Mesoamerican and Classical Greek Art History Study Guide
Explore the art and architecture of Mesoamerica and Classical Greece. Learn about their social contracts, urban planning, religious rituals, and the pursuit of the ideal form in sculpture and architecture. Covers Teotihuacan, Greek treasuries, Kore and Kouros figures, the Parthenon, and more.
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Exam 2 Review and Art History
Mesoamerican and Greek Art
A review of Mesoamerican and Greek art including specific sculptures, frescoes, and architectural techniques.
- fresco painting
- Mycenaean patronage
- Treasury of Atreus
- cyclopean masonry
- relieving triangles
- stylized figure
- relief sculpture
- portrait vessels
- naturalistic art
- continuous narrative
Art History Review: From the Aegean to Mesoamerica
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Mesoamerican Culture and Archaic to Classical Greece
Mesoamerican and Classical Greek Art History
- Mesoamerican mortal rituals
- supernatural deities
- Teotihuacan city grid
- Greek treasuries
- sculpture in the round
- pediment narratives
- Kore and Kouros
- black figure technique
- Greek social ideals
- Canon of Polykleitos
- Parthenon architecture
- optical illusions
- Erechtheion
Mesoamerican and Classical Greek Art History: Ritual, City, and the Ideal Form
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Greek Art and Hellenistic Sculpture
An analysis of Greek art through themes of social taboo, the pediment problem, diaphous clothing, and the transition from classical balance to Hellenistic emotional realism.
- pediment problem
- diaphous clothing
- Hellenistic aesthetic
- dynamic use of the diagonal
- violent illusionism
- bronze sculpture tensile strength
- nude versus naked
- heroic nudity
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