ARTH 105 Test #1

CONVENTIONS

(SIDE STANDING, STATUE STUCK IN ROCK, ONE LEG FORWRD)

Three methods of spanning a passageway (John Burge):

(a) post and lintel, (b) corbeled arch, (c) arch.

CORBELED ARCH

Arch not stable, not held in place by a key stone, just 2 sides resting

MYTH OF THE MINOTAUR

Classical Mythology. a monster, the offspring of Pasiphaë and the Cretan bull, that had the head of a bull on the body of a man: housed in the Cretan Labyrinth, it was fed on human flesh until Theseus, helped by Ariadne, killed it.

HELEN OF TROY

Classical Mythology. the beautiful daughter of Zeus and Leda and wife of Menelaus whose abduction by Paris was the cause of the Trojan War.

MASTABA

an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and a flat roof.

VENUS

an ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.

STELE

an upright stone slab or pillar bearing an inscription or design and serving as a monument, marker, or the like.

EGYPTIAN

of or relating to Egypt or its people

CYCLADIC

of or relating to the Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades, c3000-c1100 b.c.

PALEOLITHIC

of, relating to, or characteristic of the cultures of the late Pliocene and the Pleistocene epochs, or early phase of the Stone Age, which appeared first in Africa and are marked by the steady development of stone tools and later antler and bone artifacts, engravings on bone and stone, sculpted figures, and paintings and engravings on the walls of caves and rock-shelters: usually divided into three periods

NEOLITHIC

of, relating to, or characteristic of the last phase of the Stone Age, marked by the domestication of animals, the development of agriculture, and the manufacture of pottery and textiles: commonly thought to have begun c9000-8000 b.c. in the Middle East.

AMPHORA

other shape besides krater, smaller opening. hold oil everyone has a mythology scene on it red or black figure painting

HELLENISTIC

pertaining to or designating the style of the fine arts, especially sculpture, developed in the area conquered by Alexander the Great from the end of the 4th to the 1st century b.c., chiefly characterized by delicate and highly finished modeling, dramatic, often violent movement of forms in space, representations of extreme emotion, highly individuated characterization, and a wide variety of subject matter.

LOW RELIEF

relief sculpture in which the figures project slightly from the background.

FRIEZE

relief sculpture that goes around a building

CONTRAPPOSTO

sculpture of weight shifted

HIGH RELIEF

sculptured relief in which volumes are strongly projected from the background.

REGISTER STYLE

style use in narrative from starts at the top and tells the story as it goes down

CUNEIFORM

sumerian, first form of writing like hieroglyphic, but not

PARTHENON

the temple of Athena Parthenos on the Acropolis at Athens, completed c438 b.c. by Ictinus and Callicrates and decorated by Phidias: regarded as the finest Doric temple.

COLOSSAL STATUE

Large statues of human (or human-like) figures. As a rough guide, "colossal" means over about three times lifesize in this context.

ZIGGURAT

Like pyramid but temple, not house of the dead temple intended to go up towards the sky blend in with the environment not a lot of them left most basic low bearing arch w/o collapsing

KORE

Greek Antiquity. a sculptured representation of a young woman, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c

DEATH MASK

a cast taken of a person's face after death.

KRATER

a mixing bowl characterized by a wide mouth and body with two handles projecting vertically from the juncture of the neck and body, used to mix wine and water.

KOUROS

a sculptured representation of a young man, especially one produced prior to the 5th century b.c. greek

MEGALITH

a stone of great size, especially in ancient construction work, as the Cyclopean masonry, or in prehistoric Neolithic remains, as dolmens or menhirs.