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Woman from Willendorf
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Limestone, Austria, c. 22,000-21,000
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Hall of the Bulls
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Paint on Limestone, Lascaux caves, France
c. 15,000-13,000 |
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Stonehenge
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Salisbury Plain
England c. 2750-1500 |
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Funerary Mask of Tutankamen
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Gold, Glass, and Semi-precious stones
c. 1327 |
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Nanna Ziggurat
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Ur, Iraq
c.2100-2050 |
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Bull Lyre
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Wood, Gold, Lapis Lazuli, and Shell
Ur, Iraq c. 2685 |
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Stele of Naramsin
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Limestone
Iraq c. 2254-2218 |
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Basalt, Susa
Iran c. 1792-1750 |
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Human-Headed Winged Lion (Lamassu).
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Limestone, palace of Assurnasirpal,
Nimrud, 883-859 BCE. |
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Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden
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Alabaster, Nineveh, Iraq, c. 647
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Palette of Narmer
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Mudstone
c.3000 |
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Plan of Djoser’s funerary complex.
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Saqqara, c.2681 - 2662
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Khafra
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Diorite, c. 2500
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Great Pyramids
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Giza
Granite and Limestone c. 2601-2515 |
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Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
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Deir el Bahri
c. 1473-1458 |
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Flower and Bud Columns
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Great Temple of Amun, Karnak,
Egypt, c. 1295-1186 |
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Queen Nefertiti
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Painted Limetone
c. 1348-1336 |
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Adobe
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sun-dried brick made of clay and straw, in common use in countries having little rainfall.
2. a yellow silt or clay, deposited by rivers, used to make bricks |
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cuneiform
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composed of slim triangular or wedge-shaped elements, as the characters used in writing by the ancient Akkadians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and others.
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henge
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a Neolithic monument of the British Isles, consisting of a circular area enclosed by a bank and ditch and often containing additional features including one or more circles of upright stone or wood pillars: probably used for ritual purposes or for marking astronomical events, as solstices and equinoxes.
Use henge in a Sentence See images of henge Search henge on the Web |
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lost wax casting
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Lost-wax casting sometimes called by the French name of cire perdue is the process by which a bronze or brass is cast from an artist's sculpture; in industrial uses, the modern process is called investment casting.
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post and lintel
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a structure consisting of vertical beams (posts) supporting a horizontal beam (lintel)
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apotheosis
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the elevation or exaltation of a person to the rank of a god.
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cylinder seal
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A cylinder seal is a cylinder engraved with a 'picture story', used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay.
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Horus
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a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
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Mastaba
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an ancient Egyptian tomb made of mud brick, rectangular in plan with sloping sides and a flat roof.
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rock cut tomb
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tomb cut out of the side of a cliff or other mountainous rock structure
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aten
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An Egyptian god of the sun, regarded during the reign of Akhenaton as the only god.
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faience
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glazed earthenware or pottery, esp. a fine variety with highly colored designs.
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hypostyle hall
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In architecture, a hypostyle hall has a flat ceiling which is supported by columns, as in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak
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necropolis
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a cemetery, esp. one of large size and usually of an ancient city.
also known as a city of the dead |
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sarcophagus
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a stone coffin, esp. one bearing sculpture, inscriptions, etc., often displayed as a monument.
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clerestory
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Architecture. a portion of an interior rising above adjacent rooftops and having windows admitting daylight to the interior.
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fresco
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Also called buon fresco, true fresco. the art or technique of painting on a moist, plaster surface with colors ground up in water or a limewater mixture
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Imhotep
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Egyptian architect, astrologer, and physician. He was the architect of the funeral complex at Saqqara, consisting of a huge stepped pyramid, a processional hall, and other buildings.
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obelisk
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a tapering, four-sided shaft of stone, usually monolithic and having a pyramidal apex.
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permanent city in the Neolithic period?
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Catal Huyuk
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What does megalithic tradation mean?
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big stone tradition
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art history definition?
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search for meaning of art
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order of tribes?
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sumerians, akkadians, babylonians, assyrians
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3000 bce, what happened?
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specialization of labor
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what came last in the neolitic revolution?
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writing
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what was sumer built on (like uruk and ur)?
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agriculture
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who conquered the sumerians?
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akkadians
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who was tha akkadian war lord?
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sargon
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what does the stele of naramsin depict?
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shows conquering towns and cities...bodies laid about
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what does the hiertic scale mean?
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that the largest figure is important
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who conquered the assyrians?
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babylonians, all about lw and order
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who built the ishtar gate around neo babylon
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nebuchadnezzar
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2 famous things about babylon?
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hanging gardens and babylon tower
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egypt was based around what body of water?
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nile river...had silt
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who was the first pharoh of egypt?
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narmer, united upper and lower egypt after the split in the neolitic era
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serdab
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hold and receives pharoahs's spirit in a statue...usually in a box with eye holes
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what does Akhenaton mean? what was his signifigance in art and religion
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means, "useful to aten" made art more androgynous and was monotheistic to the sun god, aten
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who was the temple of amon built for?
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ramses ii (in karnak). it is a pylon temple.
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pylon
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huge blocks that are in the entrance to a temple or some building
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hieratic scale
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bigger people/things are more importatnt
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what was the palette of narmer used for?
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a makeup kit thing
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what is another name for mesopotamia?
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the cradle of civilization (between the tigris and euphrates river)
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what is form?
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visual and visible elements and properties of art
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what are some examples of context?
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artist, patron, audience, crtici, physical location, social, political, historical environment
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what is content?
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subject matter, theme, symbolism, iconography
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what is the symbol of lower egypt?
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reeds
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between what two rivers was the cradle of civilzation started?
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tigris and euphrates
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who invented beer?
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the sumerians, and it was primarily a female job/only females drank it
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cone mosaic?
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clay rods painted on one end and pushed into a columnx
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