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51 Cards in this Set
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Paleolithic Art |
Art that dates back to the primitive stone age era. |
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Neolithic Art |
Art that dates back to the later period of the stone age era. |
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Human with a Feline head |
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Profile |
The outline drawing of a figure from side view |
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Twisted Perspective |
An aspect in art where an object that was drawn shows aspects from side and frontal view |
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Venus of Willendorf |
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Woman Holding Bison Horn |
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Spotted horses |
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The Worlds First Landscape |
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Stonehenge |
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Mesopotamia |
Ancient name for land that lies between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers |
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Cuneiform |
Ancient wedged writing created by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia |
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Ziggurat |
A rectangular stepped tower |
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Pictorial Narration |
A story told with pictures |
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Conceptual Representation |
A representation of a system made of the composition of concepts which are used to help people know, understand or simulate a subject the model represents |
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Standard of Ur |
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Sound Box of the Bull Headed Harp |
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Cylinder Seal |
A small round cylinder engraved with written characters or figurative scenes |
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Steele of Hammurabi |
The laws written by Hammurabi |
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Persepolis |
An ancient city in Persia |
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Imhotep |
An Egyptian polymath and architect who built the first stepped pyramids for king Djoser |
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Stepped to Triangle Pyramid |
The structures took a more triangular shape and contained many rooms and traps |
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Hatshepsut |
The second woman to become a pharoah and fifth pharoah of the 18th dynasty |
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Block Statues |
A statue of the squatting posture of the person represented |
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Deir El-Bahari |
A complex of temples and tombs on the west bank of the Nile |
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The Last Judgement of Hunefer |
The scene in Egyptian art where it is being decided whether Humefer will enter Heaven |
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Menkaure and Khamerernebty |
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Akhenaten |
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Nefertiti Bust |
By: Thutmose |
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Linear A/Linear B |
Linear A is an ancient scripture used in palace and religious writings by the minoans and Linear B the Mycenaeans |
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Syros Woman |
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Knossos |
The largest archeological Bronze Age site on Crete also known as Europe's oldest city |
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Characteristics of Minoan Life featured in Minoan Art |
Bull fighting,boxing and their natural perception of the world |
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Repoussé |
Placing a thin sheet of metal on a surface and beating it on its backside with a small hammer to create a design |
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Bull-Leaping |
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Akrotiri, Thera |
A Minoan Bronze Age settlement on the Greek Island of Thera |
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Lion Gate |
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Tholos |
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Humanity is the "measure of all things" |
A statement by Greek philosopher Protagoras and is usually interpreted to mean that the individual human being is the ultimate source of value. |
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Geometric Period |
Earliest period in Greek art after the dark age characterized by geometric drawings |
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Orientalizing Period |
A period in Greek art influenced by foreign cultures |
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Mantiklos Apollo |
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Capitoline Wolf |
Etruscan Statue that depicts the she-wolf that nursed Romulus and Remus |
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Sarcophagus of Lars Pulena |
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Tumulus |
Tomb in the form of a mound. Built for Etruscan families |
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Sarcophagus of Lars Pulena |
Sarcophagus that represents the economic and political decline of the once mighty Etruscan city-states |
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Tomb of Sheilds and Chairs |
Tomb where sculptors carved out beds and chairs out of rock |
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Capitoline Wolf |
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Higher Status of Women |
In contrast with Greece, women could attend events with men. |
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Tomb of the Leopards |
Important tomb that is named for the painted beasts that guard the burial chamber from their perchh within the pediment of the rear wall |
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Apollo of Veii |
The finest surviving Etruscan temple statue that displays the energy and excitement that characterized Archaic Etruscan art |
