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Settling
Farming
a. Sowing, planting, waiting, harvesting
b. Takes time
c. Surplus
i. Leads to people becoming specialists: weaving, pottery, etc.
ii. Community developing – complex art as well |
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| Sculpture in the Round (vs. Relief) |
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Freestanding figures, carved or modeled in three dimensions
Relief - in sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part; the degree of relief is designated high, low (bas), or sunken; in the last, the artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself |
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"bovine skull"
a common motif in classical architectural ornament |
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| painting on lime plaster, either dry (dry fresco, or fresco secco) or wet (true, or buon, fresco); in the latter method, the pigments are mixed with water and become chemically bound to the freshly laid lime plaster |
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"Great stone"
a large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures |
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a system of construction in which two posts support a lintel
lintel - a horizontal beam used to span an opening |
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