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21 Cards in this Set
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Lascaux Cave |
Bird headed man. Cave in France, bison paintings and reliefs. Great hall of the bulls |
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Woman of Villendorf |
goddess of fertility. Busty woman statue. braided face. |
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Two earliest forms of architecture and describe them |
Post & lintel. strong vertical elements hold horizontal elements Corbelling - archway used to make entrance-ways or bridges |
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
First known story in history, made on a tablet in cuneiform writing |
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Nanna Ziggurat |
Temple with 3 ascending stairways |
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hierarchy of scale |
size denotes importance |
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stele of hammurabi |
1st code of laws of his peoples, rights and duties. ensured uniform treatment of people Hammurabi on a mountaintop with Shamash sun god |
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Old kingdom |
Great pyramid of Gizas. statues of pharoahs + specific canon |
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Middle Kingdom |
Statues become less realistic. Stray away from pyramids and build rock cut tombs. |
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Khufu pyramid |
Largest pyramid of GIZA |
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Lions Gate |
Hittite stronghold in turkey |
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Audience hall of darius |
ceremonial complex of darius and xerxes in persepolis |
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Rosetta Stone |
First tablet of 3 different languages used to translate between them hieroglyphic,demotic,greek |
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Akhanaten dynasty |
Initiated monotheistic religion |
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king tuts funerary mask |
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what are two early works of greek literature |
King Minos and the minotaur The Trojan War Mycenae and Troy |
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What are the 3 forms of Greek columns and describe them |
Doric - Widest, No base Ionic - more elongated than doric Corinthian - origionally for interior use |
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What are the 3 types of greek vase paintings |
Black-figure Red-Figure White-ground |
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What is the Canon of Polykleitos |
Spear bearer position, Weight leaning on right side |
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what is the parthenon and what does it look like? |
Temple of athena parthenos |
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Describe the art of the Hellenistic Period |
strayed away from gods/immortals Depicted everyday individuals, Beggers, Farmers etc. dropped the polytheists Canon |
