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Intro To Humanities Exam #1 PHSC Questions and Answers 100% Pass The Golden Age of Athens is also known as the: - Classical Period The term __________ refers to the philosophy that celebrates humanity, specifically the human capacity for reasoning and creativity as it was expressed in the anci...

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The Golden Age of Athens is also known as the: - ✔✔Classical Period

The term __________ refers to the philosophy that celebrates humanity,

specifically the human capacity for reasoning and creativity as it was

expressed in the ancient Greek and Roman culture. - ✔✔Classical

Humanism

The Western world's first ___________________________ had emerged

in the city of Athens by the 5th century. - ✔✔Democracy

_________________ is a generic term used to describe this type of

sculpture from Ancient Greece, a life-size representation of one male nude

youth, standing with one foot forward and arms to the sides. - ✔✔Kouros

One of the defining characteristics of kouros is the __________________.

This expression could be described as distant, vacant, and serene. -

✔✔Archaic Smile

Part of why Kritios Boy is so famous is because it is the first sculpture

known to exhibit a sculptural technique known as

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,______________________, which is an asymmetrical arrangement of the

human figure in which the line of the arms and shoulders contrasts with,

while balancing, those of the hips and legs. - ✔✔Contrapposto

During this period, a sculptor named ________________ set out to create

a life-like replica of the human body in sculptural form. In 450 BCE, he

created this well-known sculpture known as Doryphorus (which is also

known as Spear-Bearer). - ✔✔Polykleitos

When Polykleitos sculpted Doryphorus during the Golden Age of Athens,

he was very concerned about creating realistic proportions of a human. He

created a ______________, or a set of guidelines for what he determined

to be the "perfect" proportions of a man. - ✔✔The canon

Polykleitos sculpted Doryphorus during the Golden Age of Athens.

The image above shows a marble copy of the statue made during ancient

Roman times. The original sculpture (which no longer exists) was made of

bronze using the ___________________ technique. - ✔✔lost-wax casting

The Parthenon was re-constructed during the Golden Age of Athens in the

5th century BCE. The sculptor ____________________ directed the

building's sculptural programs. - ✔✔Phidias




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,The long band of high-relief sculpture that decorates the top portion of The

Parthenon is called a: - ✔✔Frieze

When future civilizations borrow the ________________ style of

architecture, they might be doing so for a wide-variety of reasons, such as:

- to celebrate the humanistic and democratic values of ancient Greece

- to recognize the innovation, beauty, and excellence of ancient Greece

- to claim the imperialistic power and cultural domination associated with

ancient Greece

- to comment on the imperialistic power and cultural domination associated

with ancient Greece - ✔✔Classical

The ________________________, named after the sculptor who oversaw

the sculptural work on the Parthenon during the Golden Age of Athens in

the 5th century BCE. His distinctive style came to embody what later

generations considered to be classical. The style is characterized by

precise realistic representations of the human form. These idealized human

figures project expressions of calm dignity. - ✔✔Phidian Style

When Polykleitos sculpted Doryphorus during the Golden Age of Athens,

he was very concerned with creating a _________________ depiction of

the human body. Through his mathematical and observational approach to



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, art, Polykleitos reflects the rise of the humanistic philosophy, which

embraced human reason and creativity. - ✔✔Naturalistic

When compared to Doryphorus and other sculptures created during the

Golden Age of Athens, earlier Greek sculptures like the kouros shown

above appear to be more ________________________. - ✔✔Stylized

_____________________ is when one culture systematically destroys the

art and artifacts of another culture. - ✔✔Iconoclasm

When was the high renaissance? - ✔✔16th century (1500s)

The word Renaissance literally means_______________________, which

refers to the revitalization of the values of classical antiquity (ancient

Greece and Rome). - ✔✔Rebirth

__________________________ describes a philosophy that was prevalent

during the Renaissance in which there was a looking back to ancient

Greece and Rome and recognizing a shared value of human reason and

creativity. - ✔✔Classical Humanism

During the construction of the Florence Cathedral,

_______________________ was commissioned to create a sculpture for

the Florence Cathedral. He was still young and unknown at the time. His

sculpture of David (a figure from the Judeo-Christian Tradition) was


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