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Intro to Art Ch 2

Terms in this set (25)

_____ refers to the basic Greek city-state
Polis
_____ means the "high city", & referred to the elevated place in the center of the city occupied by the temples of the gods
Acropolis
_____ is a style of vase painting that made use of bold, simple, linear desings
Geometric
In 3D art, the _____ style consisted of figures that exhibit a stiff, frontal po
Archaic
_____ refers to a freestanding sculpture of a nude male youth
Kouros
_____ refers to the arrangement of body parts in sculpture so that the weight-bearing leg is apart from the free leg, thereby shifting the hip/shoulder axis
Contrapposto
The _____ order refers to a style of architecture employing columns capped by heavy lintels & a pedimented roof
Doric
The Minoan civilization was centered on the city of _____
Knossos
Minoan _____ has yet to be fully deciphered
Writing
Minoan _____ had running water & elaborate drainage systems
Palaces
The "palace of _____" has so many rooms that Greek myth called it the labyrinth of the minotaur
Minos
Minoan civilization was centered on _____
Trade
The _____ supplanted the Minoans as rulers of Crete
Mycenaeans
The Mycenaean military was the basis of Homer's _____
Illiad
The stones used to construct Mycenaean fortresses were so large that the later Greeks called them _____
Cycolpean
An example of Mycenaean architecture is the _____ Gate at the Palace of Mycenae
Lion
The four centuries b/w the Mycenaean & Greek civilization are called the Greek _____
Dark Centuries
The Hellene calendar began on the date of the first _____
Olympic Games
The Greek Archaic period lasted from _____ BCE
800 - 480
The word _____ means "love of wisdom"
Philosophy
_____ was an important school of pre-Socratic philosophy
Pythagoreanism
Horizontal bands used in organizing a design are called _____
Registers
Athenian pottery can be divided into 2 types: black-figure & ____
Red-figure
The _____ column on Greek temples probably originated in Egypt 2 thousand years earlier
Fluted
A band of relief elements below the cornice of a Greek temple is called the _____
Frieze
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