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.
What is a mastaba?
An ancient Egyptian tomb rectangular in shape with sloping sides and a flat roof, consisting of an underground burial chamber with rooms above it (at ground level) in which to store offerings.
What is necropolis?
An extensive and elaborate burial place of an ancient city (like a very elaborate graveyard)
What is the Palette of Narmer
The Narmer Palette is carved of a single piece of smooth grayish-green siltstone on both sides. The palette tells the story of the king’s Narmer victory in battle and his unification of Egypt after getting his approval from the holy gods of ancient Egypt.
What are one of the remaining of the ‘Seven Wonders of the Ancient World?
The Great Pyramids of Giza
What is the Great Sphinx with Pyramid of Khafre?
A sphinx that sits outside of Pyramid of Khafre. It is a portrait of the pharoah and the sphinx statue was used to fill you with dread so if you were to take something from the burial chambers you would be haunted by the dead.
What is the Hatshepsut vs. Double portrait of Menkaure and his Queen
The statue of Hatshepsut of a pharaoh kneeling and holding onto two spherical objects. Hatshepsut is free standing. Menkaue and his Wife are of the two figures and built into a what appears to be like a stone outcropping to keep the two statues steady. They aren’t free standing basically.
What is the Seated Scribe?
A seated scribe that is a little chubbier in comparison to Pharaohs so he isn’t as “perfect”. He also has a very relaxed pose and is sitting down close to the dirt which a pharaohs never does.
What is the Bust of Nefertiti?
A painted limestone statue that has lots of coloration with a strong symmetrical crown. She is adorned in jewelry.
What is the Tholos tomb?
A beehive shaped circular tomb that holds the Treasury of Atreus. The tomb is used to celebrate the dead and the King’s body surrounded by treasure in the center.
What’s Cycladic?
A region from the Cycladic Islands that created statues very similar to the Venus of Willendorf.
What was the Lioness Gate?
Two guardian animals that are believed to be lions stand next to a pillar. Lions are a metaphor for power and a royal right to rule,
The lions sit on top a post and lintel archway.
What was the Treasury of
Atreus?
Inside the tomb of Atreus where lots of art was found and even a wagon like thing.
What are the ages for the Ancient Greeks?
Archaic, Classical, Late Classical and then Hellenistic
What does nudity usually mean for statues?
It means they’re usually a God or a hero or a warrior.
What are terms that you can use for visual evidence?
Line, form, hue, shape, color, value, texture, saturation, space and composition
