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Paleolithic caves drawings were found in...

Lascaux caves-France

scratched/carved signs of simple figures on rock....

pictographs

what was Hammurabi's code?

text code of laws and consequences, first code of law

Language NOT on Rosetta stone=

Latin

Cartouche hieroglyph =?

egyptian writing in pictures, carved important names

"Book of Dead" is what?

instructions/directions for going into after life

By law, Egyptians had to buried with a "Book of Dead", T or F??

FALSE, not by law

What is NOT an example of illustrated manuscript?

Blurred lines to show movement

What are cylinder seals?

small stone cylinder w/ engraving to show ownership




-forgery proof method for sealing documents

Rebus= ???

Pictures used to represent word or syllable sounds.




ex: "apex".......a picture of an ape > and a picture of an 'X'

Cuniform=?

Wedge-shaped writing on soft clay tablets

The direction of reading for hieroglyphics was NOT standardized....T or F??

TRUE

Egyptian, 1st to do illustrated manuscript.. T or F?

TRUE

Hieroglyphic determinatives show how preceding glyph is interpreted.. T or F?

TRUE

What did the Chinese NOT invent?

Oil paint

Chinese gov't official credited w/ the invention of paper is...???

T'sai Lun

What is the oldest printed manuscript from China?

"Diamond Sutra"

China was the first society of ordinary people to be around lots of printed images because of the use of...

money, wealth was spread out

pictographic writing system inscribed on oracle bones was..?

Chi Ku Wen

Chinese calligraphy is purely visual.. T or F?

TRUE

Chinese calligraphic system consists of 40 characters, T or F?

FALSE, a lot of characters


chinese calligraphy is considered to be better than sculpture, but worse than painting... T or F

FALSE, was considered best


Chinese people immediately accepted use of paper T or F?

False

Alphabet is a series of visual symbols to represent.....?

speech sounds



Greeks adapted ....? (what writing/reading style)

left to right

King Hemenes(?) II of Perchium(?) started making __________ during fierce rivalry. >

Parchment

Invention of the alphabet & spread of literacy lessened power of priests & scribes... T or F

TRUE

form of text, Christians wished to use this to get away from Pagaen writing......was what?

Codex

Aromaic alphabet developed into Hebrew and Arabic in different locations... T or F?

True

Uncials, made to be BIG, seen from far away, were carved on big statues....T or F?

FALSE, written on tablets and scrolls

Principle of movable type has been around since as eatly as 2000 BC....T or F?

True

velum is the finest form of papyrus, T or F?

FALSE , parchment is

Vatican virgils are in what style?

classical style

Celtic manuscript was revolutionary b/c...why?

it left spaces between words

Charlemagne did what?

transcribed a lot of classic texts himself

Islamic illuminated manuscript did NOT have what in it?

Religious icons

There are no religious icons or figures in the Quran...T or F?

TRUE

in early scriptoriums, this person did the ornaments and images......

Illuminator

letters suited for rapid writing, rounded letters, is what?

Uncials

illustrations and decorations in illu. manuscr. are intended to educate as well as beautify,... T or F?

True

the "Book of Kells" is grammatically accurate..T or F?

FALSE, many errors

caroline minuscules is what we use for lower case letters...T or F

True

Aniconism is common in Islamic manuscript.. T or F?

TRUE

the first stone European block prints with a communicational function was what...?

images of Saints

The style of type Johann Gutenberg adapted

textura

earliest examples of typographical printing are..?

"Letters of Indulgence" - Pope Nicholas V

Which DOESNT belong in Gutenberg's 42 Line Bible?

418 full page illustrations

what reached Europe after a 600 year journey, inspired students...?

paper

what is the translucent thing on paper?

watermark

in 1450 Maines, Germany, who figured out how to print books there first?

Gutenberg

negative letter to punch into matrix in hot type is what?

Punch

Punches are punched into what?

Matrix

1st printers trademark ever was what?

Johann Fust & Peter Schoeffer

xylography was printed from flat surface, such as stone ... T or F?

FALSE

1st typographic book was Gutenberg's 42 Line Bible, made of velum and paper ... T or F

TRUE

Johann Fust sold printed Bibles as manuscript in France .. T or F?

True

Citizens of Maines Germany left in 1462 b/c of plague... T or F

FALSE..left because of war

Renaissance artist known for his woodcuts and using textura....?

Albrecht Dürer

Single-leafed page printed on one side is called what?

Broadside ....[but also called broadsheet]

Printing w/ movable type was liked by book printers....T or F?

FALSE...they lost jobs

Broadsheet is what?

printed on both sides {BUT names are interchangeable for broadside}

Martin Luther's 95 Thesies spread the Protestant movement quickly, T or F?

TRUE

Italian examples of graphic design were where?

Venice

What became a prototype for the modern day pocket book?

"Virgil's Oprah"

"Aviso relation O'der Zeitung" is what??????

the oldest newspaper to survive from old Germany

Word phrase, or symbol or design for a paper is what?

Trademark TM'

who printed the first book in the US colonies?

Stephen and Matthew Daye

Nicolas Jenson created type in Italy that was better than his contemporaries...T or F?

TRUE

Henry Estienne printed from where?

Paris, France

Tory's "Champ Fleury" was the prototype ideal for French language.. T or F

TRUE

bracketing is connecting curves with serifs in text.. T or F?

TRUE

late works of Batista Badoni represent what style?

neoclassical


William Blake's illustrations are in this style

Romanticism

this place opened in England to print texts to London and other parts of England

Shakespeare Press

in 1722, William Caslon designed Caslon old style, who introduced this to the US colonies?

Ben Franklin

who made the first ever pie chart?

William Playfair

how many points are in 1 inch?

72 points

"Romain de roi" created a new style of types called what?

transitional style

Rococo style is best represented in the Dudo family ... T or F?

FALSE

Batista Badoni used a classic type style....T or F?

FALSE, modern type style

Caslon is transitional style..T or F?

TRUE

Baskerville used texturized paper, T or F?

FALSE, used glossy paper

who gave the name "sans serif"?

Vincent Figgins

what is another name for slab serif text form?

Egyptian

this person was 1st credited to take a photographic image (a photo!)...

Joseph Niepces

this person invented "photograms" and the negative-positive process

William Henry Fox Talbot

got camera for her birthday, took photos explaining the human condition

Julia Margaret Cameron

invented by Stephen H. Hergon, small dots make up the picture......

halftones

Process of printing colored pictures/lettering is........

chromolithography

during the Industrial Revolution, power shifted from......

the aristocracy to new capitalists

what was the first newspaper to use the cylinder press?

Times of London

The camera obscura has been around as long as....(who)

Aristotle

George Eastman invented the Kodak camera..why?

so ordinary people could have cameras

Best known for portraits, got a camera as a b'day present.........who?

Julia Margaret Cameron

"Egyptian style"...the name came from the fact that the type style looks like hieroglyphics.. T or F?

FALSE

The Linotype reduced the co$t of a single newspaper... T or F?

TRUE

"Scene in Shantytown" is the very first halftone print ever....T or F?

TRUE

Matthew Brady is the civil war photographer T or F?

TRUE

Dauerrogotypes were bad quality, and fuzzy...T or F?

FALSE, they were good quality

from 1860-1900, lithography was the dominant print medium for advertising ... T or F?

TRUE

Victorian type and hand drawn lettering was simplistic...T or F?

FALSE, very embellished

William Morris made 3 type faces for the Kelmscott Press, 3rd one was inspired by N.Jenson, called what?

Golden

what was the long lasting effect of William Morris' work?

higher quality book production

Goudy fonts represent this feel....

French & Venecian Renassaince

what inspired Albert Bruce Rogers?

the Kelmscott Press

what type family was used to develop school books for children?

Century

what was NOT included in Chaucer's work from the Kelmscott Press?

7 different colors of ink

William Morris was poor..T or F?

FALSE, super wealthy

the first book to be printed on the Kelmscott Press was a 560 page book from Chaucer....T or F?

FALSE it was Morris' own book

"Dove's Bible" is best known for its decorations...T or F?

FALSE

the Dutch book movement saw the Industrial Revolution as a blessing... T or F?

FALSE

what Japanese artist was best known for "36 Views of Mt. Fiji"?

Katsushika Hokusai

what does NOT fit in with Japanese work?

Assyrian motiffs

When Beardlsey used Morris' style, Morris was.......

Furious

Ethel Reed was the first graphic designer woman in England... T or F?

FALSE...she was American

Ukiyo-e means what?

"pictures of the floating world"

Art Nouveau means what?

New art

Abstract art, following art nouveau, rejected the Art Nouveau style...T or F?

FALSE, it built off of it.