In Mycenaean architecture, the triangular opening above the lintel that serves to lighten the weight to be carried by the lintel itself.
What is relieving triangle?
100
(in classical architecture) a main beam resting across the tops of columns, specifically the lower third entablature.
What is architrave?
100
Latin word for temple; an area that was marked out for religious purposes, a sacred place
What is a templum?
100
a kind of mixed style in the fine arts: "the borrowing of a variety of styles from different sources and combining them"
What is eclecticism?
100
(Roman) a round or eyelike opening or design
What is oculus?
200
A temple with a circular plan.
What is tholos?
200
A harmonious balance of tension and relaxation in the human stance.
What is contrapposto?
200
ornice that follows the slope of a gable or pediment
What is a raking cornice?
200
practice of creating a new work by taking a pre-existing image from another context
What is appropriation?
200
(Ancient Greece) time in art when the individual hero is celebrated and portrayed as an ordinary person.
What is individualism?
300
The passage leading to a tholos tomb.
What is dromos?
300
a belief or theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than emotion
What is rationalism?
300
unglazed, typically brownish-red earthenware, used chiefly as an ornamental building material and in modeling.
What is terracotta?
300
artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; a form of realism.
What is verism?
300
(Ancient Greece) belief that pleasure is the chief goal in life
What is hedonism?
400
Formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face. The metal is hammered into a hollow mold of wood or some other pliable material and finished with a graver
What is repousse?
400
the realistic depiction in art of contemporary life, as a means of social or political comment.
What is social realism?
400
a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations
What is sarcophagus?
400
a recessed panel in a ceiling.
What is a coffer?
400
(Ancient Aegean) Drywall masonry that is very high and thick. believed that only a giant Cyclops could have moved such massive stones
What is Cyclopean Masonry?
500
A vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch.
What is corbel vaulting?
500
a part of the festival dedicated to the goddess, Athena. Included athletic competition, musical performances, and poetry competitions. Promoted the strength and power of the city.
What is Panathenaic Procession?
500
an ancient burial mound; a barrow.
What is tumulus?
500
an approach that assesses the truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in terms of the success of their practical application
What is pragmatism?
500
(Roman) a central stone at the summit of an arch, locking the whole together.