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| Image making is hallmark (Upper) 40 thousand years ago |
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| "New" Stone Age, was a period in the development of human technology beginning about 10,000 B.C. in the Middle East[2] that is traditionally the last part of the Stone Age. |
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| Megalithic means structures made of such large stones, utilizing an interlocking system without the use of mortar or cement. |
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| trilithon (or trilith) is a structure consisting of two large vertical stones (posts) supporting a third stone set horizontally across the top (lintel). |
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| relief is a sculptured artwork where a modeled form is raised (or alternatively lowered) from a flattened background without being disconnected from it. |
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| free-standing sculpture, sculpture that is surrounded on all sides, except the base, by space. It is also known as sculpture "in the round", and is meant to be viewed from any angle. |
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| Memory image//descriptive rendering//twisted Perspective |
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| A positive image is a normal image. A negative image is a tonal inversion of a positive image, in which light areas appear dark and vice versa. A negative color image is additionally color reversed, with red areas appearing cyan, greens appearing magenta and blues appearing yellow. |
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| also known as imitative magic, is a type of magic based on imitation or correspondence. Imitation involves using effigies or poppets to affect the environment of people, or occasionally people themselves. Correspondence is based on the idea that one can influence something based on its relationship to another thing. |
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| It estimates the order of prehistoric and geological events were determined by using basic stratigraphic rules, and by observing where fossil organisms lay in the geological record, stratified bands of rocks present throughout the world. |
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| Absolute dating is the process of determining a specific date for an archaeological or palaeontological site or artifact. |
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| a simple construction technique, also called "post and beam", where a horizontal member (the lintel—or header) is supported by two vertical posts at either end. |
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| Simple and strong, the mortise and tenon joint (also called the mortice and tenon) has been used for millennia by woodworkers around the world to join pieces of wood, usually when the pieces are at an angle close to 90°. |
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a corbel (or console) is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight.
technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, |
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| a type of single-chamber megalithic tomb, usually consisting of three or more upright stones supporting a large flat horizontal capstone (table). |
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| a prehistoric architectural structure. In form, it is a nearly circular or oval-shaped flat area over 20 metres (65 feet) in diameter that is enclosed and delimited by a boundary earthwork that usually comprises a ditch with an external bank. |
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| menhir is a large upright standing stone. Menhirs may be found singly as monoliths, or as part of a group of similar stones. |
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one of the earliest known forms of written expression. Created by the Sumerians about 3000 BCE,
cuneiform writing began as a system of pictographs. Over time, the pictorial representations became simplified and more abstract. |
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| was a temple tower of the ancient Mesopotamian valley and Iran, having the form of a terraced pyramid of successively receding stories or levels. |
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| a term that refers to pictographic representation of a scene, and its separation from an adjoining scene by putting the scene in regestered sections. |
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| imaginary or real line on which the figures and objects in a painting rest, which forms a base and keeps the figures from appearing to float in space. |
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| large fortified tower in the center of city |
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| sumerian word "lama", In art they were depicted as hybrids, as winged bulls or lions with the head of a human male (Centauroid) |
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| is an object left in a sacred place for ritual purposes. |
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| branch of art history which studies the identification, description, and the interpretation of the content of images. The word iconography literally means "image writing". |
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| a cylinder engraved with a 'picture story', used in ancient times to roll an impression onto a two-dimensional surface, generally wet clay. |
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| Hieratic is a cursive writing system used in pharaonic Egypt that developed alongside the hieroglyphic system,[1] to which it is intimately related. |
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| The word can also refer to a series of such items so arranged. Items in a hierarchy are typically thought of as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another. |
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| a stone or wooden slab, generally taller than it is wide, erected for funerals or commemorative purposes, most usually decorated with the names and titles of the deceased or living — inscribed, carved in relief |
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| a symbol representing a concept, object, activity, place or event by illustration. Pictography is a form of writing in which ideas are transmitted through drawing. It is a basis of cuneiform and, to some extent, hieroglyphic writing, which uses drawings also as phonetic letters or determinative rhymes. Pictographs use a symbol or key to represent numbers. |
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| a graphic symbol that represents an idea, rather than a group of letters arranged according to the phonemes of a spoken language, as is done in alphabetic languages, or a strictly representational picture of a subject as may be done in illustration or photography. |
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| is a grapheme (written character) which represents a phoneme (speech sound) or combination of phonemes, |
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| is a sculptured artwork where a modeled form is raised (or alternatively lowered) from a flattened background without being disconnected from it. |
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| images coming from memory |
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| It is the royally set norm, to which all egyptian artist abided by. Set dimension and scale for regularity and uniformity among egyptian art. |
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| the process or result of generalization by reducing the information content of a concept or an observable phenomenon, typically in order to retain only information which is relevant for a particular purpose |
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| was a flat-roofed, rectangular building with outward sloping sides that marked the burial site of many eminent Egyptians of Egypt's ancient period. Mastabas were constructed out of mud-bricks or stone. |
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| was the Egyptian concept of life force, that which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the ka left the body. |
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| Ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. |
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| large cemetery or burial mound |
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| Arabic for 'cellar') is an ancient Egyptian tomb structure that served as a chamber for the Ka statue of a deceased individual. he serdab was a sealed chamber with a small slit or hole to allow the soul of the deceased to move about freely. |
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| processional of pylons ie. amun-re |
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| otherwise known as intaglio or sometimes hollow-relief, is a method of sculpting which entails carving or etching an image into the surface of a flat piece of stone, metal, glass or wood. This method creates a relief which is effectively a negative of the usual bas-relief type. |
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| has a flat ceiling which is supported by columns, as in the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak. In this case the columns flanking the central avenue are of greater height than those of the side aisles, and this allows openings in the wall above the smaller columns, through which light is admitted over the aisle roof, through clerestory windows. |
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| an architectural term denoting an upper level of a Roman basilica or of the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church, the walls of which rise above the rooflines of the lower aisles and are pierced with windows. |
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| or coping stone is one of the finishing or protective stones that form the top of an exterior masonry wall or building. The term is also used for the stones making up the covering structure of an archaeological tomb. |
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| is a burial structure characterised by its false dome created by the superposition of successively smaller rings of mudbricks or, more often, stones. |
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| is a piece of stone jutting out of a wall to carry any superincumbent weight. A piece of timber projecting in the same way was called a "tassel" or a "bragger". The technique of corbelling, where rows of corbels deeply keyed inside a wall support a projecting wall or parapet, |
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| is a type of stonework found in Mycenaean architecture, built with huge limestone boulders, roughly fitted together with minimal clearance between adjacent stones and no use of mortar. The boulders are typically unworked, but are sometimes roughly worked with a hammer, and the gaps between boulders are often filled in with smaller hunks of limestone. |
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| is the "great hall" of Mycenaean culture. The rectangular hall, fronted by an open, two-columned porch and a more or less central hearth traditional in Greece s |
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| a metalworking technique in which a malleable metal is ornamented or shaped by hammering from the reverse side. There are few techniques that offer such diversity of expression while still being relatively economical. |
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(2500 BCE) Khafre, Old Kingdom An egyptian pharoah from the fourth dynasty 5'6" larger then life Anorthosite Gneiss- Durable Hard stone Illuminated by skylight gives bluish glow Closed Composition Sculpture is Static Lotus=Lower egypt Papyrus= Upper egypt Horace- Falcon God, power of the wisdom around Khafre's head Rolled up scroll=he is law giver & rule keeper Hosted the Kha |
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Giza Pyramids of Menchara, Khafre, Khufu Overlooking Memphis on the west side of Nile Oriented east west Relieving triangle Inside to outside Cone pyramid then outer white marbel shell Great sphinx |
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Stonehenge, Salisbury plain, Wiltshire England, c. 2500, prehistoric, megalithic
not the largest, but is the most complex,
stones brought from afar
chalk substratum
sarsen-grey sandstone
Heel stone- sun rises directly overhead on summer solstice |
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Venus of Willendorf c. 24,000 BCE, prehistory, 4 1/2" tall
Fertility idol?
procreation pronounced
everything points to childbearing |
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| Spotted horses and human hand negative, pech-merle cave, dordogne france c. horses-25,000bce hands-15,000 Paint on limestone horses are five feet tall |
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Hall of Bulls, Lascaux cave, france. c. 15000
length of longest auroch=18'
Twisted perspective
lascaux has about 600 paintings and 1500 engravings |
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Bird-headed man with bison, lascaux, c. 1500
found at bottom of well which held spears.
Tells a story unusual. bird man uses atlatl (spear-thrower) to disembowel a bull.
cross specied--shaman?
Stylistically different |
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Bison at Altimira Caves, spain. c.12500 bce, paleolithic period, paint on limestone
First to be discovered, over and around natural irregularites. |
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Bison from Le tuc d'audoubert france, c. 13000 bce. unbaked clay, paleolithic
High relief
shaggy coats.
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