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76 Cards in this Set
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Women from Willendorf
Upper Paleolithic Period 22,000 BCE |
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Hall of Bulls
Upper Paleolithic Period Lascaux 14,000 BCE |
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Bird-headed Man with Bison
Upper Paleolithic Period Lascaux 14,000 BCE |
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Stele of Naram-Sin
Ancient Near East/Mesopotamia 2250 BCE |
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Votive Statues from Tell Asmar
Ancient Near East/Sumer 2900-2600 BCE |
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Nanna Ziggurat
Ancient Near East Ur 2100 BCE |
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Votive of Gudea
Ancient Near East 2100 BCE |
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Menkaure and a Queen
Early Dynastic and Old Kingdom Egypt 2500 BCE |
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cornice
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topmost element of the entablature; horizontal decorative molding
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frieze
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wide central section part of an entablature; under the crown moldings or cornice; may depict scenes
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triglyph
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vertically channeled tablets of the Doric frieze
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metope
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The rectangular recessed spaces between the triglyphs on a Doric frieze
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architrave
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the lintel or beam that rests on the capitals of the columns in Classical architecture
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entablature
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superstructure of moldings and bands which lie horizontally above columns; consist of architrave, frieze, and cornice
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capital
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forms the topmost member of a column; mediates between the column and the load thrusting down upon it
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shaft
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The capital rests on the shaft; the longest part of the column
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stylobate
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The platform or base of the entire building
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Doric; oldest and plainest; Shafts are fluted and rise directly from the stylobase with a base
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Ionic; more elongated proportions; height is nine times its diameter; flutes are deeper and separated by fillets; capitals have distinctive volutes
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Anavysos Kouros
Archaic Period 530 BCE |
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Kritios Boy
Early Classical Period 480 BCE |
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Acropolis
High Classical Period Athens 400 BCE |
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Parthenon
High Classical Period Athens by Kallikrates and Iktinos 447-432 BCE |
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peristyle
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single or double row of free standing columns
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cella or naos
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main room of a Greek temple
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Lapith and Centaur, Parthenon Metope
High Classical Period 440 BCE |
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Marshals and Women, from Panathenaic Frieze on Parthenon
High Classical 435 BCE |
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Doryphorus (Spear Bearer)
by Polykleitos High Classical Period 450 BCE |
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The Canon of Polykleitos
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what Polykleitos considered the ideal human figure; demonstrated by Doryphorus; a system of rations between a basic unit and length of various body parts
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Hermes and Infant Dionysos
Late Classical Period by Praxiteles 300 BCE |
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Market Woman
Hellenistic 1st cent BCE |
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Aulus Metellus (Orator)
Republican Period 100 BCE |
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barrel vault
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an architectural element formed by the extrusion of a single curve along a given distance
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groin vault
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produced by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults. The word groin refers to the edge between the intersecting vaults
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buttress
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an architectural structure built against or projecting from a wall which serves to support or reinforce the wall.
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jamb
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The vertical components that form the sides of a door frame, window frame, or fireplace, or other opening in a wall
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voussoir
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a wedge-shaped element, typically a stone, used in building an arch or vault
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keystone
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wedge-shaped stone piece at the apex of a masonry vault or arch, which is the final piece placed during construction and locks all the stones into position, allowing the arch to bear weigh
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Patrician Carrying Two Portrait Busts of His Ancestors
The Republican Period 1st century BCE |
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Augustus of Primaporta
Republican Period 20 BCE |
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Ara Pacis (Altar of Peace)
Republican Period Rome 13-9 BCE |
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Imperial Procession from Ara Pacis
Republican Period 13-9 BCE |
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21 Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
Imperial Rome Rome 80 CE |
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Model of Roman and Imperial Rome
Imperial Rome 324 CE |
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Pantheon
Imperial Rome Rome 125 CE |
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Equestrian Monument of Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Imperial Rome 175 CE |
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Commodos as Hercules
Imperial Rome 190 CE |
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Tetrarch (Galerius?)
The Late Empire early 4th c. |
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Constantine the Great
The Late Empire 325 CE |
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Arch of Constantine
The Late Empire Rome 315 CE |
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Old St. Peter’s
Early Christian Rome 4th cent CE |
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Sta Costanza, plan and section
Early Christian Rome 350 CE |
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longitudinal basilica
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characterized by a forecourt (the atrium) leading to an entrance porch
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central-plan church
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A church that has a design with a primary central space surrounded by symmetrical areas around each side.
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nave
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long, congregational area
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clerestory
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upper level under the ceiling; rises above the side aisles' roof
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apse
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semicircular projection; functions as the building's focal point where the alter is located
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transept
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a wing that crosses the nave in front of the apse; makes the building T shaped
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Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Early Christian Ravenna, Italy 425 |
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Mosaic of Good Shepherd in Galla Placidia
Early Christian 425 |
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Hagia Sophia
Early Byzantine Constantinople (Istanbul) 535 CE |
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pendentive
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constructive device permitting the placing of a circular dome over a square room or an elliptical dome over a rectangular room; triangular segments of a sphere; make dome feel like it's floating
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squinch
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diagonal lintels; dome sits on this bracket like construction
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Church of San Vitale and mosaics
Early Byzantine Ravenna 6th century |
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Dome of the Rock
Early Caliphate/Islamic art Jerusalem 692 CE |
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Great Mosque
Early Caliphate/Islamic art Cordoba (Spain) 785 CE begun |
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Great Mosque Cordoba dome over mihrab
Early Caliphate/Islamic art 965 CE |
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Chi Rho Iota page from Book of Kells
Early Medieval and Romanesque 800 |
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Stave Church
Early Medieval and Romanesque Borgund Norway 1125-1150. |
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Palace Chapel of Charlemagne
Early Medieval and Romanesque Aachen (Germany) 800 |
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St Matthew the Evangelist Coronation Gospels
Early Medieval and Romanesque early 9th cent |
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St Matthew the Evangelist, Ebbo Gospels- Crucifixion with angels and mourning figures
Early Medieval and Romanesque 825-850 CE |
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Saint Cyriakus
Early Medieval and Romanesque Gernrode, Germany 975 |
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Cathedral of Saint James
Romanesque Santiago de Compostela (Spain) 1100 |
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Last Judgment Tympanum at Saint-Lazare
Romanesque Autun (France) by Gislebertus 1125 |
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Virgin and Child
Romanesque late 12th cent |
