ARTH 205, Maddox JMU 1st Quiz

Chauvet Cave in Ardeche Gorge, France 32,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic

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

Lascaux Caves in Dordogne, France 15,000 BCE Paleolithic

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

Lion Human in Germany 30,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic

Woman from Brassempouy in France 30,000 BCE Upper Paleolithic

Skara Brae in Orkney Islands, Scotland 3100 BCE Neolithic

Newgrange in Newgrange, Ireland 3000 BCE Neolithic

Newgrange in New Grange, Ireland 3000 BCE Neolithic

Stonehenge in England 2900 BCE Neolithic

Catal Hoyuk in Anatolia, Turkey 7400 BCE Neolithic

Babylon in Iraq 6thc BCE NeoBabylonian

Persepolis Apadana in Persepolis, Iran 518 BCE Persian

Carved Vessel from Iraq 3300 BCE Sumerian

Funerary Complex of Djoser in Saqqara, Eygpt 2630 BCE by Imhotep

Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris in Egypt 1285 BCE New Kingdom

Paleolithic

Old Stone Age

Mesolithic

Middle Stone Age

Neolithic

New Stone Age

What starts the Neolithic Era?

The introduction of Agriculture Iconogrpahy

Parietal Art

Wall Paintings

Therianthrop

Part animal and part human figure

Modeling

creating an illusion of 3D substance through shading

High Relief

Volumes are strongly projected from the background

Post-and-Lintel

Construction where two uprights support a horizontal element

corbel, corbelling, corbelled arch and vault

roofing technique where course of stone goes slightly beyond the previous layer until they meet at the capstone

Megalith

Lagre Stone in Prehistoric Art

Mehir

A single, upright Megalith

Allignment

An arrangement of Mehirs in lines

Henge

a circle of stones or posts, often surrounded by a ditch with builtup embankments

Zigguarat

huge, stepped structures with a temple or shrine on top

Registers

 A device used in systems of spatial definition

Heiratic Scale

use of different sizes to indicate relative importance

Votive figure

An image created as a devotional offering to a deity

Ba

The aspect of an Egyptian individual that involve the non-physical properties that make a person unique

Ka

Create life-force of each individual, marks difference between living and dead, comes into being at birth

Akh

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

Relief Sculpture

Image or design whose flat background surface is carved away to a certain depth

Buon Fresco

Murals painted on a wet plastered surface

Fresco Secco

Mural painted on a dry plastered surface

Rhyton

Vessels used for pouring

Doric order

shafts sit directly on the stylobate without a base and are fluted with sharp edges

Ionic order

has more elongated proportions than the Doric, the flutes are deeper and are separated by fillets

Corinthian order

Most ornate of all the orders

Entrablature

Part in classical architecture that rests on top of the columns and capitals

Pediment

A triangular gable found over major architectural elements

acroterion

An ornament at the corner or peak of a roof

cornice

The uppermost section of a Classical entablature

frieze

The middle element of an entablature,usually decorated with sculpture, painting, or moldings

triglyph

Rectangular block between the metopes of a Doric frieze

metope

The carved or painted rectangular panel between the triglyphs of a Doric frieze

architrave

  The bottom element in an entablature

dentil

a series of small, rectangular blocks arranged in a row

gabing

A roof with two slopes that form a triangle