Test 2 Terms Flashcards

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Ziggurat

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A staged truncated pyramid of mud brick as a support for a shrine

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Battered

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In architecture sloping inward towards the top as in a wall

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Narrative image

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A picture that recants an event drawn from a story (factual or fictional)

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Hieratic scale

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The use of different sizes for important or unimportant (Holy/non-holy)

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Stele

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A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions and/or relief sculpture. Used as a gravesite marker to commemorate events.

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Naturalism

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When the elements or forms within a work of art closely resemble the appearance of those forms in nature

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Idealism

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The improvement and abstraction of forms to conform to contemporary cultural standards of perfection and beauty

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Canon

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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

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Mastaba

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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

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Ka

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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)

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Greek orders

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Any several styles of classical architecture characterized by the type of column used

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Doric order

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The oldest, plainest and sturdiest looking with a fluted column and plain circular and rectangular capital

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Ionic order

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Has a slender column, a capital with symmetrical vaults (scroll shaped ornaments)

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Circa

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About/approximately

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Corinthian order

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Has a capital that represents an acanthus plant growing in a basket. Most ornate of the Greek architectural style adopted by the Romans.

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Column

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A free standing Sillinger oh support often fluted end with a capital, used in post and lintel construction

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Fluting

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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

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Capital

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The decorated top of a column, pier, or plaster

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Architrave

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Horizontal lentil or been that rests on the top of the capital

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Frieze

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The middle structure of the entablature in Ancient Greek and Roman orders (Greek= sculpture/Roman=usually inscriptions)

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Pediment

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The triangular end of a gable roof; in a Greek temple this area is often decorated with sculpture

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Black-figure

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In early Greek pottery the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background

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Red figure

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In the later Greek, the silhouetting of red figures against a black background

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Kore

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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)

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Kouros

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The Greek word for youth, refers to the male figure represented in Archaic sculpture. (Always standing, left foot always forward, both feet flat, both arms outside, both hands in fists, thumbs forward, looking straight ahead, identity unknown, hair past shoulders also always nude)

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Acropolis

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Means high city, highest part of the city

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Contrapposto

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The learning of weight shift

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Refinements

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Optical corrections and buildings, symmetry in their building plans and exterior designs, ideal mathematical proportions for architecture(y=2x+1)

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Rotunda

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Round building or room that is domed

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Pantheon

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Exploited and popularized the arch. ALL GODS. huge interior space, barrel vault, groin vault, dome

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Triumphal arch

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A freestanding arch or gateway created to commemorate an event or honor a person or family. Built with concrete, enclosed space became more important.