AP Art History Unit 2
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cycladic Idols; period, main type, characteristics, location | P: Cycladic T: Folded Arm figures C: nude females, narrow front to back, legs together, pubic triangle, only arms, nose, and breast 3D, stone L: burials in Cycladic Islands |
| Palace at Knosses; period, distinctions, location; finder | P: Minoan D: light wells, aqueducts from outside mountains, rounded capitals, columns wide on top, large storage deposits, bull decorations, no walls around cities, irregular L: Crete F: Arthur Evans |
| Throne Room at Knosses; fresco_____ with fresco _____ characteristics | secco, buon |
| Queens Megaron Room. Significance | Had bathtub with running water |
| Common Minoan Characteristics | registers, complex boarders, bright colors, conceptual perspective, patterns, men red while women yellow or white, curvalinear or undulating lines, subjects= women, bulls, or wildlife |
| Prince of the Lilies; location, period | L:Palace of Knosses P: Minoan |
| Toreader Fresco; location, typical characteristics; period | L: Knosses C:complex boarders, bulls, bright colors P: Minoan |
| Mycenae; period; characteristics; famous gate | P: Mycenan C: citadel, corbelled arches, cyclopean macery, post and lintel G: Lion Gate of Mycenean |
| Geometric Vases; period, characteristics, use | P: Geometric C: highly stylized figures, male nude and horses main subjects, simple, abstract, funerary or hunting and warfare images, patterned U: grave markers |
| Kourose and Kore Figures; period, characteristics, significance | P: Archaic C: idealized male nude figures, life-size or smaller, limited range of poses, freestanding, archaic smile, inlaid eyes, naturalistic but stylized hair, mythological or athletic inspiration S: set precedent for Greek art as idealized free-standing male nude |
| Peplos Core | Kore with long braids in front |
| Temple of Athena Nike; period, name means, artist, technique; action | P: Classical N: Victory A: Phydias T: wet drapery Ac: unfastening sandal |
| Propylaea; period, purpose | P: Classical Pu: Museum inside |
| List important parts of temple from up to down | Pediment, frieze, metope and triglyphs, capitals, colums |
| Peristyle | Colonade that wraps around building |
| Colanade | a series of columns |
| Naos | The biggest room in a temple |
| Parthenon; period, dedicated to, architect, list refinements | P: Classical D: Athena Parthenos (Athena the Virgin) A: Perikles R: columns longer outside, stylobate raised in middle, columns in middle lean in, columns outside slightly thicker |
| Lapith and Centaur; period, location, other name, characteristics | P: Classical L: on Metopes on frieze on Parthenon N: Elgin Marbles C: idealized male nude, experimental poses, unemotional, mythological |
| Athena Parthenos; period, material, significant items on statue, location | P: Classical M: Chryselephantine- wooden covered in ivory and gold S: shield, serpent, winged nike, pale L: Naos room of Parthenon |
| Kritios Boy; period, significance, characteristics | P: Transitional S: 1st classical statue C: Uses contrapposto, idealized male nude, more naturalistic yet idealized |
| Doryphoros; period, significance, artist | P: Classical S: establishes canon proportions of male figure A: Polyklitos |
| Riace Warrior; period, material, unusual, a characteristic | P: Classical M: Bronze U: larger than life size C: very naturalistic |
| Cnidian Venus; period, artist, significance | P: Classical A: Praxilitel S: established canon of female proportions |
| Venus Pubaica | Pose of Venus embarrassed to be seen naked and trying to cover up |
| Venus de Milo; significance | 1st statue to be displayed broken |
| Dying Galatian; period, museum, common characteristics of period | P: Hellenistic M:Capitaline Museum in Rome C:dying, complex scene from tableau, foreigner |
| Baker Dancer; period, characteristics | P: Hellenistic C: complex- interacts with surrondings, seen all the way around, suggests movement, not mythological, a woman |
| Laocoon; period, museum, characteristics | P: Hellenistic M: Vatican C: idealized male nude, foreigners, focus on death, complexity, deep modeling of hair, highly expressive faces |
| Winged Nike of Samothrace; period, characteristics | P: Hellenistic C: movement, naturalistic |
| Torme Boxer; period, portal of death | P: Hellenistic D: nose broken, cuts on face, red copper for blood, athlete, front teeth broken, cauliflower ear |
| Colossal Olmec Heads; characteristics | represent rules, leather helmets, broad faces, full lips, high cheek bones, broad noses, narrow front to back, sit directly on ground, crest on helmet |
| Great Stupa of Sanchi; period, material, purpose, symbols | P: Mauryan M: stone covered with plaster and gilded with intricate designs P: house relics S: wheel, lions and elephants |
| Mandala | circular wheel design used as an aid in meditation |
| Toranas | gates opening to cardinal direction |
| Aniconically | depicted without using an image |
| Circuambulation | walking in circle chanting as form of worship |
| Jade Celts; period, location | P: Olmec L: buried outside ball field of La Venta |
| Olmec figurines; location, burial position, characteristics | L: La Venta B: in circle facing inward toward one figurine C: elongated heads, 6 in tall |
| Mithuna; period, other name | P: Mauryan N: auspicious couples |
| Chaitya Hall at Korli; period, structure type, typical of period | P: Mauryan S: monolithic T: lions, wheels, pools |
| Chauri-Bearer- Yakshi; period, characteristics | P: Mauryan C: stylized, goal to show plentiful, clothes stylized curves, 5 ft tall |
| so called Treasury of Artheus; period, significance, main characteristic | P: Minoan S: largest covered open space in world at that time |
| Santorini significance | all buildings still intacted with frescos |
| Charioteer of Delphi; period, characteristics | P: Transitional C: Bronze, clothed, naturalistic, idealized, lifesize, not patterned except for hair |
| Athena Promachos; period, location | P: Classical L: Acropolis |
| Equestrian Frieze; period, significance, location | P: Classical S: 6 layers of depth L: inner frieze of Parthenon |
| Erectheum; period, location, contains | P: Classical L: Acropolis C: Porch of the Maidens with caryatids |
| Werner Van Llagens; specialty | plastiization |
| Sleeping Eros; period, characteristics | P: Hellenistic C: idealized male nude, complex natural pose, naturalistic, new pose, less idealized, more detailed, seen all the way around, new subjects, mythological |
| Olmec contributions to Mesoamerica | focus on ceremonial centers, human sacrafices, ball game, pyramids, feathered serpents |
| Asoka | Leader of Mauryan empire who converts to Buddhism |
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