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TERMS FOR MIDTERM #2
Following is the list of terms projected before each class. This list will cover the terms for the classes up to the first midterm. THIS LIST HAS BEEN ONLY PARTIALLY UPDATED SINCE LAST YEAR (2001). It will be updated as we go along through the semester, so be aware that terms/works may be added or changed up to the actual class meeting. The list, then, can (and will) change during the semester, but it will be finalized the class before the 2nd exam. Two ** indicates this is on the Exam list of works to know.

AEGEAN ART, 3000-1100 BCE
Cycladic = Cyclades Islands (Naxos, Paros, Melos)
plank, viola-shaped (Two Figures of Women**)
Minoan = Crete
Knossos, Minotaur, labyrinth
fresco (true or wet or buon; also dry)
dressed stone
Bull Leaping**
"wasp waist", flying gallop
Kamares ware
Octopus Vase = Marine Style
Harvester Vase**
rhyton, sistrum
Mycenean = mainland Greece (Mycenae, Tiryns, Pylos); also called Helladic
citadel, ring walls, Lion Gate**
Heinrich Schliemann
corbeling, corbeled arch, relieving arch
Cyclopean masonry
heraldic
megaron

GREEK ART:
Geometric: 900-700 BCE; Orientalizing: 700-600 BCE; Archaic: 600-480 BCE
Dorians, Magna Graecia, Ionia
Attica (Athens) and Pelopponnese (Corinth and Sparta)
krater, amphora
horror vacui, register,
Funerary Vase** (Dipylon), terra cotta
Ajax and Achilles, Suicide of Ajax** (Exekias)
Death of Sarpedon (Euphronios), foreshortening,
cella, portico, column, peristyle, peripteral
orders: Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
columns: base, shaft, capital; fluting, fillets, entasis
entablature: architrave, frieze, cornice, pediment
Doric: square abacus and cushion echinus; metope, triglyph
Ionic: volute; continuous frieze
Corinthian: acanthus
Temple of Hera I, Paestum
centaur
kouros (Anavysos, New York Kouros**)
kore (Peplos Kore**)
Chios, chiton, encaustic
Temple of Artemis (Medusa, Pegasus, Chrysaor, Perseus)
Temple of Aphaia, Herakles
Early Classical: 480-450 BCE (also called Transitional, Severe)
Kritian Boy
contrapposto
Warrior A**Riace
High Classical/5th Century: 450-400 BCE
Acropolis: Propylaea, (Mnesikles)
Parthenon** (Kallikrates and Iktinos)
Pericles, Pheidias
Athena Promachus (warrior); Athena Parthenos (virgin)
chryselephantine
three goddesses: Hestia, Aphrodite, Dione
"wet drapery"
Panathenaic procession (Marshalls and Young Women**)
Temple of Athena Nike (Kallikrates)
Erectheion (Mnesikles) (Athena, Poseidon, Erectheos, Kerops)
caryatids, atlantids
Spear Bearer** (Polykleitos)
Late Classical/4th Century: 400-320 BCE
Praxiteles, Scopas, Lysippos
Hermes and Infant Dionysos**
Aphrodite of Knidos**
Mausolus, Mausoleum
Hellenistic: 320-30 BCE
Gaul/Gallic (Gallic Chieftain Killing His Wife), expressionism, Pergamene Style
Altar of Zeus and Athena (Pergamon)
Laocoön and Sons** (Hagesandos, Polydoros, Athanadoros)
Winged Victory of Samothrace

ETRUSCANS - 6th c. BCE
Apollo of Veii **, acroterium/acroteria
Cerveteri necropolis
circular tumulus
Tomb of Reliefs, stucco
sarcophagus
Musician and Dancers**
Porta Augusta; true/round arch

ROME: Republican (Augustan) Period: 509-27 BCE
Livia, Augustus of Primaporta**
verism, apotheosis, cuirass
Ara Pacis** (Imperial Procession**)
Early Empire: 27 BCE-180 CE
Maison Carrée
engaged columns
aqueduct (Nîmes), true/round arch
related terms: keystone, voussoir, barrel vault, arcades, bays, etc.
Colosseum
amphitheater, superimposed orders, pilasters
bay, barrel vault, groin (or cross) vault
Pantheon**
rotunda, veneer, dome, drum, oculus, coffers
Column of Trajan**, Dacians
continuous narration, personification
Basilica Ulpia: apse, nave, aisle, gallery, clerestory (see also Trier, below)
Marcus Aurelius (Equestrian statue)

ROME: Late Empire: 180-395 CE
Tetrarchs**
caesars / augusti: Diocletian, Maximian, Galerius, Constantius
porphyry
Basilica, Trier**
Basilica of Constantine and Maxentius

JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN ART
catacombs, cubicula
syncretism
Good Shepherd, Orants, Jonah**
house-synagogue wall - Dura-Europas
Santa Sabina**
basilica plan, transept, nave, apse, etc. (see diagrams pp. 297 and 298)
Santa Costanza
ambulatory, central plan church, rotunda, mosaic
Ravenna, Galla Placidia (Good Shepherd**)
cruciform (cross-shaped), pendentive dome
halo

BYZANTINE ART
Contstantinople/Byzantium
Hagia Sophia** (Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus)
naos, galleries
conches, buttresses, piers, pendentives, squinches
San Vitale, Ravenna
Emperor Justinian (and Attendants**), Theodora, Maximianus
mosaics - tessera/tesserae
manuscripts, codex, miniatures or illuminations
De Materia Medica
Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
Rebecca at the Well,Vienna Genesis
Page with Crucifixion**, Rabbula Gospel
tempera, vellum (calfskin), parchment (lambskin)
icon, Virgin and Child (with Saints and Angels)

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