ART 155 EXAM 1
Abstraction - art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a
visual reality
Abu Simbel - -Ramses II,
-New kingdom, -Sandstone
Akhenaton and family - -Limestone,
-1 foot high
Akkadian - relating to akkad in ancient Babylonia, its people and language
Amarna Period - period in which Akhenaten crowned himself a complete god and
had complete religious reform
Amenhotep IV - changed name to Akhenaton or servent of Aten and esablished
himself as a god
Apotropaic Device - object used to avert evil
Assur - is the god of the Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city
of Ashur
Aton - a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human
hands
-Had a small reign
Babylon - was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th
centuries BCE
Chauvet Cave - -Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche Gorge, France
-Upper Paleolithic
Code of Hammurabi - -Stele inscribed
-Babylonian
-Diorite
, -7 feet tall
Cuneiform - a universal mechanism of writing
Demotic - common script that was understood by multiple peoples
Great Pyramids at Giza - -Menkaure,
-Khafre,
-Khufu,
-Old Kingdom
Great Sphnix - -Sandstone,
-65 feet high
Hall of Bulls -
Hammurabi - was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty
-created a code of law in Mesopotamia
Head of an Akkadian Ruler - -Ninevah, Iraq
-Copper
-1 foot tall
Hierarchical Scaling (hieratic scale) - technique used for unnatural proportion or
scale to depict the relative importance of the figures
Horus - a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent, or a red and white crown, as
a symbol of kingship
Human with feline head - -Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
-Upper Paleolithic
-Mammoth Ivory
-1 foot tall
Idealized - to resemble a specific character in perfection or excellence
Ishtar Gate - -Royal Palace at Babylon, Iraq, -Babylonian,
Abstraction - art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a
visual reality
Abu Simbel - -Ramses II,
-New kingdom, -Sandstone
Akhenaton and family - -Limestone,
-1 foot high
Akkadian - relating to akkad in ancient Babylonia, its people and language
Amarna Period - period in which Akhenaten crowned himself a complete god and
had complete religious reform
Amenhotep IV - changed name to Akhenaton or servent of Aten and esablished
himself as a god
Apotropaic Device - object used to avert evil
Assur - is the god of the Assyrians who was elevated from a local deity of the city
of Ashur
Aton - a sun god, depicted as the solar disk emitting rays terminating in human
hands
-Had a small reign
Babylon - was a key kingdom in ancient Mesopotamia from the 18th to 6th
centuries BCE
Chauvet Cave - -Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche Gorge, France
-Upper Paleolithic
Code of Hammurabi - -Stele inscribed
-Babylonian
-Diorite
, -7 feet tall
Cuneiform - a universal mechanism of writing
Demotic - common script that was understood by multiple peoples
Great Pyramids at Giza - -Menkaure,
-Khafre,
-Khufu,
-Old Kingdom
Great Sphnix - -Sandstone,
-65 feet high
Hall of Bulls -
Hammurabi - was the sixth king of the First Babylonian Dynasty
-created a code of law in Mesopotamia
Head of an Akkadian Ruler - -Ninevah, Iraq
-Copper
-1 foot tall
Hierarchical Scaling (hieratic scale) - technique used for unnatural proportion or
scale to depict the relative importance of the figures
Horus - a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent, or a red and white crown, as
a symbol of kingship
Human with feline head - -Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
-Upper Paleolithic
-Mammoth Ivory
-1 foot tall
Idealized - to resemble a specific character in perfection or excellence
Ishtar Gate - -Royal Palace at Babylon, Iraq, -Babylonian,
