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Question 0

Palettes

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A handheld support used by artist for the storage and mixing of paint during the process of painting. Grind and prepare makeup.

Question 1

Conventions

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A traditional way of representing forms

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Ground line

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The solid baseline that indicates the ground plane on which figures stand. The figures and objects are placed on a series of ground lines to indicate depth

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Hieroglyphs

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Picture writing; words and ideas rendered in the form of pictorial symbols

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Facade

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The face or front wall of a building

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Mastaba

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A flat topped, one story building with a slanted wall over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb.

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Necropolis

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A large cemetery or burial area, literally “city of the dead”

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Monumental

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A term used to designate a project or object that, whatever it’s physical size, gives an impression of grandeur.

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Inlay

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A decorative process in which pieces of one material are set into the surface of an object fashioned from a different material.

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Colonnades

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A row of columns, supporting a straight lintel or a series of arches.

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Hypostyle hall

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A large inferior room characterized by many closely spaced columns that support its roof.

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Sanctuary

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A sacred/holy enclosure used to worship.

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Pylons

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A massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape. Entrance into temple.

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Clerestory

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The topmost zone of a wall with windows in a basilica, extending above the aisle roofs. Proves direct light into the nave.

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Hues

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Pure color

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Enamel

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A technique in which powered class is applied to a metal surface in a decorative design. After firing, the glass forms an opaque or transparent substance that is fixed to the mets background.

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Encaustic

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A painting medium using pigment suspended in hot wax.

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Alabaster

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A soft, fine, translucent, white stone.

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Attribute

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The symbolic object or objects that identify a particular deity, saint, or personification in art.

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Cuneiform

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An early form of writing with wedge-shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylus; used primarily by ancient Mesopotamians.

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Conventions

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A traditional way of representing forms.

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Cylinder seals

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A small cylindrical stone decoded with incised patterns. When rolled across soft clay or wax, the resulting raised pattern or design (relief) served as an identifying signature.

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Hieratic scale

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The use of different sizes for significant or holy figure and those of the everyday would to indicate relative important. The larger the figure, the greater its importance.

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Registers

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A device used in systems of spatial definition.

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Pictographs

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A highly stylized and simplified depiction serving as a symbol for a person or object.

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Scribes

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A professional who wrote texts or maintained written records.

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Stylus

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An instrument with a painted end (used for writing and print making), which makes a delicate line or scratch.

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Veneer

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In architecture, the exterior facing of a building, often in decorative patterns of fine stone or brick. In decorative arts, a thin exterior layer of fine material laid over less valuable material.

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Votive figures

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An image created as a devotional offering to God or other deity.

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Ziggurats

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In Mesopotamia, a tell stepped pyramid structure of earthen materials often supporting a shrine.

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Attribute

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The symbolic object or objects that identify a particular deity, saint, or personification in art.

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Ceramics

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Wares made of baked clay.

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Dolmen

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A prehistoric structure make up of two or more large (often upright) stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal slab or slabs.

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Capstones

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The final, topmost stone in a cornel arch or vault, which joins the sides and completes the structure.

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Cairn

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A pile of stones or earth and stones that served both as a prehistoric burial site and as a market of underground tombs.

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Cornel vault

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A vault made by projecting courses of stone. A roofing and arching technique in which each course of stone projects inward and slightly beyond the previous layer until the uppermost corbels meet. Creating a nearly painted vault.

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Henge

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A circular area enclosed by stones or wood posts set up by Neolithic people. It is usually bounded by a ditch and raised embankment.

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Lintel

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A horizontal element of any material carried by two or more vertical supports to form an opening.

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Linear

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An emphasis on a line

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Mural

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Wall-like. A large painting or decoration, created either directly on the wall or created separately and affixed to the wall.

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Modeling

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In a painting, the process of creating the illusion of three-dimensional on a two-dimensional surface by the light and shade.

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Post and lintel

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An architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements (posts) supporting a horizontal element (lintel).

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Passage graves

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A prehistoric tomb under a cairn reached by a long narrow slab-lined access passage or passage-ways.

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Relief sculptures

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A sculpted image or design whose flat back-ground surface is carved away to a certain depth, setting off the figure(s) called high or low relief depending upon the extent of the projection of the image from the back-ground.

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Sculpture in the round

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Three dimensional sculpture that is carved free of any background or block.