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What: Woman from Willendorf
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Where: Willendorf, Austria
When: Paleolithic
Significance: Symbol of fertility
Provides insight into culture
one of the oldest statues to survive |
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What: Hall of Bulls - Lascaux Cave Paintings
Who: Cave painters
Where: France
When: Paleolithic
Significance: one of the earliest examples of human visual communication |
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What: Bird-Headed Man With Bison - Lascaux Cave
Who: Cave painters
Where: France
When: Paleolithic
Significance: life-like bison
earliest human depicted visually |
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What: House Interior - Skara Brae
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Where: Scotland
When: Neolithic
Significance: permanant residence. stone furniture. |
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What: Stonehenge
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Where: England
When: neolithic
Significance: post and lintel.
blue stones traveled from whales.
sun rises over heel stone at summer solsist. |
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What: Cernavoda Woman and Man
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Where: Romania
When: Neolithic
Significance: expressive depiction of people |
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| an early form of writing with wedge shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylun primarily used by mesopotamians. |
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| an image created as a devotional offering to a god |
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| in mesopotamia, a tall stepped tower often supporting a shrine |
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| images formed by a small colored stone or glass piece, affixed to a hard stable surface |
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| a device used in systems of spatial definition. |
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| solid line that indicates the ground plane on which figures stand. |
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| a stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. |
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| a manner of representation that confronts to an intellectual or artistic idea rather than to naturalistic appearances. |
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| a fortress of defended city, placed on a high, commanding location |
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| any element with a circular format, often placed as a decoration on the exterior of architecture |
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| main vertical section of a column |
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| evenly spaced rounded parallel vertical grooves on columns |
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| the sculpted block that tops a column |
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What: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur
Who: Sumerian
Where: Iraq
when: 2,100
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What: Woman of Warka
Who: Sumerian
Where: Iraq
When: 3,300 - 3,000 BCE
Significance: oldest sculpture of a face |
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What: Warka Vase
Who: Sumerian
Where: Iraq
when: 3,000 - 3,300
significance: one of the most important pieces of art in the world.
four registers. |
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What: Votive Figures
Who: Sumerian
Where: Iraq
When: 2,900 BCE
Significance: humble, religious figures |
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What: Great Lyre with Bull's Head
Who: Sumerians
Where: Iraq
When: 2,550 BCE
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What: Funerary complex of King Djoser.
Who: Imhotep
where: Egypt
When: Old Kingdom
Significance: First known architect.
symbolizes sun's rays.
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used to make paper.
symbolizes lower egypt. |
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| the larger the figure, the greater their importance |
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| an set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body. |
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a flat-topped, one story structure with slanted walls over an ancient egyptian underground tomb.
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a column attached to a wall.
[image] |
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| A massive monument of ancient Egypt having a rectangular base and four triangular faces culminating in a single apex, built over or around a crypt or tomb. |
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| type of ceramic covered with colorful, opaque glazes that form a smooth impermeable surface. |
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| picture writing. Words and ideas rendered in the form of pictorial symbols. |
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| the simplified form of ancient egyptian hieratic writing, used primarily for administrative and private texts. |
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| a large interior room characterized by many closely spaced columns that support its roof. |
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| a massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape. Erected by ancient Egyptians to mark the entrance to a temple complex.[image] |
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the topmost zone of a wall with windows, providing light to the central interior space.
[image] |
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| a peristyle building is surrounded by a colonnade.[image] |
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a tall, four sided stone shaft.
sun symbol erected in ceremonial spaces.[image] |
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a plan design based on a symmetrical, linear arrangement.
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| a row of columns attached to a wall. [image] |
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| image carved below the original surface of the background, which is not cut away. |
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What: Palette of Narmer
Who: Egyptians
Where: Egypt
When: predynastic
Significance: ritual palate used for cosmetics.
tells a story about the uniting of ancient egypt.
King Narmer defeats lower Egypt.
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What: Great Pyramids
Who: Egyptians
Where: Giza, Egypt
When: Old Kingdom
Significance: monumental and mysterious funerary structures |
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What: Khafra
Who: Egyptians
Where: Giza, Egypt
When: Old Kingdom
Significance: represents and houses the life force of the individual. |
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What: Menkaura and a Queen
Who: Egyptians
Where: Egypt
When: Old Kingdom
Significance: Woman and man are equal positions. |
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What: Seated Scribe
Who: Egyptians
Where: Egypt
When: old kingdon
significance: naturalistic, and a person who learns heirogliphs |
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What: Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt
Who: egyptians
where: egypt
when: Old Kingdom
Significance: heiratic scale, hippo symbolizes chaos |
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| Hippopotamus from the Middle kingdom. |
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What: Victory Stele of Naramsin
Who: Acadians
Where: Ancient near east
When: Acadians
Significance: Heirarchical scale
horned helmet associates the king with the diety. |
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What: Code of Hammurabi
Who: Babylonians
Where: Babylon
when: acadian period
significance: god hands the code to the king. over 200 laws. |
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male, made of clay.
abstract and conceptual.exaggerates features, uses geometric shapes.
Nok culture, present day nigeria. one of the earliest to work with iron. |
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head of a king, brass,
naturalistic.
scarification
Ife |
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male, clay
natural, idealistic, ethay cluture
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in honor of dead kings. conceptual eyes.
brass. lost wax method.
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Mask of a Queen.
scarification.
ivory
Benin |
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in honor of dead kings.
brass.
lost wax method
benin |
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cast in relief.
general and 2 officers.
heiratic scale. interest in power.
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| earliest people to work with iron |
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| ornamental marks, scars, or scratches made on the human body. |
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Asyrian king
sprinkles magic potion on people
horned crown and wings to signify divinity
protective diety |
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