AHIST101 EXAM ONE

False

The animals depicted here were likely painted all at once, as part of a single narrative.

The Lascaux caves

One of the most famous Paleolithic cave paintings, the Hall of the Bulls, was discovered in

The profile view

___ was used almost exclusively for the representation of animals in Paleolithic art.

Twisted

The convention of allowing the viewer to see the head in profile and the horns from the front is termed ___ perspective

Domestication of animals

Of the following, ___ is one of the primary characteristics of Neolithic society

Coming of age rituals

Suggested uses of Paleolithic cave paintings include

Low/Shallow relief

Type of sculpture where the design only slightly rises from a flat background

Megalithic

Made of large, prehistoric stones used to build ancient monuments, tombs, or structures without using mortar or cement

Venus of Willendorf

Paleolithic

Period/culture

Ben-ben

Pyramids envoke this shape

Khufu

Largest pyramid in the back, oldest Pharaoh

Khafre

Pharaoh, pyramid in the middle

Menkaure

Front pyramid, most recent Pharaoh

ashlar masonry

masonry that is made of stone that is cut perciselly laid in corsees and tehn dressed (smoothed/refined)

Khafre

Who does this depict

Ka

An aspect of the soul of a human being or of a god.

Menkaure and his wife, Khamerernebty

Who does this depict

Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt

Egyptian: Old Kingdom

Time period/culture

Egyptian: Old Kingdom

Time period/culture

Egyptian: Old Kingdom

Time period/culture

Egyptian: Old Kingdom

Time period/culture

Purpose of depicting hunting

Ensures provisions (stock of food/supplies) for the Ka

Queen Hatshepsut

Funerary Temple of who

Senmut

Perhaps Queen Hatshepsut’s advisor

Axial approach

Hatshepsut

Who is this depicting

Her father, Amun, the sun god

Who she is kneeling towards

Egyptian: New Kingdom

Time period/Culture

Nebamun hunting fowl

Egyptian: New Kingdom

Time period/culture

Fresco secco

A wall painting technique where pigments mixed with a binding medium are applied to a dry plastered surface

Clerestory

allows light to come into this interior space

Akhenaton, from the temple of Aton

Who does this depict

Ureaus, crown of upper egypt

What is he wearing

Egyptian: New Kingdom

Time period/culture

Amenhotep IV

His previous name

Egyptian: New Kingdom

Time period/culture

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

Protoliterate Period

Time period/culture

Protoliterate Period

Time period/culture

“White Temple” of Anu on ziggurat, mudbrick, Uruk

Warka Vase, depicts goddess Inanna; alabaster, from Uruk

Akkadian Period

Time period/culture

Stele of King Naram-Sin, pink sandstone, from Susa

Akkadian Period

Time period/culture

Head of an Akkadian ruler, from Nineveh

Zigguratt

A characteristic base of a temple (temple would be on top)

Cella

central sacred place where an alter would be or the statue of the god

Akkadian Period

2340-2180 BCE

Protoliterate Period

3500-3000 BCE

Egyptian: New Kingdom

1550-1070 BC

Egyptian: Old Kingdom

3000-2190 BCE

Paleolithic

40,000-10,000 BCE

Copper

Material

Iconoclasm

the deliberate destruction of religious icons or art usually driven by religious or political motives

Neo-Sumer and Babylon

2125-1750 BCE

Minoan

1800-1400 BCE

Mycenean

1600-1200 BCE

Archaic Greek

600-480 BCE

Neo-Sumer and Babylon

Time period/culture

Assyrian Period

Time period/culture

Stele with code of Hammurabi, basalt

Part of gate of previous; lamassu

limestone

Material

7 ft tall

Size

Cuneiform

Writing used in Mesopotamia

The bronze age aegean

Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenean

The greek temple

Archaic Greek

Concealed in a palace room

This object was probably

Stele of Namar

Name

Cunneiform

Which system of writing is shown here?

Funerary markers, public display, propaganda

Which functions could steles serve?

True

The characteristic base of an ancient Sumerian temple is the ziggurat

According to this image the law is

All of the above

This is a

Palatte

This object is

Egyptian Old Kingdom

What artistic convention is shown here?

hierarchy of scale

Given the size of this particular object, its function was likely:

Ceremonial or propagandistic

This object commemorates what historic event?

Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt

(papyrus represents lower Egypt, intertwining beelines depicts unification)

What is a ground line?

It is the baseline on which figures appear to stand

Name

Lion Gate

Time period/Culture

Mycenean, ca. 1600-1200 BCE

Name

Kroisos (Anavysos Kouros)

Time period/Culture

Archaic Greek, 600-480 BCE

Heroic nud ity

Figures in are depicted completely naked to signal that they are gods or heroes rather than ordinary mortals

Votive offering

An exchange with the gods

Kouros

Nude young man

Peplos

A wooden outer garment

Name

Peplos Kore

Kore

Standing female youth

Greek temples are placed on

Steps

Ionic order is different than doric because

It has a base and is more fancy

Peristyle

Column made all around in a greek temple

Anta

Thickened end of a greek temple

Cella

The inner chamber or central room of a greek temple.

Doric and Ionic orders

Two architectural styles from ancient Greece

Who is on this pediment

Medusa

Name

Temple of Artemis at Corfu