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16 Cards in this Set
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Minoan Architecure
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-Focus on palace complex
-hundreds of rooms -many murals -Minoan columns used, wood, red, tapered downwards. -indoor plumbing and flush toilets -Megaron: meeting room |
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Minoan Painting
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-Much Fresco
-Often free and loose, lively -Curvaceous -people are slender and long haired -much bull and snake imagery -much agriculture and the sea -many murals |
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Mycenaean Architecture
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-Focus on fortifications
-Thick Walls -Cyclopean blocks -Megaron:meeting room -Pit tombs; later, tholos(cone shaped tomb) -Corbel arch |
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Geometric Greek Period Art
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-named after painting style on pottery
-Repetitive geometric designs, e.g. meander -Abstract bodies; triangle=torso, circle=eye, oval=leg -growing realism |
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Orientalizing Period Art
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-Influenced by Near East (orient)
-Animal and mythical creature designs -Growing Realism and interest in anatomy -Black figure pottery painting developed |
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Black-Figure Technique Pottery
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-Both potter and painter may sign the pot
-Paint on the unbaked pot with a slip***(fine filtered clay in water) -Fire pot: pot and slip turn red -Cut off air: pot and slip turn black...slip vitrifies(turns glasslike) -Reinstate Air; pot turns red, slip remains black -For red-figure technique..paint around the desired subject |
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Greek Archaic Sculpture
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-Nude Male(kouros) and Clothed female (Kore)
-Stiff and rigid -one foot forward(male) one arm across chest(female) -Youthful and slender -Archaic smile after 575 bce -Flat faces get rounder -webbing decreases -increasing realism |
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Classical Greek Sculpture
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-Nude male, clothed female
-short hair -no expression -normally young -Absolutely realistic and 3-d -Tension and relaxation -S-Curve to body -head turned and/or tilted -Looks posed, but implies motion -search for ideal proportions leads to slight distortions |
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Greek Architecture
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-Emphasis on temple
-temple built on an order(overall style) Doric or Ionic -much use of columns, which are normally fluted and built from sections: prostyle(in front) Amphiprostyle(front and back), peristyle is all around. Archaic: number of cols. in front=X, then cols. in side=2X Classical: number of cols in front=X, cols. in side=2x + 1 Columns support Entablature(lintel), which supports a Pediment -temples low to the ground, normally 3 steps Tholos: circular, domed temple Theater: semi-circle, outdoors, excavated out of a hill, excellent slight lines and acoustics. |
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Greek Hellenistic Sculpture
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Male and female nudes
-variety of ages -emotion -turbulent, twisting -moment in time effect -often playful or erotic |
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Greek Hellenistic Architecture
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-Less Emphasis on canon
-introduction of Corinthian temple -often huge -may have stairs -turbulent reliefs |
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Etruscan Sculpture
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-often terracotta; much bronze
-lively; sense of movement -fierce animals -men and women together -gestures -feasting, partying scenes -Archaic smile in earlier examples |
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Etruscan Architecture
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-Normally wood, some brick or tufa
-Temple: on a podium, steps, 3 cellas, columns only in front -Tuscan column: wood, unfluted, doric capital, base -Tombs in large necropolis -Cerveteri: underground tombs resemble houses -Tarquinia: underground tombs have elaborate murals |
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Roman Architecture
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-enclosed space
-often huge -exploit the arch: arcade, barrel vault, dome -exploit concrete -steps -engaged domes -Doric and Ionic columbs, Also Corinthian, composite, and tuscan -Amphitheater: oval, outdoor theater for public entertainment -Basilica: rectangular, rounded end, administrative -Bath, stadium, Aqueduct |
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Roman Portraits
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Republic-Absolutely realistic portrait
Emperor-often idealized Emperor may be realistic to be seen as approachable(or intimidating) -Couples and families portrayed; literacy is highlighted |
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Painting in Pompeii
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-many murals
-much still life and landscape -use of perspective(visual, linear, atmospheric) 1st style: Imitate costly stone panels 2nd: Illusion of 3-d world without walls 3rd: geometric forms, often dark background 4th: Crowded, decorated picture gallery effect |