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apollo 11 cave , Namibia, 23,000 BCE, Paleolithic-old stone, Africa, Charcoal, Ocher-iron ore, seen in profile
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eurpeon painting found in Altimira, spain, 15,000-10,000, Bison images
multiple paintings at different times each Bison is about 5' long mixed with animal fat used bulge of rock to depict 3D Bison |
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Axial Gallery
Lascaux france 15,00-13,000 BCE No humans No narrative and painted at different times composition profile-addition to profile |
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Ritual Dance?
Grotta Addaura Sicily ca. 10,000 BCE upper paleolithic 1rst humans all male |
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“Venus”
of Willendorf Austria 25,000-20,000 BCE totum of fertility no face concentration on the body limestone |
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Horse, Vogelherd (Germany), ca. 28,000 BCE
amulet/jewlry made out of raindeer antler |
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era?
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Bison, La Madeleine (France), 15,000-10,000BCE
spear thrower-tool burin-shape pointed tool used to make detail paleolithic |
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Hybrid figure
Hohlenstein-Stadel Germany 40,000-28,000 BCE Mammoth tusk 12" tall Human body feline face Shaminism-spirits, preists, or mediators transforming oneself |
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Jericho
ca. 7000 BCE great stone tower built into the settlement wall, Jericho Jericho was protected by 5' walls and atleast one stone tower 33' high and 33' in diameter |
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Plastered skull
Jericho ca. 7000 BCE buried the dead in the floors of their houses except the head seperate and displayed decorated with shells |
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era?
what god? |
Human figures???
neolithic Ain Ghazal Jordan ca. 6750-6250 BCE The Enuma Elisha The chief god of the babylonians described as two heads a metaphor for infinite beauty (mardok) |
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Hassuna pottery, Iraq, ca. 6000-5000
Fired paintings inspire by animal skins or baskets |
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what era?
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Çatal Hüyük, ca. 6000-5700
turkey neolithic no doors went in through roof kind of fortification divided up into activity spaces each had a platform |
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Shrine, Çatal Hüyük, ca. 6000-5700
decor for religious worship. Getting a story narrative 1rst time. Masculine spirit hunting |
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“Goddess” relief, Çatal Hüyük
ca. 6000-5700 |
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Volcano and town
Çatal Hüyük , ca. 6000 BCE earliest landscape painting Hasan Dag volcano.. |
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where
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Female figure
Cernavoda Romania ca. 3500 BCE fired clay came from a tomb thoughtful passive poses geometric/reduction |
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Menhir alignment
Menec (France), ca. 4250-3750 BCE Interest in building conlstruction of very large stone Megolithic-big stone vertical going from east to west 3-13' Menhir |
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Dolmen
Tall al-`Umayri Jordan ca. 3000 BCE rooked structures=dolmen burial place of multiple plaster floor renovated 2 dozen burials |
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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, ca. 2100 BCE
built over centuries ditch around it faces east made of sarsen blue stones direction the sun rises during winter solstice |
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White Temple, Uruk, ca. 3500-3000 BCE
temple controlled everthing home for a god represented by an image mud-bricks white wash large platforms bent axis approach cella-center room sumarian |
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White Temple, Warka, ca. 3500-3000
only intended for certain people raises higher to get closer to the gods highley decorated w/ colored cones pushed into mud brick some flowers |
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Inanna?
Uruk ca. 3200- 3000 BCE extremly expensive head Ishtar female rest of body would have been wooden maybe covered Acrolithic-exposed parts are wooden, rest less desirable material sumarian |
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Warka Vase
Uruk sumarian ca. 3200-3000 BCE alabaster vase-carved from stone presentation of offering to inanna from Urak (modern Warka) Iraq blank space-register levels of importance |
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Abu Temple statues, Tell Asmar, ca. 2700-2500 BCE
sumarian made of gypsome inlayed eyes called lapris lazuli(important material) |
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Royal Standard of Ur, ca. 2600 BCE
sumarian introduction of a king above temple rise of monarchy found by lenard wooly top panel-war bottom panel -peace hierachy of scaLE cenagers=chariots wooden panels, seashells, lapris lazeril, bitumen |
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Goat in Thicket
Ur sumarian ca. 2600 BCE goat in thicket gold foil lapris lazerith cup holder to make an offering Tammur god |
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what style is it in?
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Bull lyre
Ur sumarian ca. 2600 BCE found in cemetary harp of a sort head wraped in gold foil inlayed panel -mesopatamian mythology style-Heraldic compostion hybrid creatures sumarian |
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which ruler?
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Akkadian ruler
Nineveh ca. 2250-2200 BCE bronze (naramsin)-probably dating to sargos grandson eyes were inlayed damaged on purpose around 600 BC probably stood 1600 years city was attacked by persians |
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for who?
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Ziggurat of King Urnammu, Ur, ca. 2100 BCE
Neo-sumarian period mudbrick inside-outside baked artificial mountain axix approuch Iraq one of the largest in mesopotamia |
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Head of Gudea
Lagash neo-sumarian ca. 2100 BCE carved in hard stone (diorite) |
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what era?
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Seated Gudea
Girsu neo-sumarian ca. 2100 BCE hands clasped presenting plans for temple for Niniorsu 1rst known building plan |
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where was it found?
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Stele with
Law Code of Hammurabi babylonian ca. 1760 BCE cration of legal code 8' babylon king and god (shalmash) 3,500 codes shows some educated society(literacy) 8 horned hat a coil rope and measuring rod-symbolic for building found in susa |
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Lamassu
Citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin, 742-706 BCE entrance to plalace horned hats (dietys) assyrian |
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Palace of Sargon II
Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin) ca. 725 shaking holy water purifying |
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Palace of Sargon II
Khorsabad (Dur Sharrukin) ca. 725 purifying water |
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Ziggurat
Palace of Sargon II Kh orsabad (Dur Sharrukin) ca. 725 bent axis painted dif colors |
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Fugitives crossing the river
Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud, BCE 883-859 assyrian ashur.....Succesor of Sargon specific battle (878BCE) enemys holding inflated animal skins bows go behind the head in order that it might me easier to understand 10' |
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Lion Hunt
Palace of Ashurbanipal II, Nineveh, ca. 645 BCE hunt of vicous animals assyrian |
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Ishtar Gate
Babylon neo-babylonian ca. 575 BCE babylon rises again the old testament babylon animals on gateway Mardok god (dragon) chief god adad ( bull) colored bricks raises from the surface first true arch crenellations (on top) look like ziggurat Iraq under king Nebuchadnezzar II |
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Palace of
Darius and Xerxes Persepolis 518-460 BCE persians were nomads up until the 6th century |
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Gate of Xerxes
Persepolis ca. 450 lammasu they were interested in their pre-decestors |
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Audience Hall (apadana), Persepolis, ca. 500
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Tripylon, Persepolis, ca. 450
broad staircases taking past relief sculptures |
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King
Apadana Persepolis ca. 500 entrance king is on the door always present abstacted connedtion between persia and greece sculpture may have been done by a greek bird is the persian god (ahura Masda) |
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Darius and Xerxes, Persepolis, ca. 500
king reciaving guests his son behind him |
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Bull capital
Persepolis ca. 500 BCE columns are decorated w/ animals 2 bulls + ornate scrolls ionic order columns volutes top is called the capital |
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Rhyton
5th-3rd c. BCE solid gold drinking orn (rhyton) shape of bull horn luxiury item made w/ multiple pieces persian |
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time of Sumarian art
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3500-2332 BCE
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sumarians founded the worlds first city states in the valley between______ and ______ and invented writing in the ___ millennium
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tigris
euphrates fourth |
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ziggurats were built by..
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Sumarians
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these were the first to place figures in registers to tell a coherent story
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Sumarians
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Time of Akkadian art
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2332-2150 BCE
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these were the first to call themselves kings and assume divine attributes.
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Akkadians
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The earliest recorded name of an author is..
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The Akkadian priestess Enheduanna
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Time of Neo-Sumarian and Babylonian art
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2150-1600 BCE
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during the ____ of Ur, the sumarians rose again to power and constructed one of the largest ziggurats in Mesopotamia at Ur.
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3rd dynasty
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Babylons greatest king, ________, established a comprehensive law code for the empire he ruled.
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Hammurabi
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who was the first to use forshortening??
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Babylons
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Time of Assyrian art
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900-612 BCE
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At the hiegth of thheir power, the Assyrians ruled an empire that extended?
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from the Persian gulf to the Nile and Asia Minor
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Lamassus are made by
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The assyrians
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Painted reliefs of lion hunt scenes are by the
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Assyrians
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Time of Neo-babylonian and Persian Art
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612-330 BCE
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In the ___ century the Babylonians constructed two of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Which two?
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The Ishtar Gate and the ziggurat ( tower of babylon)
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The capital of Achaemenid Persians was at Persepolis, where ____ and ____ ruled
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Darius I and Xerxes
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who conquerd the persian empire and when?
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Alexander the Great in 330 BCE
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list the Ancient near east art in order
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Sumarian
Akkadian Neo-Sumarian Babylonian Assyrian neo-babylonian and persian |
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paleolithic art
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30,000-9000 BCE
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Neolithic art
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8000-2300 BCE
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who grouped the pharoahs into catagorys?
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Manetho-egyptian priest
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what allowed to the understanding of the egyptian language??
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The discovery of the rosetta stone
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About when did upper and lower egypt unite? and under whos rule?
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3000 BCE
Namer |
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Hieroglyphics
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writing system using pictures
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Ben-Ben was symbolic of?
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the sun and the creation of earth
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Amon-Ra
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Sun god
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Palette of Narmer, from Hierakonopolis, 3150-3125 BCE
predynastic stone tablet made of slate commemorates unification of egypt Horus is represented by a falcon make-up Pallete |
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mastaba means?
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bench(egyptian)
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what is th Ka?
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The spirit (egyptian)
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what is a Heb-Sed festival??
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celebration for pharoahs Jubilee
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Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafra, and Khufu, Giza
built in the fourth dynasty Old kingdom related to creation story oreinted toward the rising sun Ben-Ben |
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which pyramid is the oldest and largest?
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the one Built for Khufu
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how tall was the highest pyramid? how wide? how many stones?
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450'-480' Tall
775 ft wide 2 1/2 million |
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Great Sphinx, Giza, 2570-2544
infront of Kafra |
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Khafra
Giza ca. 2500 BCE diorite linen headress is called-Nemes Horus is behind him depicted as youthful scarabe beetle in his hand (rebirth/sungod) fourth dynasty |
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Menkaure and
Khamerenebty Giza ca. 2490-2472 Gesture implies marrage his weight is distributed no texture |
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what dynasty?
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Mastaba of Ti, Saqqara, ca. 2450
relief Ti was an overseer hunting hippo's composite prospective natural contest ( trees and animals above) 5th Dynasty old kingdom |
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Ka-Aper
Saqqara ca. 2450 overseer made of wood inlayed eyes protruding belly(sign of wealth) |
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Ka-Aper
Saqqara ca. 2450 overseer made of wood inlayed eyes protruding belly(sign of wealth) |
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Seated scribe
Giza ca. 2450 limestone painted darker skin (male) belly=success in life fourth dynasty( old kingdom) |
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Pepy II and
his mother ca. 2325 pharoah shows emotion and age New kingdom 12th dynasty red quarzite |
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Tomb of Amennehmet, Beni Hasan
ca. 1950-1900 BCE 12th dynasty middle kingdom |
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Hatshepsut
Deir el-Bahari 1475-1450 female pharoah married to Thutmose II (died young) new kingdom |
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Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari, ca. 1478-1458 BCE
multi level rows of columns ascending street lined with sphynxes 18th dynasty new kingdom |
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Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahari, 1475-1450
shows a trip to punt to find trees for the temple (mrryh trees) obese wife |
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where?
whos tomb? what dynasty? |
Musicians and dancers, Thebes ca. 1350 BCE
in a tomb of Nebamun banquet associated with funeral 18th dynasty fresco frontal veiws deviating from the typical egyptian art |
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Akhenaten
Karnak, Thebes 1353-1335 BCE first name (Amenhotep IV) 18th dynasty sandstone first king to institute new religion (sun disk "aton") monotheism declared new capital ( amarna) art changed dramatically to stretched features and sagging bellly genderless |
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Akhenaten and family, ca. 1355 BCE from amarna)
Nefertiti-wife 18th dynasty limestone 3 chidren rays of sunlight having hands(Aton) shows an intamacy never before seen in egyptian art |
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Queen Tiy
1352 BCE from Ghurab 18th dynasty dark yew wood with gold and silver alabaster and lapis lazuli signs of age |
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Queen Nefertiti
Amarna 1348-1336 BCE 18th dynasty limestone |
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Tutankhamun
coffin cover 1325 BCE innermost part of coffin gold throughout only tomb not robbed 18th dynasty |
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Who excavated the tomb of Tutankhamen?
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Howard Carter
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ovals called Cartouches
had name with it |
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hypostale hall?
clerestory? |
Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak
Hypostale hall-concentrated columns 66' high 22' in diameter clerestory-space lifted up(like windows) 19th dynasty new kingdom |
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where?
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Temple of Amun-Ra
Karnak hyroglyphic writings sunken reliefs were popular in the new kingdom |
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Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel, ca. 1279-1213 BCE
rock cut tomb 65' high children inbetween his feet 19th dynasty sandstone |
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Temple of Ramses II
Abu Simbel 1279-1213 BCE 29th dynasty sandstone humanlike columns |
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First named architect?
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Imhotep
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After an intermediate period of civil war, __________ re-established central rule and founded the middle kingdom
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Mentuhotep
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Chronology
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the dating of art objects and buildings
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refers to an objects shape and structure, 2D or 3D
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form
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refers to how the artist organizes forms in an artwork
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composition
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The process artists employ, such as applying paint to a canvas with a brush, and the distinctive, personal ways they handle materials constitute..
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technique
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the path of a point moving in space, an invisible line of sight
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line
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the bounded or boundless container of objects
3d or 2d |
space
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descibe 3D objects in space
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mass and volume
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the representation of a figure or an object at an angle to the picture plane
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foreshortening
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where?
human shaped? |
Frying pan”
site-Khalandriani Island-Syros Early Cycladic II ca. 2500 mycenian made of clay anthropomorphic-human shaped female genitalia |
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era?
where? |
Cycladic
figure ca. 2500 from syros cycladic art marble carved with emery- the largest supply of emery is found on these islands almost all women arms crossed pointed feet most found in tombs many fakes |
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Keros flutist”
Keros ECII (2800-2300) |
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Keros harpist”
from keros Amorgos ECIII (2300-2100) |
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Palace complex, Knossos, ca. 1700-1300 BCE
Crete Minoan |
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labyrith
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hall of double axe
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who is the daughter of Minos?
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Ariadne
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who excavated the site of Knosses?
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Arthur evans
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“Hall of the Double Axes” (King’s Megaron)
floor is gypsome rock minoan art |
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In minoan mythology what Athenean king defeated the half bull Minotaur?
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Theseus
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what era?
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Snake goddess
Knossos MMIII ca. 1650 BCE found near temple Minoan 4"-6" high godess or preistess made of clay covered with glaze called-Faience snakes relate to the goddess of the underworld |
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where is it from?
what is the hair madfe of? |
The Palaikastro
“kouros” from Palaikastro ca. 1450 fron Crete made of ivory kouros is a young man teeth of hippos had a gold loin cloth tiny waist is called a wasp waist hair made of serpentine |
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Chryselephantine
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gold and ivory sculpture
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Palaikastro
LMIA-B ca. 1450 minoan famous for having sanctuary for zeus |
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The Palaikastro
“kouros” Palaikastro ca. 1450 |
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Horns of
consecration” Knossos ca. 1500 BCE |
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Harvester Vase
ca. 1500 Haghia Triada made of stone shaped like egg ostrich egg 5" singing harvesters minoan shows underlying skeletal and muscular structure |
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list the prehistoric Aegean in order
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Early Clycladic art
Late minoan art Mycenean(late Helladic art) |
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where is the greatest late Minoan palace?
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Knosses
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what was the largest form or art in the Minoan world?
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Fresco painting
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who later waged war on troy with the greeks?
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Myceneans
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who were the masters of corbel vaulting?
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the Myceneans
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The two Bison relief sculpture is
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paleolithic
from Ariege france |
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what is the earliest known settlement?
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Jericho
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Megolithic
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big stone
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who introduced cuneiform writing?
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ancient near eastern
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who put an end to the babylonian empire?
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the hitites
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Describe the step pyramid of Djoser
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pre-dynastic
series of mastabas mile long 33' high 1rst names architect (Imhotep) |
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the earliest known columns were found?
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In the N palace of Djoser, Saqqara
egypt pre-dynastic |
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The tombs of _______ are characteristic of the Middle kingdom
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Beni Hasan
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where is the bull leaping fresco located?
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Knosses
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Kamares ware
jug Phaistos Ca. 1900 mycenean |
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Stone bowl, Early Minoan (ca. 2200)
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Kamares ware
goblet/chalice Phaistos Ca. 1900 plastic-decorations molded into a shape |
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Octopus vase
Palaikastro ca. 1500 stirrup jar |
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Thera (Santorini)
volcanoe one of the largest volcanic eruption destroyed town akrotiri erupted about 1628 BC |
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counting of tree rings
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Dendrochronology
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Spring Fresco, Thera, ca. 1600 BCE
Acrotiri |
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large peninsula
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Peloponneses
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king of all greeks
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Agamemnon
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King of greeks lead against troy
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Menelaws
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who was the excavator or troy and mycenea?
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Heirich Schiemann
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Lion Gate
Mycenae ca. 1250 corbel arch |
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Grave
Mycenae 1600-1500 Circle A shaft down into bedrock filled with rich grave goods |
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Chariot stele
Grave Circle A Mycenae MH Late 1600-1550 chariot stele |
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Mask of Agamemnon,” Grave 5
Grave Circle A, LHI (1550-1500) |
