Art Terms

Question 1

Relief Sculpture

Answer 1

• The surrounding material is carved away, forming a background that sets off the projecting figure

Question 2

Prehistory

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• before the advent of writing

Question 3

Paleolithic

Answer 3

• old stone age art
• women and animal subjects
  First sculptures and paintings ever

Question 4

Neolithic

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• new Stone Age art
• earth and mud used
• permanent settlements
• domestication of animals
• more monumental sculptures and architectures

Question 5

BCE

Answer 5

• before current era/ before birth of christ

Question 6

CE or AD

Answer 6

• common era

Question 7

Megaliths

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• megalithic: mega large

Question 8

Freestanding Sculpture

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• unattached to the background and has space on all sides

Question 9

Composite view/pose

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• usually appears in profile w/feet, legs, hips and head turned to the side but w/the torso facing forward

Question 10

Post and Lintel System

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• building system where strong horizontal elements w/large spaces between them

Question 11

Corbeled Vault

Answer 11

• arch-like construction method

Question 12

Cuneiform

Answer 12

• Sumerians used this system of writing for various administrative acts, agricultural records and business transactions

Question 13

Polytheism

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• belief or worship of more than one God

Question 14

Ziggurat

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• most notable Sumerians contribution/ huge stepped structures with a temple on top

Question 15

Lamassu

Answer 15

• body of a bull or lion, bird wings, and human head

Question 16

Cylinder Seal

Answer 16

• used as a mean of stamping and identifying documents

Question 17

Mesopotamia

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• first river valley civilization

Question 18

Hierarchy of scale

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• the larger the more important

Question 19

Pharaoh

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• considered both man and god

Question 20

Divine kingship

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• monarch is subject to no earthly authority

Question 21

Mastaba

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• standard tomb structure of early dynastic period

Question 22

Canon of proportions

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• grid system to check the proportions of their drawings and sculptures of people

Question 23

Hypostyle hall

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• large space with columns that support the roof

Question 24

Sunken relief

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• outlines are carved into the surface of the stone

Question 25

Rock cut tombs

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- burial chamber that is cut into an existing, naturally occurring rock

Question 26

Necropolis

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- a cemetary

Question 27

Ka

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- soul or spirit

Question 28

Which art pieces are Paleolithic

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- Woman of Willendorf - Bison - Hall of bulls

Question 29

Which Art pieces are Neolithic

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- Tomb Interior | - Stonehenge

Question 30

What are pieces are Sumerian

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- White temple and ziggurat | - Warka Vase

Question 31

Which art piece is Akkad

Answer 31

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Question 32

Which art piece is Babylon

Answer 32

Stele with law code of Hammurabi

Question 33

What art piece is Assyria

Answer 33

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

Question 34

What art piece is Neo-Babylonia

Answer 34

Ishtar Gate

Question 35

Which art pieces are predynastic and early dynastic

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- palette of king narmer | - IMHOTEP steppes pyramid

Question 36

What art pieces are in the old kingdom (ancient egypt)

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- Great Pyramids of Giza - Great Sphinx - Khafre enthroned - Menkaure and Khamerernebty - Ti watching hippopotamus hunt

Question 37

What art piece is in the Middle Kingdom

Answer 37

Fragmentary head of Senurat III

Question 38

What art piece is in the New Kingdom

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- Hatshepsut with offering jars - The Great Temple of Ramses II - Akhenaton (Amarna Period) - Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and 3 daughters (Amarna Period) - Innermost coffin of Tutankhamen