Archaic & Geometric
This period was distinguished by a reliance on geometric shapes in ceramics, human and animal figures as well as small works in bronze.
What is the Geometic Period?
The Classical Age may also be referred to as this
What is the Golden Age?
The High Classical period lasted half a century which occurred during this time BCE
What is 450 to 400 BCE?
Artists began to depict narratives and figures in less ideal states. They began to make figures that "broke into" this, in order to view them from all angles
What is the viewer's space?
Artists during the Hellenistic period turned away from the heroic and moved more towards this
What is the everyday?
These male and female Archaic figurative sculptures were called ____ and ____
What is Kouros and Kore?
This term is used to describe when a figure's weight is supported mainly by one leg causing the torso to rotate slightly
What is Contrapposto?
Polykleitos developed this set of standarnds for the ideal human figure
What is The Canon?
Polykleitos’ canon called for figures 6 1⁄2 or 7 times the height of the head while this sculpter, created figures about 8 or more “heads” tall.
Who is Lysippos?
The stance of figurative sculptures during the Hellenistic period is less Contrapposto and more this, which heightens the sensuality of the curves and line of the body
What is the S-curve?
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian are examples of this
What are the Greek Orders?
The Greeks aspired to reach this, in both body and mind
What is perfection?
This temple originally housed an enormous statue of Athena, patron deity of Athens
What is the Parthenon?
The representation of the male and female form becomes less about this, and more about human anatomy, proportion, symmetry, movement and expression.
What is Idealism?
The work of the Hellenistic period explores three dimensional movement, expressive poses and this
What is emotion?
The Geometric period occurred during this time BCE
What is 900-700 BCE?
This sculptural material had many advantages (lightweight, tactile, durable)
What is bronze
The entrance to the Acropolis is spanned by a magnificent gateway known as this
What is the Propylaea?
Figurative sculptures of this period are less ____ from the viewer
What is detached?
This monumental altar stood on a 6 meter high podium as a memorial of Pergamon's victory .
What is the Altar of Zeus?
This type of smile was added to both male and female statues to create a sense of naturalism
What is the Archaic Smile?
Figural sculptures were gradually becoming more ____
What is natural?
This sculpture is created upon a flat surface versus 'in the round' or 3D.
What is relief?
This is a famous sculpture by Lysippos
What is 'A Man Scraping Himself' ?
An example of a figurative sculpture of this period
What is Aphrodite (or Venus) de Milo?
..The Dying Trumpeter
..The Winged Victory of Samothrace