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23 Cards in this Set
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Greek temple Architecture:
Known for its _____, harmony, and classic simplicity |
symmetry
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The first temples were made of mud, brick, and wood. Later, ____ came into use.
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stone
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The construction of the greek architecture was?
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Post and Lintel
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Elements:
-___ pointed flutes on a wide column (much thicker at the base) -3 steps -____with square _____ and _____ -Plain, single branded architrave -Frieze with alternating _____ and painted or sculptured _____ |
Doric Order (Earliest)
-20 -Capital, abacus, echinus -tryglyphs, metopes |
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Doric Illustrations:
-The temple of _____(the Basilica) in Paestum, Italy (c. 550 B.C.) -No mestopes, tryglyphs, pediments, or cornice |
Hera I
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Standard Doric Style:
-___ columns on the end -___ on the side |
6, 14
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Doric Illustrations:
-Temple of _____(Tiemple of Poseidon) in Paestom, Italy c. 460 B.C. -It has a ____ and ____ (not on Hera I) |
Hera II
-pediment, cornice |
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____: a group of temples high atop a hill in Athens
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-Acropolis
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-The ____: the largest temple of the grouping (doric).
-Designed by _____ and _______. -Ottman Empire stored bombs=blew up ____ -Golden Mean: 1-1.618 -Flaws: middle goes up (steps and pediments) -Humanists: built imperfections to show that humans can't be perfect -Law of optics: built convex to look perfectly straight -All temple sculpture designed and supervised by ____ |
-Partheon, Ictinus, Kallicrates
-one wall -Centaur -Phidias |
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Ionic Order:
-___ flutes seperated by thin vertical bands (squared off) -Uniform thinkness (shaft) -Tripartile Architrave has 3 thin bands -Continuos ____ of painting and sculpture |
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-frieze |
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The temple of ____ ____ (Ionic Order) also known as the Temple of Wingless Victory
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Athena Nike
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Hecate, Hephaestus, Demeter, Kore in a ____ from the Temple of Athena Nike
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frieze
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The Erechthium (named for person who built it)
-Ionic Order -Posidon and Athena fought for being the idol of Athens -Athena won because she offered olive trees -Posidon offered horses -Place most _____ -Building is ____: Athena, Erecthius, and Porch of Maidens (Posideon) |
-sacred
-triparte |
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The Porch of Maidens with Caryatids(shafts)
-Deintle ___, which is dents in archatrite -Plienth: holds up a porch *Only nonform order in ____ |
Greece
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The Propylaea (fortified gateway)-Doric
-Designed by _____ was left unfinishe -Athena Nike on right hand side of Acropulius |
-Mnesicles
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Classic Greek Sculpture:
-Posedion(or maybe___) -Idealized (humanistic) -Mathmatical proportion=rational thinkers |
Zeus
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Artemis (Goddess of hunting, moon, and sister of ____)
-Apollo and Artemis were Ying and Yang -Attributed to ______ |
-Apollo
-Praxiteles |
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Aphrodite (Goddess of ___)
-attributed to Praxiteles |
-love
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Hermes(adult)and Dionysos (child)
-attributed to ______ |
-Praxiteles
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The Laoccon Group
-During the Trojan War, Laoccon, Trojan ____ to Apollo, told Trojeans to not accept Greek horse, but Posiden and Athena sent two serpents to prevent him from finding Greeks in the wooden horse after putting a spear in the side of it -statue expressive of muscles and facial expression |
priest
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Battle of the Greeks and ____
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Persians
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Partheon Metope
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Lapith and Centaur
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Partheon Pediment Sculpture
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The Three Goddesses
-Clothed female figures |
