Art chapter 6 & 7 u2 Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Paleolithic Period | historical period of time believed to have lasted from 30,00 BC to 10,000 BC |
Megaliths | large monuments created from huge stone slab |
Post and Lintel Construction | massive posts support cross beans or lintels |
Ziggurat | stepped covered mountain made of brick covered earth |
Stylus | writing instrument |
Cuneiform | writing with wedged-shaped characters |
Steele | an inscribed stone pillar |
Pharaoh | Egyptian ruler |
Dynasty | period of time in which a single family provided a succession of rulers! |
Sarcophagus | stone coffin |
Mastaba | low flat tomb |
Hieroglyphics | system of picture writing |
Why did prehistoric cave paintings originate? | belief in Gods, painted a successful hunt in order to have a real one |
How did prehistoric paintings survive? | they were in caves, protected from wind & rain |
How were prehistoric painting created? | Pigments of color on, scratch outline, animal blood or clay to fill in |
Name the different civilizations | Sumer, Akkaid, Babylonia, Persia ( Assyria) |
Describe artwork of sumer | ziggurat |
babylonia | steele |
Persians | artchitecture or audience hall |
akkaidan | cuneiform |
Three kingdoms of egypt | old, new, middle |
relationships between pyramid and religious | believed in Ka, ka is soul that needed to find body in order to move on to afterlife, must keep dead body safe so ka doesn't get lost |
Uses of relief sculptures, and painting etc | very realistic in case Ka can';t find you, can take scultpture or painting form instead |
set of rules egyptian art followed | familiar view of the body. shoulders, eyes, body parts, arm, legs etc must be in side view. no shading involved, and tons of hierglyphics behind the painting! |
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