a representation of an animal or human from two simultaneous viewpoints.
What is twisted perspective?
100
a hard, typically green stone used for ornaments and implements and consisting of the minerals jadeite or nephrite.
What is jade?
100
(in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel
What is ziggurat?
100
a thin board or slab on which an artist lays and mixes colors. sometimes used for rituals or ceremonies.
What is palatte?
100
a raised road or track across low or wet ground.
What is causeway?
200
the natural coloring matter of animal or plant tissue.
What is Pigments?
200
The location at which an item was found.
What is findspot?
200
an upright pillar, typically cylindrical and made of stone or concrete, supporting an entablature, arch, or other structure or standing alone as a monument.
What is Column?
200
Narmer was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the Early Dynastic Period. Probably the successor to the Protodynastic pharaohs Scorpion and/or Ka, some consider him the unifier of Egypt
Who is Narmer?
200
This valley temple was part of the funerary complex including along with the pyramid (with its burial chamber) a mortuary temple (joining the pyramid on its east side), and a covered causeway leading to the valley temple.
What is valley temple?
300
a triangular bone in the lower back formed from fused vertebrae and situated between the two hipbones of the pelvis.
The sacrum was used to be carved into statues or objects for fertility.
What is sacrum? What was the function, did it use symbolism?
300
fat, round, or bulging.
What is bulbous?
300
the inner area of an ancient temple, especially one housing the hidden cult image in a Greek or Roman temple.
What is Cella?
300
regard or represent as perfect or better than in reality.
What is idealized?
300
temples constructed adjacent to, or in the vicinity of, royal tombs in the Ancient Egypt. The temples were designed to commemorate the reign of the pharaoh by whom they were built, as well as for use by the pharaoh's cult after death.
What is mortuary temple?
400
great in importance, extent, or size.
Yes monumental shows the statue such as the Lamassu as intimidating.
What is monumental? Does it contribute to the function of an artwork explain using examples.
400
having a common center, as circles or spheres
What is concentric circles?
400
a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.
What is theocracy?
400
(The Canon of Proportions) The Vitruvian Man is a drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the architect Vitruvius
What is cannon of proportion?
400
mystical creature -Greek mythology.
What is sphinx?
500
a decorative design or pattern.A distinctive feature or dominant idea in an artistic or literary composition.
What is motifs?
500
relates to a plan or diagram like the many fortified palaces during the time.
What is Schematic representation?
500
a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase. Pictographs were used as the earliest known form of writing, examples having been discovered in Egypt and Mesopotamia from before 3000 BC.
What is pictograph?
500
a person who copies out documents, especially one employed to do this before printing was invented.
What is Scribe?
500
the technique of painting on dry plaster with pigments mixed in water.