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Art History Test 1
First test for Art History class
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
09/05/2016

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[image]
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Venus of Willendorf

28,000 BC

Paleolithic

Fetishistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Lascaux Caves

France

15000 BC

Paleolithic

Totemic

Term
[image]
Definition

Pech-Merle Caves

22000 BC

Paleolithic

Fetishistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Catal Hoyuk

6000 BC

Mesolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Jericho Skull

7000 BC

Mesolithic

Fetishistic

Term
[image]
Definition

Stonehenge

England

2550 BC

Neolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Ziggurat at Ur

2100 BC

Sumerian

Divine Architecture

Term
[image]
Definition

Standard of Ur

2600 BC

Sumerian

Term
[image]
Definition

Victory Stele of Naram Sin

2218 BC

Akkadian

Term
[image]
Definition

Head of Akkadian Ruler

Nineveh

2200 BC

Akkadian

Term
[image]
Definition

Stele of Hammurabi

1780 BC

Old Babylonian

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Lamassu

Citadel of Sargon II

Khorsabad

720 BC

Assyrian

Term
[image]
Definition

Ishtar Gates

575 BC

Neo-Babylonian

Term
[image]
Definition

Stepped Pyramid of Djoser

Saqqara

2675 BC

Predynastic Egyptian

Term
[image]
Definition

Palette of King Narmer

3000 BC

Predynastic Egyptian

Term
[image]
Definition

Pyramids

Gizeh

2551-2471 BC

Old Kingdom Egyptian

Term
[image]
Definition

Panel of Hesire

2675 BC
Predynastic Egyptian 

Term
[image]
Definition

Ka statue of Khafre

2494 BC

Old Kingdom Egyptian

Term
[image]
Definition

Mastaba of Ti: "Ti Watching Hippo Hunt"

2350 BC

Old Kingdom Egyptian

Term
Schema, Schemata
Definition
dunno
Term
Totemic
Definition

The magic is in the process

(painting the horses and then "killing them" with spears)

Term
Fetishistic
Definition

The magic is in the object

(re-use of skulls, belly button in venus)

Term
Profile View
Definition
side view
Term
Frontal View
Definition

frontal view...

(usually represented in shoulders)

Term
Composite View
Definition
 A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; also called twisted perspective.
Term
Megalith
Definition
Greek, "great stone." A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.
Term
Henge
Definition
An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle, often surrounded by a ditch
Term
Shaft Grave
Definition
a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides roofed over with stone slab.
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