Artistic Traditions (Continuity)
First seen in Neolithic pots, this compositional tool for dividing an image into parts remained in use for millenia.
What are registers?
With more than half of its form extending beyond its material surface, the decorative carving of the Lamassu is an example of what technique?
What is High Relief?
The funeral frescos of the Etruscans display festive celebrations of entering the afterlife, as seen in this work.
What is the Tomb of the Triclinium?
This ancient Sumerian structure served as the center of religion and government as a centralized power.
What is the White Temple and its Ziggurat?
Embodying Greek ideal forms, this "canon" is carved mathematically to the golden ratio.
What is Doryphoros?
This technique displays the most important figure in an artwork as larger than others.
What is hierarchical scale?
The Etruscans constructed both their tombs and their temple foundations using this abundant regional material.
(*the most resilient of their materials).
What is tufa?
Acting as a guide into the afterlife, this scene depicts the journey of the individual's soul through a trial with the gods.
What is The Last Judgement of Hunefer (Egyptian Book of the Dead)?
Of the three Great Pyramids of Giza, only this one still displays its original exterior of limestone casing.
What is Khafre's Pyramid?
With hands clasped, standing upright, and eyes turned toward the Heavens, these objects functioned as devotional stand-ins for worshippers.
What is the Votive Figures of Eshnunna?
This style of depicting the human figure would remain in place for all of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Etruscans, but ending with the Greeks
What is composite pose?
The Greek Niobides Krater uses this positive/negative painting style to depict its figures and scenes.
What is Red-Figure Technique?
In the Code of Hammurabi, our king can be seen receiving what from the Babylonian sun god, Shamash?
What is the Divine Rule of Law?
What is the Divine Right to Rule?
First seen at the Temple of Amun-Re, this structure allowed light to enter the temple while supporting the roof on many rows of columns.
What is a Hypostyle Hall?
Marking a stylistic shift coinciding with monotheism, this work depicts the human figure with elongated and more curvilinear forms
What is Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters?
The static but striding Pharaoh-pose of King Menkaure and Queen can be found in this archaic Greek ideal youth.
Doryphoros appears in this more naturalized posture where the weight is shifted to one leg.
What is contrapposto?
As seen at the Acropolis, this goddess sometimes joins forms with Athena and is the personification of Victory.
Who is Nike?
This order of Greek columns can be found at the Parthenon, displaying a fluted shaft with a plain capital and no base.
What is a Doric Column? (Doric Order)
Vanishing by the time of the Classical Period of Greece, this facial convention was used as an expression of a figure's eternal transcendence.
What is the Archaic smile?
This conventional placement of the feet will often tell the viewer who is a god in an artwork.
What is having the feet off the ground?
This carving style contributed to the Hellenistic drama created by high contrasts of light and shadow in fabrics/dress
What is wet-drapery technique?
The gigantomachy at the Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon is symbolic for Greek victory over this group of "barbarians."
Who are the Gauls? (Celts)
Who is who?
Setting the standard for burial in the Valley of the Kings, this structure's eternal quality comes in part from being hewn of the living rock.
What is Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple?
This work's atypical posture invokes a sense of drama mixed with pathos and humanity.
What is the Seated Boxer?