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Rutgers Univ. Art History Vocabulary for Exam 1

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Art   an expression of idea, cultural values, is tangible, repeatable, interactive, and has definite form.  
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3 types of Art   Architecture, Pictorial, and Sculpture  
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Architecture   large immobile structures, their urban surroundings and settings. Permanent and Practical  
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Picture   paintings, drawings, and later on prints and photography. Most fleeting  
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Sculpture   any sort of non-functional 3d object. Carved, modeled, assembled, or cast. can be free standing or relief  
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Medium   the materials used in the art, wood, stone, concrete, ivory, bronze, tempora, oil, chalk, and enamel  
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Formal Elements   includes line, shape, light, texture, space, mass, volume, and composition  
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Style   the combination of formal elements  
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Iconography   subject matter and the symbols identified  
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Formal Analysis   Looking at the iconography and style  
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Social Art History   cultural, political, and social movements and their resulting effects on art  
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Registers   bands of uniform size around a vase that contain artistic vase. Do not contribute to function of vase.  
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Cult Statues/Image   human made depictions of an icon  
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votive offering   a gift to a god from an individual meant to give thanks  
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Aportopaic   meant to ward off evil  
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Hieratic Scale   The most important symbols are portrayed as being the largest  
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Composite Pose   each body part is portrayed from the angle it is most characteristic  
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Ziggurat   a large, stepped building with a plateau top. ritals were likely held on top of these  
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Fluting   shallow grooves running vertically along a surface  
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Reverse   the backside of a palette  
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Obverse   the front side of a palette  
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Mastaba   early burial chamber for Egyptians  
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Ka   the spirit of the individual that leaves the body when they die in ancient Egyptian culture  
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Naturalistic Architecture   Architecture that has been built into the landscape behind it to give it an appearance of blending in  
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Axiality   relating to, characterized by, or forming an axis  
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hypostyle   a roof which is supported by columns, as in the Great Hypostyle hall at Karnak  
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clerestory   an outside wall of a room or building that rises above an adjoining window  
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Amarna Style   the artistic style of Akhenaten, characterized by feminine depiction of men, the only departure of the Ancient Eyptian Period  
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Doric Style   earliest, stood directly on the flat pavement (the styloblate) of a temple without a base; their vertical shafts were fluted with 20 parallel concave grooves; and they were topped by a smooth capital that flared from the column to meet a square abacus  
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Ionic Style   The second order of Greek Architecture. Normally stand on a base which seperates it from the styloblate, It has the same fluting as Doric, and the Capital of abacus and volutes (the curled up things)  
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Corinthian Style   last order of Greek Architecture, and is the most ornate. characterized by slender fluted columns and elaborate capitals decorated with acanthus leaves and scrolls  
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Pediment   a low pitched triangular gable on the front of some buildings  
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Cornice   molding is generally any horizontal decorative molding that crowns any building or furniture element  
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Entablature   a superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns, resting on their capitals, contains the frieze  
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frieze   is a wide cetnral section part of an entablature and may be plain or decorated with relief sculpture  
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triglyph   vertically channeled tablets of the doric frieze, so called because the angular channels in them, tow perfect and one divided  
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metope   is a rectangular architectural element that fills the space between two triglyphs  
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capital   the top of a column  
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fluting   the concave grooves in a column  
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column   the big vertical things that you already knew  
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base   the bottom of a column  
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styloblate/stereoblate   the top step of base of a podium  
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Cycladic art   the visual art of the ancient cycladic civiliation which flourished in the islands of the aegean sea  
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fresco   a type of plaster painting, where the artist paints wet paint into wet plaster  
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Genre Scene   pictorial reprentations in any of various media that represent scenes or events from everyday life, such as markets, domestic setting, interiors, parties, inn scenes, and street scenes  
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Helladic Art   Ancient Greeve during the Bronze age  
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Corbeled Arch   an arch-like construction method that uses the architectural technique of corbeling to span a space or void a structure  
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megaron   is a great hall of the Grecian palace complex  
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Kouros   is the modern term given to male youths which first appear in the archaic period in Ancient Greece  
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Black-figure painting   black figures in red background  
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Red-figure painting   red figures in black background  
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symposium   a meeting of philosophers where they drank and had sex.  
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peristyle   a columned porch or open colonnade in a building surrounding a court that may contain an internal garden  
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caryatids   women that double as columns  
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contropposto   standing naturally  
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lost wax bronze   clay core, wax and then clay, melt the wax, fill with bronze, there you go  
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acropolis   the highest point in the city, where they built a temple  
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optical refinements   changes made to architecture, meant to make the temple seem more perfect  
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pheidian-style drapery   wet looking, excessive wrinkles  
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Age of Woman of Willendorf   25000 BCE  
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Age of Hall of Bulls   15000 BCE  
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Age of Stonehenge   2100 BCE  
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Age of Carved Vessel (Warka Vase)   3200 BCE  
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Age of Stele of Naram-Sin   2200 BCE  
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Age of Great Ziggurat of King Urnammu   2100 BCE  
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Age of Ishtar Gate   3100 BCE  
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Age of Palette of King Narmer   3100 BCE  
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Age of Great Pyramids   2500 BCE  
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Age of Khafre   2500 BCE  
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Age of Ti Watching a Hippo Hunt   2500 BCE  
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Age of Hatshepsut   1500 BCE  
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Age of Harvester Vase   1500 BCE  
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Age of Palace Complex at Knossos   1500 BCE  
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Age of New York Kouros   600 BCE  
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Age of Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice   500 BCE  
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Artist of Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice   Exekias  
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Age of Dying Warrior   500 BCE  
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Age of Kritios Boy   500 BCE  
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Age of Riace Warrior A   450 BCE  
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Age of Parthenon   450 BCE  
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Architect of Parthenon   Iktinos and kallikrates  
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Age of Three Goddesses from the East Pediment of the Parthenon   450 BCE  
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Age of Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)   450 BCE  
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Sculptor of Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)   Polykleitos  
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Age of Nereid Monument   400 BCE  
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Age of Aphrodite of Knidos   300 BCE  
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Sculptor of Aphrodite of Knidos   Praxiteles  
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Age of Apoxyomenos   300 BCE  
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Sculptor of Apoxyomenos   Lysippos  
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Age of Dying Gaul   200 BCE  
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Sculptor of Dying Gaul   Epigonos of Pergamon  
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Age of Athena and Alkyoneus   200 BCE  
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Age of Lacoon   100 BCE  
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Age of the Battle of Issos   300 BCE  
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Age of Baker Dancer   250 BCE  
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