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30 Cards in this Set
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Engraved Ochre |
Oldest decorated objects found |
Paleolithic |
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Petroglyphs |
Scratching or pecking the surface of exposed stone |
Paleolithic |
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Wall Painting of Animals |
Chavet Cave (France); oldest known cave paintings |
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Neolithic |
Transition from food gatherers to farmers and herders; New Stone Age |
Earthenware Beaker |
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Mesopotamia |
Land between the rivers; between Tigris & Euphrates |
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Ziggurat |
What they built temples on to raise higher to reach the Gods |
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Egypt |
Pyramids used to bury leaders with objects to go to afterlife |
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Hierarchic Scale |
System by which sizes of human of human figures are determined by social ark |
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3 Periods Which the Greek Passed |
-Archaic -Classical -Hellenistic |
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Kouros |
Greek Word for “male youth” |
Archaic |
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Kore |
Word for “female youth” |
Archaic |
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Contrapasto |
“Counterpoised” |
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Classical Art |
Rational simplicity, order, restrained emotion |
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3 Architectural Orders |
-Doric -Ionic -Corinthian |
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Portico |
Greek porch |
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Apse |
Where Christians placed an altar |
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Basilica |
Assembly hall |
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Nave |
Central hall |
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Mosaic |
Small bits of glass and stone set in a pattern |
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Icon |
Small painting of holy images |
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Renaissance |
Rebirth for the period of revived interest in art and ideas of classical Greece and Rome |
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Giotto di Bondone |
Precursor of renaissance; reinvented naturalistic painting |
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Renaissance Artists |
-Leonardo -Michaelangelo -Raphael |
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Sfumato |
Soft blurring of edges as though looking through smoke |
Ex: Monalisa |
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“One if you shall betray me” - Jesus |
“Last Supper” |
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Michaelangelo |
Greatest Sculptor since the Greeks |
Renaissance |
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Symbolism in Arnold Feeny Portrait |
-Dog = natural fidelity -Amber Beads= purity -Green = fertility |
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2 Characteristics that broke from Renaissance idealism |
-Down to Earth realism -Dramatic use of light |
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Baroque Painting |
This visual dynamism, extending the action of the work into the viewer’s space |
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Genre Scenes |
Depiction of everyday life |
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