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The Historical Development of Art Flashcards

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Art history looks at art works and people have created them

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Susan Vreeland

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Prehistory Arts
There was 3 ages of Stone Age

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Paleolithic Period
Mesolithic
Neolithic

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Ancient art has 4 main periods

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Stone age (Neolithic or Paleolithic)
Bronze age
Iron age

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People in this era represented their worldviews through images. Animals are the favorite subject in the creation of Art.

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Ancient

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Ancient
Engravings, paintings, sculptures, and potteriesare expression for

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beauty and complex socio-spritual systems

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Artworks done by ancient people before the invention of writing. It is a symbolic practice that is an integral segment of the culture that originates from it (Honour and Fleming, 2005)

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Pre-historic arts

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Scientists like archaeologists have identified Stone age art, such

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Ancient sculpture
Petroglyphs
Pictographs
Megalithic arts

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Sample of Stone Age Art
Ancient Sculpture

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Totemic status, Ivory engraving

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Sample of Stone Age Art
Petroglyphs

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Cave rock carvings and wall engravings

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Sample of Stone Age Art
Pictographs

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Graphic imagery, Symbols

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Sample of Stone Age Art
Megalithic

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Works associated with the formation of stones

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First known period of prehistoric human culture, during which work was done with stone tools

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Prehistoric or Old Stone Age Art

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The oldest cave art in Europe is

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El Castillo Cave (Cave of the Castle)
Discovered by a Spanish archeologist in 1903
Hermilio Alcalde del Rio (1866-1947)

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Old stone age derived from the greek word paleos=old and lithos=stone

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Paleolithic

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Most of the images were drawn during the first period some

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human footprints belongs to a child

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One of the earliest sculptures discovered yet is

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Extraordinary Ivory sculpture

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People lives in a small groups more than 60 people

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Paleolithic

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Culture included gradual domestication of plant and animals, formation of settled communities, use of bow and development of delicate stone and pottery. They also well aware of the use of fire

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Mesolithic Period

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  • Also called New Stone Age
  • Greek words Neo means New and litho means Stone
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Neolithic Period

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Characteristics of Neolithic

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  • use of stone with some metals
  • settling permanent community
  • development of agriculture and animal husbandry
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In Neolithic the whole wall was painted with the scenes of

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Group of people hunting, farming or dancing

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Neolithic sculpture theme was primarily on the

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female or mother goddes

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Neolithic pottery it began replacing by simple stone and wood Potter and become more

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highly decorated

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Vase was made of Clay, one handled jug with round ody and tall neck

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neolithic vase

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Four types of tools used by Paleolithic Man

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Pebble Tools (Pebble Chopper)
Bifacial Tools
Flake Tools
Blade Tools

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First cutting device and considered the oldest tools made by human

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Pebble Tools

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It is a hand axe prehistoric stone tool flake with two faces or sides

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Bifacial Tools

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Hand tools used during the Stone Age

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Flake Tools

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A stone tool created by striking a long narrow flake from a stone core

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Blade Tools

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This red figured pottery is named after the place where it discovered

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Kersh Vase Painting

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A specially famous for making beautiful altarpiece

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Panel Painting

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During ancient time use either encaustic (wax) or tempera (water-based) as a method of fresco

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Tomb/Wall Painting

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They were hand-shaped cooking pots, jar, and pitches

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Ceramics

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It is a method of painting in water-based pigments on applied plaster on wall surfaces

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Fresco

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It is the arts of crafting figures with small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials

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Mosaics

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They were excellent artists who created new shapes of jewelry

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Goldsmith and silversmith

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It is applied solely to the windows of medieval castles, churches, and cathedrals

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Stained glass

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They were colorful religious texts which often use gold and silver as its main features

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Illuminated manuscripts (Illumination)

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A very skilled in creating religious objects for church decorations

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Metal work

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It is embroidery in colored wool

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Bayeux Tapestry

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It is manner of designing or creating coats of arms and insignia

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Heraldry

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It experiments with innovations to build wider buildings in stone such as the pointed arch and flying buttresses, as architects complete across to build ever-taller cathedrals

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Gothic Architecture

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People during this period did see themselves as different from their medieval predecessors

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Renaissance Arts

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It is detailed, elaborated and characterized by exaggerated motion and clear detail. Direct, dramatic and obvious, intending to appeal emotions

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Baroque

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It is characterized by curvy lines, soft colors, and portrays romantic encounters such as scene of love, nature, light-hearted entertainment, and youth. It derives from rocaille which is french for rock.

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Rococo Art

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It refers to movements in the arts that draw inspiration from classical art and culture of Greece and Rome during ancient times

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Neoclassicism

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It emphasizes emotion, glorification, and individualism of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than classical

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Romanticism

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It is an artistic movement. The realist depicted everyday subjects and situations in contemporary settings and attempted to portray individuals of all classes of society in similar way

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Realism

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It is an art style in which the artist takes the image an objects as someone would see it if they just caught a glimpse of it

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Impressionism

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Artist used brilliant, pure color, aggressively applied straight from the paint tubes

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Fauvism

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He made mosaics and painting, which include the frescoes of New Testament scenes in the upper church of St. Francis ofAssisi

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Giovanni Cimabue

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He worked with other artists for the Cathedral of San Francisco Assisi and began painting a fresco style there with scenes from Old and New Testament

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Giotto de Bondone

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He was a scuptor and goldsmith in one of florentine workshops

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Flippo Brunelleschi

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He was admitted to the Gold Guild and started his apprenticeship as a goldsmith in 1392

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Lorenzo Ghiberti

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He leared thee fabrication of metals and other substances known as metallurgy

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Donatello

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Also known as Beato Angelico, means “Blessed Angelic One”

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Fra Angelico

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As an Architect, he was hired by Pope Nicholas V in the renovation of the papal palace and of the Roman bridge of Acqua Vergine

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Leon Battista Alberti

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