Survey of Art Study Guide : Exam #1

Lascaux Cave

Hall of bulls

Lasaux Cave Date, materials, and Origin:

date: Prehistoric (15000)

material:made of pigment on cave,

Origin: above the Vezere river vally: France (southern/middle)

little woman figure name:

Woman from Wilendrof

Woman from Wilendrof date, material, and origin

date: prehistoric (2400)

material: made of stone

origin: Austria

stone circle name:

Stonehenge

Stonehenge date, material, and origin

date; prehistoric (3000-1500)

material; stones, mounds, and ditches

origin: Salisbury plain in Wiltshire England

Ziggurat at Ur Location

It is in southern Iraq, near city Nasiriyah

date and materials used in the Ziggurat at Ur

date: 3500-1000 BCE

materials: mud brick

What is the Stele of Naramsin

Limestone monument with king Naramsin at the top with fallen soldiers up a mountain (Zargos). He is wearing a horned helmet (means god)

Date and Location of the Stele of Naramsin

Originaly found in the mesopitamian in the city of sippar

date: 3500-1000 BCE

Now found at: the Louvre in Paris

what is the Stele of Hammerabi

basalt and hard stone 7ft high monument of their law of conduct in the language of Akkadian (300+)

Stele of Hammerabi Location and Date

location: babylon or Sipper in Mesopitamia

Date: 3500-1000 BCE

What is the Pallet of king Narmer?

It was made for his tomb, but also depicts the olitical unificstion between upper and lower egypt, that is also protected by the god Horus

pallet of king narmer location and date

location: Nekhen, Egypt

date: 3000-1000 BCE)

Menkaure and wife statue: what is it

found in his tomb to ensure safe passage into rebirth

Menkaure and wife statue date and material:

date: 3000-1000 BCE

Material:hard stone

The great pyramids of Giza: Why

3 pyramids for Khufa(dad) and 2 for his sons (Khafre and Menkaure)

Date, location, and materials of the great pyramids

date: 3000-1000 BCE

location: Egypt

materials: limestone

What is the Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun

Found on King tut in his tomb used to protect his soul and to help recognize his physical body in the afterlife

Date, location, and materials of funery mask

Date: 3000-1000 BCE

Location: Egypt

Materials: gold, glass, and semipresious stones

Bull Leaping Fresco Location

It was at the Palace of Knossos

What is a fresco

mural painting tecnique: water basted pigemtns painted of wet plaster to dry as the wall is finished

bull leaping fresco date?

date: 3000-1500 BCE

Palace of Knossos: reconstruction

Also known as the palace of Minus- it is a drawing of the building to determine what it might have looked like in its prime (red pillars) around 3000-1500 BCE

Lion Gate: What is it

made of stone: it is the entrace of Mycenae in Greece used to scare of intruders

Lion Gate Date:

Date: 1500-1200 BCE

What is a Corbeled Vault?

made of stone in Mycenae : it is also known as the tomb of agamenon made from corbled vaulting structure technique

what is the Hieratic scale:

Artistic technique to sculpture figures in its unatural size to show importance or reletivity/status

what is Sarcophagus

It is a stone coffin with illistratioins and/or inscriptions (egyptian tombs)

Low relief

sculpure figures that are only slightly from a flat background

Mastaba

it is a flat roofed recangular egyptian tomb made of mud bricks or stone

Megalith:

large stone used by people to build prehistoric structures or monuments

Corbel vaulting:

architectural cieling or roof structure made by stacking rows of stones inward to rest on eachother for support upwards

Post and Lintel Contruction

Strong vertical posts that support horizontal elements to span over spaces and its wieght as a whole ( stonehenge)

Cueiform:

wedge shaped writing, and the earliest form of a writting system representing words by symbols

Dressed stone

natural rock cut, and shaped to be smoothed in specific dimetions for what it will be used for

Stele:

Upright large stone or slab or piller with text or picture usually in cuieform

Ziggurat:

It is a massive teired pyramid structure, temple or tower in acient mesepotamia.