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ANCEINT NEAR EAST(Mesopotamia)
3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Sumerian-Votive Figures, Standard of Ur
Babylonian- Law Code of Hammurabi, Ishtar
Assyrian-Stele of Naram Sin
Persian- Persepolis (Citadel of Darius I)
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Registers
Ziggurat
Stele
EGYPTIAN
3000 BCE to 300 BCE
Old Kingdom-Pyramids, Menkaure and Wife, Seated Khafre, Palette of Narmer, Sphinx, Ti watching a
Hippo Hunt, Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
Middle Kingdom
New Kingdom- Hatshepsut, Ramses II, Tutenkhamen
Armana Period- Nefertiti, Akenaton
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Canon
Mastaba
Rosetta Stone
Diorite
Relief sculpture
Hypostyle hall
GREEK
Cycladic- figurines
Minoan- Palace of Knossos, Bull Leaping Fresco, Spring Fresco, Snake goddess
Mycenaean- Lion’s Gate, Treasury of Atreus, Funerary mask of Agammemnon
Orientalizing/Geometric- Krater
Archaic- Dying Warrior, Kroisos, Temple of Hera I and II
Classical- Kritios Boy, Myron and Polykleitos, Spear Bearer, Discobolos, Praxiteles, Heremes and
Dionysos, Aphrodite of KNidos
Hellenistic- Old Market Woman, Laocoon and Sons, Seated Boxer
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Crete
Cyclopean masonry
Post and lintel (and relieving triangles)
Kore/kourous
Corbelled arches
keystone
contrapposto
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ETRUSCAN
Italy, pre Roman Empire, Greek legacy, underground tombs for the dead (necropolis)
Architecture is similar to Greek EXCEPT: roofline sculpture, entrance only from front, wood and terracotta,
high platform, ionic engaged columns (pseudoperipteral)
Sculpture: Capitoline wolf “She Wolf” suckles Romulus and Remus—found Rome! Sarcophagus of the
reclining couple—Egyptian-looking, parallels to Menkaure and Wife
Vocab:
terracotta
sarcophagus
ROME
Republic to Empire
Works: Roman Patrician, Augustus of Primaporta, Ara Pacis (Altar of Augstan Peace), Column of Trajan,
Flavian Woman, Marcus Aurelius, statue of Constantine, Carcalla, tetrarchs
Architecture: ampitheatres, temples (Fortuna Virilis, Maison Carre) combine Etruscan and Greek ,
Coliseum, triumphal arches (Arch of Titus, Arch of Constantine), basilica (Old Saint Peter’s), aqueducts
(Pont du Gard), Pantheon
Paintings: Pompeii styles
Vocab:
Verism
concrete
arches
atrium and impluvium
pseudoperipteral
Pax Augusta (Pax Romana)
coffering
oculus,
equestrian statue
Early Christian
Jesus (especially Good Shepherd), pick up on the illusionism of Greco-Roman art, mosaics, central plan
versus the basilican plan, Mary , catacombs, sarcophagus
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Good Shepherd at Galla Placidia, Loaves and Fishes and Santa Coztanza,
catacombs of Pricilla, Santa Costanza, Galla Placidia, Sant’Apollinare Nuovo,
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Lunette
Mandorla
Nimbus
Prefiguration
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Byzantine
FFFG (Flat, frontal, floating, gold) , Justinian and Theodora, icons, iconoclasm, luxury goods for private
devotion
Works: Hagia Sophia, Barberini Ivory, San Vitale, Justinian and his attendants, Theodora and her
attendants, pantokrator, Vladimir Virgin, Lamentation, Saint Catherine’s, Saint Mark’s,
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Iconoclasm
Diptych
Triptych
Encaustic
Tempera
Pendentives
Squinches
EARLY MEDIEVAL
WARRIOR LORDS (small and portable, interlace and animal style)
Sutton Hoo Purse cover
HIBERNO-SAXON (Ireland and England; illuminated manuscript)
Chi-rho-iota from the Book of Kells
Lindesfarne Gospels
Celtic Crosses
CAROLINGIAN (Charlemagne’s renaissance)
Saint Matthew in the Ebbo Gospels
Coronation Gospels
Palatine Chapel
Equestrian statues
Lindau Gospels
Torhalle Gatehouse
OTTONIAN (King Otto; emotional)
Gero Crucifix
Saint Michael’s, Bishop Berward’s doors
Gospel of Otto III
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Animal style
Interlace style
Illuminated manuscript
Carpet page
Vellum or parchement
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Cloissone
westwork
ROMANESQUE
Age the pilgrimages, roman-like, religious images versus texts
Saint-Pierre, Saint Sernin, Pisa Cathedral Complex, Saint-Etienne, Bayeux Tapestry, last Judgment at
Autun, Morgan Madonna, Ascension of Christ at Vezelay, Visions of Hildegard, Eadwine the Scribe
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Ambulatories
Radiating chapels
Reliquary
Tympanum
Portal
Jamb statues
Crossing square (bays)
Trumeau
Post and lintel
Vaulting
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