Greek Art

Question 1

Jar for storing wine and oil. Egg shaped body and 2 curved handles

Answer 1

Amphora

Question 2

A sacred or holy structure for worship

Answer 2

Sanctuaries

Question 3

Wide mouthed pitcher

Answer 3

Olpe

Question 4

Stylized flower forms

Answer 4

Rosettes

Question 5

Black figures painted on red clay ground

Answer 5

Black-figure technique

Question 6

Columned pavilion that’s open on 3 sides

Answer 6

Stoa

Question 7

Collums carved in the form of clothed women on a pedestal with capitals on their heads

Answer 7

Caryatids

Question 8

A platform or base supporting a structure or other monument

Answer 8

Pedistal

Question 9

Horizontal elements above columns

Answer 9

Entablature

Question 10

Plain or 3 panel architrave and a continuous frieze set off by richly carved moldings

Answer 10

Ionic order

Question 11

Bottom element in entablature

Answer 11

Architrave

Question 12

Middle element in entablature

Answer 12

Frieze

Question 13

Triangular gable formed by enblature and ends of sloping roof or ranking cornice

Answer 13

Pediment

Question 14

Sacred area reserved for worship

Answer 14

Temenos

Question 15

Covered, open space in front of entrance

Answer 15

Porches

Question 16

Arrangement, proportions, and appeared of colums and lintels

Answer 16

Elevations

Question 17

Shaft sits directly on stylobate without a base, fluted with sharp edges, and necking is transition to capital. Consists of rounded echinus and tablet like abacus and roofline with acroteria

Answer 17

Doric order

Question 18

Varient of Ionic order developed for interior use. Capitals were stylized and decorated with acanthus leaves extending from astragal

Answer 18

Corinthian Order

Question 19

Principle interior room of a temple

Answer 19

Cella

Question 20

Flat slab on top of capital that’s under the entablature

Answer 20

Abacus

Question 21

Collum that swells in the middle and contract at the top and bottom

Answer 21

Entasis

Question 22

Enclosed vestible

Answer 22

Pronaos

Question 23

System of proportions in classical architexture

Answer 23

Orders

Question 24

Architectural element used for support or decor

Answer 24

Column

Question 25

Main vertical section of a column

Answer 25

Shaft

Question 26

Sculpted block on top of collumn

Answer 26

Capital

Question 27

Section of shaft

Answer 27

Drum

Question 28

Floor of the temple

Answer 28

Stylobate

Question 29

Set of steps that form the temple's base

Answer 29

Stereobate

Question 30

Channeled with sharp edges

Answer 30

Fluted

Question 31

Cushion like circular element below abacus of Doric Capitol

Answer 31

Echinus

Question 32

Rectangular block between metropes of Doric Frieze

Answer 32

Triglyphs

Question 33

Carved or painted rectangular pannel between Triglyphs

Answer 33

Metopes

Question 34

Topmost projecting horizontal element

Answer 34

Cornice

Question 35

Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements

Answer 35

Acroteria

Question 36

Decorative waters pouts and terminal decorative elements

Answer 36

Actroteria

Question 37

Flat surfaces separating flutes

Answer 37

Fillets

Question 38

Continuous sculptured or decorated frieze

Answer 38

Volute

Question 39

Stylized leaves

Answer 39

Acanthus

Question 40

Convex band

Answer 40

Astragal

Question 41

Clay fired over low heat

Answer 41

Terracotta

Question 42

Statue of a woman

Answer 42

Kore

Question 43

Male statue

Answer 43

Kouros

Question 44

Conventional closed-liped convention

Answer 44

Archaic smile

Question 45

Wine cup

Answer 45

Kantharos

Question 46

Mixture of clay and water

Answer 46

Slip

Question 47

Technique in which design or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument

Answer 47

Incising

Question 48

Red figured on a black background

Answer 48

Red-figure technique

Question 49

Kramer with handles curved up like petals

Answer 49

Calyx Krater

Question 50

Social gathering of rich and powerful men

Answer 50

Symposium

Question 51

Convention of presenting standing figures with opposing alternations of tension around a central axis

Answer 51

Contrapposto

Question 52

Broad, flat cup

Answer 52

Kylix

Question 53

Pot used as a wine cooler

Answer 53

Psylter

Question 54

Circular painting

Answer 54

Tondo

Question 55

Wine jug

Answer 55

Oinochoe

Question 56

City on top of a hill

Answer 56

Akropolis

Question 57

Process though artists strive to make forms and figures attain perfection, baser in pervading cultural values or personal ideals

Answer 57

Idealization

Question 58

Marketplace

Answer 58

Agora

Question 59

Raised platform

Answer 59

Podium

Question 60

Grid plan

Answer 60

Ortagonal

Question 61

Water jug

Answer 61

Hydra

Question 62

Type of ancient Greek pottery in which the background is colored with a slip that turns white when fired

Answer 62

White-ground

Question 63

Opaque water-based medium mixed with glue or egg white

Answer 63

Tempura

Question 64

Slim pil vase with one handle and a narrow mouth

Answer 64

Lekythai

Question 65

Image formed by arranging small colored stone or glass pieces and affixing them to a hard, stable surface

Answer 65

Mosaic

Question 66

Small peices of stone or glass, or other objects that are pieced together to create a mosaic

Answer 66

Tesserae

Question 67

Circular neck ring worn by Celtic warriors

Answer 67

Tore

Question 68

All foreigners the Greeks considered uncivilized

Answer 68

Barbarian

Question 69

Artistic styles in which aspects of works are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or to elicit an emotional response

Answer 69

Expressionism