Chapter 2- Mediterranean & Egypt (MIDTERM) Flashcards
Religion plays an important part in Near _____ art
East
_______ art was created for eternity and conveyed the idea of _______ and rebirth.
Egyptian & Permanence
Hierarchical Scale
Most important figures are larger in a work of art.
Convention
A traditional way of representing forms
Registers
A device used in systems of spatial definition. It can be used in relief sculpture or painting to show differing ground lines. (Horizontal Bend)
S A N B A N
Sumer Akkadian Neo-Summerian Babylonian Assyrian Neo-Babylonian
City-States in _______
Sumer, Mesopotamia
Written language was an important development in _______. When was it developed?
- Sumer
- 3500-3000 BCE
Early Writing was Called?
Cuneiform
Stylus was pressed into clay to to produce wedge-like impressions. They wrote:
- pictographs 2. phonographs
Art focused on _____ and ____-
Royal Figures and Divinites
Sumerians communicated superiority in their art using_________
hierarchical style
______ would go on top of a ziggurat
Temple
What were Votives?
Figures that common people would put in the temple for the figure to pray for them.
Akkadians had what type of government?
Centralized; under a king
Naram-Sin was _______
Sargon I’s grandson
Spotted Horses Human Hands- Pech-Merle Cave, France
- Paleolithic
- Charcoal was used to apint
- the spotted horses existed and are now extinct.
Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave
- Paleolithic
- Painted on Limestone
- Animals overlapping because it was made oeer a long period of time
- Composite Pose
Bird-Headed Man with Bison
- 9ft
- Painted on Limeston
- Ritual with shaman where he went into trans and passed out.
Bison-Altamira, Spain
- Painted on Limestone
- Relief Sculpture
Bison Le Tuc d’Auboubert, France
- Unbaked Clay
- High Relief
- Insize the hair on the face of the bison
- Paleolithic (animals paleotlithic are probably bison)
Lion-Human from Germany
- Mammoth Ivory
- Small to Carry Around
- Paleolithic
Woman from Wilendorf, Austria
- Limestone
- Paleolithic
Stonehedge, Wiltshire
-Neolithic
Woman and man from Cernavoda, Romania
-Neolithic
White temple and its ziggurte, Uruk (Modern, Warka Iraq)
- Summerian
- Mud-Brick
statue of votive figures from the Square temple of Eshnunna
- 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
Standard of Ur
- Summerian
- Arranged in Registers
- Narrative Art
- Hierarchical Scale
- Showed the Difference Between War & Peace
Sele of Naram-Sin, Sipper
- Figures are on a Diagonal (NOT in Registers)
- Smiting Pose
- He’s wearing a horn helmet= Divinity
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Votive Statue of Gudea, Diorite
-Lagash
Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa
- Babylonian
- Shamas & Hammurabi on top
- God Shamash is the larger figure handing the laws to hamurabi.
- The God is wearing horns which Sybolizes Divinity.
Audience Hall of Darius and Xerses
- Persian
- Very High (Showed Power)
- Colums are set up in Grids
- Made for you to feel small
What is Primitivism?
Attraction of Early Modern European Artists with what was considered primitive art.
-Simple Art
Sumerians communicated superiority in their art by using the _________.
Hierarchical scale
Hammurabi wanted to control the _______
Euphrates River
Inlay
Decoration that one uses to put objects on the surface of different materials.
Lost Wax Casting
Casting Metal by covering a wax mold with clay. A solid metal is then left over and after it gets polished.
Lamassus
Type of animal that pairs with a human-like structure. Was used to show superiority when entering a palace complex.
Nanna Ziggurat
- Summerians
- Made out of Mud-Brick
- Temple on Top
- There were Rituals inside of the Temple.
