Ancient Mediterranean art history vocab

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Agora

Public open space used for assemblies and markets in Ancient Greece

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Anu

Personification of the sky and kings of the gods in ancient Mesopotamia

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Clerestory

Raised part of a rook that’s crested with taller columns. It lets light it in.

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Contrapposto

Style where the figures weight is on one foot, giving the body a graceful realistic shape.

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Greek orders

Doric: simple, Ionic: capital has swirls and a simple base, Corinthian: intricate capital and base. Vegetal motifs

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Hypostyle

Buildings with roofs supported by columns

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Iconography

Images or symbols in art

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Idealism

Artwork created to meet a cultural/personal idea of perfection

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Kore

Statue of a goddess

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Kouros

Statue of a young male

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Lost wax casting

Metalworking technique in Ancient Greece where wax was melted away to make a hollow bronze sculpture.

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Mosaic

Forming an image using tiny pieces of material, like tile or glass.

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Pediment

Triangular upper part of the front of a building in classical Greek style.

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Peristyle

External colonnade on all four sides of a temple or structure like the Parthenon

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Pyramid text

Guidebook for the deceased on their way to the afterlife

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Register

Band of relief sculptures. In architecture it’s called a Frieze

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Sphinx

Mythical creature with the head of man and body of a lion and it has wings

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Stele

Upright stone or slab with an inscription or design

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Tell

Archeological mound of layers of human settlement

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Theocracy

Type of government where a god is recognized as the ruler and the officials operate on behalf of the god.

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Tholos

Round temple

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Tripartite plan

Architectural design is divided into three main sections, with a central hall and rooms off to the side.

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Tuscan column

Undoubted column with a Doric capital and simple base. Roman

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Votive

Object offered in fulfillment of a vow

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Ziggurat

Massive rectangular sloped tower, consisting of raised platform with four sloping sides. A place for spiritual worship.

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