Test 2 Terms Flashcards
(31 cards)
Ziggurat
A staged truncated pyramid of mud brick as a support for a shrine
Battered
In architecture sloping inward towards the top as in a wall
Narrative image
A picture that recants an event drawn from a story (factual or fictional)
Hieratic scale
The use of different sizes for important or unimportant (Holy/non-holy)
Stele
A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions and/or relief sculpture. Used as a gravesite marker to commemorate events.
Naturalism
When the elements or forms within a work of art closely resemble the appearance of those forms in nature
Idealism
The improvement and abstraction of forms to conform to contemporary cultural standards of perfection and beauty
Canon
A set of ideal mathematical rations in art based on measurements of the human body used for royalty/high officials and their wives not for ordinary people
Mastaba
A rectangular, Egyptian Burial monument with battered walls and a flat roof, covering a subterranean burial chamber and containing a chapel for offerings and a compartment with a statue of dead
Ka
A. A persons vital (mental) force in life and death
B. Entered tomb through air vent
C. Dwelt in life like tombs, statue of the dead
E. Food presented at false door of tomb
F. Provisions (furniture, chariots, servant models, combs and hairpins)
Greek orders
Any several styles of classical architecture characterized by the type of column used
Doric order
The oldest, plainest and sturdiest looking with a fluted column and plain circular and rectangular capital
Ionic order
Has a slender column, a capital with symmetrical vaults (scroll shaped ornaments)
Circa
About/approximately
Corinthian order
Has a capital that represents an acanthus plant growing in a basket. Most ornate of the Greek architectural style adopted by the Romans.
Column
A free standing Sillinger oh support often fluted end with a capital, used in post and lintel construction
Fluting
The shallow vertical grooves in a column that either meet in a sharp edge, as in doric columns or are separated in a narrow strip as an ionic columns
Capital
The decorated top of a column, pier, or plaster
Architrave
Horizontal lentil or been that rests on the top of the capital
Frieze
The middle structure of the entablature in Ancient Greek and Roman orders (Greek= sculpture/Roman=usually inscriptions)
Pediment
The triangular end of a gable roof; in a Greek temple this area is often decorated with sculpture
Black-figure
In early Greek pottery the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background
Red figure
In the later Greek, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background
Kore
Greek word for maiden, refers to the female figure represented and I can’t sculpture. Always standing with feet together, always dressed, one or both arms side-by-side, other arm across chest, looking straight ahead longhair past shoulders, no identity)
