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| taking away material in order to create work |
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| adding things on to make a piece of work |
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| stacking stones closer together until they meet in the middle |
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| how to make a doorway, two big posts on the sides being held up by a lintel on top across both posts |
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| a black natural substance used for roofing and road surface |
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| first written law of people and a form of the justice system |
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when a figure is drawn in two or more perspectives
Ex. feet & face in profile with torso facing forward |
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| a wedge-shaped written language created by the Sumerians |
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| in art when a figure is more important it will be depicted in a larger scale |
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guardians of the gateway of liminal space ( an in-between)
ex. doorways are an in-between |
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| a stone or wooden slab that is taller than it is wide and stands erect in its place |
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| a platform made of mudbricks that is used to elevate a temple so that it can be closer to the gods |
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| what the ideal standard for human bodies were in art at the time |
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| a form of written language in Egpyt, mainly shape based |
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| a flat-topped tomb with underground chambers |
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| Egyptian architect that built King Djoser's step pyramid tomb |
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| life force/spirit of the person after death |
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| small enclosed room to give offerings and prayers to the Ka statue |
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| a mineral salt Egyptians used to cure dead bodies |
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| disk of the sun- the only god in Egypt when akuanaten became king |
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| applying wet paint to wet plaster |
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| applying wet paint to dry plaster |
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| a column that tapers at the bottom |
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| a type of stonework that uses the weight of the stones to keep it together instead of mortar |
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| stonework that uses finely dressed stones of the same size laid together in mortar |
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| a closed-lip smirk used to show a persons excellence |
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Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel
Germany
30,000 - 26,000 BCE
Mammoth Ivory
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Venus of Willendorf
Austria
24,000 BCE
Limestone
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Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs
Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
Ardéche Gorge
32,000 BCE
Limestone
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Bird-headed Man with Bison
Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France
15,000 BCE
limestone, paint
prehistoric |
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Tomb interior
Newgrange, Ireland
3,000-2,500 BCE
prehistoric |
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Stonehenge
Salisbury Plain, England
3,000 BCE
Prehistoric |
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Nanna Ziggurat
Ur ( Iraq)
2,100 BCE
Sumerian |
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Warka ( or Uruk) Vase
3,000 BCE
Sumerian |
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Stele of Naram-sin
2,254-2,218 BCE
pink limstone
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Votive Statue of Gudea
2,090 BCE
Lagash |
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Stele of Hammurabi
1,792 - 1,750 BCE
Babylonian |
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Lion Hunt
North Palace of Assurbanipal
450 BCE
Ninevah Assyrian
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Lamassu
Palace of Sargon II, Khorsabad
721 - 706 BCE
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Ishtar Gate
575 BCE
now Pergamon museum, berlin
neo-babylonian |
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Palette of Narmer
3,000 - 2,920 BCE
Slate
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Step Pyramid of Djoser, Saqqara
2,650 BCE
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Great Pyramids, Giza Egypt
2,551 - 2472 BCE
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Statue of Khafre
2,520 - 2,494 BCE
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Menkaure and his wife
2,490 - 2,472 BCE
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Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt
Mastaba of Ti, Saqqara
2450 - 2359 BCE
Limestone
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Funerary Stele of Userwer, 12th dynasty
1850 BCE
Limestone
Middle Kingdom
The artist that died in the middle of carving his own stele |
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Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
Deir el-Bahri 18th dynasty
1473 - 1485 BCE |
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Colossal Akhenaten, Gempaaten Temple 18th Dynasty
1353 - 1336 BCE
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Toreador Fresco, Palace at Knossos, Crete
1500 BCE
painted plaster
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Lion Gate, Citadel of Mycenae
1250 BCE
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Exekias, Achilles, and Ajax Playing Dice
540 - 530 BCE
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Kroisos Kouros, Anavysos
530 BCE
Marble
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Peplos Kore
530 BCE
Marble
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| creating a wax figure and melting it down to make bronze statues |
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| a pose where you are bearing all your weight on one leg |
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| a system of ratios within the body to create the perfect body |
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