Greek Art Vocabulary

a public plaza in a Greek city where commercial, religious, and societal activities are conducted

having four columns in the front and rear of a temple

a two-handled ancient Greek storage jar

a plain, unornamented lintel on the entablature

Greek goddess of war and wisdom; patron of Athens

a body of rules or laws; in Greek art, the ideal mathematical proportion of a figure

a building column that is shaped like a female figure

the main room of a temple where the god is housed

a graceful arrangement of the body based on titled shoulders and hips and bent knees

an order of ancient Greek architecture similar to the Ionic, except that the capitals are carved in tiers of leaves

a projecting ledge over a wall

an order of ancient Greek architecture that features grooved columns with no grooved bases and an upper story with square sculpture called metopes

a type of painting in which colours are added to hot wax to affix to a surface

the upper story of a Greek temple

a horizontal band of sculpture

a mythical ancient Greek war between the giants and the Olympian gods

a Latin expression that means that something is in its original location

an order of Greek architecture that features columns with scrolled capitals and an upper story with sculptures that are in friezes

the tradition of depicting heads of figures on the same level

an oven used for making pottery

an archaic Greek sculpture of a standing youth

a large ancient Greek bowl used for mixing water and wine

a small relief sculpture on the façade of a Greek temple

a decoration using pieces of stone, marble, or coloured glass, called tesserae, that are cemented to a wall or a floor

an ancient Greek goddess of victory

the model of a grieving mother; after boasting of her fourteen children, jealous gods killed them

a ceremonial road for a procession built to honor Athena during a festival

the triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture

a garment worn by women in ancient Greece, usually full length and tied at the waist

a colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a courtyard

a gateway leading to a Greek temple

sculpture that projects from a flat background. a very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief

the body of a column

an upright stone slab used to mark a grave or a site

an ancient Greek covered walkway having columns on one side and a wall on the other

an ancient Greek circular building

a projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple

king of the ancient Greek gods; known as Jupiter to the Romans; god of the sky and weather