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