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Which did paleolithic sculptures depict most?

Women

The women of willnedorf is an example of

Roundation. Sculpture in round

A depiction that reduces simplifies or summarizes the original objects is an

Abstract

The visual components such as the elements of art and the principles of art are referred to as

Form

How can ideas of beauty differ in different cultures

Idealization women in culture

The old stone age means

Paleothic period

What is unique about the cave at Lascaux France

Human figures first to tell story birdman

What is the characteristic of the Neolithic era?

New agriculture and new tools

Ceramics are made of

Baked clay

The space between two vertical elements band buy a horizontal element is called

Post and Intel

A circle formed by stones or wooden post is called a

Hinge

When lines are cut into a hard surface what is it called

Incised line

An early form of writing using wedge-shaped marks

Cuneiform

An image created as a devotional offering to a deity

Votives

A device for showing space where figures are placed in a row separated by a ground line this device can cover a wall or be used in a vase each row is called

A register

What is the study of the meaning of the object or subject matter in a work of art

Iconography

A small Stone decorated with incised patterns that makes an identifying signature when rolled across soft clay or wax and is used for ownership information is

Cylinder seals

An upright stone slab decorated with writing or images used as a marker or Memorial is a

Stele

The size of the figures denotes their importance is known as

Hierarchy scale

The world's oldest record code of law is found on

Stele of Hammurabi

The alabaster relief of Ashurbanipal and his queen in the garden commemorates

Victory celebration over vanquished enemies

Which was the function of the shape of the palette of Narmer

Used it as a pallet

In Egypt which kind of person would be portrayed in most naturalistic

Lower class

City of the dead means

Necropolis

An oval design with hieroglyphics inside it that is someone's name is

Cuntouche

Egyptian symbol of life is

Ankh

What is the most significant thing about the Reign of Akhenaten

He started a new religion he believed in one God only aten

Tutankhamun tomb was exceptionally because

It was intact not broken into all of the above

Which of the following is a rectangular Stone

Sarcophagus

Where are the cycladic figurines usually found

Graves Greece

a three-dimensional sculpture free of any background or block

Sculpture in the round

Which subject occurs most often in the Ancient Greek art

Humans and gods gods and goddesses

What is the platform or base of a greek temple called

Stylobate

In architecture the Greeks had a set system of proportion and decoration or ornament called

Greek orders

Which is the sculpted block at the top of a column

A capital

The Triangular Gable end of the greek temple is the

Pediment

What does archaic mean

Old, earliest

What is the period called with statues such as the Korus in Kore

Archaic Period

A Greek jar for storing oil or wine with an egg-shaped body and two curved handles

Amphora

Which of the following best describes the shape of a volute

Spiral scroll

What happened to the most classical Greek bronze sculptures

Melted down for weapons

Which architectural order is used in the partheon

Doric

What made communication in the Roman Empire so fast by ancient World standard

Rows

The words classic and classical mean

Standard

Which of the following is a carving of a maiden that functions of a column

Carotid

Much of Hellenistic art like the Nike of samothrace it was strange that periods preoccupation with

drama and emotion

Hellenistic means

Greek life

Small colored stone or glass pieces used in a mosaic

Testeray

Term for creating the illusion of three-dimensionality on a flat surface through the use of lights and darks

Modeling

Hellenistic are once what response from the viewers

Emotion

The difficulty of making large clay sculpture is

Collapses easily

What is an unroofed interior Courtyard of a Roman house

Atrium

The appearance of reality such as the Roman Mosaic on subfloor it is said to be

Illusionistic

A Roman town center with markets temples and administrative buildings is

Forums

A large rectangular Roman administration building with 2 rounded Ridges at the ends is a

Basilica

The Romans were most influenced by what country

Greece

Roman coins give us an unprecedented understanding of what

The rulers appearance

What was the very important contributing tradition that resulted in Roman realistic portraiture

Death mask

The basic unit of Roman architecture is the

Round Arch

The act of a human being becoming a God is called

Apotheosis

The exterior of the statue Augustus of primaporta was originally

Painted in bright colors

Augustus triumphal return to Rome the prosperity and peace of the Empire is commemorated in

The aroporchis

What is the striking difference between frieze possessions and the parthian versus the Ara pacis

Real people

A half-column like element that is rectangular instead of rounded is called

Pilaster

The Romans could build faster and cheaper because they developed the use of

Concrete

A circular building such as the pantheon which is usually covered with Adam is a

Rotunda

What is the Roman word for all gods

Pantheon

Mare nostrum means

Our sea

+ 313 Constantine through the Edict of Milan did what

Gave freedom to all religions

What did the Romans record on arches columns and mausoleums

Propaganda and Victory

What two techniques were used to make prehistoric cave paintings

Spitting and painting with pigments

What is the sculptural innovation of kritios boy

Contrapposto

The earliest great civilizations had what important geographic features

The rise of Agriculture and rivers

What traditional regarding the coloring of men and women do we often find Egyptian minoan and Greek art

Men are darker women car lighter

The Romans very effectively random vast Empire because they were great

Organizers and engineers

Why was the equestrian statue of Marcus aurelius is never melted down

It was thought to portray Constantine

What new subject matter became important to the Hellenistic Greeks

Dramatic narrative