AP Art History Chp. 5

grave sites

Where were Geometric kraters most likely found?

grandiose on the scale of wide diversity and reflected the people’s ability to build ambitious, complicated designs

Evident in the absence of a pediment and a roof, the Temple of Apollo, Didyma, reflected the ability of Hellenistic architecture to be what?

kuoros

A standing nude figure of a young man is known as what in Greek art?

the expensive and massive statues of the Greek gods and goddesses

Why was the depiction of Greeks on the Ionic frieze of the Parthenon exceptional?

Andokides Painter

Who is usually given credit for the invention of the red-figure technique as seen in the amphora of "Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game?"

Nike, the female personification of victory

In the statue of Athena Parthenos, what did she hold that made an overt reference to the Athenian victory over the Persians in 479 BC?

Kritios Boy

What sculpture is known as the earliest known example of the use of contrapposto?

alternatively reveals and conceals the main and lesser body masses

How is the drapery worn by the three goddesses on the Parthenon characterized?

they have a strong emotional power unparalleled in earlier Greek art

What characteristic is seen in the Hellenistic image of Athena battling Alkyoneos on the Altar of Zeus that was not found in earlier sculpture?

the defeat of Persian invaders of Greece by the allied Hellenistic city states

What is the historical event that ushered in the beginning of the Classical period?

red figure painting

In the Archaic period, the black figure style of vase painting was replaced by what other style?

Egyptian

the rigidly frontal pose of archaic statues reflects the influence of what culture?

Kore

a female statue column used as an architectural support was known as what?

her prayerful position

One indication that the lady of Auxerre may be a kore is what?

Naukratis

What was the Greek colony in Egypt that brought the Greeks into direct contact with Egyptian monumental architecture?

The Orient

The Corinthian black-figure amphora with animal friezes demonstrates the Greek fascination with what culture?

a more unified theme and consistent scale

In contrast to earlier pediments, the pedimental sculptures of the Temple of Aphaia at Aegina feature what?

the Panathenaic Festival procession

Scholars mostly agree that the Ionic frieze on the Parthenon is a representation of what event?

the Gauls in Asia Minor

In the gigantomachy of the Altar of Zeus, Pergamon alludes to a victory of the Pergamenes over what civilization in the third century BCE?

Aphrodite of Knidos

in what piece did Praxiteles take the unprecedented step of representing a female nude?

a system of cross-balancing

the sculptor Polykleitos imposed order on human movement in his Doryphoros by doing what?

the Erechtheion

which piece of architecture from the Athenian Acropolis is unique because of its asymmetrical plan?

battle at Marathon

what event is chronicled on the frieze of the temple of athena nike detailing victory over the Persians?

a warrior taking leave of his wife

what scene is represented on the attic white ground lekythos painted by the so called Achilles Painter?

a picture gallery

one of the rooms of the propylaia reportedly functioned as what?

Athenian agora. Archaic through
Hellenistic Greek. 600 B.C.E.-150 C.E.
Plan.

Anavysos Kouros. Archaic Greek.
c. 530 B.C.E. Marble with remnants of paint.

Peplos Kore from the Acropolis.
Archaic Greek. c. 530 B.C.E. Marble,
painted details

Niobides Krater. Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter. c. 460-450 B.C.E. Clay, red-fgure technique (white highlights).

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer).
Polykleitos. Original 450-440 B.C.E.
Roman copy (marble) of Greek original
(bronze).

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Acropolis. Athens, Greece. Iktinos and Kallikrates. c. 447-410 B.C.E. Marble.

Grave stele of Hegeso. Attributed
to Kallimachos. c. 410 B.C.E. Marble
and paint.

Winged Victory of Samothrace.
Hellenistic Greek. c. 190 B.C.E. Marble.

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).
Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture).

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).
Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture).

Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Minor (present-day Turkey).
Hellenistic Greek. c. 175 B.C.E. Marble (architecture and sculpture).

Alexander Mosaic from the House of
Faun, Pompeii. Republican Roman.
c. 100 B.C.E. Mosaic.

Seated boxer. Hellenistic Greek.
c. 100 B.C.E. Bronze.