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| The use of PERSPECTIVE to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space (at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight) |
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| The brightness or dullness of a color; the degree of purity of a color |
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| The lightness or darkness of a hue. |
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| Those pairs of colors, such as red and green, that together embrace the entire spectrum. |
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| Refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork and to the study opf content in art. |
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| An abstract idea represented in bodily form. |
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| A method of presenting an illusion of the three dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface. |
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| The horizontal arrangement of the parts of a building or of the buildings and streets of a city or town, or a drawing or diagram showing such an arrangement. |
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| In architecture, a diagram r representation of a part of a structure or building along an imaginary plane that passes through it vertically. |
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| The "old" stone age, during which humanking produced the first sculptures and paintings. |
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| A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures. |
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| An independenet, self-governing city. |
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| A system o f writing used in ancient mesopotamia. |
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Reconstruction drawing of the White Temple and ziggurat.
Uruk, Iraq
3200-3000 BCE |
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Statuettes of two worshippers, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna, Iraq
2700 BCE
Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone, male figure approx. 2' 6"
Oversized eyes probably symbolized the perpetual wakefulness of the substitute worshipers offering prayers to the diety. |
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