Vocabulary
When someone or something is shown as larger than other figures to show importance.
What is hierarchy of scale?
Tools were made of this during the Paleolithic Age.
What is stone?
What are permanent settlements with farming and domesticated animals?
This is a famous stele that listed strict laws and their corresponding punishments.
What is the Code of Hammurabi Stele?
The first great female monarch whose name has been recorded. She ruled Egypt for two decades when it was the most powerful empire in the world.
Who is Hatshepsut?
The horizontal sections that break up a narrative.
What are registers?
A megalithic monument in England that could have been an astronomical observatory, healing center, or cremation site.
Sumerians erected temple platforms called these several centuries before the Egyptians built stone pyramids. The White Temple was atop one.
What are ziggurats?
This shows a king depicted wearing both crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt - and him smiting the defeated of course!
What is the Palette of Narmer? ca. 3000–2920 BCE
Showing a body as the side of the face, front of the chest, and profile of the legs.
What is composite view?
Depictions of animals, hunting scenes, and humans.
What are subjects of cave paintings?
Architectural techniques during the Neolithic Period? (name any)
What is Cyclopean masonry, post and lintel, or cobel vaulting?
These Statuettes of two worshipers (from the Square Temple at Eshnunna) show they are doing this.
What is showing perpetual wakefulness as substitute worshipers?
The reason Egyptians put many itemsin their tombs, decorated them with paintings, and filled them with earthly items.
What is to take the items into the after life?
Showing the body as shifting weight onto one leg to show a natural stance.
What is contrapposto?
A small sculpture made of limestone that we believe was a fertility figure?
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
Çatal Höyük in modern-day Turkey, settled around 7500 BCE is this.
What is evidence of one of the oldest city settlements of the Neolithic Era?
This massive blue-tiled gate with composite creatures is the greatest surviving work of Mesopotamian architecture.
What is the Ishtar Gate?
This pharaoh initiated a revolution in Egyptian society and religion. He abandoned the worship of most Egyptian gods in favor of Aton. He and his family are portrayed in an androgynous manner.
Who is Akhenaton?
from the temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353–1335 BCE.
Two types of sculpture creation processes - on takes away and the other adds.
What are additive and subtractive methods?
Famous cave where the some of the first paintings were found
What are the Lascaux Caves?
What are animals and humans?
This stele shows a king leading his army up a mountain, stepping on the deafeated Lullubi along the way. He is in larger than all other figures and wears a horned helmet.
What is the Victory stele of Naram-Sin?
This young, short-lived pharaoh is depicted gold, jewel-studded artwork - which was found intact in his tomb!
What is the Death mask of Tutankhamen? (from the innermost coffin in his tomb at Thebes, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1323 BCE)