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Art History Midterm Flashcards

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Neolithic Revolution

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most important development in human history

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Çatalhöyök (Turkey): housing

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timber posts and beams filled in with mud brick, then plastered

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trilithion

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3-piece configuration (2 posts + lintel)

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lintel

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horizontal

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Bluestones

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  • smaller stones (slightly blue when wet)
  • Preseli Hills Wales
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Athena

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goddess of war, reason/knowledge, handicraft

daughter of Zeus

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Acropolis, Athens

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birth place of democrecy

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Persian War

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destruction of the (earlier) buildings (480 BCE), including the temple of Athena Reconstruct/on under Perikles, ruler of Athens

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Parthenon
Designer 7 Sculptor

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  • designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates, 447-432 BCE
  • sculpture: Pheidias
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10
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Acropolis, Athens
NORMS AND FORMS

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  • regularity
  • mathematical precision
  • subtle optical adjustments: entasis
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Pediment

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triangular feature of entablature on Parthenon, Athens

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Iconography

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Eikon (image) + graphite (writing) around parthenon

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Metope

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lapith versus centaur battle

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inner wall

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frieze of the panathenaic procession = celebration of Athenas birth

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Erechtheum

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porch with caryatid figures (women take place of columns)

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polychromy (multi-colour)

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colour applied to a surface; usually some kind of paint

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Pantheon, Rome

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120-127 CE

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rotunda

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round building, often with dome

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Maison Carée (Roman temple), Nîmes (France)

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19 BCE

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Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang

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221-206 BCE

21
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Antiques

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  • ancient word
  • time period
  • multiple settings
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“classicism” classical

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  • aesthetic features
  • enduring appeal
  • style
  • multiple settings and cultural forms
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terracotta

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“cooked earth”

Midterm Flashcrads (38 decks)

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