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The Great Sphinx

Where: giza governorate

When:2500BC

Who:old kingdom?

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[image]
Definition

Quince

Who: Zhu Da

When:qing dynasty

Where:Chine

Term
[image]
Definition

The Peacock Room

When:19 century

Where:Detroit, MI

Who:James Whistler

Term

[image]

 

Definition

Woman from Willendorf

When:24,000 BC

Where: Austria

Who:N/A

Term
[image]
Definition

Hall of Bulls

When:10,000 BC

Where:France

Who:

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[image]
Definition

A house in Catalhoyuk

When:7500BC

Where:kucukkoy, turkey

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Stonehenge

When:2000BC

Where:Amesbury, UK

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Stele of Naram-Sin

When:Akkadian Dynasty

Where:Iran

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

The Warka Vase

When:3000BC

Where:iraq

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Votive Statues

When:2700

Where:iraq

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Stele of Hammurabi

When:1792 BC

Where:Babylon

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

The Palette of Narmer

When:31 Century BC

Where: egypt

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Khafre

When:25 century BC

Where:Egypt

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt

When:25 century bc

Where:Egypt

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Akenenaten and his family

When:18th dynasty?

Where:egypt

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Lion capital

When:250 BC

Where:India

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Great Stupa at Sanchi

When:3 century bc

Where:madhya pradesh, India

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Yakshi bracket figure

When:2st century AD

Where:karle, India

Who


Term
[image]
Definition

Buddha and attendants/Buddha triad

Where:India

When:2nd century AD

Who:

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[image]
Definition

Fang ding

Where:china

When:shang dynasty

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Wang Xizhi, Portion of a Letter from the Feng Ju Album

When:4th century AD

Where:China

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Great wild goose pagoda

When:tang dynasty

Where:Xi'an, China

Who:

Term

[image]

Definition

Hungry Tigress Jataka

When:7th century

Where:Japan

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Exekias, Ajax and Achilles playing a game

When:6 century BC

Where:greece

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Anavysos Kouros

When:6 century BC

Where:Greece

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Krater with the death of Sarpedon

Where:greece

When:6th century

Who:

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[image]
Definition

"Kritios" boy

When:500 BC

Where:Greece

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Polykleitos, Spear bearer

Where:greece

When:5 century BC

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

Where:Greece

When:4 century BC

Who:

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[image]
Definition

Patrician carrying portrait busts of two ancestors

When:1 century BC

Where:Rome

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Temple of Portunus

When:2 century BC

Where:Rome, Italy

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Augustus of Primaporta

When:1st century AD

Where:Rome

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Herakitos, The upswept floor

Where:Rome

When:2nd century AD

Who:

Term
[image]
Definition

Arch of Titus

When:4th century CE

Where:Rome, Italy

Who:

Term
patron
Definition
person who pays an artist
Term
iconography
Definition
symbolic representation
Term
connoisseurship
Definition
a person who is especially competent to pass critical judgements in an art.
Term
sculpture in the round
Definition
a type of sculpture that is 3D and not attatched to a background
Term
relief (low, mid, high sunken)
Definition
to give the impression that the sculpted material has been raised above the background plane
Term
register
Definition
one of a series of rows in a pictorial narative
Term
post and lintel
Definition
system fwith a lintel, header, or architrave as the horizontal member over a building void supported at its ends by two vertical columns pillars, or post (think of stone hedge)
Term
mural
Definition
large painting
Term
cuneiform
Definition
earliest form of writing
Term
ziggurat
Definition
rectangular step tower
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stele
Definition
wooden or stone slab
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mastaba
Definition
egyptain tomb
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hieratic/hierarchic scale
Definition
how we assign importance to images
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pylon
Definition
monumental gateway of an egyptain temple
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obelisk
Definition
a stone pillar
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chakra
Definition
spiritual energy!!!! NARUTOOOOOOOOO
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torana
Definition
type of gateway seen in hindu and buddhist architecture
Term
gandhara style
Definition
style of buddhist visual art that developed in pakistan
Term
Buddha/Buddhisattva
Definition
person who takes a course in their lfe that moves toward buddha?
Term
taotie
Definition
a motif(symbol?) commonly found on chinese ritual bronze vessels
Term
module
Definition
parts of a complex structure
Term
brackets/bracketing system
Definition
a support that overhangs a wall to carry weight
Term
"Archaic smile"
Definition
greek thing where they try to make statues look alive
Term
Doric and Ionic order
Definition

Doric base stood directly on flat pavement

Ionic stands on a base step that connects to the floor

Term
contrapposto
Definition
 is an Italian term that means counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs.
Term
canon
Definition
body of work, which has been established as representative of the best examples of a particular genre.
Term
Hellenistic
Definition
is the art of the Hellenistic period dating from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC to the emergence of ancient Rome as signified by the Battle of Actium in 31 BC and the subsequent conquest of Ptolemaic Egypt in 30 BC.
Term
fresco
Definition
is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly-laid, or wet lime plaster.
Term
engaged column
Definition
is a column embedded in a wall and partly projecting from the surface of the wall
Term
Verism
Definition
is the artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; a form of realism
Term
arch & vault
Definition
architectural term for an arched form used to provide a space with a ceiling or roof
Term
basilica
Definition
A public building of ancient Rome having a central nave with an apse at one orboth ends and two side aisles formed by rows of columns, which was used as acourtroom or assembly hall.
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