Greek - Week 5

During the Hellenistic period, the Greeks used ________to depict old men and women from the lower class in sculpture.

realism

__________, stone carvings of draped female figures, appear in the place of columns at the Treasury of the Siphnians in Delphi (Fig. 5-18).

Caryatids

Columns whose capitals resemble acanthus leaves are called _________

Corinthian

Phidias represented the female goddess Athena in the Parthenon ____________.

fully armed with shield, spear, and helmet, holding Nike in her right hand

White-ground technique is most common on vessels used for ___________.

funerary purposes

Freestanding statues of male figures, which were made in the Archaic period, are called ______________.

kouroi

In contrast to Egyptian temples, Greek temples encouraged the visitor to ______________.

walk around the exterior

Why is the Tomb of the Diver (Fig. 5-61) significant to art history?

It is an example of Greek mural wall painting

The __________ period is named for the influence of Egypt, the Near East, and Asia Minor on Greek art.

Orientalizing

The Canon for constructing the ideal human figure was developed about 450 BCE by __________ of Argos.

Polykleitos

A bronze sculpture called ____________ was created as an illustration of the principles set out in The Canon of Polykleitos.

Spear Bearer (Doryphoros)

The beautiful Corinthian black-figure vase (Fig. 5-5) with animal friezes exemplifies a vase shape called a(n) __________.

amphora

In both red- and black-figure vase painting techniques, the areas that were painted with slip would be ________after firing.

black

The Greeks preferred _________as a material for figurative sculpture because it allowed for complex action poses.

bronze

Scholars agree, the subject of the Parthenon's Ionic frieze ____________.

represents a festival procession that took place every four years in Athens

Upright stone slabs called _________ were used in cemeteries as gravestones.

stele

The Temple of Hera I at Paestum (Fig. 5-15) illustrates the early form of a __________ order temple.

Doric

The three orders of Greek architecture are the __________, __________, and __________ order.

Doric; Ionic; Corinthian

Expressionism, or the artist's attempt to evoke a specific emotion from the viewer, is characteristic of which period of Greek Art?

Hellenistic

What feature(s) do Greek kouroi and standing figures in Egyptian art have in common?

a rigid, upright stance