Pre-historic to Egyptian Art Flashcards
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An aesthetically pleasing and meaningful arrangement of elements, as words, sounds, colors, shapes, etc.; form of human activity whose chief character is determined by such arrangement.
Art
The science or profession of designing and constructing buildings or other structures.
Architecture
Any of the arts pertaining to or referring to the following: painting, sculpture, glass, and glassware, ceramic and pottery, metallurgy and plants.
Decorative Arts
A sub-period of Paleolithic known to use pigments for bodily ornamentation
Mousterian
A sub-period of Paleolithic known for cave paintings
Aurignacian
A sub-period of Paleolithic known for ‘the last of the hunter-gatheres, live for 6 centuries. Art found: engravings of horses, bison, ibex, stag, reindeer, bear, wildcats on bone
Magdalenian
What was the name given to figurines in Paleolithic art as they are unmistakably female of child-bearing build?
Venus
What was the name of the figurine with 4 ½” tall made of limestone found in Austria?
Venus of Willendorf
Invention of bow and awwow, pottery for food storage and domestication of small animals. Was invented during what age in pre-history?
Mesolithic Age / Middle Stone Age
What was the name of the large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with stones?
Megalith
A large, single upright standing stone
Menhir
A free standing chamber, consisting of standing stones covered by a capstone as a lid. It was used for burial and was covered by mounds.
Dolmen
An upright slab forming part of a larger structure
Orthostat
A linear arrangement of upright, parallel standing stones
Stone Row
A straight standing stone, topped with another forming a T shape
Taula
What was the other name of post and lintel construction (Neolithic)?
Trilithon
Historical period which contributed the cuneiform and ziggurat architecture
Sumerian
A system of writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge shaped elements
Cuneiform (ceneus)
What was Mesopotamian sculpture characterized by?
Large circular eyes and curly hair and beard
A divine genii; a great stone statue of a human headed winged bull that greeted visitors at the gate of Palace of Sargon II
Lamassu
The text of Hammurabi’s code comprising of 300 statues in Akkadian on 51 columns
The Law Code of Hammurabi
(raised up or high) Artificial mountains made of tiered rectangular layers which rose in number from one to seven in the course of Mesopotamian history
Ziggurat
Who introduced polychrome ornamental brickwork and also high plinths or dadoes made of great stone slabs placed on edges; usually carved with low relief sculpture
Assyrians
Gate named after the goddess of love, fertility of war, it is faced with glazed bricks with rows of bulls and dragons
Ishtar Gate
