Unit 1 Study Guide
Chapter 1-Prehistoric Art
Key Structures
Key Terms
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Relief Sculpture
Sculpture in the round
Composite pose
Ridgepole and waddle & daub
Dolmen
Thatch
Cairn
Corbel(ing) vault
Mega-paleo-neo-lithic
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1.2 – Rainbow Serpent Mound
1.5 Mammoth Bone House
1.6 – Lion-Human
1.7 – Woman of Willendorf
1.8 – Woman of Dolni Vestonice
1.9 – Woman of Brassempouy
1.10 – Chauvet
1.11 – Lascaux
1.12 – Altamira
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Lepenski Vir
Stonehenge
Skara Brae
Catalhoyuk
Sesklo, Greece
Key Questions
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 What do Lepenski Vir and Catalhoyuk show about the
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 How do civilizations paint in caves?
 What was the purpose of structures like Stonehenge?
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Chapter 2-Prehistoric Art
Key Terms
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Hieratic scale
Cuneiform
Ziggurat
Votive figures
Cylinder seal
Stele
Crenellated
Gold leafing
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2.1 – Stele of Naram-sin
2.4 – Votive Figures
2.5 – Cylinder Seal
2.6 – Head of a Man (Sargon I)
P. 34-35 – Great Lyre
2.8 – Gudea
P. 38 – Stele of Hammurabi
2.10 – Assurbanipal II Killing Lions
2.15 – Ishtar Gate
Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute
Standard of Ur
Key Structures
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Nanna Ziggurat, Ur
Persepolis
Babylon
Dur Sharrukin
Key Questions
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What is the purpose of Votive figures?
What was the purpose of the Code of Hammurabi?
Did another civilization influence Mesopotamian art?
What was the religion in this location?
What were the social classes?
How were women treated?
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Chapter 3-Art of Ancient Egypt
Key Terms
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Conventions
Ka
Funerary mask
Sarcophagus
Mastaba
Serdab
Clerestory
Peristyle
Hipostyle
Papyriform
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P. 52 – Palette of Narmer
3.8 – Khafre
3.9 – Menkaure and a Queen
3.10 – Seated Scribe
3.11 – Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt
3.16 - Stele of the Sculptor Userwer
Miniatures from the Middle Kingdom
3.21 – Hatshepsut Kneeling
3.25 – Colossal Figure of Akhenaten
3.26 – Akhenaten and His Family
3.27 – Queen Tiy
3.28 – Nefertiti
3.29 – Tut’s Sarcophagus
3.31 – Judgment of Hunefer Before Osiris
Key Structures
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Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Great Pyramids of Giza
Sphinx
Beni Hasan
Amun at Karnak
Abu Simbel
Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
Key Questions
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What crown is the figure wearing?
What conventions are being used?
What scene is being depicted on papyrus in relief cuts?
How were women treated?
What were the social classes?
What are the different parts of the building called?
What is the role of the Book of the Dead Scrolls?
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Chapter 4-Art of the Ancient
Aegean
Key Terms
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Megaron
Cyclopean Walls
Heinrich Schliemann
Key Works
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Kamares Ware Jug
Bull Leaping
Amphora
Harvester Rhyton
Woman or Goddess with Snakes
Death Mask of Agamemnon
Warrior Krater
Lion’s Gate
Cycladic Figures
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Knossos
Mycenae
Megaron
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Is there a lion or a bull? What civilization?
How are women depicted?
Why are they revered?
Where did the story of the labyrinth come from?
What are the influences on the Aegean world?
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Chapter 5-Art of Ancient Greece
Key Terms
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Rosettes
Black/Red Figure
Olpe
Caryatid
Contrapposto
Stoa
Tholos
Amphitheatre
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Dipylon Geometric Krater
Hero and Centaur
Lady of Auxerre
Dying Warrior of Aphaia
Kouros
Calf-Bearer
Kroisos
Peplos Kore
Achilles and Ajax Playing a Dice Game
Death of Ajax
Death of Sarpedon
Elgin Marbles
Riace Warrior
Charioteer of Delphi
Kritios Boy
Zeus (or Poseidon?)
Discobolos
Doryphorus
Hegeso Stele
Hermes and Infant Dionysus
Apollo
Apoxymenos
Weary Herakles
Battle of Issus (mosaic)
Dying Gaul/Gallic Chieftain
Nike of Samothrace
Venus de Milo
Murals of Pompeii
Key Structures
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Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi
Temple of Hera I
Treasury of the Siphnians
Temple at Aphaia
Acropolis
Acropolis
Acropolis
Key Questions
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Evolution from Archaic-Hellenistic
What shape is the body in?
Is the statue supported?
Are the males nude or clothed?