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Flashcards by Alyssa Winkler, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alyssa Winkler
over 5 years ago
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Venus (binary/octet-stream)
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"Venus" of Willendorf ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE Austria |
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Lions (binary/octet-stream)
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"Lions hunting bison" Chauvet Cave 30,000 BCE France |
| "Stag Hunt" Catal Hoyuk ca. 5750 BCE Turkey | |
| "Stonehenge" ca. 2550-1600 BCE England | |
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Vase (binary/octet-stream)
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"Warka, vase" 3200-3000 BCE Uruk, Iraq |
| "The Standard of Ur" ca. 2600-2400 BCE Ur, Iraq | |
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Head (binary/octet-stream)
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"Head of an Akkadian Ruler" ca. 2250-2200 BCE Iraq |
| "Victory Stele of Naram-Sin" 2254-2218 BCE Iran | |
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Gudea (binary/octet-stream)
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"Gudea holding an overflowing water jar" 2100 BCE Iraq |
| "Stele with Code of Hammurabi" 1780 BCE Iran | |
| "Lamassu" (From Nimrud) ca. 883-859 BCE Iraq | |
| Parietal | Artwork was done on cave walls or large blocks of stone. |
| Mobiliary | Also known as portable art. Small prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place. |
| Composite View | Part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally. |
| Low Relief | Subjects barely stand out from the background. Not very three dimensional. |
| Paleolithic | (Old stone age) food gathering/hunting, use of caves, "venus woman" |
| Mesolithic | (Middle stone age) Intensification of food gathering and taming of dogs |
| Neolithic | (New stone age) Humans live in organized groups, agriculture rises |
| Ka | The spiritual part of an individual human being or god, which survived (with the soul) after death and could reside in a statue of the person. |
| Canopic Jar | Jars (4) each for the safekeeping of the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife. |
| Bilateral Symmetry | Symmetrical on either side of a plane |
| Ashlar Masonry | stones are cut and dressed or worked, so they have the same shape, size and surface texture. |
| Engaged column | a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall |
| canon | a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged. |
| fresco secco | technique of painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed in water. |
| colonnade | a row of columns supporting a roof |
| clerestory window | A high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. The purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both |
| Hypostyle hall | interior space whose roof rests on pillars or columns. The word means “under pillars,” design allows for the construction of large spaces without the need for arches. |
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Narmer (binary/octet-stream)
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Palette of King Narmer, 3000-2920 BCE Egypt |
| Funerary Complex at Saqqara Egypt 2630 BCE Architect: Imhotep Egypt | |
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Khafre (binary/octet-stream)
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Seated Figure of King Khafre, 2520 – 2494 BCE Egypt |
| Menkaure and his Wife, Khamerernebty, 2490 – 2472 BCE Egypt | |
| Statue of Hatshepsut ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E Egypt | |
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