ARTH 205 Maddox Midterm (ID's and Vocab)

Chinese horse in Lascaux Caves, Upper Paleolithic, 15,000 BCE in Dordogne, France

Bird-headed man with bison in Lascaux Caves, Upper Paleolithic, 15,000 BCE in Dordogne, France

Spotted Horses and Human Hands in Pech-Merle Cave, Upper Paleolithic, 16,000 BCE in Dordogne, France

Woman from Willendorf, Upper Paleolithic, 24,000 BCE in Austria

People and Animals, Mesolithic, 4000 BCE in Spain

Gobleki Tepe, Mesolithic, 9600 BCE in Turkey

Catalhoyuk (reconstruction drawing), Neoithic, 7400 BCE in Turkey

Newgrange, Neolithic, 3000 BCE in Ireland

Newgrange, Neolithic, 3000 BCE in Ireland

Stonehenge, Neolithic, 2900 BCE in England

Carved Vessel, Sumerian, 3300 BCE in Iraq

Front Panel of the Great Bull-Headed Lyre, Sumerian, 2600 BCE in Iraq

Stele of Hammurabi, Babylonian, 1792 BCE in Iran

Babylon (reconstruction drawing), Neo-Babylonian, 6thc. BCE in Iraq

Persepolis Apadana of Darius and Xerxes, Persian, 518 BCE in Persepolis, Iran

Palette of Narmer, Early Dynastic, 2950 BCE in Egypt

Stepped Pyramid of Djoser, Imhotep, 2630 BCE in Egypt

Great Pyramids of Giza, Old Kingdom, 2575 BCE in Egypt

Menkaure and a Queen, Old Kingdom, 2490 BCE in Egypt

Seated Scribe Kai, Old Kingdom, 2450 BCE in Egypt

Ti Watching A Hippopotamus Hunt, Old Kingdom, 2450 BCE in Egypt

Temple of Amun-Mut-Khons at Luxor, New Kingdom, 1279 BCE in Egypt

 Akhenaten and His Family, New Kingdom, 1353 BCE in Egypt

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun, New Kingdom, 1327 BCE in Egypt

Queen Tiy, New Kingdom, 1352 BCE in Egypt

Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris, New Kingdom, 1285 BCE, Egypt

Harvester Rhyton, New Palace Period, 1650 BCE in Greece

Harvester Rhyton, Minoan New Palace Period,1650 BCE in Greece

Bull's-head Rhyton, Minoan New Palace Period,1550 BCE in Crete

Bull Leaping from the palace complex, Knossos, Crete, Late Minoan Period, 1550 BCE in Crete

Funerary Krater, Hirschfeld Workshop, 750 BCE in Greece

Metropolitan Kouros, Archaic, 600 BCE in Greece

Treasury of the Siphnians, Archaic, 530 BCE in Greece

Battle Between the Gods and the Giants, Archaic, 530 BCE in Greece

Anavysos Kouros, Archaic, 530 BCE in Greece

Parthenon, Acropolis, Kallikrates and Iktinos, 447 BCE in Athens

Spear Bearer, Polykleitos, 450 BCE in Greece

Hermes and the Infant Dionysus, Praxiteles or his followers, 4thc. BCE in Greece

Gallic Chieftain Killing Himself and his Wife from Pergamon, Epigonos, 230 BCE in Greece

Athena Attacking the Giants on the Altar from Pergamon, Hellenistic, 175 BCE in Ancient Greece

Aphrodite of Melos, 150 BCE, Hellenistic in Greece

iconography

Identifying and studying the subject matter and conventional symbols in works of art.

iconology

Interpreting works of art as embodiments of cultural situation by placing them within broad social, political, religious, and intellectual contexts.

parietal art

wall paintings

therianthrop

half animal and half human figure

modeling

the process of creating the illusion of three-dimensionality on a two-dimensional surface by use of light and shade.

post-and-lintel construction

An architectural system of construction with two or more vertical elements supporting a horizontal element

corbel, corbelling, corbelled arch and vault

An early roofing and arching technique in which each course of stone projects slightly beyond the previous layer until the uppermost corbels meet

megalith

A large stone used in some prehistoric architecture

menhir

a single, upright megalith

alignment

an alignment of menhirs

ziggurat

In ancient Mesopotamia, a tall stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine.

registers

A device used in systems of spatial definition that uses differing ground-lines to differentiate layers of space within an image

hieratic scale

The use of differences in size to indicate relative importance

composite view

a way of representing a figure so that part of it is seen in profile and part of it is seen frontally.

votive figure

An image created as a devotional offering to a deity.

ba

that aspect of the Egyptian individual that marks him or her as an individual. It refers to those non-physical properties that make a person unique.

ka

the creative life-force of each individual, human or divine. It marks the difference between the living and the dead, and comes into being at birth. It must be united with the ba in order for the akh to come into being.

akh

The enduring and unchanging form of the deceased in the afterlife created by the reunion of the ba and the ka.

ankh

A looped cross signifying life, used by ancient Egyptians.

necropolis

A large cemetery or burial area; literally a “city of the dead.”

sed festival

an ancient Egyptian festival theoretically held every 30th year of the reign of a king that reestablishes the power and authority of the king over Egypt

relief sculpture

A 3D image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth, setting off the figure

high relief

the extent of projection of the image from the background

sunken relief

when the image is carved below the original surface of the background

buon fresco

Murals painted onto wet plastered surfaces

fresco secco

Murals painted onto dry plastered surfaces

rhyton

A vessel in the shape of a figure or an animal, used for drinking or pouring liquids on special occasions

repoussé

A technique of pushing or hammering metal from the back to create a protruding image

 megaron

The main hall of a Mycenaean palace or grand house

humanism

the idea that human beings are the primary measure of all things.

rationalism

the belief that human reasoning is the source for understanding the world.

idealism

a belief in and the pursuit of perfect forms. These forms may be political, social, economic, religious or artistic.

expressionism

Artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions

Doric Order

the column shaft of the Doric order can be fluted or smooth-surfaced and has no base

Ionic Order

the column of the Ionic order has a base, a fluted shaft, and a capital decorated with volutes

Corinthian order

the most ornate of the orders

Kouros

An Archaic Greek statue of a young man or boy.

black-figure vase

A technique of ancient Greek ceramic decoration in which black figures are painted on a red clay ground

red-figure vase

A technique of ancient Greek ceramic decoration characterized by red claycolored figures on a black background

contrapposto

e the Classical convention of representing human figures with opposing alternations of tension and relaxation

 

syncretism (syncretic, adj.form)

A process whereby artists assimilate and combine images and ideas from different cultural traditions, beliefs, and practices, giving them new meanings.