Art 1001 Module 2
Wall painting in the New Kingdom that had a high degree of naturalism
"Fowl Hunting Scene"
What is the most famous example of Paleolithic art?
"Hall of Bulls"
In the Early Dynastic Period, what was used to prepare eye makeup?
"Palette of Narmer"
Egyptian sculpture in the Amarna Period that had a high degree of realism
"Queen Nefertiti"
Which African cave painting actually depicted a woman when it was supposed to be a man?
"The White Lady of Brandberg"
Paleolithic sculpture that was used as fertility fetishes
"Venus" of Willendorf
A clerestory, or raised, central rows of columns
Egyptian hypostyle design
Babylon's most powerful king, 1st ruler to establish codified written laws for his realm recorded on this stele
Hammarabi (CODE)
Who was the first architect/artist of recorded history?
Imhotep
This period was the middle Stone Age (8,000 B.C.E.-6,000 B.C.E.)
Mesolithic
A single, large stone
Monolith
This period was in the late Stone Age (6,000 B.C.E.-3,500 B.C.E.)
Neolithic
This age was a giant stride forward in human development: fixed abodes and domestication of plants and animals; village cultures surrounded by fields; change from hunter to herdsman may have started in Near East as early as 7,000 B.C.E. and Europe (4,000 B.C.E.)
Neolithic Age
Incursions from Syrian and Mesopotamian uplands (Hyksos) quelled w/ difficulty by Egyptian leadership class, new types of weaponry introduced, conquests; pylon temples
New Kingdom
River Valley in Egypt
Nile Delta
This period was the early Stone Age (about 35,000 B.C.E-8,000 B.C.E.)
Paleolithic
What are the three periods in order from oldest to newest?
Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic
Leaders/kings; politically influential cast of temple priests
Pharoahs
What is an example of cromlech?
Stonehenge
A loose association of independent cities, one of earliest great Mesopotamian civilizations: began early 4th millennium B.C.E.
Sumer
Ritualized religious practices, art of writing confined to temples; conservative taste in matters of art
Temple priests
Describing Egyptian art; follows a fixed set of rules from which artists rarely deviate and which turn into a standard
canomical
huge stones arranged in a circle
cromlech
What was Sumer's writing called?
cuneiform
tomb structures consisting of rows of stones, planted vertically in the ground, covered with a slab
dolomen
In Sumerian art, what did a bull represent?
fertility and strength
Predominates (mammoth, bison, reindeer, horses, boar, etc.); spears and traps; occasional hand prints
hunting iconography
2 upright posts support a horizontal lintel
post-and-lintel (stone)
Type of radiometric dating that can be used to date organic material
radiocarbon dating (carbon-14 dating)
Sculpture that projects from a flat background
relief structure
Stepped temple structure made of sun-dried brick
ziggurat
Jackal-headed god weighs souls after death
Anubis
Type of dating method based on tree rings found in timber; bristle cone pines
Dendrochronology
rectangular tomb with flat roof, inward sloping sides constructed out of mud-bricks; earliest type of Egyptian funerary movements
Mastabas
2 rivers in Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
5 lintel-topped pairs of the largest sarsen stones
Trilithons