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- Woman from Willendorf
- nude female figure
- palcolinthic period
- limstone
- 11cm high
- 24,000 BCE
- from austria
- tell its a female by gental hips breast
- furtity figure= well nurished body
- no feet no face
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- Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison
- paleolithic period
- chauvet cave, france
- 32,000-30,000 bce
- painted on limestone
- hundreds of paintings
- named after person who found it.
- artist adapt to wall when painting
- holy sacred place
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- Wall painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses and Aurochs
- paleolithic period
- Lascaux cave
- tells a story
- only one to tell story
- 15,000 bce
- painted on limestone
- 9' long
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- carved vessel from uruk
- summerian
- alabaster
- 3300-3000 bce
- 36" high
- twisted perspective
- humans, animals, plants, river
- larger things most imporant
- no scene faces
- ruler, humans, animal, plants
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- soundbox of the grear lyre
- summerian
- muqaiyir, iraq
- 2600-2500 bce
- wood with gold, silver, lapis, lazuli, bitumen and shell
- 14" high
- max length 55 1/2 in
- found in grave
- religious cermony
- university of penn. museum of archo and anthro
- bull in important
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- stele of naram-sin
- akkadians
- susa, iran
- 6'6" high
- limstone
- 2254-2218 bce
- marker or stone
- expression of power
- proaganda
- banners are symbols of the kingdom
- stele is large stone
- largest person in scene is naramsin
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- nanna ziggurat
- Muqaiyir, iraq
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- votive statue of gudea, girsu
- akkiadian
- Telloh, Iraq
- diorite
- 2090 bce
- 20" high
- many of them made
- praying
- message of a biast king
- timelessness and permints=2
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- assurbanipal and his queen in the garden
- assyrian empire
- the palace at nineveh
- 647 bce
- alabaster
- 21" high
- good life
- "good to be king"
- spendor
- eat, drink married, kill
- relax after hunting
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- ishtar gate
- akkadian empire
- babylon, iraq
- glazed brick
- 575 bce
- 40'
- blue (rare color)
- rebuilt in berlin
- animal relief
- splendor= beaty and power
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- darius and xerxes receving trubute
- persian empire
- persepolis
- limestone
- 491-486 bce
- 8' 4"
- gards
- sign of respect
- splender and ritual
- royal ritual
- religous practice
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- palette of king narmer
- ancient egypt
- hierankopolis
- green schist
- 2950 bce
- 25" high
- twisted body
- nobal body
- killing someone
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- step pyramid and mortuary
- ancient egypt
- funerary complex of djoser, saqqara
- limestone
- hight of pyramid 204 feet
- imhotep is arch.
- tomb for after life
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- Khafre from the vally temple of khafre
- ancient egypt
- Dynasty 4
- Giza
- Diorite-gabbro gneiss
- 2520-2494 bce
- 66"
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- reconstruction of the great temple of amun
- ancient egypt
- old kingdom
- karnak
- 2600- 2550 bc
- khafre 2575-2525 bc
- menkaure 2525-2475 bc
- elevated walk aways
- extra building surrounding pyramid
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- funerary temple of hatshepsut
- new kingdom
- ancient egypt
- deir el bahri
- 18th dynasty
- 1478- 1458- bce
- first female pharo
- made herself look manly
- worked more towards rights
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- hypostyle hall temple of amen-re
- new kingdom
- acient egypt
- karnak
- 19th cynasty
- 1292-1190 bce
- clear story level
- captial- transition part of the column design with flower and gods
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- Queen Tiye
- ancient egypt
- 18th dynasty
- 1352 bce
- boxwood, ebony, glass,silver, gold
- cloth
- clay
- 3.75" high
- age= lines
- mother of akhenaten
- details
- mixed media
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- akhenaten and family
- tell el- amama
- 18th dynasty
- 1353- 1336 bce
- 12.25"x 15.25"
- suken relief pannel
- carved into stone
- nefertiti fav wife her 3 kids
- loving family
- custructed images
- imporant gesters lead eye around
- god of the sun aten
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- nefertini from akhetaten
- limestone
- egypt
- 18th dynast
- 1353-1336 bce
- 20"
- fav wife
- details in face
- crown looks top heavy
- women
- portait
- in berlin
- stone in right eye
- jaw line, lips, cheek bone, ears
- gracefulness
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- temple of ramses II
- anceint egypt
- abu simbel
- 19th dynasty
- 1279- 1213 bce
- cut and moved wouldnt damaged
- 4 years
- row of bamboons- watchers of the dawn
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- funerary mask of king tut
- death mask
- tomb at thebes
- 18th dynasty
- 1332-1322 bce
- nephue of akten
- died young
- found body remains intact untouched
- sold gold
- death mask lapis and turquoise
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- queen nefertari making an offering to isis
- wall painting in tomb of nefertari
- valley of the queens
- 19th dynasty
- 1290-1224 bce
- dry fresco method
- plaster of stone then carve & paint
- ankh- symbol of life
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- judgement of hunefer before osiris
- 19th dynasty
- 1285 bce
- painted papyrus
- 15 5/8" high
- book of the dead
- how to dye
- scroll
- heart had to be lighter then feather
- end with osiris
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- reconstruction of the palace
- bronze age
- knossos
- crete island
- 2000-1375 bce
- late palace period
- no king or queen
- bureacratic monoarchy
- 300 years lasted
- greek myth connected to palace
- built on valcano rubble
- central court
- made out of stonebuilt on slope
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- Bull- leaping
- bronze age
- wall painting with areas of modern reconstruction the palace
- knossos
- 1550-1450 bce
- 24.5"
- action scene left to right
- hold on bull horns- handstand- land
- decoration on wall
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- women of goddess with snakes
- bronze age
- palace complex at knossos
- 1700-1550 bce
- 11- 5/8" high
- power
- women important
- snakes healing
- glazed
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- octopus flask
- bronze age
- palaikastro, crete
- 1500- 1450 bce
- ceramic
- 11"
- marine style
- more was more
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- girl gathering saffron crocus flowers
- bronze age
- wall painting
- room 3 of xeste 3,
- akrotiri, thera
- 1630 bce
- decoration
- safron cooking
- upper class- covered jewerly
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- spring fresco
- bronze age
- akotiri, thera
- before 1630 bce
- center of valcano
- perseved from valcano
- wall paper- look nice
- birds, trees, flowers
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- lion gate
- bronze age
- mycenae
- 1250 bce
- 9'6" high
- relief carving
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- teasury of atreus
- bronze age
- dromos- walkway
- tholos(round stucture) with corbeled vault 47'6"
- diameter 43'
- 1300-1200 bce
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- funerary mask of agamemnon
- bronze age
- grave circle
- mycenae
- 1600-1550 bce
- beaten gold
- 12"
- death mask
- beard
- 19th centry king
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technique in which a deisng or inscription is cut into a hard surface with a sharp instrument. Such a surface is said to be incised.
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Post and Lintel architecture
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an architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements(posts) supporting a horizontal element(lintel) |
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an early roofing and arching technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer( acorbel) until the uppermost corbels meet. Results in a high, alomost pointed arch or vault. |
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- an early form of writing with wedge-shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylus primarily used by ancient Mesopotamians. |
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the principal interior room at the center of a Greek or roman temple within which the cult statue was usually housed. Also called the naos. |
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1. Stela (Stele) plural stelae
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a Stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs. Used as a grave marker or memorial. |
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In Mesopotamia, tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine. |
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- a device used in systems of spatial definition, register indicates the use of differing grounfline to differentiate layers of space within an image. In sculpture the placement of self contained bands of reliefs in a vertical arrangement |
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the use of different sizes for powerful or holy figures and for ordinary people to indicate relative importance. The larger the figure the greater the importance |
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Supernatural guardian protector of ancient near eastern palaces and throne room, often represented sculpturally as a combination of the bearded head of a man, powerful body of a lion or bull wings of a eagle and the horned headdress of a god usually possessing five legs. |
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special jars used to store the major organs of a body before embalming found in ancient Egyptian culture. |
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any support. Also masonry supporting a statue of the shaft of a column |
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the main vertical section of a column between the capital and the base, usually circular in cross section |
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the sculpted block that tops a column. According to the convention of the orders captials including different decorative elements. |
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- in architecture evenly spaced rounded parallel vertical grooves incised on shafts of columns or columnar elements. |
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a massive gateway formed by a pair of tapering walls of oblong shape. Erected by ancient Egyptians to mark the entrance to a temple. |
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when the image is carved below the orginal surface of the background wish is not cut away. |
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book that showed how to die proberly to make it to the after life |
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in Egyptian tombs the small room in which the ka statue was placed |
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a flat- topped, one story structure with slated walls over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb. |
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a large cemetery or burial area; literally a “city of the dead” |
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a column attached to a wall. |
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a large interior roo characterized by many closely spaced columns that support its roof. |
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architect that went to oxford
assumed that the god were real |
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author of the iliad and odyssey
about the greek gods and their storys |
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homer wrote about the greek gods |
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island that Valcano errupted covering the whole island greeks built ontop of the rubble |
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the oldest city states Ancient near east |
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a celebration of something |
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statues within the temple |
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the side view of your face |
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- military contracions and buildings designed for defence |
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brilliant and gorgeous appearance, coloring, magnificence |
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a system of collection of religious or other |
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flat surface used for painting |
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- believed to live within the body during life to survive after death |
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a painting technique in which water-based pigments are applied to a surface of wet plaster. The coloris abosorbed by the plaster becoming perminate part of the wall. |
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a stone coffin. Often rectangular and decorated with relief sculpture |
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a type of ceramic covered with colorful, opaque glazes that form a smooth, impermeable surface. First developed in ancient Greece |
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a vault made by projecting courses of stone |
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technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer( a corbel) until the uppermost corbels meet. Results in a high, almost pointed arch or vault |
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a small round building sometimes built underground, as in a Mycenaean tomb |
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