Art History Midterm Vocab

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The Acropolis

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Holds the: Parthenon, Erechtheoum, Temple of Athena Nike, Highest point in Athens, Propalea.

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Agora

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A meeting place (open square in Greece)

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Amphora

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2 Handled jug for storage purposes usually holds wine

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Arch

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Describe an arch. Arch of Titus

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Atrium

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A room that is partially open to the outside from the roof

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Caryatide

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A statue of a woman that is used as a supporting column. On the erectheoum

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-Machy

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Great battle or war

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Chiton

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Greek dress, omnisexual, can include a mantel

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Cista

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Container to hold toilet articles. Sometimes engraved, cast, etc.

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Colonnade

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Row of Columns

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Corbel

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An arch built by taking one stone and taking the next one inset on top until it reaches the keystone. Lion's Gate.

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Cubiculum

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A small room, usually found in a Roman home usually around the atrium.

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Cuneiform

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Writing, Wedged shaped characters pressed into wet clay tablets. Sumarian

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Dipteral

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A single row on columns each one of which is fully 360 around

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Diorite

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Black or blue black, Budea used it, A type of stone, very hard to carve, Used for the very rich or the nobility

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Fenestrations

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Openings in a wall

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Fresco

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Painting on wet, semi wet, almost dry, limestone or plaster. True fresco and fresco seco. Most effective is wet. Dry tends to break off.

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Hypostyle

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An egyptian hall with a room supported by columns allowing the upperstory to be fenestrated.

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Iconography

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The study of the writing of images. Is essentially greek. The study of the symbolic meaning

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Inhumation

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Varying the entire body

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The Ka

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The egyptian spirit and soul

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Kouros

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Greek young man sculpture

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Kore

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Greek young woman sculpture

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Monolith

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A column or something similar made of one piece of stone. Stonehenge

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Necropolis

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Greek or egyptian city of the dead

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What is the basic difference between concept of egyptian, greek and roman gods and goddesses

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The egyptian gods were part animal and usually were represented in statues and paintings as such, while the roman and greek gods were human in figure. They represented the perfect human.

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Peripteral

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A column that you can walk 360 around

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pseudo-peripteral

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A peripteral that you can only see 180 around.

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Propylaion

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Gateway. The entry into the temple complex on top of the acopolis.

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Tholos

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Round temple. Temple of the Secratus.

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Triclinium

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Dining room in a roman home

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Cinerary [Urns]

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A jar or container used to hold the ashes of the dead.

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Etrutria

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The portion of land between florance and Rome where the Etrusians lived.

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Repousse'

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A light guage metal placed on top of an object that is pressed or hammered around it. Like the death mask of what is supposedly Agamemnon.

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The Rosetta Stone

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A Stone that decodes language. The Rosetta Stone has the Greek, Demotic, and Hyrogliphic written on it.

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In Estruscan/Roman mural painting "Second Style"

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Taking the walls and trying to make them look like windows or into another room.

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Terracotta

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Clay, glazed or not, bricks or sculpture, Clay mixed with some marble shavings

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"Helladic" Art

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Art of the greek mainland.

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Krater

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2 Handled bowl used to mix wine and water.