Vocabulary Sculpture Architecture Funerary Painting
100
What is peristyle
a hallway accompanied by a row of columns
100
What is Plaque of the Ergastines
high relief sculpture at top, low relief towards bottom. a frieze that depicts a ritualistic procession of civic humans.
100
What is
Coordinates with its natural setting since it is build completely into a cliff side.
100
What is Innermost coffin of King Tutankhamun
Series of "nesting dolls" made of gold and precious stones.
100
What is the Romans
Group of people known for the development of one point perspective
200
What is pediment
a triangular shaped space above a door or window and usually displays sculpture.
200
What is Seated Scribe
purposely made to look slightly pudgy to symbolize important status and privilege. statue encompassed Ka and accompanied royalty in the after life.
200
What is House of the Vettii
Incorporates atriums and peristyle gardens.
200
What is Kouros figures
Used as a grave marker for young men.
200
What is Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer
Illustration that was commissioned to explain a person's map and navigation tool to the afterlife.
300
What is horror vacui
extreme congestion within the composition allowing for no negative space.
300
What is Stele of Hammurabi
stele that listed 300 laws.
300
What is White Temple and its Ziggurat
Mud Brick architecture that had a gutter system incorporated on the sides of the walls to divert water.
300
What is Niobides Krater
Placed on grave markers and would hole provisions that would pour onto the grave below.
300
What is Egyptian and Etruscan
Two cultures that would depict gender with different skin tones.
400
What is register
horizontal band that tells a narrative story
400
What is Seated Boxer
Older man, past his prime, bearing a look of defeat. Full of human emotion and expression.
400
What is the Parthenon
Structure that incorporates both Doric and Ionic columns.
400
What is the Great Pyramids of Giza
Housed the tombs of Menkaura, Khafre, and Khufu
400
What is Alexander Mosaic
Originally a Greek fresco painting but the Romans re-made it as a floor mosaic.
500
What is isocephalism
when the heads of the figures land equal in height
500
What is Apollo
influence by archaic Greeks, yet has a clear smile and placed on a temple roof.
500
What is Audience Hall
This apadana was used to hold large gatherings of multiple cultures for spectacular occasions such as festivals and receptions
500
What is Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Immensely large block of marble carved in horror vacui and held the ashes of the deceased.
500
What is Pentheus Fresco
allegorical depiction of a god being torn apart to pieces by women of a cult, including his own mother.






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