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Hec_Art History
Art History Pal to Roman
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| It is called the sun stone. Single larger stone standing outside of Stonehenge. | Heelstone (Paleolithic period 40,000 8000 BCE) |
| Pictorial illustration of a subject or theme of a stylized work of art | Iconography (Paleolithic period 40,000 8000 BCE) |
| A region of the middle East arching across the Northern part of the Syrian Desert | Fertile Crescent Mesopotamia (Paleolithic period 40,000 8000 BCE) |
| A structure consisting of vertical beams supporting a horizontal beam | post and Lintel |
| Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding backgroud | Relief sculpture |
| Two or more creatures combine | composite creature |
| a prehistoric structure mostly found in europe | Megalithic architecture |
| a type of sculpture in which the figures are presented in complete three-dimensional form and are not attached to a flat background (unlike relief). | sculpture in the round |
| The sculptor builds the work, adding material as the work proceeds. Modeling, construction, and assemblage are additive processes | Additive Sculpture |
| process means subtracting material away from the piece. Carving a stone statue is subtractive because you take away stone. | Subtractive sculpture |
| This is perhaps the oldest written story on earth. Written by Sumerian on 12 clay tablets in cuneiform script. | Epic of Gilgamesh (The ancient Near east 3500-331 BCE) |
| Human headed with eagles wings and bulls body. | Lamassu |
| King of Macedon, Northern ancient Greece. He created one of the largest empires of the ancient world. | Alexander The Great |
| This was an ancient region that exited primarily in what is now as Iraq. Know for the role in development of the first iterated societies. | Mesoptamia |
| This is a rectangler stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by temple. It Raised the temple tower. Inspired the story of Babylon. | Ziggurat |
| Modern day Iran | Persians |
| was the fourth King of Kings of Persia. amous for leading the Persian invasion of Greece | Xerxes |
| Babylon king know best for early law code. Eye for an eye. | Hammurabi |
| Sumerian written system | Cuneiform |
| Large art compositions were organized into parts. Like Comic Books | Registers |
| an ancient written implement consisting of small rod with pointed end for scratching letters on waxed tablets. Witting utensil for pottery | Stylus |
| is a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief, or painted. | Votive offing |
| The last king of Achaemenid Empire of Persia. Lost Persia to Alexander the Great. | Darius III |
| Noting or Pertaining to form of ancient Egyptian writing. Used by priest in there records. | Hieratic Scale |
| was a ruler of the state of Lagash in Southern Mesopotamia | Gudea |
| an upright stone slab or column decorated with figures or inscriptions | Stele |
| is a type of magic intended to "turn away" harm or evil influences, as in deflecting misfortune or averting the evil eye. | Apotropaic |
| A stone coffin often inscribed or decorated with sculpture. | Sarcophagus |
| Egyptologist known for discovering the tomb of Tutankhamen. | Howard Carter |
| Red Crown, was the symbol of the Pharaoh's authority over lower Egypt. | Kemet, Deshret |
| Ka | Human Soul |
| The Sun God, worshiped as the sole god. Worship under the Pharaoh Akhenatea | Aten |
| An ancient Egyptian ceremony that celebrated the continued rule of a pharaoh. | Heb-sed Festival |
| technique in which alkaline resistant pigments, ground in water, are applied to plaster when it is still wet | Buon fresco |
| technique in which pigments ground in water are tempered using egg yolk or whole egg mixed with water which are applied to plaster that has been moistened (using this temper) to simulate fresh plaster | Fresco secco |
| is a container from which fluids were intended to be drunk, or else poured in some ceremony | Rhyton |
| Shaped or decorated with patterns in relief formed by hammering and pressing on the reverse side. It is also formed in relief | Repousse |
| a paint made from pigment mixed with melted beeswax and resin and after application fixed by heat | Encaustic |
| a jar or vase of classical antiquity having a large round body and a wide mouth and used for mixing wine and water | Krater |
| an ancient Greek jar or vase with a large oval body, narrow cylindrical neck, and two handles that rise almost to the level of the mouth | Amphora |
| is one of the styles of painting on antique Greek vases. Figures and ornaments were painted on the body of the vessel using shapes and colors reminiscent of silhouettes | Black-Figure |
| is one of the most important styles of figural Greek vase painting. Is based on the figural depictions in red colour on a black background and it replace Black painting | Red-Figure |
| the most sacred part of a religious building | Sanctuary |
| Ancient Greek Epic Poet of the Odyssey and Iliad | Homer |
| Athenian general and statesman largely responsible for the full development of Athenian democracy and the Athenian empire | Pericles |
| is the modern term[1] given to those representations of male youths which first appear in the Archaic period in Greece. | Kouros |
| is the name given to a type of female free-standing ancient Greek sculpture of the Archaic period made of wood, terra cotta, limestone, or white marble | Kore |
| The inner room or sanctuary of an ancient Greek or Roman temple, in which the statue of the god was situated | cella |
| a small square of bone, wood, or the like, used in ancient Rome as a token, tally, ticket. is an individual tile, usually formed in the shape of a cube, used in creating a mosaic | Tesserae |
| is the art of creating images with an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials | mosaic |
| A quality, as of an experience or a work of art, that arouses feelings of pity, sympathy, tenderness, or sorrow | Pathos |
| It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips and legs | Contrapposto |
| The common people | plebian |
| was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD | Julius caesar, octavian |
| was the long period of relative peace and minimal expansion by military force experienced by the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD | pax romana |
| A gem or shell carved in relief, especially one in which the raised design and the background consist of layers of contrasting colors | cameo |
| an ancient Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania. many villas in the surrounding area, was mostly destroyed and buried under 4 to 6 m (13 to 20 ft) of ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius | pompeii |
| the marketplace or public square of an ancient Roman city, the center of judicial and business affairs and a place of assembly for the people | Forum |
| a Roman building, used for public administration, having a large rectangular central nave with an aisle on each side and an apse at the end | Basilica |
| is a sunken panel in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault | Coffering |
| eye, denotes a circular opening in the centre of a dome or in a wall | Oculus |
| is art that tells a story, either as a moment in an ongoing story or as a sequence of events unfolding over time | Continuous Narrative |
| describes any form of government where power is divided among four individuals | Tetrarchs |
| is the re-use of earlier building material or decorative sculpture on new monuments. The practice was common in late antiquity | spolia |
| a proclamation that permanently established religious toleration for Christianity within the Roman Empire. It was the outcome of a political agreement concluded in Milan between the Roman emperors Constantine I and Licinius in February 313 | Edict of Milan |
| a monstrous fire-breathing female and male creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of three animals — a lion, a snake and a goat | Chimera |
| strict realism in art: strict realism or naturalism in art and literature | verism |
| originally referred to a group of ruling class families in ancient Rome, including both their natural and adopted members | Patrician |
| general body of free Roman citizens who were not patricians, as determined by the census | Plebian |
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