Art

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formal analysis

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focuses on the visual qualities of the work

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contextual analysis

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involves looking outside of the work of art in order to determine its meaning

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Pliny the Elder

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wrote Natural History

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Giorgio Vasari

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gathered the biographies of great Italian artists in “The Lives of Our Artists”

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Johann Joachim Winckelmann

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studied stylistical development as it related to history

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Chauvet Cave

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where the oldest paintings were found during the Old Stone Age; showed animals in red ochre and black charcoal

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Venus of Willendorf

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stone sculptures with exaggerated bellies and breasts but undefined faces (Old Stone Age)

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Middle Stone Age

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rock shelter paintings - showed humans for the first time and they dominated the animals

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Stonehenge

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Salisbury Plain, England - concentric rings of sarsen and bluestone (New Stone Age)

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post and lintel construction

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two upright pieces topped with a crosspiece (Stonehenge)

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heel-stone

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marks the point at which the sun rises on the midsummer solstice

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Sumerians

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built impressive structures in Mesopotamia - ziggurats

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ziggurat

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stepped pyramids

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Code of Hammurabi

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oldest legal code on a stone stele, currently located in the Louvre

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Ishtar Gate

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one of the greatest works of architecture in which figures are superimposed on a walled surface

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hierarchical scale

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uses the status of figures or objects to determine their relative sizes within an artwork (Egyptians)

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fractional representation

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each part of body is shown clearly in an image (Egyptians)

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Tutankhamun

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remained intact because it was cleverly hidden; found burial mask of the boy

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Cyclades

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Aegean islands; made geometric nude female figures

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Minoans

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Knossos on Crete; pictorial style - frescoes and pottery

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Mycenaeans

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city of Mycenae in Greece; elaborate tombs and goldsmithing

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Early Classical Period

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strength, simplicity, Doric columns

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Middle Classical Period

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Parthenon is built

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Late Classical Period

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architecture declined when Athens was defeated in the Peloponnesian War; Corinthian columns

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Hellenistic Period

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Greek styles blended with those of Asia Minor

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Etruscans

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rose in Italy; houses were made of brick and wood so weren't preserved; known for bronze work

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concrete and arch

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pioneered by the Romans

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mosaic

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famous Byzantine art style

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Hagia Sophia

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Byzantine church that is considered one of the greatest architectural achievements in history