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