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Axlatl

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carved piece of wood used to throw a spear, thrown over shoulder, often decorated with carvings

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Paleolithic

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old stone age, art is found pretty much all over the world

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Physical evidence

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indicates an objects age based on materials or paint used

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Documentary evidence

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based on what artwork is first mentioned or documented

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Internal Evidence

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identifiable characteristic only available at a certain time

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Stylistic evidence

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artists manner of producing an object

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Period style

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artistic manner of a specific time, usually within a distinct culture

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Regional style

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variations in style tied to geography, date provenance, or place of origin

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Personal style

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distinctive manner of individual artists or architechts

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Composition

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how an artist organizes their artwork

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Mobility (mobile) art

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objects that can be easily carried

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Scale

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size of something relative to its context

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figurine, statuette

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less than life-sized

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parietal art

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art that cannot be moved

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spindle whorl

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used to make thread/yarn, sometimes decorated/engraved

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Catal Hoyuk

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6700-5600 BC, Anatolia/Asia Minor (modern Turkey)

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tell

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artificial hills

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Stratton/stratta

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levels in an artificial hill

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Relative Chronology

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how old materials are

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post

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upright

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lintel

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cross-piece

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Ancient Sumer

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made up of a bunch of city-states, earliest known writing found here, builders built with mud brick

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Warka Vase

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first works of a relief sculpture

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stele

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a carved stone slab made to commemorate a historical event or to mark a grave

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foreshortening

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suggesting depth by representing a figure or object at an angle

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Apadana

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royal audience hall

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bitumen

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naturally occurring asphalt, oil/petroleum rich-region

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Lower Mesopotamia

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modern day Iraq, major centers of trade, stratified societies

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Mesopotamia

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land between the rivers

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registeres

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images laid out in rows

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hierarchy

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both in scale and positioning

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cuneiform

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the oldest language recorded

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votive

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statuettes that were gifted to gods for 24/7 devotion

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Kungas

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hybrid of female donkeys and wild male asses

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Akkadians

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borrowed much from the Sumerians, spoke cuneiform, language become common tongue for most of Mesopotamia

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cylinder seals

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were used like was seals to imprint clay on packages so someone would know if they’re tampered with

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bronze

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alloy, made of copper and tin, not found naturally

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composite pose

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shows the most detail by showing side view combined with frontal views; legs, feet and head were often side views and torso was turned to a frontal view

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Astral signs

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were used to represent gods in art

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Neo-Summerians

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resurgence of Sumerian culture and control, reinstated Sumerian language, began large building projects

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Dolerite

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similar to basalt

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section

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a vertically sliced view of a building

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plane

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Birds Eye view of a building

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clay plaques

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used in home for private devotions

45
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palette

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stone slab that was used to prepare eye makeup

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What piece of art marked the transition from prehistoric to historic?

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King Narner’s palette

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King Narner’s palette

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was one of the first examples of figure representation

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Horus’s eye

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powerful amulet that was used to ward of evil and promote rebirth, used in burials

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Ushabtis

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statuettes, “answerers”

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mastaba

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standard tomb type in early Egypt

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serdab

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small room housing a statue of the dead

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Imhotep

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one of the first recorded names of an artist, high priest of Re and master builder

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The Gizeh Pyramids

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testified the wealth of 3 main kings: Khufu, Khafre, Menkaure

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Ashlar Masonry

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carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone piled in successive rows

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Sphinx

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lion with a human head

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stone

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primary material for funerary statuary

57
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lotus and papyrus plants

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symbolic of unified Egypt

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purpose of royal portraits

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to proclaim the divine nature of Egyptian kingship

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bilaterally symmetrical

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the same on either side of an axis

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abrasion

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rubbing/grinding, used to polish a surface

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Why were important figures drawn as twice their size?

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to make them seem more important and show their power

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canon

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system of proportion, artist drew a grid on what they were painting in order to get the right proportions

63
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the heart

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was representative of intelligence and emotion

64
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In the Iron Age art was used to…

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…intimidate people

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Iamassu

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guardian figures

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Auroch’s Bull

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of the storm god, Adad

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glaze

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glassy (vitreous) coating

68
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Persian Empire

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Persepolis, Pasargadae, Ecbatanna

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Cyrus the Great

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viewed greatly in Jewish scripture, allowed jews to return to Jerusalem and restored their treasures

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Zoroastrian

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a moral religion, valued truth and good vs evil and lies

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Hieroglyphic writing

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developed about the same time as cuneiform

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Rosetta Stone

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trilingual inscriptions, same message in ancient hieroglyphs, Demotic Egyptian, Ancient Greek

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Naturalism was…

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…NOT the goal of Egyptian Art

74
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papyrus

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was plentiful in lower Egypt, representative of lower egypt

75
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Egyptians viewed their gods as…

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…much more benevolent

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