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Give Title, found at, race of people, Period of technology |
Chinese Horse, Lascaux Cave, Cromagnon, Paleolithic Technology |
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Type of Writing, found (Native language and English), Statues the place is famous for |
Rongorongo, Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Moai |
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Name of building the statue is in, Purpose/function of statue |
Mastaba, purpose is for the Ba to enter the statue and communicate with people |
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Explain the scene |
Shows Diola Tribe using Oral tradition to build an impluvium house. Elders of the village are instructing the younger people on how to build it |
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City its from, Goddess, Religious System, Time period |
Babylon, Ishtar, Polygism, Bronze Age |
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Place, Race, Date |
Cave in Brungiel, France, Neolithic people, 176,000 y/o |
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Name, Temple of what god, City, Capital decoration |
hypostyle, horus, Edfu, lotus and papyrus leaves |
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What is it and its history |
Makapansgat pebble, found in cave from used by the Australopithecus in 3 million BC. Oldest form of art. Pebble is naturally shaped |
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Structure, built by king... who rule... , Region |
Citadel, Sargon, Assyrian, Mesopotamia |
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Town, Period, Date, material they traded |
Catal Hoyuk, Neolithic, 7000 BC, Obsidian- volcanic |
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What was found in Drachenloch? |
In Switzerland Drachenloch, in a cave they found Neanderthal remains. They also found a store- lined pit containing 7 Ursus Speclaus (cave bear) skulls stacked on top of each other all facing the entrance cover with slab of stone, Thought to be Apotropaic to ward off evil spirits |
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Apotropaic |
To ward off evil |
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Lamassu |
Statues set up in pairs that flank palace gates of Assyrian kings. Statue was covered in Cunnieform typr of writing to advertise the king's power |
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Pylon |
large walls on both sides of the entrance to mortuary temples with relief carving and hieroglyphics |
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Benben |
Pyramidal structure with hieroglyphics written with prayers to Ra that sits on top of obelisk |
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Nathaniel Hawthorne |
Artist during Romantic era famous for the great stone face at the fronconia notch cliff |
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David Slater |
Famous for the monkey selfie picture where the monkey used the camera equipment |
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Venus of Willendorf, in museum of natural history in Vienna, Venus of Laussel is a relief on a stone slab and holds a horn in her hand |
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Cave Painting found at Les Trois Freres in France |
Painting of a man or maybe a spirit comprised of different animal parts, head of owl, horses tail, paws, human legs, could be a showman dressed up for magic or a god of all the animals |
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Western Europe set these Menhir |
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Dolmen |
Table like structure of 4 stones |
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Cromlech |
Megalithic culture created tombs |
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Stonehenge |
Circular Menhir that were used to determine the season- used two stones Sarsen (larger) and smaller ones called blue stone, Headstone only stone outside of structure to determine summer solstice |
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Three parts of soul and according to who |
Egyptians Ka- Part that stays with body and is preserved through mummification Ba- leaves body still interacts with descendents through dreams Akh- leaves body to go to the land of the gods and the soul is analysized by Osiris |
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Volumen |
Egyptian book in the form of a scroll made of papyrus |
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Kachina |
Wooden doll showing how animistic spirits look in hopi tribe |
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Fresco Technique |
painting on plaster used during Neolithic times for wall decoration |
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Mosaic |
Makes us of small pieces of colored stones put together to create a picture |
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Standard of Ur |
Mosaic produced by sumerian civilization and show cases of war on one side and peace on the other |
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Auroch |
giant wild bull, prehistoric europe |
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Onager |
wild donkey that was used for pulling wagons before horses were tamed. |
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Ursus spelaeus |
Cave bear |
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Sphinx |
Guarded temples and tombs in acient Egypt |
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Dogon |
ciances/ rituals for ancestoral pair |
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Djola |
Impluvium house |
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Bakota |
Guardian fetish |
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Songye |
Kifwebe mask |
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Mummification |
body is treated by removing inner organs and storing them in canopis jars. Body then wrapped in linen strips and placed in stone box called a sarcophagus. Hieroglyphics type of writing on the sarcophagus. This is put in a chamber under a building with a flat roof called a mastabe |
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Artisit, Two men, explain what they are doing |
Exikeus, two men Ajax and Achilles, they are playing mora a game like rock paper sissors and saying the numbers 3 and 4 |
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A. Pronaos B. Stylobate C. Opithodomos D. Naos |
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Name of Statue, What city, hands holding... given by to by who.. |
Venus De Milo, Paris, apple, Paris |
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Who is he and what was is idea |
Vincent Sully. He believed the parthenon had an spiritual energy that connected the earth to the heavens by an invisible obilisque pointing and extending into the heavens |
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Two Decorative motifs, explain the origins/ back story |
Rossette- flower pattern (geometric rose) that was used to represent Ishtar- God from Mesopotamia Guilloche- intertwining design of two snakes came from Ningizzida God of the Underworld |
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Explain scenes on vase |
ceramic called the Dipylon Krater depicts Greek Scenes: Prothesis- a funeral scene. image of the deceased with mourners surrounding him. Ekphora- funeral parade of horses and costumed men |
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Title, technique, man who discovered it, place found |
La Parisenne, Wet Fresco, found by sir Arthur Evans, Found at Knossos |
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Name, sculptor, Year, Technique |
Discobalos, Myron, 450, Eurythmia |
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Title, location, Date, period |
Plank Idols, Cycladic Islands, 3000-2000 BC, Neolithic |
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Common name, explain classical style |
The 3 fates thought to be fates but could be goddesses sculpted in different positions to give Eurhythmia (sitting up, leaning, lying down). Clothing had a west drapery effect which many Greek women copied. Sculpted by Phidius |
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Two Archaic art pieces |
Kouros and Kore first versian and Doric and Ionic style Korai |
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Two Hellenistic art pieces |
Venus De Milo and Bashful Venus |
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Dr. Seuss |
Mentioned due to the Spring Time Fresco and its flowers, birds and the random but vibrant colors |
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Greek Learned what from who |
How to colonize, trade, alphabet from the Phoenicians During Orientalizing Period |
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First Greak stone Statue |
Lady of Auxere |
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Labyrinth |
Palace of King Minos, meaning Hall of double Ax |
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Thesalocracy |
Rule of the sea- civilization of King Minos Must have worshipped bulls due to amount of pictures and statues of bulls |
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Fibula |
was a pin used to hold up the peplon dresses at the shoulders |
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Boustrophedon |
this was a way of writing left to right then right to left (like plowing a field) |
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Capital and three parts |
Head of Column -Abacus- square slab -Echinus- rounded cushion like form - Annulet- groove around top of the shaft |
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Phidias |
Famous sculptor known for contropposto who made the race warriors named after the location they were found and were made of Bronze |
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Chryselephantine- work of art |
mix of ivory and gold. Statue of Athena in the parthenon |
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Chlamys- work of art |
common clothing of a man. Seen in metopes of centaurs and lapiths |
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Golden Ratio |
Technique used since Greek times. Expressed by Greek Letter O with line through it for the sculptor Phidias |
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Minoan Hieroglyphics example |
Phystos Disk- writing form of early typography with letters being stamped in a circular pattern around the disc. Writing is unknown and nothing like it has ever been found for comparison |
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Obols |
thin bronze spits (small change in markets) |
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Drachma |
Handful of 6 obols equivalent to a pellet of silver |
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Pellet |
form of silver weighing 6.75 grams |
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Alexander coin |
worth 4 or five pellets or 25 grams of silver |
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Beardshear |
It has the same dimensions as the Parthenon and uses the Golden Ratio as well |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
said that art was successful when a dichotomy was incorporated. He believed that the Greeks were successful due to their incorporation of movement and structure. This was compared to the Greek God apollo who represents structure, wisdom and oder while the Greek God Dionysus who represents wine, drunkeness and disorder |
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Artist, Motif, How did it happen |
Callimachus, Corinthian, He was walking around the cemetary when he spotted an acanthus that was growing out of basket of food which was sitting on a grave marker. The basket had over grown the basket and the grave marker looked like a capital. |
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Name the city it was in, Name the frieze battle, Name the goddess and who she is able to kill and known who stopped her. |
Pergamon, Gigantomachy, Athena, Alkyoneus, Gaia |
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Name the Hero, know the artist who recognized it and for whom, how did he recognize it |
Laccon, Michaelangelo for the Pope, Pliny depicted it in his book |
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Chimera, apotropaic purposes |
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Tumuls, mound of earth that covers an underground grave chamber |
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Haruspex |
Divination where some practices telling the future by looking at organs of sacrificial animals |
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Augur |
another furtuen telling who tells the future by reading the flight of birds. They hold a lituus up to the sky which is basically a stick or rod with a spiral at the end of it |
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Gappeling Hook |
What the Romans used to win sea battles |
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What Etruscan custom did the Romans inherit when supporting a temple |
Podium |
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Give the three Roman qualities |
Pietas- duty Virtus- Manliness Imperium- Power to command others, a talent given to someone by the Gods |
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Name, Greek Technique, Wearing, figure at his feet, gesture |
Augustus, Contrapposto, Paludamentum, Cupid, Adlocutio |
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What plan was adopted for many early colonial cities |
Castrum Plan which is a grid plan with a a single entrance in each direction and in the middle was an open space for a forum |
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1 Vestibule 2 Atrium 3 Tablinium 4 Peristyle 5 Triclinium 6 Cubiculum |
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Thermopolium |
Where the romans in pompeii coul get hot fast food |
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Basilica |
Where Romans would have meetings, conventions and law trials |
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Clerestory |
Upper story of the basilica which was made up of windows |
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Aqueduct |
Roman architecture that supplied the cities fresh mountain water. Pont Du Gard was used to supply water to the roman capital of Gaul, Nimes. supplied 44 million gallons of water per day |
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Emperor Caracalla built it for the public 1 Changing rooms 2 Palestra-Open Gymnasium 3 Steam Bath 4 Calidarium- Hot bath 5 Tepidarium- Lukewarm bath 6 Frigidarium- Cold bath 7 Natatio- swimming pool |
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Catacombs |
Roman Christian burial chambers. Decorated with frescos of Daniel holding his arms out |
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Orans |
posture of holding arms out |
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Constantine |
Made christianity Legal |
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Basilica plan Atrium Nave Side Aisles Bema Apse |
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Atrium |
Spiritually preparing oneslef to enter the church and cleansing themselves in the fountain to wash away all evil |
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3 Barbarian letters and there meanings |
Fehu- Cattle Gebu- Gift Isa-ice |