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Paleolithic

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Cave paintings and carvings, earthy colours

simplified profile

desire for good fortune in hunt

no background

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Venus of willendorf

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Paleolithic

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Stonehenge

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Neolithic

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Neolithic

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Monumental structures became important

post and lintel

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Sumerian Art

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Statuettes stylized poses and clothing

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Ziggurat At Ur

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Sumerian

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Ziggurat

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a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.

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Descriptive perspective

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smaller less important bigger more important

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Engaged

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no open spaces piercing the block, arms & legs attached to adjoining surfaces

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Frontality

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legs, arms, heads in profile, but upper body & single eye face viewer

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Hypostyle Hall

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building with a roof supported by many rows of column

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Pylon

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huge entrance or gateway structure, formed by a pair of square tapering piers with a flat top and no connecting lintel

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registers

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series of horizontal bands on top of one another, figures/hieroglyphics fill space

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Old kingdom

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Stylized formal appearence

seated and standing statues rigid arms faces staring ahead engaged left foot forward

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mycerinus and his king

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old kingdom

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step pyramid of king zoser

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old kingdom

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Middle kingdom

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small carved wood models

funary barges

illusion of reality

funary temple complex

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funerary temple of queen hatshit

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middle king

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new kingdom

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increased realism

backgrounds

temples for worship pulon hypostyle

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queen nefarttitties

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new kingdom

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temple of assmun

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new kingdom

22
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bull dance

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minoan

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minoan

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frescoes small statues solid backgrounds

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fresco

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painted on plaster with water based paint

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Mycean

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conical stone chambers

low relief

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triangle piece top of greek temple

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pediment

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Greek archaic

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stylized rigid

face to front

archaic smile

idealized youth

openings

red black pottery

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KORE

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Archaic

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Kritios

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Classic

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The parthenon

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Classic

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Classic Greek

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Calm dignified fluid balance

natural features

contraposso

doric iconic and corinthian

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Capital

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Controposso

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most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs

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Etruscan

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fortified city gates masters of architecture

understanding of anatomy

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Statuette of a RYDA

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Etruscan

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