world art exam 1

Nude Woman “Venus of Willendorf”

Nude male figure and bison, Lascaux Cave

Standing Male Worshipper

Standard of Ur

Seated Statue of Gudea

Ziggurat of Ur

Stele with Law Code of Hammurabi

Palette of King Narmer

Imhotep, Pyramid of Djoser

Seated Scribe

Temple of Ramses

Nebamun hunting in the marshes

Akhenaten with his wife and three daughters

Death Mask of Tutankhamen

Paleolithic

“hunter-gather” societies—no written language or civilization

Neolithic

Civilization made possible by agriculture, but no written language

Relief

Sculpture carved on a 2D surface

Register

A band of carved relief

Stele

A carved stone monument

Heiroglyphics

Ancient Egyptian Pictographic Script

Canon

A set rule of proportions followed by artists

Idealization

making an image correspond to an ideal, not to reality

hypostyle

a roof supported by rows of columns