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FAH311H1S Greek Sculpture (Winter 2023)

Key terms

This is a compilation of key terms (outside of ancient sculpture, place, and artist names)
that you should strive to be familiar with by the end of the
course. It is by all means not exhaustive.

Week 5

People
B.S. Ridgway
Pausanias
Gisela Richter
Rhys Carpenter
Bernard Ashmole
J.J.Pollitt
Phidias
Iktinos
Polykleitos/Polyclitus

Terms
Perserschutt/Persian debris
Contrapposto
Ponderation
S-Curve
Peplophoroi
Aegis
Gorgoneion
Zeitgeist/Spirit of the Age
Symmetria

Concepts
Severe Style
Transition period
Pythagorean/pattern and numerology
Hipparchus/Medical science
Protagoras/ “Man is the measure of all things”
Wet drapery Style
Origins of the Classical Style theories
Periclean Athens
Canon

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