ART 105: History of Art to 1300 Exam 1 [Spring 2025]
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Woman of Willendorf
What is this image?
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Prehistory, Paleolithic
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ca. 28,000 - 25,000 BCE
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Stonehenge
What is this image?
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Prehistory, Neolithic
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ca. 2500 -1600 BCE
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Salisbury Plain, England
Where is Stonehenge located?
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Post and lintel
What type of structure is Stonehenge?
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Ziggurat
What is this image?
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Ancient Near East
What historical period are Ziggurats from?
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ca. 2100-2050 BCE
What date is this Ziggurat from?
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Ur, Iraq
Where is this Ziggurat located?
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Sumerians
Who were Ziggurats built by?
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Mesopotamia
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Stele of Hammurabi
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Ancient Near East
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ca. 1792- 1750 BCE
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Mesopotamia
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Palette of Narmer
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Ancient Egypt, Early Dynastic
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ca. 3000- 2920 BCE
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Technique where the size of a figure indicates its importance.
What is the hieratic scale?
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Khafre
What is this image?
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Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom
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ca.2520-2494 BCE
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The life force of a person.
What is a "ka?"
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Pyramids of Gizeh
What is this image?
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Ancient Egypt, Old Kingdom
What historical period are the Pyramids of Gizeh from?
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Gizeh, Egypt
Where are the Pyramids of Gizeh located?
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
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Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom
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ca. 1472-1458 BCE
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Deir-el Bahri, Egypt
Where is the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut located?
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Rock-cut
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Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Daughters
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Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, Amarna Period
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ca. 1353-1335 BCE
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Kouros
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Ancient Greece, Archaic period
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600 BCE
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Spear Bearer
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Ancient Greece, High Classical period
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450-440 BCE
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A pose in sculpture where the weight of the body is balanced on one leg.
What is contrapposto?
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Polykleitos
Who sculpted Spear Bearer?
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Parthenon
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Ancient Greece, High Classical period
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447-432 BCE
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Athens, Greece
Where is the ORIGINAL Parthenon located?
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Athena
What goddess does the Parthenon honor?
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Phidias, Pericles
Who were the people who oversaw the building of the Parthenon?
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Ikinos, Kallikrates
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The Parthenon
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Doric, Ionic
What Greek orders does the Parthenon use?
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Laocoön and his Sons
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Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Period
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1st century CE
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Altar of Zeus at Pergamon
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Ancient Greece, Hellenistic Period
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ca. 170 BCE
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Left: Ziggurat
Right: Pyramid of Gizeh
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Off-limits to their respective populations, used to worship gods, seen as a 'waiting room' for the gods.
What did ziggurats and the Pyramids of Gizeh share?
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It was the base of a temple, used to worship the Moon God, Nanna, and seen as a bridge between the heavens and the Earth.
How did the Ziggurat differ from the Pyramids of Gizeh?
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The Moon God, Nanna.
What god did the Ziggurat honor?
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It was used to worship the Sun God, Ra, and as a burial ground for pharaohs and their "ka."
How did the Pyramids of Gizeh differ from the Ziggurat?
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The Persian Invasion.
After what was the Parthenon created?
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War and wisdom.
What was Athena the goddess of?
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The columns tilt inward, are not evenly spaced, and bulge outward.
What are some of the 'refinements' on the Parthenon?
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By its' structure and friezes.
How does the Parthenon show the concept of symmetria?
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Ionic, Doric
What two Greek orders does the Parthenon feature?
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In its friezes of Athena's life.
How does the Parthenon use Ionic elements?
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In its' columns and triglyphs.
How does the Parthenon use Doric elements?
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Athena's birth, competition with Poseidon, etc.
What do the friezes on the Parthenon show?
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Egyptian art.
What was the Archaic period of Greece influenced by?
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Persian Invasion
What was the High Classical period of Greece influenced by?
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The death of Alexander the Great
What was the Hellenistic period of Greece influenced by?
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Humanism
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Archaic smile
What is the trademark element of Kouros?
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Egyptian statues
What other sculpture do Kouros look like?
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To ensure their ka lived on.
Why did the Egyptians put statues in their temples?
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Greek pride and patriotism.
What themes came about in Greek art after the Persian Invasion of Greece?
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Greece was split up between different rulers.
What happened after Alexander the Great died?
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The balance between the the rational, geometric, and methodical, and the irrational, passionate, and emotional.
What is symmetria?
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ca. 2551-2472 BCE
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ca. 2100 BCE
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ca. 2500 BCE
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ca. 450 BCE
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ca. 600 BCE
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ca. 450 BCE
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1st century CE
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