Art History 1, 5th ed – Review for Test 1- Chapters: Intro, 1,2,3,4
Introduction, “Starter Kit”
Dating abbreviations: BC/BCE, AD/CE, c. (p.xxi), Chronology
Vocabulary: form, function, content, subject matter, iconography, style (period, regional),
representational/objective (realism, naturalism, idealism, illusionism), abstraction,
expressionism, nonrepresentational/nonobjective, medium/media (painting, graphic
arts/drawing, sculpture, architecture); sculpture – carving, modeling, casting, assembling,
freestanding/sculpture-in-the-round, relief –high/haut and low/bas); architecture-plan, section
Chapter 1 – Prehistoric Art in Europe
Plates: 1-4, 1-7, 1-12, 1-19, 1-20,
Periods: Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age, Iron Age
Vocabulary: architecture, post and lintel, corbeling, megalithic, dolmen, cairn, henge, “paleo,”
“meso,” “neo,” “mega,” “lithic,” mortise-and–tenon, ridgepole, wattle and daub, thatch,
obsidian, ceramics, pottery, potsherds, kiln, earthenware, stoneware, alloy, bronze, composite
pose/twisted perspective, sympathetic magic, abstract art, memory image, atlatl, shaman,
hunter-gatherer, agriculture
Topics:
 Birth of image-making/ representation
 Characteristics of Paleolithic female figurines and possible interpretations
 Characteristics of Paleolithic cave paintings, their methods and media, and their
possible interpretations
 Differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic societies – lifestyles, technology,
and the impact they had on art
 Domestication of animals and agriculture
 Impact of metals on early humans
 Ceramics
 Megalithic architecture and it’s characteristics
 Why do we assume that megalithic art and architecture had a religious or ritual
purpose instead of (or in addition to) a practical purpose?
 First Cities
Chapter 2 – Art of the Ancient Near East
Plates: 2-1, 2-5, 2-13, 2-14, p. 39, 2-18, 2-19, 2-21/22, 2-23
Periods/Cultures: Sumerian, Akkadian, Lagash (Neo-Sumerian), Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian,
Neo-Babylonian, Persian
Vocabulary: ziggurat, conventions, citadel, palace complex, fortification, crenellation, inlay,
hollow-cast sculpture, stele, registers, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, city-state, hieratic scale,
lamassu, portal, votive figure, cuneiform, stylus, cylinder seal, Epic of Gilgamesh, lyre, sistrum
(rattle), mushhushshu (horned dragon of Marduk), iron, apadana, gold leaf
Topics:
 Impact of writing to our understanding of cultures
 Characteristics of religious art vs. characteristics of political art – similarities,
differences – and the way religion and government are connected.
 Impact of war/ defensive concerns on architecture and city planning
 Codification of the Law and associated imagery
 Development of Agriculture as a social catalyst
 Specialization of labor
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Writing and literature
Chapter 3 – Art of Ancient Egypt
Plates: 3-1, p.52, 3-3, 3-6, 3-8, 3-18, 3-22, 3-25, 3-28, p. 74, 3-35
Periods: Early Dynastic, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Artists: Imhotep
Vocabulary: mastaba, serdab, pyramid, rock-cut tomb, canopic jars, pylon, hypostyle hall,
obelisk, clerestory, capital, sunken relief, faience, core-formed glass, groundlines, encaustic,
canon of proportions, ankh, scarab, wedjat, hieroglyphic, sarcophagus, necropolis, ka,
cartouche (first def. in glossary), Book of the Dead, Rosetta Stone, nemes headdress, scribe,
papyrus
Topics:
 Iconography in Egyptian art
 Conventions in painting and sculpture
 Royal costumes and symbols
 Hatshepsut
 Akhenaton and the Amarna Period
 Importance of Tutankhamen’s tomb to our understanding of Egyptian art
 Rameses II/Expressions of power
 Book of the Dead
 Evolution of Egyptian funerary architecture
 Relationship Egyptian art and architecture has to the afterlife
 Gods: Horus, Osiris, Anubis, Ma’at, Thoth, Ammit, Isis, Nepthys, Hathor, Nekhbet
and Wadjet, Aten, Ra, Amun, Ptah
Chapter 4 – Aegean Art
Plates: 4-2, 4-5, 4-7, 4-15 &4-16, 4-17, p. 97 –“Mask of Agamemnon,” 4-22 & 24
Periods: Cycladic, Minoan, Mycenaean/Helladic
Vocabulary: dressed stone/ashlar masonry, megaron, shaft grave, tholos/beehive tomb,
relieving arch, corbel vault, labrys, potter’s wheel, kamares ware, rhyton, krater, repoussé,
niello, lost-wax casting, fresco (buon, secco), faience, minotaur, “flying-gallop” pose, labyrinth,
bull-leaping
Topics:
 Minotaur legend and its connection to the ruins on Crete
 Characteristics and conventions of Cycladic figures
 Differences between Minoan and Mycenaean architecture and city planning,
reasons for differences
 Minoan lifestyle and its impact on art
 Mycenaean tombs
 Heinrich Schliemann and the legend of Agamemnon