Architecture
Famous Names
What's That Period
Sculpt Me
Mixed Bag
100
Temple complex in Athens
What is the Acropolis?
100
Wrote the canon and embodied it in the sculpture of Doryphorus or 'The Spear Bearer'.
Who is Polykleitos?
100
Sculptures had a smile.
What is the Archaic Period?
100
Name of the smile found on ancient Greek sculpture..
What is the Archaic Smile?
100
The Greek god of wine/
Who is Dionysos?
200
Characterized by a Capital with an echinus and abacus.
What is a Doric Order column?
200
Queen of the Greek Gods, wife of Zeus.
Who is Hera?
200
Period influenced by Egypt and Mesopotamia.
What is the Orientalizing Period?
200
First use of 'contrapposto' in Greek sculpture.
What is the Kritios Boy?
200
The sea in the center of the Ancient Greek World.
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
The triangular area inside the cornice.
What is the pediment?
300
The conqueror that brought about the Hellenistic period of Greek art.
Who is Alexander the Great?
300
Period when the Weary Herakles was sculpted.
What is the Late Classical Period?
300
Greek method of creating bronze statues.
What is the Hollow-Casting [or Lost-Wax] method?
300
Name for the war of the Greek gods versus the earth giants.
What is Gigantomachy?
400
The Greek temple in Italy, south of Naples, at Paestum from 550bc.
What is the Temple of Hera I?
400
He was elected general 15 times, and started the building of the Acropolis in Athens.
Who is Pericles?
400
The Period when the Corinithian Capital is introduced.
What is the Late Classical Period?
400
A sculpted female support Column.
What is a Caryatid?
400
The area on a Greek temple that includes the Cornice, Frieze and Architrave.
What is the Entablature?
500
The lower part of an Ionic Capital.
What is the Volute?
500
He was the greatest master of black-figure painting.
Who was Exekias?
500
Period when Athena Parthenos was sculpted.
What is the Early Classical Period?
500
The first nude goddess sculpture from the Late Classical Period.
What is the Aphrodite of Knidos?
500
Who were the architects for the Parthenon?
Iktinos and Kallikrates
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