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Art History Midterm #1 Flashcards

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Questions art historians ask

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How old is it? What is its style? What is its subject? Who made it? Who paid for it?

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Perspective

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The view point of the art piece

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Proportions

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How big the objects or body parts are

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Iconography

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The visual images and symbols used in a work of art or the study or interpretation of these

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Patronage

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The support given by a patron

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Connoisseurship

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A kind of expertise in a particular subject

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Stylization

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Process of designing or presenting in accordance with a style

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Art history

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Paintings, sculptures, drawings, architecture

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archeology

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Materials that are dug up

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Artifact

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Function and utility

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Artwork

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Aesthetics, made to be pretty, subjective

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Purpose of prehistoric

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Survival

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Meanings and usage of Stonehenge

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Purpose: calendar
Important to them for farming

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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

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Physiological, safety, love and belonging needs, esteem, and self-actualization

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Hybrid

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A mix of two things (man and bull)

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Zoomorphic

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Representing animal forms or gods of animal form

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Anthropomorphic

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Having human characteristics

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Syncretization

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Adoption of culture

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Bird headed man

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First drawing of human

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Megalith

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Large stone that forms a prehistoric monument

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Post and lintel

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A form of architecture construction—two vertical with one horizontal

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Cromlech

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U shape that opens to the winter solstice

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Henge

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The circles that form a monument

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Blue stones

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Smaller stones once outside, later moved inside the henge

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Summer and winter solstice

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Shortest and longest days of the year

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Middle eastern art main theme

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Propaganda and power

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Sumerian art

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Ziggurat and temples—votive statues—importance of gods and worship

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Neo-Sumerian

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Gudea—leaders and gods

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Babylonian

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300 laws—oldest law—power—god is equal to leader

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Hittites

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Lion gate—power in architecture

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Assyrian

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Lamassu—hunting lions—power

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Neo Babylonian

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Ishtar gate, hanging gardens, power in beauty and grandeur

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Persian art

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Darius throne scene—power in portrayal

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Cuneiform

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Invention of writing

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Votives

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Objects offered to god in worship

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Egyptian style and consistency

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Rigid-left foot forward-big eye-side profile-consistency of scale based on measurements and grid

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Evolutions and key characters in the building of the pyramids

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Stepped pyramid (Imhotep), broken pyramid (Sneferu), Giza pyramids at 51 degrees

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Egyptian ideal vs real

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(Most) pharohs want to be remembered as strong and in the best physical condition possible

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Amarna style

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Developed by Akhenaten—break from the ideal—stylized—weird proportions

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King tut significance

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One of the few tombs left in tact—teaches about the ways of the Egyptian—their religious beliefs and mummification

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Twisted perspective

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Way Egyptians were painted—side profile face/ torso facing the viewer

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Ka and Ka statue

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The life force/life force can live in statue after death

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Damnatio memoriae

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Someone erases memory and account of other person (Hatshepsut)

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Pylon

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Monumental gate of Egyptian temple

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Sculptor of Akhenatons statuary

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Bek

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Howard Carter

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Discovered king tuts tomb

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How did the Israelites worship?

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Temples instead of idols

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Brazen sea

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Similar to temple baptismal font

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Ark of the covenant and the mercy seat

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The holy thing that the glowy ball appears on

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What is the meaning of classical?

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Timeless-classy-what other things is based off of-ICONIC

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Greek evolution

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Cycladic, geometric, Orientalizing, classical, Hellenistic

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Palace of Knossos

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Red columns-communal living-oldest throne room-no depictions of power besides overall lavishness-peaceful because of trading

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Difference of Minoan and Mycenaean

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Mycenaean built FORTRESSES

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Orientalizing period

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Borrowed from Egyptians in stiffness-start to explore nakedness and realism

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Archaic

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Smile to look more alive—get better at proportions

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Canon of Doryphorus

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The perfect proportional sculpture of a man

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Red figure ware

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Leave red background/paint black figures

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Black figure ware

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Paint black background/ leave figures unpainted (red)

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Linear A

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Minoan writing system

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Megaron

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Largest room in building

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Parthenon optical refinements

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Entasis: swelling of columns belly to appear straight; swelling Stylobate; columns slant inward

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Contrapposto

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Leaning on one foot—realistic of human being actual stance—the way the body actually moves and appears

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Sculptor of the three goddesses

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Phidias

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Who built the temple of Hatshepsut

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Senmut

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Who sculpted Doryphorus?

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Poylkleitos (remember poly is many and there were many statues made after Doryphorus)

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Who made bust of Nefertiti

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Thutmose

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