wisdom
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What was so special about the square root of 5?
An irrational number which fascinated as it was beyond human understanding
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The bottom steps of a Greek temple are called?

Back

Stereobate

Card 3

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The treasury is called?

Back

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Card 4

Front

A section of a column is called?

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Front porch of temple?

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