art history chapter 1 Answers – Flashcards
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Henge
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An arrangement of megalithic stones in a circle
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Cromlech
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describes megalithic structures
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Dolmen
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portal tomb
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4. Cairn
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a human made pile
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5. Tumulus
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Latin for barriel mound
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6. Cruciform
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cross-shaped
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7. Theriocephaly
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having the head of an animal
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8. Hybrid creature
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A creature made up of one or more other creatures
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9. Bas - relief:
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in sculpture figures projecting from a background of which they are part
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10. Modeling
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the shaping or fashioning of three demotional forms in a soft material
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11. Incising
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to cute into a surface with a sharp instrument
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12. Menhir
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a large upright standing stone
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13. Necropolis
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Greek for city of the dead. A large burial area or cemetery
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14. Megalith
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greek for great stone. A large roughly hewn stone used in the cronstruction of monumental prehistoric structures
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15. Monolith
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a stone collum shaft that is all in one piece
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16. Post and lintel
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a horizontal beam used to spam a opening
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17. Corbeled vault
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a vault formed by the pieling of stone blockes in horizontal courses.
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18. Passage Grave
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a preihistoric tomb with a long stone corridor leading to a burial chamber covered by a great tumulus.
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19. Alignment
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parell rows of single upright stones
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20. Paleolithic
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the old stone age during which human kind preduced the first sculptures and paintings
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21. Mesolithic
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the middle stone age between the palieolithic and the Neolithic ages
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22. Neolithic
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the new stone age
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23. Shaman
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A member of triabel society who acts as a medium between the visible world and invisible spirit world
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1. What are the characteristics of Paleolithic art?
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They range from simple shell necklances to human animal forms in ivory, clay, and stone, to monumental paintings, engravings, and relief sculptures covinrgin the huge wall surfaces.
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2. What are the characteristics of Neolithic art?
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Mounumental sculpture, coherent narritives, in paintings
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3. What is thought to be the first uses of art?
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To capture the animals soul in cave painting
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4. Where did agriculture, and animal domestic begin?
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Anitolia and mesapitania
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5. Describe Neolithic architecture?
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Stone temples in mud brick buildings
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6. In which period do we find the first landscape?
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Neolitick at catilehiok
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7. In which period do we find the first narrative use of art?
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Warka vase neolithick
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8. What was found in a grain bin at Çatal Höyük?
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Femal sitting on a thrown with two lions
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9. How were the cattle horns different at Chauvet and Lascaux?
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Cheauvet is natural and Lascaux its twisited
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10. What view of the animals is used in Paleolithic Cave painting?
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They were in profile view
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11. What was found in the Aubrey holes at Stonehenge?
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Peoples bones
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12. Where were the Bluestones at Stonehenge quarried?
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whales
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13. On what day does the sunrise between the two heel stones and strike the altar stone?
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Summer solstice
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14. Why was that important to people who built Stonehenege?
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For religion and remembering the living and the dead
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15. What were the purposes of Stonehenge?
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1 for the luner calenader, 2 for religion, life and death and center of healing.
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16. What was the largest henge in all of Britain?
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Durrington henge
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17. According to recent archeology, i.e. the in-class video, what was its relationship to Stonehenge?
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Durringtion was built by the same people as stonehenge
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19. What role did the river Avon play in this theory?
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The people would meet up and start there journey from there to stone henge
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20. What day was significant to the passage tomb at Newgrange in Ireland?
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It was built for the winter solstice
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21. What shape did the tomb have?
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A cruisification shape
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22. What type of vault was used at Newgrange?
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A passage grave
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23. The emphasis on exaggerated anatomy of the female figures has been interpreted as what?
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The female figures have been representes as fertitility, and healthy.
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24. The Rhinoceros, Wounded Man and Disemboweled bison was found in which cave?
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The Lascaux cave in france.
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25. How did it differ from previous cave paintings?
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It has a man with a bird head and tells a story, also it shows the bison with its bowls coming out.
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26. Why was Jericho fortified?
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Because of wealth
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27. Where did monumental sculpture appear? between it and previous Paleolithic sculpture?
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It appeared in ain ghazal. What was the most outstanding difference The difference is the mounuental is bigger and more sophisticated then the Paleolithic sculptures.
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28. The regular appearance of people distinguishes paintings produced in the Neolithic
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period from those in the Paleolithic period.
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29. What type of Neolithic architecture is found almost exclusively in Britain?
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Megalithic architecture
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30. Why is it thought that the cave painters use "twisted perspective" on the bison hornsat Lascaux?
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Because of the composite view
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31. In which cave is the Hall of the Bulls found?
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Lascaux, france
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32. What type of worship is associated with the skull burials at Jericho?
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Ansector worship
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33. Contrast the cave paintings of Chauvet and Lascaux?Why is each significant?
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Firstly the chauvet cave paintings is cignifigant because of all the animals with twisted perspective as of the lacaux cave paintings are more of humans and of stories depicted in the paintings. What does each cave offer for further understanding the artistic output of the Paleolithic artist? Include in your essay similarities and differences that provide information on the stylistic compositions of each cave. The diffrences are the chauvet even though its older it has more detail on the painting, in retro spect the chauvet cave tells a hidden story with the two rhinos even dated back twice as old as Lascaux. On the other hand Lascaux has a story base its simple but shows more detail spitually.
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34. Where do we find the first use of spray painting?
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Pech marle
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35. What is the significance of the finds at Hohle Fels Cave?
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They found a firgureane they thought a person made clothes there because of the firgurene
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36. What is the significance of Gobekli Tepe?
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Birth place of religion
