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29 Cards in this Set
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Oceania Regions
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Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia
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Inca Empire
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1438-1532
located in Pre - Columbian America 13th century Architecture, Ceramics, Precious metal works and textiles. The Incas were very advanced for their time. they were the best at their stone work and building creations. They chose to do things in the most difficult way possible but their buildings were incredibly strong. You couldnt even fit a piece of paper in between the stones. |
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Ashlar Masonry
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Ashlar blocks are very large rectangular stones that are shaped to have pointed corners and smooth faces on the stones.
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Beveling
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A line or surface that meets another at a 90 degree angle.
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Cuzco
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Is the capital of the Inca empire.
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Steel Frame construction
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A perimeter frame that reinforces the stonework.
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Prairie Style construction
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Architecture with horizontal building lines and open interior spaces.
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I - beam
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Allows for higher ceilings and resists forces pushing against the building.
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International Architecture
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Modernist Architecture
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Temple of the Sun
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15th century
Ashlar masonry Cuzco |
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Machu Picchu
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1450 - 1530
Originally built to be an estate for the Inca emperor. It is referred to as the lost city of the Incas. |
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Tunic (Wool and Cotton weave)
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1500
Bright warm colored tunic, probably worn by a worrior because of the designs in the squares all over the tunic. |
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Llama figurine
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Silver
15th century Represented a childs toy or used in some kind of sacrificial ritual. |
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Ouipu
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Alpaca and other fibers
15th century Worn by tax collectors of the inca emperor, and was a way of keeping track of peoples money expenses and the expenses of the city. It was like a computer made of string. |
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Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Mans Love Story
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Synthetic Polymer on canvas
1978 Australia Colorful Squiggly Embroidered lines |
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Tamberan House
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20th century
Melanesia Indian style looking house made with bamboo looking woods used for ceremonial purposes and the men of the tribe. |
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Ancestor Spirit Poles
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wood paint leaves and fibers
1960 Melanesia very slender and decorative. |
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Kearney Cloak
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red yellow black feathers and netting
1843 Polynesia A cloak that just hangs around the shoulders. |
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Maori Carved Panels
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wood and shell
18th century pillar sized panels with large faces on them doing odd things with the tongue or mouth |
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Raharuhi Rukupo
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Maori Meeting house
Wood shell grass and paint 1842 - 1843 very decorated with designs and faces of the maori carvings. |
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Francois Boucher
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Diana Resting after her bath
oil on canvas 1742 Diana and her friend shown naked on the edge of the riverbank a scene not meant to be sexual |
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
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The meeting
oil on canvas 1771- 1773 Woman of higher class meeting a man she wasnt supposed to be meeting in a garden trying not to be seen. |
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Angelica Kauffmann
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Cornelia pointing to her children
oil on canvas 1785 tan plain walls with large windows in the background and warm colors on the peoples clothes. |
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M.-L.-E. Vigee-le-Brun
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portrait of marie antoinette with her children
1787 pictured in a large red dress with her three small children and an empty baby carriage for the dead child |
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Jacques-Louis David
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The Oath of the Horatii
oil on canvas 1784 - 1785 three arches with black in everyone so they frame the three groupings of people in front of them. |
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Jacques-Louis David
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The Death of Marat
1793 the man that was killed in his bathtub because he had to do all his paper work there due to a skin disease |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
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Large Odalisque
1814 naked woman laying with her back to us. very long looking back. |
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Theodore Gericault
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The Raft of the Medusa
1818 - 1819 raft covered in dead people with medusa sailing it. |
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Francisco Goya
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Third of May, 1808
1814 - 15 a line of men shooting another line of men directly across from them. |
