Statues that are carved free of any background or block.
What is a 3 dimensional sculpture in the round?
100
An upright stone slab artist used in Mesotania as a symbolic visual language in public works.
What is a stele?
100
Flat stones with a circular depression on one side. Done in shallow or low relief.
What are palettes?
100
to silhouette the shapes of figures against the unpainted clay of the background.
why is slip used?
100
A raised platform.
What is a podium?
200
A circle of stones surrounded by a ditch with built up embankments.
What is a stonehenge?
200
The Sumerian's imposing building stepped pyramids with a temple or shrine on top.
What is a ziggurat?
200
A flat topped, single story building with slanted walls over an ancient Egyptian underground tomb filled with supplies for eternity tended to be grouped together in a "city of the dead".
What is a mastaba?
200
Black figure.
Ezekias used a technique known as?
200
A slow drying type of plaster that can easily be modeled or molded.
What is a stucco?
300
A large painting or decoration created directly on the wall.
What is a mural?
300
Usually less than 2 inches high, were made of hard and sometimes semiprecious stones with designs incised into the surface.
What are cylinder seals?
300
Hot colored wax used in late Egyptian art.
What is encaustic?
300
Lasted a half century from 450 to 400 BCE.
How long did the "High" Classical period of Greek art last?
300
Formed by fitting together wedge-shaped pieces.
What are voussoirs?
400
The site of the earliest known Pre-Historic cave paintings.
What is the Chauvet Cave.
400
The use of different sizes for significant or holy figures and those of the everyday world to indicate relative importance.
What is a hieratic scale?
400
Represents the ruler enthroned and protected by the falcon-god Horus.
Who is Khafie?
400
A wide range of materials, techniques, and styles.
Hellenistic sculptures produced an enormous work in?
400
A room with a shallow indoor pool for drinking, cooking, and bathing, fed by rain water through a large opening in the roof.
What is an atrium?
500
How you express yourself, the study of different activities and feelings or emotion.
What is art?
500
The stele of Hammurabi.
What is a stele to know the laws and the consequences for breaking the laws?
500
3.
How many passages where in the king's tomb?
500
A standing figure with opposing alternation of tension and relaxation.
What is a Contrapposto?
500
Ficorni Cista.
What was made in the second half of the fourth century BCE and excavated in Palestrina Southeast of Rome?