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Give Title, found at, race of people, Period of technology

Give Title, found at, race of people, Period of technology

Chinese Horse, Lascaux Cave, Cromagnon, Paleolithic Technology

Type of Writing, found (Native language and English), Statues the place is famous for

Type of Writing, found (Native language and English), Statues the place is famous for

Rongorongo, Rapa Nui, Easter Island, Moai

Name of building the statue is in, Purpose/function of statue

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

Explain the scene

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

City its from, Goddess, Religious System, Time period

City its from, Goddess, Religious System, Time period

Babylon, Ishtar, Polygism, Bronze Age

Place, Race, Date

Place, Race, Date

Cave in Brungiel, France, Neolithic people, 176,000 y/o

Name, Temple of what god, City, Capital decoration

Name, Temple of what god, City, Capital decoration

hypostyle, horus, Edfu, lotus and papyrus leaves

What is it and its history

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

Structure, built by king... who rule... , Region

Structure, built by king... who rule... , Region

Citadel, Sargon, Assyrian, Mesopotamia

Town, Period, Date, material they traded

Town, Period, Date, material they traded

Catal Hoyuk, Neolithic, 7000 BC, Obsidian- volcanic

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

Apotropaic

To ward off evil

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

Pylon

large walls on both sides of the entrance to mortuary temples with relief carving and hieroglyphics

Benben

Pyramidal structure with hieroglyphics written with prayers to Ra that sits on top of obelisk

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Artist during Romantic era famous for the great stone face at the fronconia notch cliff

David Slater

Famous for the monkey selfie picture where the monkey used the camera equipment

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

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

Western Europe set these Menhir

Dolmen

Table like structure of 4 stones

Cromlech

Megalithic culture created tombs

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

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

Volumen

Egyptian book in the form of a scroll made of papyrus

Kachina

Wooden doll showing how animistic spirits look in hopi tribe

Fresco Technique

painting on plaster used during Neolithic times for wall decoration

Mosaic

Makes us of small pieces of colored stones put together to create a picture

Standard of Ur

Mosaic produced by sumerian civilization and show cases of war on one side and peace on the other

Auroch

giant wild bull, prehistoric europe

Onager

wild donkey that was used for pulling wagons before horses were tamed.

Ursus spelaeus

Cave bear

Sphinx

Guarded temples and tombs in acient Egypt

Dogon

ciances/ rituals for ancestoral pair

Djola

Impluvium house

Bakota

Guardian fetish

Songye

Kifwebe mask

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

Artisit, Two men, explain what they are doing

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

A. Pronaos


B. Stylobate


C. Opithodomos


D. Naos

Name of Statue, What city, hands holding... given by to by who..

Name of Statue, What city, hands holding... given by to by who..

Venus De Milo, Paris, apple, Paris

Who is he and what was is idea

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

Two Decorative motifs, explain the origins/ back story

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

Explain scenes on vase

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

Title, technique, man who discovered it, place found

Title, technique, man who discovered it, place found

La Parisenne, Wet Fresco, found by sir Arthur Evans, Found at Knossos

Name, sculptor, Year, Technique

Name, sculptor, Year, Technique

Discobalos, Myron, 450, Eurythmia

Title, location, Date, period

Title, location, Date, period

Plank Idols, Cycladic Islands, 3000-2000 BC, Neolithic

Common name, explain classical style

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

Two Archaic art pieces

Kouros and Kore first versian and Doric and Ionic style Korai

Two Hellenistic art pieces

Venus De Milo and Bashful Venus

Dr. Seuss

Mentioned due to the Spring Time Fresco and its flowers, birds and the random but vibrant colors

Greek Learned what from who

How to colonize, trade, alphabet from the Phoenicians


During Orientalizing Period

First Greak stone Statue

Lady of Auxere

Labyrinth

Palace of King Minos, meaning Hall of double Ax

Thesalocracy

Rule of the sea- civilization of King Minos


Must have worshipped bulls due to amount of pictures and statues of bulls

Fibula

was a pin used to hold up the peplon dresses at the shoulders

Boustrophedon

this was a way of writing left to right then right to left (like plowing a field)

Capital and three parts

Head of Column


-Abacus- square slab


-Echinus- rounded cushion like form


- Annulet- groove around top of the shaft

Phidias

Famous sculptor known for contropposto who made the race warriors named after the location they were found and were made of Bronze

Chryselephantine- work of art

mix of ivory and gold. Statue of Athena in the parthenon

Chlamys- work of art

common clothing of a man. Seen in metopes of centaurs and lapiths

Golden Ratio

Technique used since Greek times. Expressed by Greek Letter O with line through it for the sculptor Phidias

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

Obols

thin bronze spits (small change in markets)

Drachma

Handful of 6 obols equivalent to a pellet of silver

Pellet

form of silver weighing 6.75 grams

Alexander coin

worth 4 or five pellets or 25 grams of silver

Beardshear

It has the same dimensions as the Parthenon and uses the Golden Ratio as well

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

Artist, Motif, How did it happen

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.

Name the city it was in, 

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

Name the Hero, know the artist who recognized it and for whom, how did he recognize it

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

Chimera, apotropaic purposes

Tumuls, mound of earth that covers an underground grave chamber

Haruspex

Divination where some practices telling the future by looking at organs of sacrificial animals

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

Gappeling Hook

What the Romans used to win sea battles

What Etruscan custom did the Romans inherit when supporting a temple

Podium

Give the three Roman qualities

Pietas- duty


Virtus- Manliness


Imperium- Power to command others, a talent given to someone by the Gods

Name, Greek Technique, Wearing, figure at his feet, gesture

Name, Greek Technique, Wearing, figure at his feet, gesture

Augustus, Contrapposto, Paludamentum, Cupid, Adlocutio

What plan was adopted for many early colonial cities

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

1 Vestibule


2 Atrium


3 Tablinium


4 Peristyle


5 Triclinium


6 Cubiculum

Thermopolium

Where the romans in pompeii coul get hot fast food

Basilica

Where Romans would have meetings, conventions and law trials

Clerestory

Upper story of the basilica which was made up of windows

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

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

Catacombs

Roman Christian burial chambers. Decorated with frescos of Daniel holding his arms out

Orans

posture of holding arms out

Constantine

Made christianity Legal

Basilica plan


Atrium


Nave


Side Aisles


Bema


Apse

Atrium

Spiritually preparing oneslef to enter the church and cleansing themselves in the fountain to wash away all evil

3 Barbarian letters and there meanings

Fehu- Cattle


Gebu- Gift


Isa-ice