Terms Flashcards

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Content

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The identification of the work of art; who or what does the art depict?

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Form

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Everything visual and material about the work of art; what is it made out of? what colors and shapes are present? This is the description, you are communicating what you see.

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Style

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A system of renderings used to form the details of a subject on a set of forms and shapes used to fashion an object; the level of naturalism vs abstractism

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Naturalism

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Art that tries to show people and things in a realistic manner.

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Abstractionism

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Art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality.

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Medium

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Material or technical means of artistic expression, this can include things like paint on canvas or sculpture stone. This is what you use to make your art.

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Chronology

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The study of historical records in order to create a sequence for past events

This is important to learn so that you can understand the exact order in which events occur to help us better understand the trials, causes, and effects of those events.

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Absolute Chronology

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The association of a particular object with a calendar date based on external evidence

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Historical text, inscription on tablets, or associations with people

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Relative Chronology

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An attempt to define temporal relationships between otherwise updatable objects.

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The Riace warriors; bronze statues found in an Italian shipwreck. Based on their style and poses it can be inferred they came from about 470-430 BCE

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Pre-History

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The time before written history

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The Eastern Hemisphere

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Africa; the Nile valley, split into upper and lower Egypt

Nubia(Kush) located south of “upper” Egypt

West Asia; Asia Minor (Turkey) The Levant, modern day Saudi Arabia

Greece; Crete

Italy; Carthage

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Periodization

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The process of grouping years of the past into discrete units. This reflects the worldview of modern historians and not ancient peoples and provides a convenient way of speaking about a period of time.

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1100 BCE - 800 BCE sometimes is called the “Dark age” of Greek culture due to events of the time.

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African Continent from 7th 5th millennium BCE

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7000 BCE - 4000 BCE

Spread of agriculture; emergence of river valley civilizations among the Nile, Niger, and Congo rivers. Permanent settlement in these locations.

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Nile Valley from 5th 4th Millennium BCE

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4500 BCE - 3800 BCE; Badarian period: burials with grave goods

3800 BCE - 3100 BCE; Naqa period in the Nile valley; burials with grave goods show an increased social stratification through quality of items. Between 3300-3100 BCE symbols linked to kingship and religion in Egypt emerge.

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Prehistoric

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Before 3150 BCE

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Proto-dynastic

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3150 - 2686 BCE

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Old Kingdom

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2686 - 2181 BCE

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First Intermediate Period

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2181 - 2055 BCE

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Middle Kingdom

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2055 - 1650 BCE

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Second Intermediate Period

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1650 - 1550 BCE

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New Kingdom

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1550 BCE - 1069 BCE

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Third Intermediate Period

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1069 BCE - 664 BCE

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Late Period

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664 BCE - 332 BCE

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Sources for chronology of Ancient Egypt

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Written sources; inscriptions on pharaohs tombs, important correspondence

Archeology/Excavation

Hrodotus of Halicarnassus (Asia minor) Greek 5th Century BCE

Manetho, Egyptian high priest, wrote in greek, 3rd century BCE

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Africa The Nile Valley

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Kemet/Egypt, Upper and Lower “the two lands”

Nubia, Kush

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Hierarchy of scale

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Master/mistress of animals

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Three-quarters pose

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Polychromy

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The art of painting in several colors, especially as applied to ancient pottery, sculpture, and architecture

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Smiting

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Kemet/Deshret

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Color language: black (Kemet), meaning fertility and prosperous land

Color language: Red (Deshret), infertile

Order vs chaos

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Hieroglyph

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Sacred text, contains power, written within tombs

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In Situ

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In the location an item was meant to be

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Iriat

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Royal Egyptian cobra