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Name: Venus of Willendorf
Date: ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
Period/Style: Prehistoric period.
Medium: Limestone with red ochre.
Function: Represented fertility, menstrating, rebirth. could have been used as amulet. |
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Name: Hall of Bulls
Date: ca. 15,000-13,000 BCE.
Location: Lascaux, France
Period/Style: Prehistoric
Medium: cave painting
Function: Story telling, innitiation, rebirth (cave opening)
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Name: Rhinoceros, wounded man, and bison
Date: 15,000-13,000 BCE
Location: well of cave @ Lascaux, France
Period/Style: Prehistoric
Function:people not detailed, narrtive art |
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Name: Peace side of Ur
Location: From tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq
Date: ca2600 BCE
Material: wood inlaid with shell lapis lazuli and red limestone
Period/style: early dynastic period, sumerian
Function: possibly an old table base. tells stories though resiters. Battle feild victory |
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Name: Presentation of offerings to Ianna (Warka Vase)
Location: Uruk (Modern Warka), Iraq
Date: ca.3200-3000BCE
Material: Alabaster
Period/style: early dynastic period (sumerian)
Function: to give offerings to the god ianna. Shows story through registers |
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Name: Victory stele of Naram-Sin
Location: Susa, Iran
Date: 2254-2218 BCE
Material: Pinl Sandstone
Period/Style: Akkadian Period (no registers, specific location)
Function:show leadership (headress, position to mts., composite view) |
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Name: Stele w/ law code of hammurabi
Date: ca 1780 BCE
Location: Susa Iran
Period/Style: Akkadian Period or neo-sumerian and babylonian
Medium: Basalt
Function: shows hammurabi's laws. written out. |
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Name:Palette of King Narmer
Date: ca. 3000- 2920 BCE,
Location:Hierakonpolis, Egypt
Medium: Slate
Period/Style: Predynastic,
Function:votive offering, overall theme maintaining order, ceremonial eneactment |
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Name: Stepped Pyramid and mortuary precinct of Djoser
Artist:Imhotep
Date: ca. 2630-2611 BCE
Location:Saqqara, Egypt
Medium: Slate
Period/Style: Third Dynasty,
Function:tomb not temple, symbolizes djosers ultimate and godlike power through size. |
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Name:Great Pyramids
Date: Pyramids of Menkaure, ca. 2490- 2472 BCE;Khafre ca. 2520- 2494 BCE; and Khufu, ca. 2551- 2528 BCE
Location:Gizeh, Egypt
Period/style:fourth dynasty
Function: as tombs for pharrohs |
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Name: Khafre enthroned
Date:ca. 2520- 2494 BCE
Location: Gizeh, Egypt
Period Style: Fourth Dynasty
Materil: Diatrite
Function:portrayed the kng by looking straight on, no space between limbs, exentuated features, |
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Name:Seated scribe
Date: ca. 2500 BCE
Location:Saqqara, Egypt
Period: Fourth Dynasty
Medium:painted limestone
Function: perpetuates role as scribe, conventional pose. |
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Name: Nebamun hunting fowl, from the tomb of Nebamun
Date:ca. 1400-1350 bce
Location:Thebes, Egypt
Period:18th Dynasty
Medium: fresco
Function: conquring the underworld, composite view shows strength |
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Name:Akhenaton, Nefertiti and three daughters
Date: ca. 1353-1335 bce
Location: Amarna, Egypt
Period: 18th Dynasty (armana period)
medium:limestone
Function:sunken relief, two seen as equal, families together, natural poses |
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Name: Sarcophagus, from Hagia Triada
Date:1400 bce
Location: Hagia Triada, crete
Period: bronze age
Medium:
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Name: Figurine of a woman
Date: ca. 2500-2300 bce
Location: cyclades Greece
Medium: marble
Period: bronze age
Function: fetility, stargazers waiting for gods, rebirth |
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Name: Aerial veiw of Knossos
Date: 1700 bce
Location: Knossos, Crete
period: Bronze age
Function:living village |
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Name: palace veiw of Knossos
Date: 1700 bce
Location: Knossos, Crete
period: Bronze age
Function:living village |
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Name: Bull leaping fresco from palace of knossos
Date: ca. 1450-1400 bce
Location: knossos, crete
Medium: fresco
Period: bronze age
Function:action, movement, right of passage ( 3males) |
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Name:Snake Goddess
Date:1600 bce
Location:Knossos, Crete
Period:bronze age
Function:votive offering |
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Name: Harvester Vase
Date:ca. 1500 bce
Location: hagia triaga, crete
Period: bronze age
Function:libation for festival, motion |
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Name: Ariel view of tiryns
Date: ca. 1400-1200 bce
Location: tiryns greece
period: bronze age |
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Name: Lions Gate
date: ca. 1300-1250 bce
location: mycenae, greece
Material: limeston
Function: walkway, |
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Name: Inlade dagger blade
Date:ca. 1600-1500 bce
Location:mycenae, greece
Period:bronze age
Function:ceremonial, buried with dead, motion, minoan body psychique, lion hunting form near east |
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| The style of painted or sculptured representation based on close observation of the natural world that was at the core of classical tradition |
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| a trinket or piece of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease. talisman. good luck charm, charm - something believed to bring good luck. |
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| conceptual/optical representation |
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| the representation of the fundamental distinguishing properties of a person or object not the way a figure or object appears in space and light at a specific moment |
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| a type of rectangular temple tower or tiered mound erected by the Sumerians, Akkadians, and Babylonians in Mesopotamia. The tower of Babel is thought to be one of these. |
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| is the inner chamber of a temple in classical architecture |
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| is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected as a monument, very often for funerary or commemorative purposes. |
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| a composition that symmetrical on either side of a central figure |
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| in sculpture figures projecting from a background of which they are part. the degree of relief is designated high, low, 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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| is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. |
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| is a deep blue semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. |
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| was the Sumerian goddess of love, fertility, and warfare, and goddess of the E-Anna temple at the city of Uruk, her main centre./ |
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| The Babylonian sun god, worshiped as the author of justice and compassion. |
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| one of a series of superimposed bands of friezes a pictorial narrative or the particular levels on which motifs are placed. |
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| Very durable hard stone used in balls to work softer stones like granite, used in scupture because it was able to polish to a high scheen and used in pavement |
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| is a mineral compound used for cement, drywall, and Plaster of Paris. |
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| artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance |
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| offered, given, dedicated |
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| thin and usually oval or oblong board or tablet with a thumb hole at one end, used by painters for holding and mixing colors |
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| Egyptian physician sage and architect who had a godlike status |
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| is finely dressed (cut, worked) masonry, either an individual stone that has been worked until squared or the masonry built of such stone. |
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| an oval with a horizontal line at one end, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name, coming into use during the beginning of the Fourth Dynasty under Pharaoh Sneferu. |
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| The falcon-headed god, overcame seth. son or osiris |
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| raised relief/sunken relief/high reief |
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Raised:the sculptor chiseled away the parts of the stone around the image.
Sunken:sunken relief, (incised, coelanaglyphic or intaglio relief), where the carving is sunk below the level of the surrounding surface and is contained within a sharpely incised contour line that frames it with a powerful line of shadow.
High:where the sculpture projects at least half or more of its natural circumference from the background, and may in parts be wholly disengaged from the ground, thus approximating sculpture in the round. |
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| fresco secco (dry fresco) |
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| is a fresco painting technique in which pigments ground in water are tempered using egg yolk or whole egg mixed with water which are applied to plaster that has been moistened (using this temper) to simulate fresh plaster. |
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| is a black mixture of copper, silver, and lead sulphides, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal. |
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| hammered into relief from the reverse side. |
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| An avenue or entranceway to a building. |
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| is defined as a structural horizontal block that spans the space or opening between two vertical supports. |
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| was the great hall of the Grecian palace complexes. It was a rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch, and a more or less central, open hearth vented though an oculus in the roof above it and surrounded by four columns. |
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| s an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void in a structure, such as an entranceway in a wall or as the span of a bridge. |
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| is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with massive limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. |
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| is a burial structure characterized by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones. |
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| is a space (usually triangular) above a lintel in megalithic architecture to relieve the weight of the masonry. |
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| s a glassy substance manufactured most expertly by the ancient Egyptians |
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| a stone coffin, typically adorned with a sculpture or inscription and associated with the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, and Greece. |
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| Supposedly having the power to avert evil influences or bad luck: |
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