CLASSICAL ART Flashcards
(166 cards)
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Where is the dolphin fresco located
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Knossos (Queens megaron)
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Where is the Fisherman located
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Thera (Santorini)
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Toreador fresco is what culture
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Minoan
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What culture is the blue monkey fresco
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Minoan
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Where is the blue monkeys fresco
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Thera (Santorini)
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Where is the fisherman fresco located
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Thera, Santorini
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What culture made the harvester vase, octopus vase, and bulls head rhyton
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Minoan
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Who excavated Pylos
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Carl Blegen (American)
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Where is the Lion Gate located
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Mycenae
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What culture is the Treasury of Atreus
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Mycenean (mainland Greece)
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What type of tomb is the Treasury of Atreus
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Tholos tomb (beehive shaped)
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What type of style is the Temple of Hephaestus
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Hextastyle
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What order is the Temple of Zeus
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Doric
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What style is the Parthenon
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Mixed ionic and Doric
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Entrance to Athenian acropolis
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Propylaia
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Who designed Parthenon
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Ictinus and Callicrates
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What are the scrolls on top of columns called
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Volutes
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Who is architect of Temple of Athena Nike
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Callicrates
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What is the temple to Athena and Poseidon
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Erechtheum
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Who is the architect of the Erechthium
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Mnesicles
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Where is the porch of the maidens
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South porch of Erechtheum
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What two themes are used in Etruscan art
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Statue of a woman
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What two themes are used in Etruscan art
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Tombs and terracotta
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Who excavated Pylos
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Carl Blegen
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Who excavated Crete and Knossos
Sir Arthur Evans
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What color is used through Minoan art
Blue
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Who deciphered the Linear B tablets
Micheal Ventris
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What is the term for simple lines and curves on pottery
Protogeometric
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What is the Dyplon vase
Geometric amphora
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What is depicted on the Eleusis amphora
Odysseus blinding Polyphemus
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Who designed the Ajax and Achilles
Exekias
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Who painted the Francois Vase
Kleitias
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What is depicted in the Francois Vase
Peleus and Thetis wedding
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Who designed the death of Sarpedon krater
Euphronius
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What was a krater used for
Mixing wine and water
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What was a kylix
Drinking cup with krater shape
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What was a kantharos
Drinking cup with big handles
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What was a lekythos used for
Oils and perfumes, pouring funeral libations
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What was a kouros (youth)
Free standing nude male with one foot forward
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What is a kore (maiden)
Free standing female statue
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What frieze depicts a Lion eating a man
Battle of the gods and giants
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frieze from Siphian treasury at delphi
Battle of gods and the giants
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Where is the statue of the Dying Warrior
Pediment of the Temple of Aphaea at Aegina
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What marks end of Archaic period and beginning of the Classical Period
Critias Boy
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Critias boy is early..
Contraposto
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Who sculpted the Parthenon Sculpture
Phidias
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How many metopes in Parthenon
92
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What is on the West Pediment of the Parthenon Sculpture
Athena and Poseidon fighting for patronage of Athens
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What is on the East pediment of the Parthenon
Birth of Athena
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What is the statue of Athena in the Parthenon made of
Gold and Ivory
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Massive chryselephantine
Athena statue in Parthenon
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Where was the Athena in Parthenon statue kept
In a cella
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Who brought the Elgin Marbles to the British museum
Lord Elgin
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Material lighter than marble and allows statues to show movement
Bronze
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What was Zeus of Artemesium and Charioteer of Delphi made out of
Bronze
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Who sculpted Discolobus
Myron (only Roman marble copy survives now though)
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What does Doryphorus mean
Spear-Bearer
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Who sculpted Dorphorus
Polyclitus (survives only in marble copies)
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Who wrote Canon based on contraposto and idealized proportions
Polyclitus
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What period was Riace Bronzes from
Classical period
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Who did Hermes and Infant Dionysus
Praxiteles
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What period did Praxiteles sculpt in
Late Classical Period
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First nude female sculpted life size
Aphrodite of Cnidos
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Who sculpted Aphrodite of Cnidos
Praxiteles
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Alexander the Greats personal sculptor
Lysippus
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Created stock representation of an idealized Alexander with eyes looking upward
Lysippus
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What period did Lysippus sculpt in
Late Classical
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Who sculpted Apoxyomenos (The Scraper)
Lysippus
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What does Apoxyomenos mean
the Scraper
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Sculpture is now more dramatic than Classical, harsh diagonal lines, movement
Hellenistic period
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What period did Realism first appear
Hellenistic
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What period was Dying Gaul, Winged Victory of Samothrace, and the Laocoon group
Hellenistic
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Where was most Hellenistic period of work found
pergamum
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Where was the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing found
Tarquinia
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Where is the Tomb of the Triclinium
Tarquinia
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Where is the Tomb of the Reliefs
Cerveteri
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What tomb imitates interior of a house
Tomb of the Reliefs
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What culture made the Tombs of Hunting and Fishing and Tomb of the Reliefs
Etruscans
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What is the Apollo of Veii made of
Terracotta (archaic style)
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What did the Apollo of Veii decorate
Temple pediment
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What culture is the Sarcophagus of the Spouses
Etruscan
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What is the Capitoline Wolf made of
Bronze
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What culture was the Capitoline Wolf
Etruscan
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What is the Chimaera of Arezzo made of
Bronze
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What culture was the Chimaera of Arezzo
Etruscan
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Charactized by its shiny black surface
Bucchero pottery
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Where is the Temple of Fortuna Virilis
Forum Boarium (Rome)
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What does the Temple of Fortuna Virilis combine
Greek and Tuscan traditions
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Where is the Sanctuary of Fortuna
Praeneste (Palestrina)
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What does the Sanctuary of Fortuna illustrate
Early use of arches, barrel vaults, and concrete
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What material is the Capitoline Brutus
Bronze
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the Pompey the Great bust uses what technique
Realism, inspired by Lysippus’ Alexander the Great
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What does the breastplate in the Augustus Primaporta depict
Parthian standards
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Where is the imperial procession
On Ara Pacis
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Represents peace and prosperity of Augustan Age on the Ara Pacis
Tellus (Earth Goddess) Panel
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Augustus portrayed as Jupiter seated next to Roma
Gemma Augusta
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Where is the Octagonal Room
Domus Aurea
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What style is used in the Octagonal Room
3rd Pompeiian style
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How many arched entrances in Colosseum
80
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What century was Pompeii and Herculaneum found
18th century
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What style of Pompeii imitates stone masonry
First style
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What style of Pompeii introduced images and landscapes surrounded by architectural frame
Second style
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What style is “rational” and “naturalistic”
Second style
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What fresco has two columns framing a center circular temple
Bedroom of Boscoreale
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Where is the Bedroom of Boscoreale from
Villa of Fannius Synister
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Where is the Bedroom of Boscoreale now
Museum of New York
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What Pompeiian style denies all appearances of rationality and logic (painted solid color)
3rd style
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What style is the villa of the mysteries
2nd style
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What style is the Bedroom of Boscoreale
2nd style
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What style is the Domus Aurea frescoes
3rd style
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What style is the Boscotrecase frescoes
3rd style
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What two Pompeiian styles does the 4th style combine
2nd and 3rd
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What Pompeiian style is the Ixion Room (House of the Vetii)
4th style
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Where is the Alexander Mosiac
House of the Faun (Pompeii)
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Who is the architect of Trajans forum
Apolladorus of Damascus
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Largest imperial Fora
Trajans fora
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More than 2500 human figures
Trajans column
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Best preserved Roman structure
Pantheon
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What structure did Hadrian help design
Pantheon
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Temple with modern church built inside of it
Temple of Antoninus and Faustina
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What is the statue of Marcus Aurelius made out of
Bronze
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Where is the equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Piazza Del Campidoglio
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Who designed the Piazza del Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill
Michelangelo
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Where is the arch of Septimius Severus located
Forum Romanum
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In honor of defeat of Maxentius
Arch of Constantine
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Three archways and takes monuments from (Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, and Hadrian)
Arch of Constantine
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Lacks spatial depth, non-naturalistic approach
Arch of Constantine
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Largest building in Ancient Rome
Basilica of Maxentius
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Only north aisle remains
Basilica of Maxentius
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Process of working metal from behind
Repousee
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Applying paint to wet plaster
Fresco
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Red-vase painter used foreshadowing
Euthymides
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What is a composite column
Ionic and Corinthian
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Where is the Tellus panel
Ara Pacis Augustea
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Which temple only has 3 columns still standing
Temple of Hera, Olympia
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What is the Parthenons northern metopes about
Trojan war
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What is the order of the Temple of OLYMPIAN Zeus at Athens
Corinthian
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What is the term for the triangular space between the springing and center of an arch
Spandrel
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What material is the Portland Vase
Cameo Glass
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Who discovered Mask of Agamemnon
Heinrich Schliemann
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Designed the Propylaia
Mnesicles
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Vase that depicts blinding of Polyphemus by Odysseus
Eleusis Amphora
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Where is the Winged Victory of Samothrace
Louvre
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What emporer had villa in Tivoli
Hadrian
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Where was the Mantiklos Apollo discovered
Thebes
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Greek temple with no roof
Hypaethral
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Central panel of Mosiac
Emblema
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Method (used in tomb of Atreus) of spanning a passageway
Corbeled Arch
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What were kouros used for
Grave markers
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where is the mosiac of Christ as the good shepherd in the mausoleum of Galla Placida
Ravenna
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What columns were in the interior of the Parthenon
Ionic
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What material are the Vaphio cups
Gold
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Where was the Harvester Vase found
Hagia Triada
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What material was the statue of Jupiter (Capitoline Jupiter)
Terra cotta
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What was on the frieze around the Alter of Zeus and Athena in Pergamum
Gigantimochy
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Who built the Sanctuary of Fortune at Praeneste
Sulla
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Who’s arch is between Temple of Castor and Temple of Divine Julius
Augustus
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What year was the Colossus of Rhodes built
300 b.c.
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What painted the Battle of Issus
Philoxenes
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What frieze would you find at Zeus at Olympia
Lapiths and Centaurs
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Technique used in Greek friezes in which heads of animals and people are on the same level
Isocephaly
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Sculpture that uses canon of proportions
Doryphorus
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Study of history and development of coins
Numismatics
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This Pompeiian villa features religious ritual involving a young girl
Villa of Mysteries
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Used in Faiyum portraits, pigment is suspended in hot wax
Encaustic
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What year did red-figure begin
530 b.c.
