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Art 101 Midterm 1
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
06/21/2016

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Nude Woman(Venus of Willendorf)
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Austria, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
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Stonehenge
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Salisbury Plain, England, ca 2550-1600 BCE
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Soundbox from Bull-Headed Lyre
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Ur (Sumer) ca 2600 BCE 

Mesopotamia

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"Scenes of War" from the Standard of Ur
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Ur(Sumer), ca 2600 BCE

Mesopotamia

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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
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Mesopotamia(Akkad) ca 2254-2218 BCE
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Susa(Babylon), ca. 1780BCE

Mesopotamia

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Lamassu(Winged Human-headed Bull)
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Khorsabad(Assyria)ca 720-705 BCE

Assyria

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Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
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Nineveh(Assyria), ca 645-640 BCE

Assyria

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Aerial View of Persepolis
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(Persia[Iran]), ca 521-465 BCE

Persia

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Pyramid Complex at Gizeh
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Gizeh, ca 2551-2472 BCE (Old Kingdom)

Egypt

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The Great Sphinx
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Gizeh, ca 2520-2494 (Old Kingdom)

Egypt

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Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut
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Deir el-Bahri, ca. 1473-1458 BCE (New Kingdom)

Egypt

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Temple of Ramses II

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Abu Simbel, ca 1290-1224 BCE(New Kingdom)

Egypt

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Painted Chest from Tutankhamen's Tomb
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Thebes, ca 1333-1323 BCE (New Kingdom)
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Bull-Leaping (Toreador Fresco)
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Knossos(Crete), ca 1450-1400 BCE

Minoan Crete

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Snake Goddess
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Knossos(Crete), ca. 1600 BCE

Minoan Crete

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Inlaid Dagger Blade with Lion Hunt
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Mycenae, Greece, ca. 1600-1500 BCE

Mycenae

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Post & Lintel System
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A vertical Post supporting a horizontal Lintal
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Relief
Definition
A sculpture that sticks out of a background
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Composit View
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Looking at picture from 2 different points at the same time
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Ziggurat
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A man made moutain from Mesopotamia
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Hierarchy of Scale
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The bigger sculpture or person the bigger position of power.
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Iconography
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The reading of images. Using clues to read a picture or passage
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Stele
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Upright stone with writing or description
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Ka
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Egyptian soul or spirit
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Corbeled Vault
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Ceiling, a construction system where blocks were put closer and closer together
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Capital
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Decorated top of a collum
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Fresco
Definition
Paiting on wet plaster
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Cyclopean masonry
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Big rocks put together without mortar
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Frieze
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One of a series of superimposed bands 

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Hypostyle hall
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A room of a forest of collums
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Mastaba
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A flat top tomb in Egypt
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