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Elevation
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the head on view on an external or internal wall showing its features and often other elements that would be visable beyond or before the wall
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Section
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a diagram or representation of of a part of a structure or building or building along an imaginary plane that it passes through vertically. Drawing showing a theoretical slice or cross section across the structures with are vertical sections. across the buildings length are longitudunal sections
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Amphora-
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two handled jar used for general storing purposes
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Black figure vases
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7TH CENTURY Greek: dark figures 530 BC: against light backround of reddish clay, with linear details
ex; achilles and ajax playing a dice game |
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red figure vases
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510 BC: replaced old method: red figure against black backround
ex: Herkales Wrestling Antaios |
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Stylized
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to restrict or conform to a particular style
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Archaic Scultpures
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6th and 7th century BC. standing up less emotion, closed fist
EX) Lady of Auxerre Kore 650-625 BC EGYPT EX) Kouros- young man GREEK |
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Greek geometric Style
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740 BC: Geometric Krater, athens
used to but on graves art very simple geometric patterns |
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Doric
Ionic |
5th and 6th century
simple, oldest, capitals are simple, no base, ex Parthenon th and 6th century- rolly volute\capital |
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corintheon
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1st century, decorated capital
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Contropossto
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disposition of the human figure where one part is turned in opposition to another part, creating a counter positioning of the body about its central axis.weight shift
--classical ex) kritos Boy Doryphorus -roman copy of greek |
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Doric building
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The parthenon 450 BC
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ionic building
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Temple of Athena Nike 425 BC
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Classical art
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4th-5th BC
embody ideal of human body - the canon: studdied poise, controposto, persice anatomical detail |
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cannon
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a rule for propertion, greeks considered beauty to be a matter of correct proportion
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arch
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curved structural member that spans the opening and is composed of wedge shaped blocks that transmit the downward pressure latterally
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Hellenistic style
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4-1st century
-- New subjects explored to make such as women and commoners Nike of Samothrace 190 BC The Lacoon and his Sons |
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Roman art
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best achievment in civil architecture, streets bridges aqueducts thermar, use of ARCH and VAULT
ex)Pont du guard 1st century- keystone EX) Colosseum 72 AD- ampitheater, circle EX)Basillica of Constantine 310 EX) Arch of Constantine |
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Triumphal Arch
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ROMAN, free standing, commemorating important events,such as millitary or victory
EX) Arch of constatine 313 AD |
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Portico
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roofed colonnade, alaso an entry porch
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Dome
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hemospheric vault
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coffereing
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sunken in panal, often ornamental or in a ceiling
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oculus
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round opening in the ceiling, also small rounded window in a gothic cathedral
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rotunda
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circular area under the dome
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drum
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one of the stacked cylindrical stones that form the shaft of a collumn
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Barrel Vault
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symmetrical in a cross section, a deep arch or uniterupted arches
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Aisel
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the portion of a basillica flanking the nave and seperating it from a row of collumns or peirs
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atrium
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the open collumn court in fron attatched to christian basillicas
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Narthex
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porch of a church, ussually collumned or arcaded perceding the nave
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nave
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central area of ancient roman basillica seperated by aisels pers or collumns
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Apse
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a reccess, ussually semi-circular, in the wall of roman basilica
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sarcophagus
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coffin ussually of stone
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vault
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a mansonry roof or ceiling constructed on the arch principle
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engaged collum
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half collumn attatched to wall
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Pilaster
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flat rectanglular vertical projection from a wall which forms a part, ussually has base and capital and fluted
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blind arch
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arch that does not have actual openings, applies to decoration to a wall surface
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cathedral
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a bishops church
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buttress
peir buttress flying buttress |
an exterior manssory structure that opposes that lateral thrust of an arch or a vault
PB- solid mass of missionary FB-inclined member carried on an arche or on a series of of arches and a solid to which transmits lateral thrust |
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thrust
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outward force from arch
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compound peir
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a peir with a group or cluster of attatched shafts or responds, esp gothic architecture
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