This theoretician proposed a set of proportions where the length of the body would equal the size of the head x 8.
What was Praxiteles?
100
A give away that a sculpture is made in "archaic style."
What is an archaic smile?
100
The name of the oldest and plainest of the three Greek orders.
What is the doric order?
100
479 BCE.
What was the year the Athenians defeated the Persians and began to restore the Acropolis. This date also marks the beginning of the Classical tradition.
100
This ancient structure was a temple with a significant 29 f. wide oculus.
What is the Pantheon?
200
This philosopher believed the soul has a vision of beauty from before it enters the body. When we later experience beauty, we awaken a sensation of that vision and recognize it.
Who was Plato?
200
Ancient Greek sculpture inspired by ancient Egypt.
What is the Kouros, c. 600 BCE?
200
A circular opening often found at the top of a dome.
What is an oculus?
200
The death of Romulus Augustus and end of the Roman Empire.
What is the year 476 CE?
200
This ancient Greek temple was created using the post and lintel structure.
What is the Parthenon?
300
This ancient Greek architect wrote a theory on architecture (now lost).
Who was Iktinos?
300
Ancient Roman bronze sculpture representing a leader.
What is the Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius?
300
A rectilinear coffin.
What is a sarcophagus?
300
This was the century when Kleistenes instituted a reform broadening the base of government (often considered the beginning of democracy).
What was the 6th century BCE?
300
This temple was built following a ratio of 4:9.
What is the Parthenon?
400
"A straight line is said to have been cut in extreme and mean ratio when, as the whole line is to the greater segment, so is the greater to the less."
What was Euclid, defining Phi as "AB is to AC as AC is to CB,"
or 1.61803 to 1.
400
Ancient Greek sculptor whose reliefs are now at the British Museum in London.
What was Phidias who made the Parthenon frieze?
400
Greek for a young man or boy.
What is a Kouros?
400
450-400 BCE
What is the time of the Classical tradition?
400
This structure was built from marble
What is the Parthenon?
500
This Roman writer (1st CE) described the Spear Bearer as representing the canon in ancient Greek sculpture.
Who was Pliny the Elder?
500
Marble sculpture made by Praxiteles or his followers.