Prehistory
Prehistory can be defined a time before
What is writing/written language?
Immortal human life force believed to be oneself in the afterlife.
What is the ka?
Most original Greek sculptures were made through this process
What is lost-wax casting?
Stonehenge is an example of this type of architecture.
What is post-and-lintel?
With godlike-kings and king-like priests, ancient Mesopotamian government was a ____________.
What is a theocracy?
During the New Kingdom, these replaced pyramids for funerary architecture.
What is a rock-cut temple?
The name of the visual trick used to make columns appear more accurate to the human eye.
What is entasis?
What is nomadic?
Assyrian artists created sculptures in _________, in which the raised areas are relatively shallow.
What is low relief?
The name of the mythological creature outside of the Pyramid of Khafre.
What is a sphinx?
in an artwork, a natural position of a figure in which the weight shifts to one leg and the body forms an S-curve
What is contrapposto?
Most Roman art shows civic leaders, either elected officials or emperors, which can be considered a form of this.
What is propaganda?
Around 10,000 BCE when farming was developed
What is the Neolithic Revolution?
The name of the convention used to demonstrate power by using size.
What is hieratic or hierarchical scale?
In general, Egyptian royal art can be described as this style, reflective of the ruler's fitness for the throne.
What is idealized?
Greek architects drew inspiration from reason and order. They kept column shafts simple, emphasizing their function. They developed these three column orders.
What is doric, ionic, and corinthian?
The subject-matter of most prehistoric art is either about _________ or ___________.
What is food and fertility?
The name of writing first developed around 3200 BCE, meaning-wedge shaped.
What is cuneiform?
The standard of measurement used in the Egyptian Canon of Proportions is called _______.
What is a cubit?
What is verism?