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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, citystate, 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

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, “flyinggallop” 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
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