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Pre-historic to Egyptian Art Flashcards

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An aesthetically pleasing and meaningful arrangement of elements, as words, sounds, colors, shapes, etc.; form of human activity whose chief character is determined by such arrangement.

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Art

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The science or profession of designing and constructing buildings or other structures.

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Architecture

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Any of the arts pertaining to or referring to the following: painting, sculpture, glass, and glassware, ceramic and pottery, metallurgy and plants.

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Decorative Arts

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A sub-period of Paleolithic known to use pigments for bodily ornamentation

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Mousterian

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A sub-period of Paleolithic known for cave paintings

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Aurignacian

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A sub-period of Paleolithic known for ‘the last of the hunter-gatheres, live for 6 centuries. Art found: engravings of horses, bison, ibex, stag, reindeer, bear, wildcats on bone

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Magdalenian

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What was the name given to figurines in Paleolithic art as they are unmistakably female of child-bearing build?

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Venus

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What was the name of the figurine with 4 ½” tall made of limestone found in Austria?

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Venus of Willendorf

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Invention of bow and awwow, pottery for food storage and domestication of small animals. Was invented during what age in pre-history?

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Mesolithic Age / Middle Stone Age

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What was the name of the large stone which has been used to construct a structure or monument either alone or with stones?

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Megalith

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A large, single upright standing stone

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Menhir

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A free standing chamber, consisting of standing stones covered by a capstone as a lid. It was used for burial and was covered by mounds.

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Dolmen

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An upright slab forming part of a larger structure

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Orthostat

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A linear arrangement of upright, parallel standing stones

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Stone Row

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A straight standing stone, topped with another forming a T shape

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Taula

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What was the other name of post and lintel construction (Neolithic)?

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Trilithon

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Historical period which contributed the cuneiform and ziggurat architecture

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Sumerian

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A system of writing typified by the use of characters formed by the arrangement of small wedge shaped elements

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Cuneiform (ceneus)

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What was Mesopotamian sculpture characterized by?

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Large circular eyes and curly hair and beard

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A divine genii; a great stone statue of a human headed winged bull that greeted visitors at the gate of Palace of Sargon II

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Lamassu

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The text of Hammurabi’s code comprising of 300 statues in Akkadian on 51 columns

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The Law Code of Hammurabi

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(raised up or high) Artificial mountains made of tiered rectangular layers which rose in number from one to seven in the course of Mesopotamian history

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Ziggurat

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Who introduced polychrome ornamental brickwork and also high plinths or dadoes made of great stone slabs placed on edges; usually carved with low relief sculpture

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Assyrians

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Gate named after the goddess of love, fertility of war, it is faced with glazed bricks with rows of bulls and dragons

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Ishtar Gate

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Symbol of the sun god and the pharaoh (sacred life)

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Lotus

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Egyptian ornamentation which symbolizes purity

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Palm

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Emblematic of the sun god

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Sun disk

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Symbol of upper Egypt; loyal protection

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Vulture

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Rebirth of eternal life - symbol of god khephera who was believed to cause the sun to move

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Sacred bettle / Scarab

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Egyptian ornamentation which symbolizes loyalty

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Serpent

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Symbol for life

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Ankh

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Relief carvings or inscriptions. Their purpose is to record history, tell a story

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Hieroglyphics

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Face must look straight ahead and each side must be exactly like the other, although the hands and feet are in profile; eyes, shoulders in front view

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Law of Frontality

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It was the symbol for protection and was a composite of a human head and a lion’s body

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Sphinx

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It is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone.

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Sarcophagus

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A system of column and lintel used by the Egyptian

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Trabeated construction

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The first recorded artist of western history, architect to Zoser. Enjoyed the status of a court official and was later deified

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Imhotep

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Funerary temples for commoners; later developed into step pyramids, on top of each other

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Mastabas

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City of mastabas

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Necropolis

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Burial place for Egyptian royalty; found in Giza, these empty weights of stone in construction

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Pyramids

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Square shaft of stone with a pyramidal top used as a monument

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Obelisks

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Post and lintel construction characterized as a forest of columns

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Temples

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Temple for the dead pharaoh

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Mortuary temples

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Temple for popular worship of the ancient gods

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Cult Temples

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Located on cliffs where they cut labyrinth passageways that led to ceremonial and burial chambers which were later replaced by temples

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Rock hewn Tombs / temples

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Entrance gate of an Egyptian temple

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Pylon

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Open court of an Egyptian temple

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Peristyle

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Vast hall filled with columns is the largest enclosed space in Egyptian architecture. Contains a double row of columns higher than the others

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Hypostyle Hall

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It contains a small shrine which was used as receptacle for the small statue of god in an Egyptian temple

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Sanctuary

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A spreading palace of stone and wood for the king, with so many chambers above and below ground

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Palace of Knossos (Palace of Minos)

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The Mycenaean ruins are a fortress that is entered on what kind of gate?

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Lion Gate / Gate of Lions

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Arranging the courses of layers of stone so that each level projects over a stone

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Corbelling

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What do you call the Mycenaean tombs?

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Beehive Tombs / Tholos (round building)

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“big room”; throne room (Mycenaean Period)

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Megaron

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