The earliest Greek style known only from pottery and small-scale sculpture.
What is geometric style?
100
A method known by the French term cire-perdue.
What is the lost-wax method?
100
The temple that celebrates the goddess, Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
100
A place for dancing.
What is an orchestra?
100
The Hellenistic period extended from the death of this person in 323 B.C., to the beginning of the Roman Empire under Augustus.
Who is Alexander the Great?
200
Typical, rectilinear patterns found in Geometric pottery design.
What are meander patterns?
200
The fifty-year span of Greek history that corresponds to the "golden age" of Greek art.
What is the Classical Period?
200
An elevated rock supporting several temples, precincts, and other buildings.
What is the Acropolis?
200
The leading Athenian sculptor of the Late Classical style that celebrated the female nude.
Who is Praxiteles?
200
This sculpture depicts a god as a naturalistic toddler shown in a state of sleep, relaxed and unaware of the waking world.
What is the Sleeping Eros?
300
The painting technique used during the Archaic period.
What is black-figure?
300
Archaic sculptures of standing women.
What is korai?
300
A popular armor decoration in the West that symbolizes killing one's enemies.
What is the Medusa head (Gorgoneion)?
300
He was one of the important Greek sculptors of the fourth century B.C. who was famous for his portrayals of athletes and his portraits of great men.
Who is Lysippos?
300
A Trojan seer that warned the Trojans that he did not trust the Greeks, "even bearing gifts." Thereupon, Athena sent two serpents to kill him and his children.
Who is Laocoon?
400
Painting technique that was introduced in the late Archaic period that permitted freer painting and the representation of more natural forms.
What is red-figure painting?
400
The classical artists idealized this. Figures are typically young, without a trace of physical defect, but lack personality and expression.
What is the human form?
400
The temple named after a legendary king of Athens who was worshiped with Athena and various other gods and ancestors.
What is the Erechtheum?
400
This sculpture was admired by the Roman emperor Tiberius, who had it moved from the public baths to his bedroom but returned it after the Roman citizens protested their loss.
What is the Apoxyomenos (Athlete with a Strigil)?
400
This style expands the diversity of sculpture formally and iconographically as well as psychologically.
What is Hellenistic style?
500
The best-preserved examples of large-scale Greek pictorial style.
What are mosaics?
500
A shifted torso and a lowered right hip and shoulder pose.
What is a contrapposto pose?
500
This more graceful column has a round base with alternating convex and concave profile. The shaft is taller in relation to its diameter and elegant volutes, or scroll shapes, are at the top.
What is the Ionic Order?
500
Sculpture that was rejected by the eastern Greek city of Kos because of its nudity, but then accepted by another city called Knidos.
What is the Aphrodite?
500
This sculpture's function nor context is known but it shows-in a realistic, rather than idealized way- a man who has weathered a lifetime of fighting.