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28 Cards in this Set
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Tiny cut stones for mosaic
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Tessarae
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Wet fresco
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buon fresco
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Dry fresco
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fresco sacco
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Oil paint technique of trying to use thick paint and letting it dry in one day
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emposto
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Linear Perspective
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Relating objects in their space with the use of a horizontal line
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Organic Line
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curvy, natural
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Setting an object by itself in a painting or work of art
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Principle of Isolation
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The balancing of objects--a large one balanced by a small
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Formal/Classical Balance
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Perfect plane to create visual harmony
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The Golden Mean
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"The Chinese Horse"- Significance etc
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During the paleolithic time period, instructions and voodoo(the feathers), used as target practice, emphasis on fertility, excentuated features, linear curvature,
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"The Shaft of the Dead Man"
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ONe of the only people during the paleo. time period
said to have been a shaw-dead or performing ritual--bull has just been killed |
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"Marching Warriors"
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Mesotheolic- moving out of the cave and man developes an identity
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Human Skull in Jericho- 7000 BCE
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Put real human hair and plaster- beginning of preservation of human form and spiritual after life- beliefs began
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Lentil
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Diagonal Wooden Beam
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Waterworn Pebble from South Africa
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A pebble saved in the beginning of the Paleo. time period-- the first evidence of noticing form art
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Ur
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In Iraq- Mesopotamia
where the neolithic revolution was found and the burial sites were the most beautiful |
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Ziggerat
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Summerian temples built on high platforms
example: the White Temple of Uruk They saw the temples as "waiting rooms" until the diety could come down and collect the spirit their height was to reach towards heaven and show power |
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the division of art into rows or columns to illustate a story
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registers/friezes
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Warka Vase
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Summerian
divided into registers- men and women and rams with water - increased heards and farming offerings etc-- all showing prosperity ending the randomized figures and beginning to tell a story |
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Votive figures in Temple of Abu
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large eyes, eternally wakeful
waited in the Ziggurats to offer constant prayer Larger ones were more powerful Cylindrical bodies and folded hands |
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The Standard of Ur- significance etc
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2600 BC
Lapiz lazuli Battle side- propaganda, depicting battle, showing the king as high and mighty (Social Hierarchy) Other side was peaceful Battle Standard- mounted onto a pole during battle Intrication showed advancement A Historical Narrative |
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AKKADIANS
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one of the first Akk. Arts was the head of Sargon, the ruler
more human features and wealth- broze hollow cast |
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Victory Stele of Naram Sim
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Akk. 2218 BC- relief sculpture
assent to the Gods--propaganda heiracrchy of placement one of the first landscapes--is celebrating a victory |
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Babylonian King after the fall of Sumer
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1780- Haberabi
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The Code of Hamberabi
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"Eye for an eye" laws that the ruler est.
cut from black-basalt stele the depiction of Hamarabis power to enforce laws beginning of non-profile look |
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People who conquered Babylonia
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Hitties
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The Lions Gate
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The Hitties- guarding the walls used to protect them
1400 BCE Beginning of trying to protect palace or city from evil entrances using beasts |
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The Lamassu
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5 legs so it can be seen from several angles
to ward off enemies, intimidate, head of sargon wings to heaven body for strength 720-725 BC |
