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Chapter 2- Mediterranean & Egypt (MIDTERM) Flashcards

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1
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Religion plays an important part in Near _____ art

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East

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

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Egyptian & Permanence

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3
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Hierarchical Scale

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Most important figures are larger in a work of art.

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Convention

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A traditional way of representing forms

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Registers

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

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S A N B A N

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Sumer Akkadian Neo-Summerian Babylonian Assyrian Neo-Babylonian

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City-States in _______

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Sumer, Mesopotamia

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

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  • Sumer
  • 3500-3000 BCE
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9
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Early Writing was Called?

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Cuneiform

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10
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Stylus was pressed into clay to to produce wedge-like impressions. They wrote:

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  1. pictographs 2. phonographs
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11
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Art focused on _____ and ____-

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Royal Figures and Divinites

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12
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Sumerians communicated superiority in their art using_________

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hierarchical style

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______ would go on top of a ziggurat

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Temple

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What were Votives?

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

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Akkadians had what type of government?

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Centralized; under a king

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16
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Naram-Sin was _______

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Sargon I’s grandson

17
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Spotted Horses Human Hands- Pech-Merle Cave, France

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  • Paleolithic
  • Charcoal was used to apint
  • the spotted horses existed and are now extinct.
18
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Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave

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  • Paleolithic
  • Painted on Limestone
  • Animals overlapping because it was made oeer a long period of time
  • Composite Pose
19
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Bird-Headed Man with Bison

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  • 9ft
  • Painted on Limeston
  • Ritual with shaman where he went into trans and passed out.
20
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Bison-Altamira, Spain

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  • Painted on Limestone
  • Relief Sculpture
21
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Bison Le Tuc d’Auboubert, France

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  • Unbaked Clay
  • High Relief
  • Insize the hair on the face of the bison
  • Paleolithic (animals paleotlithic are probably bison)
22
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Lion-Human from Germany

A
  • Mammoth Ivory
  • Small to Carry Around
  • Paleolithic
23
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Woman from Wilendorf, Austria

A
  • Limestone
  • Paleolithic
24
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Stonehedge, Wiltshire

A

-Neolithic

25
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Woman and man from Cernavoda, Romania

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-Neolithic

26
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White temple and its ziggurte, Uruk (Modern, Warka Iraq)

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  • Summerian
  • Mud-Brick
27
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statue of votive figures from the Square temple of Eshnunna

A
  • 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
28
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Standard of Ur

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  • Summerian
  • Arranged in Registers
  • Narrative Art
  • Hierarchical Scale
  • Showed the Difference Between War & Peace
29
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Sele of Naram-Sin, Sipper

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  • Figures are on a Diagonal (NOT in Registers)
  • Smiting Pose
  • He’s wearing a horn helmet= Divinity

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30
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Votive Statue of Gudea, Diorite

A

-Lagash

31
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Stele of Hammurabi, from Susa

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  • Babylonian
  • Shamas & Hammurabi on top
  • God Shamash is the larger figure handing the laws to hamurabi.
  • The God is wearing horns which Sybolizes Divinity.
32
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Audience Hall of Darius and Xerses

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  • Persian
  • Very High (Showed Power)
  • Colums are set up in Grids
  • Made for you to feel small
33
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What is Primitivism?

A

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

-Simple Art

34
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Sumerians communicated superiority in their art by using the _________.

A

Hierarchical scale

35
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Hammurabi wanted to control the _______

A

Euphrates River

36
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Inlay

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

37
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Lost Wax Casting

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

38
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Lamassus

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

39
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Nanna Ziggurat

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

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