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Minoan / Mycenean
Etruscan
Ancient Greece
Architecture
Sculpture
100
Minoan columns are unsual because of what characteristic?
What is they are wider at the top than the bottom/upside down
100
One of the biggest influences on the Etruscans was this culture/time period.
What is the Greeks
100

These are the three types of Ancient Greek columns.

What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?

100
The Porch of the Maidens is found on what building?
What is the Erectheion
100

The remaining sculptures of Ancient Greek bronzes were mostly found where?

(otherwise we have Roman marble copies)

What is at the bottom of the sea?

200

This tholos tomb is an earthen mound and covers a burial chamber.  It was the larges high-domed space until the Roman Pantheon.

What is the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1300-1250 BCE?

200

They used materials that were ephemeral and did not last

Why do we not have Etruscan temples or many sculptures

200

The Archaic smile is most commonly seen on these figures

What is Kouros/Korai?

200

This temple dedicated to Athena, located at the top of the Acropolis.

What is the Parthenon

200

This large sculpture of a goddess shows a moment of victory and was origianlly installed on a mountain said with a fountain.

What is the Nike of Samothrace?

300
True or False: Minoans displayed some people in true profile view.
What is True
300

Etruscan tombs were generally a recreation of the typical Etruscan what?

What are their homes?

300

This "perfect" sculpture was made to show mathematical proportions, balance, and was influenced by Pythagoras!  

What is Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polykleitos?

 (Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a bronze original of ca. 450–440 BCE)

300

These are unusual architectural characteristics of the Palace at Knossos.

What is the upside down columns, crowded rooms, and a labyrinth.

300
Most Greek sculptures are not original, but copies by these people.
What is Romans
400
This island was home to the Minoan culture
What is Crete
400
The Etruscans borrowed a lot of their wall decoration/frescoes from the
What is Aegean
400

Ancient Greek art changed during this time - it became more dramitic and emotional.  They didn't have to show perfection, gods, or the ideal.

What is the Hellenistic Period?

400

In a Greek temple, the absence of a base on a column indicates/identifies what Greek order?

What is Doric

400
Female columns are known as
What is caryatids
500
Sir Aurthur Evans discovered this on the island of Crete - which tells us how the Minoans lived, their technology, their values, etc!

What is the Palace at Knossos? (Crete, Greece, c. 1700-1400 BCE)

500

Etruscan temples did not have pedimental sculpture, but this instead.

What is statues on their roof?

500

Kritos boy shows what important artistic convention.  

(Kroisos, from Anavysos, Greece, ca. 530 BCE)

What is contraposto?

500

The type of stone architecture seen at Mycenae, thought to have been build by Cyclops.

What is cyclopean.

500
Sarcophogai often found in Etruscan tombs were often sculpted depicting people doing what?
What is celebrating