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approximate date |
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BCE: |
Before common era |
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Paleolithic: |
Old stone age |
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Neolithic: |
New stone age |
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Free standing sculpture/Sculpture in the round: |
Not attached to any other surface (except maybe the base) |
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Relief sculpture: |
At least partially attached to the background surface |
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Twisted perspective/Composite view: |
representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally |
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Why doesn't the Woman from Willendorf represent Venus? |
Doesn't actually tie to Venus; not "perfect/beautiful" like other representations |
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Stylized: |
Most basic forms but still recognizable; opposite of naturalism |
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Post and lintel: |
a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them. |
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Main reason neolithic was different than paleolithic: |
More agriculture, domestication, and using resources. |
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The Fertile Crescent: |
region in the Middle East which curves, like a quarter-moon shape |
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Mesopotamia: |
"Between the rivers" (Tigris & Euphrates) |
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Cuneiform: |
a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. Mostly on clay tablets |
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Ancient Near East time period is no longer pre-history due to: |
Writing |
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Time period with the most surviving text until printing press: |
Ancient Near East |
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Axiality/Axial Summetry: |
symmetry around an axis; an object is axiallysymmetric if its appearance is unchanged if rotated around an axis. |
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Register: |
a vertical level in a work that consists of several levels, especially where the levels are clearly separated by lines; modern comic books typically use similar conventions |
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Ground line: |
A horizontal line representing the ground and showing gravity in ancient narrative works; works so objects & figures are not floating in space. |
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Votive: |
Created to be an offering to the gods. |
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Ziggurat: |
"to build on a raised area" |
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Stele: |
a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerary or commemorative purposes |
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2 definitions for Stylized: |
1. Reduction to basic forms 2. repetitive geometric forms |
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Hierarchic scale: |
unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork. |
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Basis of Egyptian culture: |
The Nile River |
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Hieroglyphics: |
a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, in ancient Egyptian |
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Locations of upper egypt & lower egypt: |
upper: South |
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Palette: |
Used to grind up pigment for eyes |
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How was the palette on the Palette of Narmer used? |
It wasn't. Not a functional palette. |
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Canon of Proportions: |
Egyptian art form of using the fist as a unit of measurement. |
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Mastaba: |
ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings. |
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Ka/Ka statue: |
ancient Egyptian statue intended to provide a resting place for the ka (life-force or spirit) of the person after death. |
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Engaged Columns: |
columnembedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall |
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Pillar: |
Verticle supporting structire, square in shape |
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Column: |
Vertical supporting structure, round in shape |
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Colonnade: |
A row or series of columns/pillars |
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Damnatio Memoriae: |
"condemnation of memory", meaning that a person must not be remembered after death |
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Pylon: |
A monumental entry way into a temple |
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Hypostyle Hall: |
a large room with columns. Most of the room was dark except for the center aisle which was lit by small windows cut into the roof. |
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Sunken Relief: |
sculptural relief in which the outlines of modeled forms are engraved in a surface. Positive image is carved into the stone. |
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Ankh: |
Symbol of life |
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Cycladic: |
Early Bronze Age culture of the Cyclades, Greece, in the Aegean Sea |
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Minoan: |
of, relating to, or denoting a Bronze Age civilization centered on Crete |
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Mycenean: |
of, relating to, or denoting a late Bronze Age civilization in Greece represented by finds at Mycenae and other ancient cities |
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3 cultures of ancient Agean: |
Cyclades, Minoan, & Mycenean |
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Arthur Evans: |
English archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. most famous for unearthing the "palace" of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete, and other "palaces" |
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Fresco: |
2 kinds: Buon Fresco = wet |
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Provenience: |
Tracing an object's movements from finding to its current location |
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Heinrich Schliemann: |
an archaeological excavator of Hissarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns |
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Cyclopean masonry: |
type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders |
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Corbelled arch: |
Stones stacked closer and closer on each layer to meet and form an arch |
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corbelled vault: |
Stones stacked closer and closer on each layer to meet and form an arch |
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tholos: |
also called beehive tomb, in ancient Greek architecture, a circular building with a conical or vaulted roof |
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Humanism: |
Man is the measure of all things" |
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Zenophobic: |
afraid of outsiders/non-greeks |
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Kouros : |
an archaic Greek statue of a young man, standing |
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In Kouros/Kore statues, what is the most defining difference? |
Women (kore) are clothed; men (kouros) are nude |
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Some possible uses for kouros/kore statues: |
ceremonial, funerary, important people, portraits, gods, etc. |
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Two main artistic aspects Geometric & Archaic Greece was trying to perfect: |
-Naturalism in human form |
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Pediment: |
the triangular upper part of the front of a building, typically on a row of columns. |
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The three orders of Greek Architecture and what they were used for: |
Doric, ionic, corinthian |
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Easiest way to differentiate between greek architectural orders: |
capitol of the column. |
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Fluted column: |
shallow grooves running vertically along the surface |
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Metopes: |
a square space between triglyphs in a Doric frieze. |
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Peristyle: |
a row of columns surrounding a space within a building |
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Cella: |
the inner area of an ancient temple, especially one housing the hidden cult image; only priests could enter |
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Frieze: |
a horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration near the top of a building |
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Entasis: |
Slight swelling near the center (vertically) of columns |
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Caryatid: |
Human figures as columns; almost always as females. |
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gigantomachy: |
(in Greek mythology) Battle between gods & giants |
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Black Figure vase painting: |
figures painted in blackslip on a red clay body |
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