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Art history chapter 1-3

Alyssa Winkler Art History Chapter 1 English 34 cards

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1—"Venus" of Willendorf
ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
Austria
2—"Lions hunting bison"
Chauvet Cave
30,000 BCE
France
3—"Stag Hunt"
Catal Hoyuk
ca. 5750 BCE
Turkey
4—"Stonehenge"
ca. 2550-1600 BCE
England
5—"Warka, vase"
3200-3000 BCE
Uruk, Iraq
6—"The Standard of Ur"
ca. 2600-2400 BCE
Ur, Iraq
7—"Head of an Akkadian Ruler"
ca. 2250-2200 BCE
Iraq
8—"Victory Stele of Naram-Sin"
2254-2218 BCE
Iran
9—"Gudea holding an overflowing water jar"
2100 BCE
Iraq
10—"Stele with Code of Hammurabi"
1780 BCE
Iran
11—"Lamassu" (From Nimrud)
ca. 883-859 BCE
Iraq
12ParietalArtwork was done on cave walls or large blocks of stone.
13MobiliaryAlso known as portable art. Small prehistoric art that could be carried from place to place.
14Composite ViewPart of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally.
15Low ReliefSubjects barely stand out from the background. Not very three dimensional.
16Paleolithic(Old stone age) food gathering/hunting, use of caves, "venus woman"
17Mesolithic(Middle stone age) Intensification of food gathering and taming of dogs
18Neolithic(New stone age) Humans live in organized groups, agriculture rises
19KaThe 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.
20Canopic JarJars (4) each for the safekeeping of the stomach, intestines, lungs, and liver, all of which, it was believed, would be needed in the afterlife.
21Bilateral SymmetrySymmetrical on either side of a plane
22Ashlar Masonrystones are cut and dressed or worked, so they have the same shape, size and surface texture.
23Engaged columna column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall
24canona general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged.
25fresco seccotechnique of painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed in water.
26colonnadea row of columns supporting a roof
27clerestory windowA high section of wall that contains windows above eye level. The purpose is to admit light, fresh air, or both
28Hypostyle hallinterior 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.
29—Palette of King Narmer,
3000-2920 BCE
Egypt
30—Funerary Complex at Saqqara Egypt
2630 BCE
Architect: Imhotep
Egypt
31—Seated Figure of King Khafre,
2520 – 2494 BCE
Egypt
32—Menkaure and his Wife, Khamerernebty, 2490 – 2472 BCE
Egypt
33—Statue of Hatshepsut
ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E
Egypt
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