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College Art
College Art History, Middle Ages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| paleolithic -old stone age | 50,000-40,000 BCE hunter gather culture |
| Mesolithic- end of ice age | 8000-4000 BCE, people setting, crops, dogs |
| Neolithic- past stone age | 6000-2000 BCE megalithic structures in Europe |
| Altamira Spain. spotted horses and human hands. | shows pattern recognition, and the humanity of depicting life |
| Neo- Babylonian | Ishtar gate, 80% is original rest is restoration. rounded arch |
| babyoian | |
| Sumer | cuneiform, ziggurat |
| assyrian | composite form |
| iconoclasm | sargon the 1st, destruction of art |
| Mesopotamia art | large structures -height = power, first written language, first written law, evidence of sophisticated societies, art was symbolic of power structure. |
| denial | river in Egypt, flood fertile soil great farming |
| pyriamids | were the tallest object for thousands of years, roughly 2600 bc |
| pyrimad vs zigurats purpose | ziggurat= worship, pyramids= burial |
| lamasu | gaurdian figure |
| rosetta stone | discovered by French, Egypt colonized by French, helped decipher Egyptian. Ptolemy cleopatra was last Ptolemy |
| palette of narmer | hierical scale. unification of upper and lower Nile. held kohl. serpopard on palette of Namer |
| Menkaure and a Queen, 2490-2472 BCE | girl clutching mankaure is doing to show |
| composite | a figure made up of different animals or animal human with different points of view at once |
| cats in egyptians | very important |
| mortuary temple of hatsuteput | lots of garden very beautiful, held her dead body |
| Tomb robbing | berried with lots of gold and jewels, tombs were more hidden |
| composite view | several poses i one, ie front facing eye, side facing body |
| nefertity temus | unfinished important to know |
| Cycladic women sculpture | schematics and incised sculptures found in grave sites. |
| schematic | following a repeating geometric form and or propotion |
| incise | to mark or cut the surface of an object for decoration |
| mioan civ. | knossos, is basically a pallace |
| knossos pallace | open, no worry of attack for some reason |
| messapotamian walls | lamassu guard walls and city |
| toreador fresco | vaulting ff a bull, reall buon frsco of |
| horror vacui | latin means fear of empty space |
| kamares pottery | named for the cave sanctuary on mt. ida where first found |
| Mycenaean culture | heavy influenced by those around them |
| register | band of imagery/text |
| Mycenean culture | citadel (defensive walls), peak was 1400 to 1200 BCE, but inhabited for 7000 years. |
| lions gate | corbelled archway, 2 lions around "collumn" heads missing (problably stolen) |
| cyclopian block | huge single blocks |
| death mask of aamemnon | maks hammered with gold |
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