37 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic
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everything is paleo unless stonehenge, which is neo
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Relief Sculpture
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consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from thesurrounding background
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Sculpture in the round
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carved or modeled in three dimension; freestanding sculpture
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Naturalism
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aims to depict the natural world as it actually was
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abstraction
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broad, vague, intangible, not concrete
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Megalith
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Large stones or boulders used in prehistoric architecture.
STONEHENGE
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Post and Lintel construction
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two posts support a horizontal beam, called a lintel
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Tigris and Euphrates Rivers
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where Mesopotamia settled; flooded late in summer unpredictably
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Cuneiform
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Style of wedge-like writing
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Sumer/Sumerian
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-First major culture of their period
-language that is unrelated to others
-religion is important to them, constant awareness of God & making the Gods happy
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Glazed brick
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brick that is baked after painting
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Ziggurat
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A pyramidal mound or tower built of mud brick.
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Votive
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Gift or offering to a "god" usually for thanks or supplication
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apotropaic device
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statue deployed to ward off evil
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Hierarchical scale/Hieratic scaling
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When the person of most importance in a work is the largest
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Register
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piece of a painting
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Sargon
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ruler off akkad
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Naram-Sin
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ruler after Sargon the Great
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Stele
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upright stone monument often with inscriptions
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hammurabi
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wrote legal code/ covered areas of daily life
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Lamassu
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a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art. limestone
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Hieroglyphic
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Ancient Egyptian ideographic writing
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demotic
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system of ancient Egyptian writing, simpler than hieroglyphics, that was developed for everyday use
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Pharaoh
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Egyptian rulers that were believed to be gods, as well as rulers.
They owned the land and ordered thousands to build temples
and tombs. They were buried in tombs built into cliffs.
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ka
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Egyptian
soul
journey through Duat
reunites with Ba in Field of Reeds
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Horus
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Egyptian lord of the skies; he was represented in art as a falcon; he had one eye that was the moon and one eye that was the sun
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Nemes
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the striped headcloth worn by pharaohs in ancient Egypt.
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Uraeus
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Headband of the sacred cobra.
Symbolizes the kings power over life and death.
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idealized, idealization
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representation according to the standards of beauty rather than real life
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Aton
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Sun god that became the only god during Akhenaton's reign.
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Amarna
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5 years into his reign, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten and moved the capital city to Tel el. Amarna - big. lots of courts, foundation of mud brick
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Amenhotep III/Akhenaton
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Believed that Amen is not the chief god- Aton is and he is the only god that matters. Creates a monotheistic religion when prior to him there were only polytheistic religions.
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sun disk
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disk representing the sun god; Aton
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Sunken Relief
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Relief carving that leaves a frame of the carved material that identifies the edge
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pyramid
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a four-sided structure rising to a peak
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Mastaba
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Bench like tomb.
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Sphinx
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Giza, Egypt
Old Kingdom
Ordered by Khafre
Face is Khafre's face
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ART 155: EXAM 4