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Art History 1, 3rd ed. – Review for Test 1- Chapters: Intro, 1,2,3,4
Introduction, “Tool Kit”
Dating abbreviations: BC/BCE, AD/CE, c. (p.xxv)
Vocabulary: form, function, content, subject matter, iconography, context, 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, 1-8, 1-9,1-16, 1-17, 13-2 in ch. 13
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, iron, twisted
perspective/composite pose, 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, 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?
Chapter 2 – Art of the Ancient Near East
Plates: 2-1, 2-8, 2-9, 2-14, 2-15, p.38, 2-18, 2-20/21, 2-22
Periods/Cultures: Sumerian, Akkadian, Lagash (Neo Sumerian), Babylonian, Hittite, Assyrian,
Neo-Babylonian, Persian
Vocabulary: ziggurat, citadel, palace complex, fortification, crenellation, inlay, hollow-cast
sculpture, obsidian, stele, registers, Mesopotamia, Fertile Crescent, city-state, 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:
 First Cities
 Impact of writing on 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.
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Writing and literature
Chapter 3 – Art of Ancient Egypt
Plates: 3-1, 3-2, 3-5, 3-6, 3-9, 3-22 & 23, 3-27, 3-29, 3-32, p. 76, 3-35
Periods: Early Dynastic, Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Artists: Imhotep
Vocabulary: conventions, 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, 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, 4-4 & 5, 4-11, 4-12, 4-17 &4-18, p. 101 (Lion Gate), 4-22 & 23, 4-24
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, “flying-gallop” 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