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Vocabulary
What Art Historians Ask
It's All History
Artwork Identification
Rulers and Pharaohs
100
The study of art objects and buildings in order to shed light on the peoples who made them and on the times of their creation in ways other historical documents may not.
What is Art History
100
The four types of evidence that art historians must must consider when identifying the age of a work of art.
What is Physical, Documentary, Internal, and Stylistic.
100
This is where human originated in the very remote past.
What is Africa
100
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What is Venus of Willendorf, Pre-history Peoples 28,000-25,000BCE; Paleolithic Age
100
He called himself the "King of the Four Quarters". He is the grandson of Sargon of Akkad.
Who is Naram-Sin
200
Refers to the characteristic artistic manner of a specific time, usually within a distinct culture, such as "Archaic Greek".
What is Period Style
200
This is one of the key elements of art historical inquiry, in which an art historian must consider the artist, the period, and the region.
What is Style
200
This time period gives us the earliest preserved art objects, dating around 30,000BCE. Also known as the Old Stone Age.
What is the Paleolithic Age.
200
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What is Warka Vase, Sumerian Peoples 3,200-3,000BCE; 4th Century BCE
200
Babylon's most powerful king. He was famous in his own time for his conquests, he is best known today for his comprehensive laws.
Who is Hammurabi
300
Greek, the "writing of images". This term refers both to the content, or subject, of an artwork and to the study of content in art. It also includes the study of the symbolic, often religious, meaning of objects, persons, or evens depicted in works of art.
What is Iconography
300
At least three categories of pictorial subjects.
What is Religious, Historical, Mythological, Genre, Portraiture, Landscape, or Still Life
300
In this time period, ancient people begin to domesticate plants and animals and settle in fixed abodes.
What is the Neolithic Age.
300
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What is Standard of Ur, Sumerian Peoples, 2,600-2,000 BCE; 3rd Century BCE
300
Known as the "king of kings". He restored Babylon to its rank as one of the greatest cities of antiquity. Erected the Ishtar Gate.
Who is Nebuchadnezzar
400
An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance.
What is Hierarchy of Scale
400
The question art historians ask when an artist is assigned or attributed to a work based on the knowledge of the artist's personal style.
What is "Who Made It?"
400
This city succeed in establishing a centralized government that ruled southern Mesopotamia in 18th and 17th Centuries BCE.
What is Babylon
400
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What is Stele with Laws of Hammurabi, Babylonian Peoples, 1780 BCE; 18th Century BCE
400
This ruler captured Babylon in the 6th Century BCE. Was the founder of the Achaemenid dynasty and traced his ancestry back to a mythical King Achaemenes.
Who is Cyrus of Persia
500
A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally.
What is Composite View or Twisted View
500
The question many art historians ask when considering the patron of a work of art.
What is "Who Paid for It?"
500
This is the first of the three great periods of Egyptian history, spanning 2686-2185 BCE.
What is the Old Kingdom
500
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What is Ishtar Gate, Neo-Babylonian Peoples, 575 BCE; 1st Century BCE
500
This Egyptian ruler is often identified with pharaoh Menes. His rule marks the transition from prehistorical to the historical period in ancient Egypt, or the unification of Egypt.
Who is King Narmer