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39 Cards in this Set
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Wall painting with horses
Prehistoric |
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Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
Prehistoric |
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Stonehenge
Salsbury Plain, Wiltshire Prehistoric |
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The Ziggurat at Ur
Muqaiyir, Iraq Ancient Near Eastern |
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Dedicatory Statues (from the Abu Temple)
Ancient Near Eastern |
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Stele of Hammurabi
Ancient Near Eastern |
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Pyramids of Giza
El Giza, Eygpt Eygyptian |
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King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and Queen
Eygyptian |
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Bull Leaping
Aegean |
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Snake Goddess
Aegean |
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Lion Gate
Mycenae, Greece Aegean |
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Funerary Mask (Mask of Agamemnon)
Aegean |
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New York Kouros
Greek |
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Death of Sarpedon
Euphronius (painter) & Euxitheos (potter) Greek |
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Parthenon
Ictinus with contributions by Callicrates Acropolis, Athens Greek |
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Kritios Boy
Greek |
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Doryphoros
Polyclitus Greek |
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Lapith Overcoming a Centaur
Greek |
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Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
Greek |
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Laocoön and His Sons
Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athanadoros of Rhodes Greek |
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Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice
Exekias Greek |
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Cosmology
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The search for meaning in the natural world (study of the universe)
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Spatial Heirophany
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The nation that within the larger sanctity of the natural world some places are especially sacred (i.e. mountains, caves, oceans)
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Science
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The reduction of nature to a rational predictable pattern
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Paleolithic
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Old/Stone
Hunter gatherers, don't live in caves |
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Mesolithic
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Middle/Stone
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Neolithic
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New/Stone
Farming invented |
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Ka
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Spirit
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Khafre
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Ka statue, alternate place for ka to live
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Shabtis
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Servants figures that wait on you in the afterlife
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Tomb Painting
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Depicts what you enjoyed during your life to enjoy during your afterlife
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Greek Revolution
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In the arts, the change from abstraction, to naturalism, through idealism, and expressionism which occurs in Greek period art
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Abstration
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Resembles the original model
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Naturalism
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Aims at a direct translation of visible nature
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Idealism
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Aiming at perfection
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Expressionism
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Tries to evoke emotion
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Storytelling
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Because the stories of their mythic heroes are so meaningful, it becomes important to the artists, who visually narrate these stories, to do so accurately for the viewer
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Religion
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Greeks first to fully anthropomorphize (full human characteristics) their deities
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Science
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Explained Greek Revolution (fixation on rationality)
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