Vocabulary
The term for colors that have white added to them.
What is a tint?
This civilization built the pyramids.
What is Egypt?
Using lines that repeatedly cross each other to create shading or texture.
What is cross hatching?
In ancient Egypt, men and women used this object to apply makeup.
What is a palette?
A technique that stacks rocks horizontally without using mortar to create a sturdy structure.
What is corbelling?
Term for the line that shows the shape or outside edges of an object in a drawing.
What is a contour line?
Cave paintings were found during this era, meaning old stone age.
What is Paleolithic?
This technique, which can be low or high, involves carving into a surface to create a work of art.
What is relief?
Ancient Mesopotamians worshiped this goddess of love and war.
Who is Innana?
It has been speculated that this structure was created for mystic healing, a calendar, or even human sacrifice.
The term used when you add black to a color.
What is shade?
This civilization would mold sculptures on the skulls of deceased family members to honor them.
What is Jericho? (I'll also accept Mesopotamia).
Art that is sectioned off into bars or strips, much like a modern comic.
What is a frieze? (or register)
This type of writing was invented by Sumerians to replace pictographs.
What is cuneiform?
The Palace at Knossos had this functional amenity beneath it.
This term refers to the distribution of visual weight in art.
What is balance?
This place is known as the cradle of civilization due its people inventing writing, city states, and recorded documents.
What is Sumer?
Using repeated dots in close proximity to create shading.
What is stippling?
In Ancient Sumer, people worshiped outside of this stepped temple.
What is a ziggurat?
The term for giant pieces of rock.
What is a monolith?
A way to show that the tallest figure is the most important.
What is the hierarchy of scale?
The Palace at Knossos is located here.
What is Greece?
Parallel lines used to create shading.
What is hatching?
According to the Ancient Egyptian legend; in order to pass on to their "heaven," your heart must be lighter than this.
What is a feather?
The King who resided in the Knossos Palace.
Who is King Minos?