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Iconography |
The writing of images; refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork an dto the study of content in art. It also includes teh study of the symbolic, often religious, meanings of objects, persons, or events depicted in works of art. |
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Paleolithic |
Old Stone Age |
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Mesolithic |
Middle Stone Age |
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Neolithic |
New Stone Age |
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Composite view / Twisted perspective |
A form of representation in which a figure is displayed partly in profile, and in frontal perspective. |
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Narrative |
A story told through the art |
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Relief |
In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part. |
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Ziggurat |
A towering temple platform. |
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Apadana |
A royal audience chamber. |
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Lamassu |
A man-headed winged bull. |
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Stele |
A marker of a historical event or, in some cultures, a marker of a grave. |
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Protome |
The head, the forelegs, and part of teh body of an animal. |
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Cuniform |
Ancient writing made by the Sumerians. |
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Hierarchical Scale |
Size scale where the more important you are, the bigger you are. |
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hieroglyph |
Ancient Egyptian writing |
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Mastaba |
A standard type of tomb in early Egypt; Arabic for "bench;" a rectangular brick or stone structure with sloping sides erected over an underground burial chamber. |
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Ka |
the life force |
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Canonical |
A rule, for example, of proportion. |
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Hypostyle Hall |
a hall with a roof resting on columns. |
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Frieze |
Any sculptured or painted band in a building. |
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Fresco |
Painting onto a wall, sometimes directly onto wet plaster for wet fresco, for secco fresco it is dry. |
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Labyrinth |
Giant ass maze, also the "House of the Double Axe." |
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Megaron |
Reception hall and throne room |
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Corbelled Vault |
Type of arch that is triangular and stepped. |
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Tholos |
Burial chamber in a beehive tomb |
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Relieving Triangle |
An architectural structure or void that lightens the load on a lintel. |
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Pylon |
A wide gateway in Egyptian architecture, characterized by sloping walls. |