FA 201 Exam 1 Flashcards
What is the order of the prehistoric periods?
Stone Age, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
What is Post and Lintel?
It is a roof with horizontal columns lifting it up
What is Wattle and Daub?
It is a type of construction that is a triangle shaped house with woven lattice
What is a corbeled arch?
An archway where the bricks stay lied down on the same side they do not move from that side
What is a henge?
A monument that consists of a circle of stone or wooden uprights.
What is a groin vault?
A groin vault is the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. The word “groin” refers to the edge between the intersecting vaults. Sometimes the arches of groin vaults are pointed instead of round.
What is the Lascaux cave and what art is inside?
A cave in France that contains the hall of bulls
What is the of Venus of Willendorf?
A voluptuous figure of a lady from the early paleolithic period
What is Stonehenge?
A megalithic structure that acted like a sundial.
What is idealism?
More imaginative with perfection in mind (not making art exactly built off of a body as it’s NOT naturalistic)
What is verism?
A style of portraiture that attempts to depict a true likeness of an individual. A practice that’s probably from the Romans
What is portraiture?
The portrait as a record of an individual’s personal appearance
What is a ziggurat?
A building with the purpose to get the temple closer to the heavens, and provide access from the ground to it via steps
What is cella?
The body of a temple in which the image of the deity is housed.
What is a cylinder seal?
The seals were cylinders that impressed on tablets or tablet cases to seal impressions served to identify the authority responsible for what was written in the documents
What is the hierarchy of scale?
If someone in the art piece is depicted as larger as the rest then they are more likely to be someone important or even a god
What is cuneiform?
Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia
What is stele?
A stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide. The surface of the stele often has text, ornamentation, or both.
What is the Warka Vase?
The stone vase with art on it is of the earliest surviving examples of narrative art.
What are Votive Figures?
Statues given as offers/gifts to deities. Most of the figures have their hands clasped
What are the Stele of Naram-Sin Lamassu Figures
A carving on rock that shows the winning ruler, Naram-Sin over two opposers that plead for their lives.
What is the Standard of Ur?
A burial good that was found. It shows three levels, chariot men at the bottom, the army in the middle, and then a ruler and others at the top
What is a Nemes Headress?
Nemes were pieces of striped head cloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt. (AKA that stereotypical looking thing u see ppl who draw egyptians to have)
What are hieroglyphs?
Writing that uses images.