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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.

Paleolithic

Old Stone Age

Mesolithic

Middle Stone Age

Neolithic

New Stone Age

Composite view / Twisted perspective

A form of representation in which a figure is displayed partly in profile, and in frontal perspective.

Narrative

A story told through the art

Relief

In sculpture, figures projecting from a background of which they are part.

Ziggurat

A towering temple platform.

Apadana

A royal audience chamber.

Lamassu

A man-headed winged bull.

Stele

A marker of a historical event or, in some cultures, a marker of a grave.

Protome

The head, the forelegs, and part of teh body of an animal.

Cuniform

Ancient writing made by the Sumerians.

Hierarchical Scale

Size scale where the more important you are, the bigger you are.

hieroglyph

Ancient Egyptian writing

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.

Ka

the life force

Canonical

A rule, for example, of proportion.

Hypostyle Hall

a hall with a roof resting on columns.

Frieze

Any sculptured or painted band in a building.

Fresco

Painting onto a wall, sometimes directly onto wet plaster for wet fresco, for secco fresco it is dry.

Labyrinth

Giant ass maze, also the "House of the Double Axe."

Megaron

Reception hall and throne room

Corbelled Vault

Type of arch that is triangular and stepped.

Tholos

Burial chamber in a beehive tomb

Relieving Triangle

An architectural structure or void that lightens the load on a lintel.

Pylon

A wide gateway in Egyptian architecture, characterized by sloping walls.