EXAM Flashcards
Paleolithic
Cave paintings and carvings, earthy colours
simplified profile
desire for good fortune in hunt
no background
Venus of willendorf
Paleolithic
Stonehenge
Neolithic
Neolithic
Monumental structures became important
post and lintel
Sumerian Art
Statuettes stylized poses and clothing
Ziggurat At Ur
Sumerian
Ziggurat
a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple.
Descriptive perspective
smaller less important bigger more important
Engaged
no open spaces piercing the block, arms & legs attached to adjoining surfaces
Frontality
legs, arms, heads in profile, but upper body & single eye face viewer
Hypostyle Hall
building with a roof supported by many rows of column
Pylon
huge entrance or gateway structure, formed by a pair of square tapering piers with a flat top and no connecting lintel
registers
series of horizontal bands on top of one another, figures/hieroglyphics fill space
Old kingdom
Stylized formal appearence
seated and standing statues rigid arms faces staring ahead engaged left foot forward
mycerinus and his king
old kingdom
step pyramid of king zoser
old kingdom
Middle kingdom
small carved wood models
funary barges
illusion of reality
funary temple complex
funerary temple of queen hatshit
middle king
new kingdom
increased realism
backgrounds
temples for worship pulon hypostyle
queen nefarttitties
new kingdom
temple of assmun
new kingdom
bull dance
minoan
minoan
frescoes small statues solid backgrounds
fresco
painted on plaster with water based paint
Mycean
conical stone chambers
low relief
triangle piece top of greek temple
pediment
Greek archaic
stylized rigid
face to front
archaic smile
idealized youth
openings
red black pottery
KORE
Archaic
Kritios
Classic
The parthenon
Classic
Classic Greek
Calm dignified fluid balance
natural features
contraposso
doric iconic and corinthian
Capital
Controposso
most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs
Etruscan
fortified city gates masters of architecture
understanding of anatomy
Statuette of a RYDA
Etruscan
