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Section 1
(50 cards)
Hypostyle
A hall in an Egyptian temple that has a roof supported by a dense thicket of coolmns
Mural
A painting on a wall.
Pylon
A monumental gateway to an Egyptian temple marked by two flat, sloping walls between which is a smaller entrance
Paleolithic
Human era before the development of agriculture
Hieroglyphics
Egyptian writing using symbols or pictures as characters
Clerestory
A roof that rises above lower roofs and thus has window space beneath
Papyrus
A tall aquatic plant whose fiber is used as writing surface in ancient Egypt
Block Statue
A cubic stone image with simplified body parts
Lintel
A horizontal support of timber, stone, concrete, or steel across the top of a door or window
Radio Carbon Dating
A technique to determine the age of organic material based on the 14C that the material acquired from the air.
Facade
The front of a building
Archaeology
The Study of Artifacts
City-State
A city that has its own government in which controls all government affairs pertaining to that city.
Megalith
A large stone that forms a prehistoric monument or part of one
Apotropaic
Having the power to ward off evil or bad luck
Sarcophagus
A stone coffin
Necropolis
Literally, a "city of the dead", a large burial area
Engaged Column
A column that is not freestanding but attached to a wall
Composite View
A view of the frontal and profile(side) together
Amarna Style
Art created during the reign of Akhenaton, which features a more relaxed figure style than in Old and Middle Kingdom art
Canon
A set of rules, principles, or standards accepted universally in a field of art. IE. the Egyptian Canon
Ankh
An Egyptian symbol of life
Peristyle
A colonnade surronding a building or enclosing a courtyard
Stylized
To generalize something, for example: All popular girls have expensive clothes.
Henge
A prehistoric monument consisting of a circle of stone or wooden uprights
Cromlech
A circle of standing stones
Axial Plan
A building with an elongated ground plan
Menhir
A tall upright stone of a kind, erected in prehistoric times in Western Europe
Nemes
The striped headcloth worn by Pharoahs in Ancient Egypt
Cong
A hollow cylinder or cone enclosed in a rectangular body
Post and Lintel
Two pillars supporting a Column above to make a large n shape. (Pillar and Column)
Terracotta
Unglazed, usually brownish-red earthenware used as ornamental building materials and in modeling.
Sunken Relief
A carving in which the outlines of figures are deeply carved into a surface so that the figures seem to project forward
Ka
The soul, or spiritual esseence, of a human being that either ascends to heaven or can live in an Egyptian statue itself
Cuneiform
A system of writing in which the strokes are formed in a wedge, or arrowhead shape
Reserve Column
A column that is cut away from rock but as no support function
Fresco
A painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling.
In Situ
A Latin expression that means that something is in its original locationo
Shamanism
Range of traditional beliefs and practices that include the abililty to cure, diagnose and sometimes cause suffering by creating a relationship with, or gaining control, over spirits.
Mastaba
Arabic for "bench", a low, flat-roofed Egyptian tomb with sides slopng down to the ground
Composition
What an art piece is made of
Bas-relief
A very shallow relief sculpture
Mortise and Tenon
A slot or recess, usually rectangular, cut into a piece of wood or stone, a projecting piece of wood made for insertion in a slot (definition above) of another piece.
Ground Line
A base line upon which figures stand
Cella
The main room of a temple where the god is housed
Apadana
An audience hall in a Persian palace
Pharaoh
A king of ancient Egypt
Capital
The top element of a column
Pictograph
A picture representing a word, phrase, or idea. (Ex. Hieroglyphics and Cuneiform)
Anthropomorphic
In the shape of a human
Section 2
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Ashlar masonry
Carefully cut and grooved stones that support a building without the use of concrete or other kinds of masonry
Composite Column
One that contains a combination of volutes from the Ionic order and acanthus leaves from the Corinthian Order
Peristyle
A colonnade surrounding a building or enclosing a courtyard
Stoa
An ancient Greek covered walkway having columns on one side and a wall on the other
Atrium
A courtyard in a Roman house or before a Christian church
Triclinium
A dining table in ancient Rome that has a couch on three sides for reclining meals
Contrapposto
A graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees
Pediment
The triangular top of a temple that contains sculpture
Portico
An entranceway to a building having columns supporting a roof
Terra-cotta
A hard ceramic clay used for building or for making pottery
Nike
Ancient Greek goddess of victory
Niobe
The model of a grieving mother; after boasting of her twelve children, jealous gods killed them.
Encaustic
An ancient method of painting that uses colored waxes burned into a wooden surface
Peplos
A garment worn by women in ancient Greece, usually full length and tied at the waist
Isocephalism
The tradition of depicting heads of figures on the same level
Tufa
A porous rock similar to limestone
Register
A horizontal band, often on top of another, that tell a narrative story
Cubiculum
A Roman bedroom flanking an atrium; in Early Christian art, a mortuary chapel in a catacomb
Continuous Narrative
A work of art that contains several scenes of the same story painted or sculpted in a single frame
Cupola
A small dome rising over the roof of a building; in architecture, a _____ is achieved by rotating an arch on its axis
Bust
A sculpture depicting a head, neck, and upper chest of a figure
Hierarchy of Scale
A system of representation that expresses a person's importance by the size of his or her representation in a work of art.
Propylaeu
A gateway leading to a Greek temple
Basilica
In Roman architecture, a large axially planned building with a nave, side aisles, and apses
Forum
A public square or market place in a Roman city
Kiln
An oven used for making pottery
Zeus
King of the ancient Greek gods; known as Jupiter to the Romans; god of the sky and weather
Votive
Offered in fulfillment of a vow or a pledge
Tholos
An ancient Greek circular shrine
Tumulus
An artificial mound of earth and stones placed over a grave
Mosaic
A decoration using pieces of stone, marble, or colored glass, called tesserae, that are cemented to a wall or a floor
Metope
A small relief sculpture on the facade of a Greek temple
Coffer
In architecture, a sunken panel in a ceiling
Relief Sculpture
Sculpture that projects from a flat background.
Shaft
The body of a column
Keystone
The center stone of an arch that holds the others in place
Negative Space
Empty space around an object or a person, such as the cut-out areas between a figure's legs or arms of a sculpture
Oculus
A circular window in a church, or a round opening at the top of a dome
Stele
A stone slab used to mark a grave or a sit
Ionic
An order of Greek architecture that features columns with scrolled capitals and an upper story with sculptures that are in friezes
Krater
A large ancient Greek bowl used for mixing water and wine
Kouros
An archaic Greek sculpture of a standing youth
Triglyph
A projecting grooved element alternating with a metope on a Greek temple
Foreshortening
A visual effect in which an object is shortened and turned deeper into the picture plane to give the effect of receding in space
Lamassu
A colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art
Tuscan order
An order of ancient architecture featuring slender, smooth columns that sit on simple bases; no carvings on the frieze or in the capitals
Panathenaic Way
A ceremonial road for a procession built to honor Athena during a festival
Stucco
A fine plaster used for wall decorations or moldings
Ziggurat
A pyramid-like building made of several stories that indent as the building gets taller, thus, ziggurats have terraces at each level
Impluvium
A rectangular basin in a Roman house that is placed in the open-air atrium in order to collect rainwater
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