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Archaic |
Artistic style of 600-480bce in greece characterized in part by the use of composite view for painted and relief figures and of egyptian stances for statues |
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Black figure painting |
In early greek pottery, the silhouetting of dark figures against a light background of natural reddish clay w linear details incised throughcanon the silhouettes |
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Canon |
A rule |
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Capital |
Uppermost part of a column serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel |
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Caryatid |
Female figure that functions as a supporting column |
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Cella |
Chamber at the center of an ancient temple |
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Classical |
The art and culture of ancient greece between 480 and 323bce |
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Clerestory |
The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts |
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Colannade |
A series or row of columns usually spanned by lintels |
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Contrappasto |
The disposition of the human figure in which one part is turned in opposition to another part creating a counter positioning of the body about its central axis |
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Corinthian |
A more ornate form than doric or ionic |
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Cuneiform |
System of writing used in ancient mesopotamia |
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Doric |
characterized by capitals w funnel shaped echinuses, columns w/o bases, and a frieze of triglyphs metopes |
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Facade |
The front of a building |
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Foreshortening |
The use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight |
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Fresco |
Painting on lime plaster either dry or wet |
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Guang |
An ancient chinese covered vessel often in animal form, holding wine water grain or meat for sacrificial use |
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Hellenistic |
The term given to the art and culture of the roughly 3 centuries between the death of alexander the great and the death of cleopatra when egypt became a roman providence |
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Hieroglyphic |
Style of writing that uses a symbol or picture to confer meaning |
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Ionic |
Characterized by volutes, capitals, columns w bases and an uninterrupted frieze |
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Ka |
Immortal human life force |
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Kore |
Young woman; archaic greek statue of a young woman |
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Kouros |
Archaic greek statue of a young man |
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Lamassu |
Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull or lion |
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Lintel |
Horizontal beam used to span an opening |
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Mastaba |
Ancient egyptian rectangular brick or stone structure w sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb chamber connected w the outside by a shaft |
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Narmer |
May have united egypt |
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Palette |
A thin board w a thumb hole at one end on which an artist lays and mixed colors |
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Pediment |
Triangular space at the end of of a building |
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Pylon |
The wide entrance gateway of an egyptian temple |
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Red figure painting |
The silhouetting of red figures against a black background w painted linear details |
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Sphinx |
Mythical egyptian beast w the body of a lion and the head of a human |
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Stele |
A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events |
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Stupa |
A large mound shaped buddhist shrine |
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Torana |
Gateway in the stone fence around a stupa located at the cardinal points of the compass |
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Ziggurat |
In ancient mesopotamian architecture, a tiered platform for a temple |
