Art Study

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Style

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The distinctive or manner in which form is rendred

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Iconography

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What is rendered, the subject matter and any symbolism

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Content

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the meaning that an artwork communicates

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Prehistoric

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4 million years ago C. 3100 BCE

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Ancient

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c. 3100 BCE-- 4th century CE

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Medieval

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4th century--14th century

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renaissance

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14th c. -- 16th c.

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Baroque. Bococo

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17c--18c

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Modern

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19c--21c

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paleolithic

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second part of the Stone Age beginning about 750,00 to 500,000 years BC and lasting until the end of the last ice age about 8,500 years BC
•of or relating to the second period of the Stone Age (following the eolithic

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Neolithic

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latest part of the Stone Age beginning about 10,000 BC in the Middle East

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Chauvet

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Chauvet Cave is one of the oldest rock art sites in the world, dating to the Aurignacian period in France, about 30,000-32,000 years ago. The site is located in the Pont-d'Arc Valley of Ardèche, France. Paintings in the cave include animals (reindeer, horses, aurochs, rhinocerus, buffalo), hand prints, and a series of dots.

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lascaux

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a cave in southwestern France that contains Paleolithic paintings

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Lintel

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horizontal beam used as a finishing piece over a door or window

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corbeling

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Successive courses of wood or masonry which are stepped upward and outward from a wall surface

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lamassu

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The Sumerian word lama, which in Akkadian is translated as lamassu, refers to a helpful and protective female god

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Ziggurat

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a rectangular tiered temple or terraced mound erected by the ancient Assyrians and Babylonians

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Sumer

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•an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

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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

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Hammurabi

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Babylonian king who codified the laws of Sumer and Mesopotamia (died 1750 BC)

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Sargon

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king of Akkad in Mesopotamia (reigned c.2340–c.2305 B.C.). By conquest he established a great empire that included the whole of Mesopotamia and extended over Syria and Elam,

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Nebuchadnezzar

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king of Chaldea who captured and destroyed Jerusalem and exiled the Israelites to Babylonia (630?-562 BC)

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Stele

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The marble funerary stelae of Greece, especially of Athens, are among the most beautiful monuments of classical art.

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Mastaba

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an ancient Egyptian mud-brick tomb with a rectangular base and sloping sides and flat roof; "the Egyptian pyramids developed from the mastaba"

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Sarcophagus

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a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions

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Ankh

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'key of life', 'the key of the Nile', 'crux ansata') was the Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life

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Gizeh

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an ancient Egyptian city on the west bank of the Nile opposite Cairo; site of three Great Pyramids and the Sphinx

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Pylon

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4. A monumental gateway in the form of a pair of truncated pyramids serving as the entrance to an ancient Egyptian temple.

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Clerestory

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part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light

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hatshepsut

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•Queen of New Kingdom Egypt from 1479 to 1458 BC, first alongside her half-brother, Thutmosis II (who became her husband), and then alongside her nephew, Thutmosis III. A great builder and leader, she is often thought of as Egypt's greatest woman ruler

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aten

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the disk of the sun in ancient Egyptian mythology, and originally an aspect of Ra. He became the focused upon deity of the arguably monolatry, henotheistic, or even monistic religion of Atenism of which Amenhotep IV established, who later took the name Akhenaten in worship

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Amarna

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•The site of Amarna (commonly known as el-Amarna or incorrectly as Tel el-Amarna; see below) (العمارنة al-‘amārnah) is located on the east bank of the Nile River in the modern Egyptian province of Minya, some 58 km (38 miles) south of the city of al-Minya, 312 km

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osiris

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•Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus

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Ashlar

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•a rectangular block of hewn stone used for building purposes

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Khufu

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Egyptian Pharaoh of the 27th century BC who commissioned the Great Pyramid at Giza

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Akhenaton

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•early ruler of Egypt who rejected the old gods and replaced them with sun worship (died in 1358 BC)

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Ramses II

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king of Egypt between 1304 and 1237 BC who built many monuments

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Nefertiti

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•queen of Egypt and wife of Akhenaton (14th century BC)

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Minoan

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•a Cretan who lived in the bronze-age culture of Crete about 3000-1100 BC