Eros - Passionate love favored by Greek poets
Aesthetic Experience - An experience of beauty that inspires a feeling of pleasure,
which is its own
... [Show More] justification, and this experience is valued independently of others.
Agape - Greek term for platonic love.
Age of Exploration - Time period between the early fifteenth to the early seventeenth
centuries when Europeans sailed around the globe and transferred goods, food, plants,
and people (in the form of slaves) transforming the countries they reached.
Allegory - A work of art which represents some abstract quality or idea, often religious or
political, by means of symbolic representation.
Allegory of the Cave - Plato's allegory of prisoners in a cave who mistake appearance
for reality (the Forms) and wrongly believe the shadows they see on the cave wall are
real.
Amphitheater - An outdoor venue shaped as a circle or ellipse used by the Romans for
performances; the shape of the theater amplified sound naturally.
Ancient Greek Art - Artwork from Greece, circa 8,000-146 BCE.
Archaic Age - Followed the Dark Age, circa 800-479 BCE; saw rise of important political
structures and democracy.
Archetype - An emblematic mythic character, image, plot pattern, symbol, or buried
assumption shared across cultures.
Architecture - The science and art of designing buildings and other structures and is
concerned with the aesthetic effect of structures in their surrounding environment.
Art Nouveau - Art movement of the late 19th century - early 20th century that favored
sinuous lines, curves, and organic motifs, such as plants and flowers.
Atonality - Describes music that is written in a way that avoids centering around a
specific key.
Balance - The achievement of putting into harmony different compositional elements
that are in dynamic tension with one another.Baroque - Movement of the 17th and early 18th century in art, architecture, and music
known for its religious focus and its elaborate and extensive use of ornamentation.
Beauty - Can be defined as those qualities that give pleasure to the senses.
Blank Verse - Poetry written in a metered fashion, typically iambic pentameter, but
which does not rhyme.
Buddhism - Religion originated in India by Siddhartha Guatama, the "Buddha" ("the
enlightened one" in Sanskrit); Buddhists seek the path to enlightenment through
physical and spiritual discipline.
Canon - A set of rules developed by the Greek artist Polykleitos for creating perfect
proportionality in the human figure. In literature, art, and religion, an agreed upon list of
sanctioned works or laws. In music, a piece that employs a melody with one or more
imitations of the melody played after a given period of time.
Capitals - The top part of a column between the column and the entablature.
Character - Term used to describe each of the persons being depicted in a drama.
Chiaroscuro - The creation of the illusion of depth through gradations of light and shade.
Chorus - In a Greek drama, a group of actors who comment on the action and provide
society's view of the events; also, a group of singers.
Chromaticism - The movement or displacement of notes by a half-step, as opposed to
the tradition of whole-step movement in previous periods.
Cinema - An artistic medium that uses the motion picture as a vehicle for storytelling
and other creative expressions.
Classical Humanism - The cultural movement of the Renaissance, based on Greek and
Roman classic literature, that emphasized the dignity, worth, and rationality of
humankind.
Classicism - Aesthetic attitudes and principles found in the art, architecture, and
literature of ancient Greece and Rome.
Colonialism - The political, economic, and cultural domination by one country over
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