Chapter 1: Art Before the Written Word, page 21-35

Paleolithic:

Neolithic:

Sculpture in the round:

Relief sculpture:

Abstraction:

Paleolithic sculpture shows:

Geometric:

Two main cave painting sites:

Changes that mark the beginning of the Neolithic period:

1.

2.

3.

Ceramics:

Skara Brae:

Henge:

Megalithic:

Bronze Age:

Tigris and Euphrates:

Mesopotamia:

Nile:

Writing:

1. cuneiform:

2. hieroglyphics:

Cylinder seal:

Incised:

Bull lyre

Chapter 2:The Art of Mesopotamia and Egypt, page 37-61

Tigris and Euphrates

Nile

Similarities between Mesopotamia and Egypt

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

Pictograph

Cuneiform and hieroglyphic

Ziggurat

Reason for sculpture during this period

Votive figures

Bull Lyre

Epic of Gilgamesh

Stele

Hammurabi

Narmer

Three divisions of Egyptian history

1.

2.

3

Ptolemy

Mastaba

Necropolis

Differences between Egypt’s “step pyramid” and a ziggurat

1.

2.

3.

Giza

Symbol of Ra

Symbols of united Egypt

Rigidly frontal concept in sculpture

Cultural and political ideal in sculpture

Relief sculpture

Hippopotamus

Provincial governors of the Middle Kingdom

Senusret III

Pectoral

Pharaoh

Akhenaton

Luxor and Karnak

Monotheism

King Tutankamun

Sarcophagus

Purpose of scrolls in a tomb

Chapter 4: Art of Greece and the Aegean World, page 87-113

Which two peoples eventually became the Greeks?

1

2

Crete/Palace of Knossos

Fresco

Subject matter for Minoan art

Bull Leaping

Shaft graves

City-states

Acropolis

Divisions and definitions of early Greek art:

1.

2.

3.

Greek Orders

1.

2.

3.

Kouros

Kore

Vase painting

Amphora

Black and Red Figure decoration

Kritios Boy

Bronze (copper, usually mixed with tin)

Charioteer

Riace Warriors (Young Warrior)

Pericles

Mathematical proportions

Classical

Athena

Parthenon

Low relief sculpture

Sculpture “in the round”

Frieze

World’s first museum

Museum

Caryatid porch (Porch of the Maidens)

Canon of Polykleitos

Peloponnesian War

Philip of Macedonia

Alexander the Great

Aphrodite statue

Chapter 5: The Spread of Greek Art and Culture

Hellenistic

Classical

Modeling

Foreshortening

Corinthian Order

Aphrodite of Melos

Market Woman

The Dying Gaul

Etruscans

Etruscan Home

Tomb of the Reliefs

Tomb of the Lioness

Sarcophagi

She Wolf bronze statue in the round

Chapter 6: Roman Art, page136-161

Latin

Tiber

Early Roman government

Roman Republic

Artists of the Republican Period

Temple of Portunus

Pont du Gard

Augustus

Pax Romana

Ara Pacis

Mosaic

trompe l’oeil

intuitive perspective

Atmospheric perspective

Villa of the Mysteries

Pompeii

Mount Vesuvius

The Colosseum

Nero

Triumphal Arches

Forum

Basilica

Clerestory windows

Pantheon

Oculus

Coffered ceiling

Hadrian’s Wall

Young Flavian Woman

Young Woman Writing

Basilica of Maxintius and Constantine

Arch of Constantine

Constantinople

Byzantine Empire