AP Art History Chapter 1 and 2 – Flashcards
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Paleolithic
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Old stone age
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Neolithic
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New stone age
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Megalith
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Greek. "great stone", a large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures
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Lintel
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horizontal beam used to span an opening (Stone Henge)
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Bucrania
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Latin, "bovine skull", a common motif in classical architectural ornament
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Landscape
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picture of the land (nature)
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Ground Line
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baseline; indicates the bottom
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Composite
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a convention of representation in which part of the figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; also called twisted perspective
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Descriptive
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describing something, naming characteristics
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Fanciful
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imaginative, surreal
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Optical
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visual, things you see
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Profile
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side view
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Tomb Figure
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figures put in front of a burial chamber to give recognition of the person buried
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Rock-Cut-Relief
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a relief in the mountain/wall (Triumph of Shapur I) (Bishapar, Iran)
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Figurine
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smaller statue (Ain Ghazel; Venus of Willindorf, Austria)
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Engraving
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incise, to cut into
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Frieze
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band at the top of the temple, border
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Monument
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big, usually in honor or memory of someone of importance
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In the Round
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statue you can physically walk around
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Circa
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(c. 200) means "about"
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Hierarchy of Scale
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using size to show the importance/status of someone/something
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Menhir
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a large uncut stone used as a monument
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Post-and-Lintel
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door frame like structures, Stone Henge
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Negative Space
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background (signatures in Pech-Merle)
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Positive Space
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actual picture, characters/subject of the painting
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Shamarism
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belief that spirits could go into a trance; spirit being of nature
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Apadana
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audience hall; auditorium for the king
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Capital
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top of the columns with decoration (Persopolis)
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Cella
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center room; place where the priest called down to the gods
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Crenellations
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alternating solid merlons and open crenels in the notched tops of walls, as in battlements
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Cuneiform
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wedge-shaped characters, incised with a stylus on soft clay
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Cylinder Seal
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kind of like a dog tag, decorated with incised design, stamp, sign of identification
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Facade
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the front of a building; also, the other sides when they are emphasized architecturally
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Lamassu
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five legged winged, man-headed bulls at the Citadel of Sargon II, colossal limestone monsters; Dur Sharrukin
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Lapis Lazuli
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beautiful blue stone; Standard of Ur; ancient Ur
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Motif
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reoccurring pattern (Ishtar Gate)
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Relief Sculpture
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projects out from a flat surface
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Bas Relief
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low-relief, barely stands above the flat surface (rings)
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High Relief
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juts out farther from the surface, almost 3D
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Registers
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bands, horizontal, usually tell a story, Standard of Ur
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Stele
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a stone slab used to mark a site or a grave (Narim-Sin of Akkad; Hammurabi of Babylon)
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Stylization
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unrealistic features, unnatural
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Tribute
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payment to the king in turn of protection
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Ziggurat
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made of mud bricks, place where the priest would call to the gods
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Paradigm
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unspoken rule, unwritten law
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Connotations
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associated meanings, unrealistic, not meant to take literal, figurative
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Denotations
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literal meaning, realistic
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Spoof
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Parody, joke, making fun of
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Paleolithic, used as survival guide (Lascaux, France)
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Hall of the Bulls
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Paleolithic, sign of fertility (Austria)
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Venus of Willindorf
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Neolithic, Jericho, spirit trap
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Human Skull from Jericho
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Neolithic, No streets or doors, (Turkey)
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Catal Hoyuk (First known landscape of Volcano)
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Wiltshire England, Post and Lintel
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Stonehenge
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Sumerians, Ancient Near East, Uruk, white washed walls, holy temple
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Ziggurat
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Tell Asmar, Sumeria, wakefulness, devotion, sytlization
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Statuettes of Temple of Abu
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Sumeria, narrative, registers, two sides
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Standard of Ur
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Akkad, Sargon and Naram Sin, Hierarchy, Bucrania, one of the first artworks depicting a human as a god
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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
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Nineveh, powerful, centered, positional and personal power, abstract patterns
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Head of an Akkadian Ruler
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Neo Sumerian, devoted, placed in many temples, diorite (Tellon)
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Gudea of Lagash
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Babylon, Shamash appointing Hammurabi, Hierarchy
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Hittites, defeated Babylon, Anatolia, limestone, protected the city (Boghazkoy, Turkey)
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Lion Gate
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Assyria, protected the palace, five legged, winged, man-headed bull
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Lamassu
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Ninevah, powerful king, bas relief, demonstrating king's power
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Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
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Babylon, also Inanna, glazed bricks, motif, seven wonders of the world, Nebechanezzar
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Ishtar Gate
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Persians, Apadana with Capitols, palace of Darius I (Persepolis)
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Royal Audience Hall
