Chapter 2- Mediterranean & Egypt (MIDTERM)

Question 1

Religion plays an important part in Near _____ art

Answer 1

East

Question 2

_______ art was created for eternity and conveyed the idea of _______ and rebirth.

Answer 2

Egyptian & Permanence

Question 3

Hierarchical Scale

Answer 3

Most important figures are larger in a work of art.

Question 4

Convention

Answer 4

A traditional way of representing forms

Question 5

Registers

Answer 5

A device used in systems of spatial definition. It can be used in relief sculpture or painting to show differing ground lines. (Horizontal Bend)

Question 6

S A N B A N

Answer 6

Sumer Akkadian Neo-Summerian Babylonian Assyrian Neo-Babylonian

Question 7

City-States in _______

Answer 7

Sumer, Mesopotamia

Question 8

Written language was an important development in _______. When was it developed?

Answer 8

• Sumer
• 3500-3000 BCE

Question 9

Early Writing was Called?

Answer 9

Cuneiform

Question 10

Stylus was pressed into clay to to produce wedge-like impressions. They wrote:

Answer 10

1. pictographs 2. phonographs

Question 11

Art focused on _____ and ____-

Answer 11

Royal Figures and Divinites

Question 12

Sumerians communicated superiority in their art using_________

Answer 12

hierarchical style

Question 13

______ would go on top of a ziggurat

Answer 13

Temple

Question 14

What were Votives?

Answer 14

Figures that common people would put in the temple for the figure to pray for them.

Question 15

Akkadians had what type of government?

Answer 15

Centralized; under a king

Question 16

Naram-Sin was _______

Answer 16

Sargon I’s grandson

Question 17

Spotted Horses Human Hands- Pech-Merle Cave, France

Answer 17

• Paleolithic
• Charcoal was used to apint
• the spotted horses existed and are now extinct.

Question 18

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave

Answer 18

• Paleolithic
• Painted on Limestone
• Animals overlapping because it was made oeer a long period of time
• Composite Pose

Question 19

Bird-Headed Man with Bison

Answer 19

• 9ft
• Painted on Limeston
• Ritual with shaman where he went into trans and passed out.

Question 20

Bison-Altamira, Spain

Answer 20

• Painted on Limestone
• Relief Sculpture

Question 21

Bison Le Tuc d’Auboubert, France

Answer 21

• Unbaked Clay
• High Relief
• Insize the hair on the face of the bison
• Paleolithic (animals paleotlithic are probably bison)

Question 22

Lion-Human from Germany

Answer 22

• Mammoth Ivory
• Small to Carry Around
• Paleolithic

Question 23

Woman from Wilendorf, Austria

Answer 23

• Limestone
• Paleolithic

Question 24

Stonehedge, Wiltshire

Answer 24

-Neolithic

Question 25

Woman and man from Cernavoda, Romania

Answer 25

-Neolithic

Question 26

White temple and its ziggurte, Uruk (Modern, Warka Iraq)

Answer 26

- Summerian - Mud-Brick

Question 27

statue of votive figures from the Square temple of Eshnunna

Answer 27

- Gypsam inlaid with shell and black limestone. - Sumerian - Figures would pray for ther person. - The Temple was reserved for the priests and higher ups - Abstract - Almond Shaped Eyes and Cylinder Shaped Body

Question 28

Standard of Ur

Answer 28

- Summerian - Arranged in Registers - Narrative Art - Hierarchical Scale - Showed the Difference Between War & Peace

Question 29

Sele of Naram-Sin, Sipper

Answer 29

- Figures are on a Diagonal (**NOT** in Registers) - Smiting Pose - He's wearing a horn helmet= Divinity -

Question 30

Votive Statue of Gudea, Diorite

Answer 30

-Lagash

Question 31

Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa

Answer 31

- Babylonian - Shamas & Hammurabi on top - God Shamash is the larger figure handing the laws to hamurabi. - The God is wearing horns which Sybolizes Divinity.

Question 32

Audience Hall of Darius and Xerses

Answer 32

- Persian - Very High (Showed Power) - Colums are set up in Grids - Made for you to feel small

Question 33

What is Primitivism?

Answer 33

Attraction of Early Modern European Artists with what was considered primitive art. -Simple Art

Question 34

Sumerians communicated superiority in their art by using the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_.

Answer 34

Hierarchical scale

Question 35

Hammurabi wanted to control the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_

Answer 35

Euphrates River

Question 36

Inlay

Answer 36

Decoration that one uses to put objects on the surface of different materials.

Question 37

Lost Wax Casting

Answer 37

Casting Metal by covering a wax mold with clay. A solid metal is then left over and after it gets polished.

Question 38

Lamassus

Answer 38

Type of animal that pairs with a human-like structure. Was used to show superiority when entering a palace complex.

Question 39

Nanna Ziggurat

Answer 39

- Summerians - Made out of Mud-Brick - Temple on Top - There were Rituals inside of the Temple.