Greek+Art+Vocabulary

tripartite ~ divided or composed of three parts(*) [|canon](KS) [|histrionic] (KS) dipylon vase raking [|verisimilitude] (KS) [|amphora] (KS) [|isocephaly] (KS) [|Lapiths] //and [|Cenataurs] (KS)// [|serpintine] (KS) [|frieze] (KS) [|gigantomachy] (KS) Daedalic Style ~ named after the artist Daedalus. He followed the Egyptian canonical order for most of his artwork, and this new style in Greece influenced many of the Greek Monumental sculptures. (*)
 * lamentation ~ song, poem or piece of music that expresses grief, regret or mourning (*)**

__Architecture:__** **Doric Order - Ionic Order - Corinthian Order** abacus - square block above the echinus that is "aesthitically functional" acanthus leaves - The thorny leaf of an herb native to the Mediterranean region, the [|design] of which has been used as a [|stylized] [|motif] throughout history. Of special note is its use in capitals of the [|Corinthian] and [|composite] [|order]. It sometimes resembles the leaves of dandelion, thistle or artichoke plants, pinnately lobed basal leaves with spiny [|margins]. architrave - the lentil that connects the column and rests on top of the capital base: botom of a column not found in Doric columns capital - forms the crowning part of a column: includes the echinus and the abacus caryatid - cella - the internal chamber in a temple where the Gods would ascend into colonnade - column - cornice - decorative molding around that frames the pediment echinus - "soft little pillow" that is rounded and its a decorative way to make the column flow dentils drums - egg and dart motif - entasis - facade - fluting - frieze - wide central section within the entablature; includes the triglyph and the metope mausoleum - metope -the space between two triglyphs of a Doric frieze: often where relief structure is found, ONLY in doric columns necking - naos - pediment- interior of the triangle section found above the entablature: this is where we find most of the sculptures peripteral - peristyle - the external collonade on all four sides of a temple(*) portico - raking cornice - top part of the cornice that frames the pediment stoa - stereobate - stylobate - the top step of the crepidoma which was the the stepped platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed (it is the "floor" of the temple) triglyph - vertically channeled tablets of the Doric freize : moves the eye up from the vertical lines of the column, ONLY in Doric columns volute - refrences the two outward spirals sometimes seen at the top of the columns contrapoposto - low relief - high relief - patina - pedimental sculpture - peplos - "wet drapery" - stele - undercutting sculpture in the round - lost wax process of bronze casting Parthenon__:__** Iktinos and Kalicrates Polyclitus - Phidias - Myron - Praxiteles - Lysippos - Scopas - Epigonos Polydoros, Athanodoros and hagesandros of Rhodes
 * Technique / Terminology
 * __Sculpture:__**
 * __Architects:__
 * Propylaea**: Mnesikles
 * Erecthion:** Mnesikles
 * Temple of Athena Nike**: Kallicrates
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