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[image]
Definition
  • Woman from Willendorf 
  • nude female figure
  • palcolinthic period
  • limstone
  • 11cm high
  • 24,000 BCE
  • from austria
  • tell its a female by gental hips breast
  • furtity figure= well nurished body
  • no feet no face
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[image]
Definition
  • Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison
  • paleolithic period
  • chauvet cave, france
  • 32,000-30,000 bce
  • painted on limestone
  • hundreds of paintings
  • named after person who found it.
  • artist adapt to wall when painting
  • holy sacred place
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Wall painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs
  • paleolithic period
  • Lascaux cave
  • tells a story
  • only one to tell story
  • 15,000 bce
  • painted on limestone
  • 9' long

 

Term
[image]
Definition
  • carved vessel from uruk
  • summerian
  • alabaster
  • 3300-3000 bce
  • 36" high
  • twisted perspective
  • humans, animals, plants, river
  • larger things most imporant
  • no scene faces
  • ruler, humans, animal, plants
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[image]
Definition
  • soundbox of the grear lyre 
  • summerian
  • muqaiyir, iraq
  • 2600-2500 bce
  • wood with gold, silver, lapis, lazuli, bitumen and shell
  • 14" high
  • max length 55 1/2 in
  • found in grave
  • religious cermony
  • university of penn. museum of archo and anthro
  • bull in important
Term
[image]
Definition
  • stele of naram-sin
  • akkadians
  • susa, iran
  • 6'6" high
  • limstone
  • 2254-2218 bce
  • marker or stone
  • expression of power
  • proaganda
  • banners are symbols of the kingdom
  • stele is large stone
  • largest person in scene is naramsin
Term
[image]
Definition
  • nanna ziggurat
  • Muqaiyir, iraq
Term
[image]
Definition
  • votive statue of gudea, girsu
  • akkiadian
  • Telloh, Iraq
  • diorite
  • 2090 bce
  • 20" high
  • many of them made
  • praying
  • message of a biast king
  • timelessness and permints=2
Term
[image]
Definition
  • assurbanipal and his queen in the garden
  • assyrian empire
  • the palace at nineveh
  • 647 bce
  • alabaster
  • 21" high
  • good life
  • "good to be king"
  • spendor
  • eat, drink married, kill
  • relax after hunting
Term
[image]
Definition
  • ishtar gate
  • akkadian empire
  • babylon, iraq
  • glazed brick
  • 575 bce
  • 40'
  • blue (rare color)
  • rebuilt in berlin
  • animal relief
  • splendor= beaty and power
Term
[image]
Definition
  • darius and xerxes receving trubute
  • persian empire
  • persepolis
  • limestone
  • 491-486 bce
  • 8' 4"
  • gards
  • sign of respect
  • splender and ritual
  • royal ritual
  • religous practice
Term
[image]
Definition
  • palette of king narmer 
  • ancient egypt
  • hierankopolis
  • green schist
  • 2950 bce
  • 25" high
  • twisted body
  • nobal body
  • killing someone
Term
[image]
Definition
  • step pyramid and mortuary
  • ancient egypt
  • funerary complex of djoser, saqqara
  • limestone
  • hight of pyramid 204 feet
  • imhotep is arch.
  • tomb for after life
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Khafre from the vally temple of khafre
  • ancient egypt
  • Dynasty 4
  • Giza
  • Diorite-gabbro gneiss
  • 2520-2494 bce
  • 66"
Term
[image]
Definition
  • reconstruction of the great temple of amun
  • ancient egypt
  • old kingdom
  • karnak
  • 2600- 2550 bc
  • khafre 2575-2525 bc
  • menkaure 2525-2475 bc
  • elevated walk aways
  • extra building surrounding pyramid
Term
[image]
Definition
  • funerary temple of hatshepsut
  • new kingdom
  • ancient egypt
  • deir el bahri
  • 18th dynasty
  • 1478- 1458- bce
  • first female pharo
  • made herself look manly
  • worked more towards rights
Term
[image]
Definition
  • hypostyle hall temple of amen-re
  • new kingdom
  • acient egypt
  • karnak
  • 19th cynasty
  • 1292-1190 bce
  • clear story level
  • captial- transition part of the column design with flower and gods
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Queen Tiye
  • ancient egypt
  • 18th dynasty
  • 1352 bce
  • boxwood, ebony, glass,silver, gold
  • cloth
  • clay
  • 3.75" high
  • age= lines
  • mother of akhenaten
  • details
  • mixed media
Term
[image]
Definition
  • akhenaten and family
  • tell el- amama
  • 18th dynasty
  • 1353- 1336 bce
  • 12.25"x 15.25"
  • suken relief pannel
  • carved into stone
  • nefertiti fav wife her 3 kids
  • loving family
  • custructed images
  • imporant gesters lead eye around
  • god of the sun aten
Term
[image]
Definition
  • nefertini from akhetaten
  • limestone
  • egypt
  • 18th dynast
  • 1353-1336 bce
  • 20"
  • fav wife
  • details in face
  • crown looks top heavy
  • women
  • portait
  • in berlin
  • stone in right eye
  • jaw line, lips, cheek bone, ears
  • gracefulness
Term
[image]
Definition
  • temple of ramses II
  • anceint egypt
  • abu simbel
  • 19th dynasty
  • 1279- 1213 bce
  • cut and moved wouldnt damaged 
  • 4 years
  • row of bamboons- watchers of the dawn
Term
[image]
Definition
  • funerary mask of king tut
  • death mask
  • tomb at thebes
  • 18th dynasty
  • 1332-1322 bce
  • nephue of akten
  • died young
  • found body remains intact untouched
  • sold gold
  • death mask lapis and turquoise
Term
[image]
Definition
  • queen nefertari making an offering to isis
  • wall painting in tomb of nefertari
  • valley of the queens
  • 19th dynasty
  • 1290-1224 bce
  • dry fresco method
  • plaster of stone then carve & paint
  • ankh- symbol of life
Term
[image]
Definition
  • judgement of hunefer before osiris
  • 19th dynasty
  • 1285 bce
  • painted papyrus
  • 15 5/8" high
  • book of the dead
  • how to dye
  • scroll
  • heart had to be lighter then feather
  • end with osiris
Term
[image]
Definition
  • reconstruction of the palace
  • bronze age
  • knossos
  • crete island
  • 2000-1375 bce
  • late palace period
  • no king or queen
  • bureacratic monoarchy
  • 300 years lasted
  • greek myth connected to palace
  • built on valcano rubble
  • central court
  • made out of stonebuilt on slope
Term
[image]
Definition
  • Bull- leaping
  • bronze age
  • wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction the palace
  • knossos
  • 1550-1450 bce
  • 24.5"
  • action scene left to right
  • hold on bull horns- handstand- land
  • decoration on wall
Term
[image]
Definition
  • women of goddess with snakes
  • bronze age
  • palace complex at knossos
  • 1700-1550 bce
  • 11- 5/8" high
  • power
  • women important
  • snakes healing
  • glazed
Term
[image]
Definition
  • octopus flask
  • bronze age
  • palaikastro, crete
  • 1500- 1450 bce
  • ceramic
  • 11"
  • marine style
  • more was more
Term
[image]
Definition
  • girl gathering saffron crocus flowers
  • bronze age
  • wall painting
  • room 3 of xeste 3, 
  • akrotiri, thera
  • 1630 bce
  • decoration
  • safron cooking
  • upper class- covered jewerly
Term
[image]
Definition
  • spring fresco
  • bronze age
  • akotiri, thera
  • before 1630 bce
  • center of valcano
  • perseved from valcano
  • wall paper- look nice
  • birds, trees, flowers
Term
[image]
Definition
  • lion gate
  • bronze age
  • mycenae
  • 1250 bce
  • 9'6" high
  • relief carving
Term
[image]
Definition
  • teasury of atreus
  • bronze age
  • dromos- walkway
  • tholos(round stucture) with corbeled vault 47'6"
  • diameter 43'
  • 1300-1200 bce
Term
[image]
Definition
  • funerary mask of agamemnon
  • bronze age
  • grave circle
  • mycenae
  • 1600-1550 bce
  • beaten gold
  • 12"
  • death mask
  • beard
  • 19th centry king
Term

Incise

Definition

      technique in which a deisng or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument. Such a surface is said to be incised.

Term

Post and Lintel architecture

Definition

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

Term

Corbel

Definition
 an early roofing and arching technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer( acorbel) until the uppermost corbels meet. Results in a high, alomost pointed arch or vault.
Term

Cuneiform

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

     Cella

Definition
 the principal interior room at the center of a Greek or roman temple within which the cult statue was usually housed. Also called the naos. 
Term

1.     Stela (Stele) plural stelae

Definition
 a Stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. Used as a grave marker or memorial. 
Term

Ziggurat

Definition
 In Mesopotamia, tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine.
Term

Register

Definition
- a device used in systems of spatial definition, register indicates the use of differing grounfline to differentiate layers of space within an image. In sculpture the placement of self contained bands of reliefs in a vertical arrangement
Term

Hierarchy/Hieratic Scale

Definition
the use of different sizes for powerful or holy figures and for ordinary people to indicate relative importance. The larger the figure the greater the importance
Term

    Lamassu

Definition
 Supernatural guardian protector of ancient near eastern palaces and throne room, often represented sculpturally as a combination of the bearded head of a man, powerful body of a lion or bull wings of a eagle and the horned headdress of a god usually possessing five legs. 
Term

Canopic Jars

Definition
 special jars used to store the major organs of a body before embalming found in ancient Egyptian culture. 
Term

    Base 

Definition
any support. Also masonry supporting a statue of the shaft of a column
Term

Shaft

Definition
the main vertical section of a column between the capital and the base, usually circular in cross section
Term

     Capitals

Definition
the sculpted block that tops a column. According to the convention of the orders captials including different decorative elements.
Term

Fluted shaft

Definition
- in architecture evenly spaced rounded parallel vertical grooves incised on shafts of columns or columnar elements.
Term

Pylon Temple-  

Definition
a massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape. Erected by ancient Egyptians to mark the entrance to a temple.
Term

   Sunken relief sculpture 

Definition
when the image is carved below the orginal surface of the background wish is not cut away.
Term

Book of the Dead

Definition
book that showed how to die proberly to make it to the after life
Term

Serdab

Definition

 in Egyptian tombs the small room in which the ka statue was placed

Term

  Mastaba  

Definition
a flat- topped, one story structure with slated walls over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb.
Term

     Necropolis 

Definition
a large cemetery or burial area; literally a “city of the dead”
Term

Engaged columns

Definition
a column attached to a wall.
Term

Hypostyle Hall 

Definition
 a large interior roo characterized by many closely spaced columns that support its roof.
Term

Helladic

Definition
main land greece
Term

Sir Arthur Evans

Definition

architect that went to oxford

assumed that the god were real

Term

Homer

Definition

author of the iliad and odyssey

about the greek gods and their storys

Term

Iliad and odyssey

Definition
homer wrote about the greek gods
Term

Labryinth

Definition
maze
Term

Knossos

Definition
island that Valcano errupted covering the whole island greeks built ontop of the rubble
Term

Mesopotamia-

Definition
the oldest city states Ancient near east
Term

Cult

Definition
-where priest go to pray
Term

     Ceremony-          

Definition
a celebration of something
Term

cult statue

Definition
statues within the temple
Term

  Profile view- 

Definition
the side view of your face
Term

Fortified architecture

Definition
- military contracions and buildings designed for defence
Term

Splendor-

Definition
brilliant and gorgeous appearance, coloring, magnificence
Term

  Ritual- 

Definition
a system of collection of religious or other
Term

Gesture- 

Definition
a movement or position
Term

  Palette 

Definition
flat surface used for painting
Term

Ka and Ba

Definition
- believed to live within the body during life to survive after death
Term

 Fresco- 

 

Definition
a painting technique in which water-based pigments are applied to a surface of wet plaster. The coloris abosorbed by the plaster becoming perminate part of the wall. 
Term

Sarcophagus-

Definition
a stone coffin. Often rectangular and decorated with relief sculpture
Term

Faience

Definition
a type of ceramic covered with colorful, opaque glazes that form a smooth, impermeable surface. First developed in ancient Greece
Term

Corbeled Vault- 

Definition
a vault made by projecting courses of stone
Term

Corbeled Arch- 

Definition
technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer( a corbel) until the uppermost corbels meet. Results in a high, almost pointed arch or vault
Term

Tholos- 

Definition
a small round building sometimes built underground, as in a Mycenaean tomb
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