Greek Sculpture & Style
This Classical Greek sculpture was the blueprint for the Canon of Proportions.
What is the Doryphoros?
This Greek hero is shown in some vases as he fights the Minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
This was the Roman portrait style focused on sophistication, showing the effects of aging, wrinkles, and particular facial traits.
What is verism?
It is Greek with straightforward capitals and robust columns.
What is the Doric order?
This animal appears on the Augustus of Primaporta Statue, symbolizing its descent from Venus.
What is a dolphin?
This was a feature of Archaic sculptures that indicated life, but not happiness.
What is the Archaic smile?
In the Parthenon's East Pediment, there was the miraculous birth of this goddess from Zeus’ head.
Who is Athena?
This statue represents the first emperor as a youthful figure, idealizing him through the use of Classical Greek sculptures.
What is the Augustus of Primaporta?
In Ionic designs, this typically carved band is situated above the columns.
What is the frieze?
This aspect of Greek Classical art communicates ideal beauty, not exact likeness.
What is idealism?
This sculptor of the fifth century BCE established the Canon of Proportions.
Who is Polykleitos?
From the Ara Pacis Augustae, this fertility goddess is accompanied by figures of breezes, plants, as well as animals.
Who is Tellus?
This monument, erected in honor of Augustus, utilizes both mythological and historical relief sculptures that depict prosperity as well as divine favor.
What is the Ara Pacis Augustae?
An interior chamber of a Greek temple that housed the cult image.
What is the cella?
An emblematic animal that provided the founders of Rome with sustenance, as seen in Etruscan/Roman bronze figures.
What is the She-Wolf?
This sculpture from the Hellenistic period has dynamic movement.
What is Nike of Samothrace?
The son of Aphrodite, who founded the city of Lavinium and is an ancestor of Romulus and Remus.
Who is Aeneas?
This structure reflects imperial strength through its massive dome as well as its concrete engineering.
What is the Pantheon?
Such was the Roman architectural breakthrough that contributed to the development of this material.
What is concrete?
This Roman emperor used art as a tool for creating the myth that he brought peace and prosperity to Rome.
Who is Augustus?
This pose, originally from the Classical Period, places the body’s weight on one leg in order to attain naturalism.
What is contrapposto?
Emperors of Rome often linked their rule with this Greek hero.
Who is Herakles/Hercules?
The spiral relief carvings on this column depict the conquests in Dacia of an emperor.
What is Trajan’s Column?
The Parthenon uses the refinements of entasis and stylobate curve that offset this illusion.
What is optical distortion?
This activity is often found in Etruscan funerary art as a form of expressing life through its vitality.
What are banquets?