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Chapter 3 Flashcards

1
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Time before written history

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Paleolithic Period

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2
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Generic stone figures of Paleolithic

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Venus–Venus of Willendorf dated to 2000 BC. fertility

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3
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first cave paintings

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Lascaux Caves–iron ore. Picasso says the art is really good. Maybe religious

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4
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Egypt

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First great civilization 5000-1000. Paintings sculptures tombs columns obelisks

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5
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purpose for Egyptian art

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religion. deep concern for life and death

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6
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pyramids

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tombs, middle and biggest to Khufu

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7
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Great Sphinx at Giza

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Khafre

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8
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Step pyramid of Saqqara

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oldest step pyramid, for Djoser, by Imhotep

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post-and-lintel

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2 or more vertical columns supporting a horizontal beam

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obelisk

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slender, tapered square shaft. often commemorative, like Washington Monument

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11
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painting

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stylized, frozen gestures departing from reality. May seem naive to us

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12
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Relevo

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carved like relief out of stone–Mycerinus and His Queen

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13
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music

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no notated left. Written evidence and pictures found. Feast at the House of Nakht depicts Egyptian musicians

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14
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Crete

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Minoans on Crete with frescos (wall painting on wet plaster). Acrobats and Bulls fresco on Crete.

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15
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Islands north of Crete

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Cycladic islands.

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Mycenaean Peninsula

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Mycenaea–gold and silver masks

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17
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Cradle of western cultural development

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Greece

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18
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Greek periods

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Archaic 1000-800 indigenous Greek art
Lyric 800-500 poetry
Golden 500-323 high point of Greece, Pericles
Hellenistic 323-100 decadent (moral decline) Greek art

19
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480 end of Persian Wars..

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precipitated a flood of artistic energy in spoils of war and stability

20
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purpose of Greek Hellenic art

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homage to gods (public works)

21
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Pericles 460

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program to make Athens the cultural and artistic center of Greece

22
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Athenian society

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freeborn

23
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dominate attitude of Athenian society

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worldliness–concerned mainly wit problems of human life

24
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Aim of Athenians

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live happily and beautifully–man is the measure of all things. understand the world with math, logic, and reason

25
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Greek gods

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Zeus–King
Apollo–Sun
Mercury–Commerce
Aphrodite–Love/Beauty

26
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Life after death for Greeks

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little interest

27
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Greek gods compared to humans

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only more beautiful and wise

28
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dominated Greek art and music

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math

29
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Greeks most interested in

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effect of art/music on people (Plato and Aristotle)

30
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platform columns rest on

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stylobate

31
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top of column

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capital–ornate or simple

32
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horizontal beam above capital

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entablature (architrave (lintel), metope, triglyph)

33
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pediment

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triangular space at front and back

34
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frieze

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triglyph and metope

35
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did the Greeks use post and lintel?

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yeet

36
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columns

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doric, ionic, corinthian

37
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Parthenon

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Phidias to Athena, Acropolis, 9:4, 3 step stylobate, columns swell in middle

38
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Vases

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information about painting on them

39
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Greek music

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vocal with doubling (string) instrument (monophonic). essential element is poetry (rhythm derived from it). Evident from philosophers and pieces of art. Poetry, music, and dancing. Obsessed. Used as medicine or distraction

40
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Pythagoras

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4th, 5th, octave.

41
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ethos

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character, guiding belief. Plato says music can influence person’s will (spur to action, strengthen being, suspend normal willpower

42
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Muses

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9–each had an art

43
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Skolion of Skelios

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Hellenistic music piece. enjoy life.

44
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random Hellenistic art

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drunk woman, Gaul killing himself and his wife, the dying Gaul, the altar of Zeus. basically immoral and decadent stuff.

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