Roman Empire and Red Figure Style
Introduction to Art: Final Exam Study Guide
1. The decorative top of a column. Capitals
2. The middle section of the horizontal entablature in ancient Greek order. Frieze
3. The square areas between the triglyphs in the frieze area of the entablature. Metope
4. Ionic columns have capitals with a scroll like motif called volutes.
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6. Decorative vertical or raised lines on a column are called? flutes
7. The elements of an order are- column with capitals,and the entablature compose of architrave frieze and cornic.
8. Half-round decorative columns are called? engaged columns.
9. When half-round columns are flattened the are called? Pilasters
10. The Kritian Boy is the first example of art to use . Contrapposto or counterpositioning.
11. An order gives aesthetic definition and decoration to the post and lintel system.
12. What are the three Classical orders? Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
13. Most Greek male figures are nude or clothed? nude
14. Female figures during the Archaic period were nude or clothed/dressed? dressed
15. In the red figure style the details of vases are applied in what manner? naturalistically
16. Kouros means .youth
17. This tool is used to engrave lines through the slip of the unfired vase.burin
18. Red figure style of vase painting was introduced whom? By a student of exekias known as the andokides
19. Greek vase painting is represented in these two styles. Black figure and red figure style.
20. Who signed the vase “Achilles and Ajax playing Draught”?Euxitheos and Euphronios.
21. The mixture of clay and water that is painted on the vase before firing.slip
22. The black figure Style idealized representations, sought to equate the perfection of art with harmonies of natural order.
23. The Greek used what method to cast the bronze figure of Zeus? Lost-wax methods
24. In the 7th C. BCE the Greek artist began to do this to their artwork.naturalism
25. The Greeks are
1. The decorative top of a column. Capitals
2. The middle section of the horizontal entablature in ancient Greek order. Frieze
3. The square areas between the triglyphs in the frieze area of the entablature. Metope
4. Ionic columns have capitals with a scroll like motif called volutes.
5.
6. Decorative vertical or raised lines on a column are called? flutes
7. The elements of an order are- column with capitals,and the entablature compose of architrave frieze and cornic.
8. Half-round decorative columns are called? engaged columns.
9. When half-round columns are flattened the are called? Pilasters
10. The Kritian Boy is the first example of art to use . Contrapposto or counterpositioning.
11. An order gives aesthetic definition and decoration to the post and lintel system.
12. What are the three Classical orders? Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
13. Most Greek male figures are nude or clothed? nude
14. Female figures during the Archaic period were nude or clothed/dressed? dressed
15. In the red figure style the details of vases are applied in what manner? naturalistically
16. Kouros means .youth
17. This tool is used to engrave lines through the slip of the unfired vase.burin
18. Red figure style of vase painting was introduced whom? By a student of exekias known as the andokides
19. Greek vase painting is represented in these two styles. Black figure and red figure style.
20. Who signed the vase “Achilles and Ajax playing Draught”?Euxitheos and Euphronios.
21. The mixture of clay and water that is painted on the vase before firing.slip
22. The black figure Style idealized representations, sought to equate the perfection of art with harmonies of natural order.
23. The Greek used what method to cast the bronze figure of Zeus? Lost-wax methods
24. In the 7th C. BCE the Greek artist began to do this to their artwork.naturalism
25. The Greeks are