Classical Sculpture
The sculpture Nike of Samothrace is from this period.
What is the Classical period?
What does contrapposto mean?
What is standing with one leg bent, creating an S-curve in the body?
The system where two upright members hold up a horizontal beam.
What is post and lintel?
The broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration between the architrave and the cornice.
What is the frieze?
The simplest Greek columns, with plain round capitals and no base.
What are Doric columns?
Sculptures in the Classical Period were often made of this material.
What is marble?
What is naturalism?
What is faithfully recreating nature?
The triangular upper part of a classical building, often above the entrance.
What is the pediment?
The main beam resting across the tops of columns, forming the lower third of the entablature.
What is the architrave?
The scroll-like decorations found on Ionic columns.
What are volutes?
This art period includes both of these cultures.
What are Greek and Roman?
Why did Greek architects use curves in their buildings?
What is to create the illusion of perfection?
The horizontal continuous lintel on a classical building supported by columns.
What is the entablature?
The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to this Greek goddess.
Who is Athena?
The most ornate Greek columns, featuring elaborate capitals.
What are Corinthian columns?
Nike of Samothrace Was Thought To Be Made Around What Time?
What is c. 190 B.C.
Are Greek Columns the Same Size?
No.
What are the three parts of the Entablature?
What is the Cornice, Frieze, and Architrave.
What is depicted on the Parthenon's West Pediment?
What is the contest between Athena and Poseidon.
This order came from Eastern Greece.
What is Ionic.
Why was Nike of Samothrace Likely Made?
To commemorate a naval
victory by the people of Rhodes in Greece.
This refers to how columns bow out in the middle.
What is Entasis.
What is the oldest architectural system?
What is the Post and Lintel
What was inside the Parthenon?
What is A giant golden statue of Athena
What Order of Column was Used in the Parthenon?
What is Doric.