A closed lip smile used to enliven the expressions of figures
What are Archaic Smiles?
100
2 panels of equal size hinged together
What is Diptych?
100
A type of order that has a variation of Doric characterized by a smooth surfaced column shaft with a base.
What is a Tuscan Order?
200
What was the function of the Harp Player?
To play peaceful music in the afterlife.
200
A large and stately building that holds tombs.
What is a Mausoleum?
200
A type of wet painting on plaster
What is Fresco?
200
A round structure with columns or orders in a circular path.
What is a Tholos?
200
A public open space used for assemblies and markets.
What is an agora?
300
What myth or legend is behind the making of the Palace at Knossos?
The legend of the Minotaur==> the labyrinth.
300
An egg shaped vessel used for pouring liquids
What are Rhytons?
300
A method of rendering the effect of spatial distance by variations in color or clarity.
What is Atmospheric Perspective?
300
The union of different ideas or principles.
What is syncretic?
300
Rubble, mud bricks cut and finished with limestone.
What is dressed stone?
400
What were the 4 Ps?
Peace, Prosper, Plenty, Prosperity.
400
Portraying an object having less depth or distance.
What is Foreshortening?
400
A great room.
What is a megaron?
400
An elongated or continuous semicircular vault, shaped like a half cylinder.
What is a barrel vault?
400
Only possible for the race of giants called Cyclopes that could have moved massive stones.
What is Cyclopean Construction?
500
Name the main objects in the artwork, Bull Jumping, and the type of painting it was.
The acrobatic man is darker and tan. The women calming the bull are white, the bull is as tan as the man and is being ridden on.
It is a fresco painting.
500
A stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a supporting column of a Greek building.
What is a Caryatid?
500
Vault built up in regular courses ( layers of ashlar square stones) smoothly leaning forward.
What is a corbel vault?
500
A vault created by the intersection of two barrel vaults of equal size which creates four side compartments of identical size.
What is a groin vault?
500
Large, above ground burial places built with a conicalm rounded shape.