AP.ARTHISTORY-TEST/CH01,2,3(09/23/08)
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Terms
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- prehistory
- the period of time before written records
- lintels
- a beam used to span an opening
- Clerestory
- the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts
- Hieroglyphic writing
- a system of writing using symbols/pictures
- Capitals
- the uppermost member of a column which serves as a transition from the shaft to the lintel
- Lamassu
- Assyrian guardian in the form of a man-headed winged bull
- silhouette
- the dark shape and outline of someone or something visible against a lighter background, dim light
- monolith
- a column shaft that is all in one piece, a large single block, piece of ston used in megalith structures
- Pillars
- usually a weight-carrying member, such as as pier or a column
- egyptology
- the study of the language,history, and civilization of ancient Egypt
- repousse
- formed in relief by beating a metal plate from the back, leaving the impression on the face
- Necropolis
- Greek-city of the dead, the large burial area or cemetery
- abrasion
- the process of scraping or wearing away
- strict profile
- one side of animal or human only drawn
- stylized
- depict or treat in a mannered and nonrealistic style
- cuneiform
- a system of writing used in ancient Mesopotamia
- Ashlar masonry
- carefully cut and regularly shaped blocks of stone used in construction, fitted together without mortar
- neolithic
- the "new" stone age
- mummification
- a technique used by ancient Egyptians to preserve human bodies so that they may serve as the eternal home of the immortal ka
- megalith
- a large roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structure
- Fertile Crescent
- crescent-shaped area of fertile land in the Middle East that extends from the eastern mediterranean coast through the valley of the Tigris/Euphrates rivers to the Persian Gulf
- Caryatids
- a female figure that functions as a supporting column
- Fresco seco
- painting on lime plaster, either dry or wet
- columns
- may be said as engaged columns-a vertical weight, carring architectural member, circular in cross, section and consisting of a base,shaft,and a capital
- registers
- also known as bands, one of a series of super imposed bands/friezes in a pictorial narrative, or the particular levels on which motifs are placed
- conceptual vs. optical approach
- conceptual approach presents the idea more importantly than the finished product, while the optical approach values int he styles
- anthropology
- the study of humankind, in particular of societies,cultures, and their developments
- Atlantids
- a male figure that functions as a supporting column
- canons of proportions
- a rule, for example of proportion, which is concided of beauty to be a matter of "correct" proportion
- BCE
- before the common era
- Colonnades
- a series or row of columns, usually spanned by lintels
- Heraldic grouping
- the system by which coats of arms and other armorial bearings are devised, described, and regulated
- bilaterally symmetrical
- the property of being divisible into symmetrical halves on either side of a unique plane
- Sarcophagus
- Latin-consumer of flesh, A coffin, usually of stone
- composite view
- also known as twisted perspective, a convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile form and another part of the figure frontally
- Mastaba
- an ancient Egyptian rectangular brick/stone structures
- henge
- also known as cromlech, a circle of monoliths
- stele
- also known as stelea, a carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events
- architecture of mass
- body of coherent matter of relatively large bulk, a solid physical object, so applied to built forms
- Imhotep
- Egyptian architect and scholar who is thought be the designer of the step pyramis at Saqqara for king Dijoser
- controlled-space
- three dementional space surrounding
- Fluted columns
- vertical channeling, roughly semicircular in corss-section
- code of Hammurabi
- law code which King Hammurabi of Babylon formulated in the early 18th century BCE
- uraeus
- are presentation of a sacred serpent as an emblem of supreme power, worn on the headdresses of ancient Egyptian deites/soverigns
- relief
- figures projecting from a background of which they are a part(sculpture)
- Pylons
- the simple/massive gateway, with sloping walls, of an Egyptian temple
- sarsen
- a silicified sandstone boulder of a kind that occurs on the chalk downs of southern England.Was used to construct stonehenge,etc.
- landscape
- a picture showing natural scenery, without narrative content
- CE
- common era
- hieratic scale
- fixed style of representation
- paleolithic
- the "old" stone age, during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings
- palette
- in ancient Egypt,a slate slab used for one preparing makeup
- Nemes
- in ancient Egypt, the linen headdress worn by the pharaoh, with the uraeus cobra of kingship on the front
- votive statues
- object left in sacred place for ritual/religious purposes
- Hypostyle hall
- a hall with a roof supported by columns
- free standing
- not supported by another structure
- groundline
- in paintings and reliefs, a painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand
- radiocarbon dating
- method of measuring the decay rate of carbon isotopes in organic matter to provide dates for organic materials such as wood and fiber
- Upper Egypt/Lower Egypt
- the original division, later unified in ca.3100BCE, divided by the direction of the flow of the Nile
- Predynastic Egypt
- a period between early Neolithic and the beginning of the Pharaonic monarchy beginning with king Narmer
- archaeology
- the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains
- ziggurat
- in ancient Mesopotamian architecture, a monumental platform for a temple
- temples
- a building devoted to the worship of a god/gods or any other object that is religious