FAH FINAL Flashcards
Çatalhöyök
- made of timber posts and beams filled with mud brick, plastered
- plaster relief
- female goddesses
-bull imagery and animal skeletal
Stonehenge
- heel stone: outer stone
- lintel: horizontal
- post: vertical
- inner horse stone: trilithion (3-piece configuration
- blue stone: looks blue when wet, 2-5 tons each
- Sarsen stones: Marlborough Downs, 25 tons
Hohle Fels figure
- mammoth ivory
- germany
- 35000 BCE
- idealistic beauty standard of the time
- excentuating womanly figure
Acropolis, Athens
- created for the greek Godess Athena
- ahtena = goddess of war
- daughter of Zuse
- ## birth place of democracy
PARTHENON
acropolis, Athens
NORMS AND FORMS
- regularity
- mathematical precision
- subtle optical adjustments
pediment
- triangular feature of entablature on top of parthenon
- entablature consists of birth of Athena, metopes, Lapith vs. centaur
inner wall parthenon
frieze of panathenaic procession
terracotta warriors
- composed from 12 moulds
- used carving to get specific features and traits
terracotta chariots
wood and bronze fittings
Facture
how an object shows the manipulation of specific materials and techniques
terracotta faces
- Moulds for 8 facial types
- Then individuated with slip, incised details, paint
hinduism
- no single founder
- earliest texts (Vedas), Sanskrit 1700BCE
- no text found
hindusim
Ultimate Goal
recognition that all things are united, interconnected manifestations of Brahman; liberation from endless
cycle of birth, death, rebirth, death
Durga
Warrior goddess
Ganesha
Beginnings; remove obstacles
eikon
- Greek word for image, representation
- can be material (physical painting, sculpture, person, etc.)
- can be immaterial (in the mind’s eye; dream; reflection in a mirror)
Icon Association
Associated with the Byzantine Empire (Byzantium), 324–1453
Monastery Mt. Siani (Egypt)
ca. 527 CE
originally dedicated to Mary, mother of God
(dedicated to St. Cathrine in the 11th century)
temple screen
Barrier between place of holiest ceremonies (priests) and space for regular people
Inka Power
- Based in Cuzco
- Expansion of territory around 1200
1438, began conquering neighboring territories - Largest empire in the Western Hemisphere!
Invasion of Francisco Pizarro, from the north
- Inka Atahualpa kidnapped, then killed 1532
- Cuzco seized in 1533