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Terms - Exam 1 Flashcards

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Findspot

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Place of discovery

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Paleolithic

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Old Stone Age

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Sympathetic Magic theory

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People tried to gain control over animals through supernatural forces via paintings

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Twisted Perspective

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Figure is depicted with both profile and frontal views

[makes figure more identifiable]

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Neolithic

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New Stone Age

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Henge

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Large arrangement of stones in a circle; encircled by a ditch

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Mesopotamia

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Akkad, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria

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Ziggurat

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Stepped tower, sometimes with a temple on top; Sumerian (Mesopotamian)

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Relief sculpture

Low- or bas-relief

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Sculpture attached to a background

Carved barely apart from background

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Register

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Long bands that tell stories

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Hierarchy of scale

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Non-proportionate sizes represent importance of figures; clothing signifies higher status

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Votive figure

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Sculptures depicting men and women wearing fringed skirts or dresses
[appears as praying]

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Conventionalized representation

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Representation in a conventional manner

[Egyptians used specific proportions for people]

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Naturalism

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Realistic portrayals; used for low status

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Stele

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Monument made of a stone or wooden slab; used for historic events or funerary markings

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Schematic patterning

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Relating to diagrams for structures or procedures?

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Frieze

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Standalone register; band of images sharing groundline

[same layer of figures]

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Composite perspective

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Similar to twisted perspective but more complex

[applied more to humans; TP applied more to animals]

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Lamassu

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Assyrian winged, human-headed bull with five legs serving as a deity; Mesopotamia

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Necropolis

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“City of the dead”; houses mastabas

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Sphinx

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Body of a lion, head of a king; symbolizes strength of lion, intelligence of a human; [Face of Khafre]; Egyptian

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Idealism

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Depicting ideal features/qualities; used for high status

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Canon of proportions

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Use of a grid to give body parts predetermined sizes; Egyptian

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Mortuary temple

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Temples near royal tombs; used for commemorating rulers and for followers after rulers’ death; Egyptian

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Ka

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Similar to soul; Egyptian

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Mastaba

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Brick/stone structure; rectangular, sloping side; below burial chamber; preserves ka

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Funerary

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For remains of the dead

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Mastaba

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Brick/stone structure; rectangular, sloping side; over a burial chamber; preserves ka; Egyptian

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Cylinder seal

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Cylindrical stone with incised designs; rolled across clay or wax to create a signature seal; Mesopotamian

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Pyramid

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Tomb for rulers and bureaucratic figures; symbol of the son; Egyptian

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Hypostyle temple

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Hall with a roof supported by columns; interior is filled with columns (Temple of Karnak, Egypt)

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Amarna style

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Art created during Akhenaton’s reign; introduced an alternative style to idealism

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Sarcophagus

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Stone coffin; adorned with depictions

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Book of the Dead

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Funerary texts with incantations to guide and protect soul on journey to the afterlife

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Death mask

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Mask of a person after their death; like a portrait

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Cycladic

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Originating from people of the Cyclades islands in the Aegean Sea

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Minoan

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Originating from people of Crete

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Fresco

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Dry - secco (Egyptian)
Wet - buono (true) (Greek)
Painting on plaster

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Mycenaean

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Last phase of Bronze Age in Ancient Greece

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Corbel; corbelling

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Inward-sloping walls coming together at the top; offset stone or brick in which each course projects toward the center of an arch from each side (corbel arch)

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Geometric

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Geometric motifs commonly used in vase paintings from Athens [Greek]

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Krater

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Large vase for mixing wine and water [Greek]

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Kouros

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Arachaic Greek statue of man, usually standing naked; often of noble rank

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Kore

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Archaic Greek statue of a young female

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Archaic smile

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Used by Greek Archaic sculptors; suggests life in subject

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Black-figure vase painting

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Black slip for subjects, leave background color alone; Athens, Greece

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Red-figure vase painting

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Subjects remain color of background, black slip for background; Athens, Greece

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Greek orders

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Styles of architecture, characterized by types of columns; Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

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Column

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Decorative pillar, post to the lintel; capital, shaft, base

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Chamfering

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45 degree transition between edges of two faces

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Stylobate

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Top step of platform on which colonnades of temple columns are placed

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Entablature

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Horizontal part resting on columns; lintel to the post

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Pediment

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Triangular space under roof [of Greek temple]; on top of entablature

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Contrapposto

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When a human figure has weight shift so upper torso twists away from lower half

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Triglyphs and metopes

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Metopes fill space between triglyphs in a frieze; Doric entablature

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Wet drapery

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Greek style that showed movement and shape of body under clothing

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Caryatid

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Sculpted female figure serving as an architectural support; takes place of column or pillar; supports entablature on head; [Greek - Porch of the Maidens]

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Mosaic

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Image made of assembled pieces of colored materials; creates a bigger picture

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Tesserae

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Tiles, often cubes, used in creating mosaics

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