Art Chapter 14 Answers – Flashcards
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IRC
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Ziggurat
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a temple or shrine raised on a monumental stepped base
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Sunken Relief
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the figures do not project upward from the surface. Instead, outlines are carved deep into the surface, and the figures are modeled within them, from the surface down.
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Hellenistic
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a term that refers to the spread of Greek culture eastward through Asia Minor, Egypt, and Mesopotamia
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Pre-Historic Art
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characterized by Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) and Neolithic (New Stone Age), the biggest difference between the two is the inclusion of agriculture in Neolithic when people learned to plant, harvest, domesticate animals
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Cave Art
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mostly of animals, hunting habits, migration periods
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Mesopotamian
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repeated motifs of animals were common in art
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Fries
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a sculpture not in the round, on a wall, pillar, building- subtractive
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Egyptian
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characteristics remained the same throughout entire period, built to last forever, majority for afterlife
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Greek Art
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vases were very common and held everything, decorated with stories, coiled clay, statues also common, lots of nudity, long hair, made of bronze, athletes, bronze melted in wars
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Parthenin
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located in Athens, dedicated to Athena, architecture copied all over world, statue of Athena inside, 30 ft tall
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Roman Art
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very similar to Greek, but not usually in nude, short hair, realistic, developed lots of engineering like aqueducts, frescos
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Coliseum
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symbol of Rome, tourist attraction, entertainment, amphitheater, 50,000 people, gladiator games, dangerous events, emperor started destroying to to make something about himself but people revolted and he stopped
