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ART TEST. One of the more difficult of the Unit Tests No Review, no reading of the questions, no game Your notes are your study guide The test is the pictures 56 questions with 75 correct responses Some have one, two, three, four, and one even five correct responses. The Parthenon.
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ART TEST • One of the more difficult of the Unit Tests • No Review, no reading of the questions, no game • Your notes are your study guide • The test is the pictures • 56 questions with 75 correct responses • Some have one, two, three, four, and one even five correct responses.
Period pieces- primarily architecture • Built (447-438 B.C.) • Quote regarding Greeks and Parthenon • (1687) inner chamber destroyed during war
Period pieces- primarily architecture • Model of Parthenon (PATHENOS DEFINITION) • Where • Define acropolis (common and proper) • Story of Athens and the contest. Temple of Athena • Considered the most perfect building ever built
Period pieces- primarily architecture • Model of Parthenon • Base • Columns • Capital (blending the round to square) • Doric • Ionic • Corinthian
Frieze • High relief and low relief sculpture • Pediment • Lord Elgin (1801-1803 Rape of Greece) • Elgin’s Marbles
Columns (articulated vs non-articulated) • Making the building “alive” • Fluting • Taper (4/5th or 80%) • Entasis (1/3 up is thickest part)
Laocoon • Original- previous slide. Found near Rome in 1506. Original missing right arm, importance of this piece to Romans. Aneas, founder of Rome fled Troy at the behest of Laocoon’s warnings. • Michelango made reproductions- sketches were found in 1976
Floor Plan of Minos (pg. 37) • 1400 BC earthquake destroys some and preserves rest with ash covering • 4.5 acres- most interior walls (Minotaur) • Arthur Evans (1870 discovers & excavates) • ONLY place fresco walls exist in the world • Warehouse still had honey, wine, olive oil • Knossos, Crete, Dadaelus, Bull, Theseus, Labyrinth