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Questions from Midterms Flashcards

1
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Term that means 1 leg forward giving life to the structure

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Contrapposto

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From of Greek architecture that serves as a Council house & covered meeting place for elected officials

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Bouleuterion

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Term for the Greek furniture footstool

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Threnys

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Type of theater for horse and chariot races

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Hippodrome

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In theater parts: It is a structure serving as backdrop for the acting area or dressing room

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Skene

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A beehive tomb or ___ “ round building”

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Tholos

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Architecture: a quadrilateral masonry mass having smooth, steeply sloping sides meeting at an apex, used as a tomb

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Pyramids

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A kind of pottery that was small pots in which women stored their cosmetics, powder, and jewelry

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Pyxis

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A pose in which the weight of the body is balanced on one leg while the other is free and relaxed.

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Contrapposto

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10
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Who was the very first recorded Egyptian architect?

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Imhotep

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The industry used vegetable pigment as well as the purple extracted from ___

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Oyster

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12
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What kind of marble is Parthenon made of?

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Pentilic

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13
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An early Egyptian joinery for furniture

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Mortise & Tenon

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These female figurines incorporating snakes were fashioned on Crete from as early as 6000 BCE. They are associated with water, regenerative power, and protection of the home. On her crown is a wild cat.

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Snake goddess

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It is characterized by movement; towards increasing naturalness and freedom of form during the classical age

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Severe style

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A kinds of pottery that is a version with upright handles, a lid, and a more distinct neck and is often made in one piece with the stand. It is usually associated with marriage rituals

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Lebes Gamikos

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17
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Material that almost looks like kaolin. It is made of powdered quartz and coated with the vitreous paste, it was an earthenware fired to a glass like shine in almost all colors

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Faience

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18
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the Hellenistic sculptures define that beauty was less important than _____

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Emotions

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19
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This architecture is the edifices built during the New Kingdom to honor one or more of the gods

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Pylon

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Technique in interior flooring in which the individual pieces were larger and cut to fit a pre-determined abstract arrangement

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Opus Sectile

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21
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Which of the pyramids of Giza is the largest?

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Khufu

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22
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A wall carving wherein the design is made prominent by raising it from the surface or the background of the material

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Relief

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23
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This was based on the Greek Ideology: Balance and moderation in all things also known as ___

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Golden mean

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24
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The Mycenean ruins are fortress on a hill that is entered through the ___

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Lion gate

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25
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Osiris symbolized by the color ___

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Green

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26
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What do you call a plan of a typical Egyptian home that consists of a reception room, living room, and private areas?

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Tripartite plan

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27
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A type of interior wall treatment wherein stone is imitated through painting

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Incrustation

28
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What is the color of the capitals in pillars found in Knossos palace?

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red

29
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Who was the sculptor of the famous Discobolus

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Myron

30
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What do you call this rule whereby heads are always shown in profile and torsos from the front, these guidelines marked the beginnings of a formal approach to art

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Law of Frontality

31
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The column shaft itself is composed of individual sections and concave grooves known as ___, with a base and capital

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Fluting

32
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The God that dominated the kingdom of Pharaoh Akhenaten

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Aten

33
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Who was the sculptor of the famous Apoxyomenos?

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Lysippus

34
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A portico that contained 6 columns

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hexastyle

35
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It is a term that contained Greek interior space used as a woman’s sitting area

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Gynaeceum

36
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He was one of the architects of the Parthenon

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Callicrates

37
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Which is not one of the Aegean fashions

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chlaine

38
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A part of an Egyptian interior that means roofed gallery

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Loggia

39
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Aegean Palace Complexes strongly influenced by cultures of ___ & ___

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Egyptian & Near East

40
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Painting technique that attempts to depict reality by using devices to create the illusion of a thin dimension in flat painting

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Fore Shortening

41
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A kind of pottery that was used to contain perfume, oil and is often depicted in case paintings being used by athletes during bathing

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Aryballos

42
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A city that is like a huge pedestal, it was crowned with a group of magnificent buildings that symbolized the glory of Athens

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Acropolis

43
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It is a Greek plaza/court, meeting place and platform for speakers

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Agora

44
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The Greeks have ___; while the Mycenaeans have ___ as their room for worship

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Cella; and Megaron respectively

45
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In Egyptian painting: Men are colored reddish brown; females in ___

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yellow

46
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Name the basic parts of an Egyptian column except for one which is:

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Frieze

47
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A kind of Cretan writing only used for records and inventories

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Linear B

48
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The story is told of a great Labyrinth or maze built beneath the palace at Knossos to house the fearsome ____

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Minotaur

49
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An athenian vase painter reversed the color scheme of the Black Figure Style

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Psiax

50
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She was an Egyptian queen and the Great Loyal Wife (chief consort) of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. She and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshipped one god only

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Nefertiti

51
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The _____ civilization came into being around 3000 BCE on the island of Crete.

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Minoan

52
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It is a carved, generally stone case in which a linen-wrapped mummy was placed

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Sacrophagus

53
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A Hieroglyphics that means the “eye of Horus” is

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Wedjat

54
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Greek age of art which is the start Construction of the oldest Doric and Ionic temples and Life-size stone statues

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Archaic Age

55
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This was the most common of Egyptian furniture and served as a symbol of authority

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Faldstool

56
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The Mycenaean palaces included a ____, the center of where offerings are made

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Megaron

57
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Aegean Fashion: There are also flounces sewn to their skirt and these might form a ____ pattern in brown and beige or brown and light blue

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Chekered

58
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In Greek architecture, it is a series of columns standing in one line position

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Colonnade

59
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It is a term for Greek interior space used as a men’s dining room

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Andron

60
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A tapering, four sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex

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Obelisk

61
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Ionic fashion: the term was first applied to a certain textile but was later designated as a piece of clothing regardless of the material

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Chiton

62
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In Egyptian interiors, the floors were colored ___ like the meadows of the Nile

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green

63
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Interior design: A roofed porch upheld by column

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Portico

64
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Which is not one of the common building materials of Egyptian architecture?

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Marble

65
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A temple space where only one or two rooms are dedicated to a god or goddess as a symbolic home

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Cella

66
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Inside the pyramid is a solid limestone, except for passageways and a few rooms called

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Galleries

67
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In Egyptian hieroglyphics, what does the “sma” mean?

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Union

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