Chapter 2 vocab
Art And Art History 102 with Radwim at Northern Virginia Community College
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Sumerian
Land of the civilized lords.
Akkadian
People who came from Akkad.
Neo-Sumerians
New Land of the civilized lord
Babylonian
Someone who came from Babylonia
Hittites
a member of an ancient Anatolian people whose empire was based in Asia Minor during the second millennium
Assyrians
Somebody who lived in Assyria. Cuneiform
Neo-Bablyonians
New citizens of Babel
Persian
Somebody who lived in Persia and found an empire around 500 BC
Mesopotamia
Ancient region located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern Iraq and Syria.
City-State
An independent state consisting of a sovereign city and it's surrounding territory
Cuneiform
relating or belonging to a writing system in which wedge-shaped impressions were made in soft clay.
Epic of Gilgamesh
Oldest found piece of narrative literature/art.
Ziggurat
An ancient Mesopotamian pyramid-shaped tower with a square base, rising in stories of ever-decreasing size, with a terrace at each story and a temple at the very top.
Bent-axis plan
A plan that incorporates two or more angular changes of direction, characteristic of Sumerian Architecture.
Cella
The chamber at the center of an ancient temple; in a classical temple, the room in which the cult statue usually stood.
Ground Line
In paintings and relies, a painted or carved baseline on which figures appear to stand.
Registers
One series of superimposed bands or freizes in a pictorial narrative, or the particular level that motifs
Votive
A gift or offering to a deity
Composite View
A convention of representation in which part of a figure is shown in profile and another part of the same figure is shown frontally; also called twisted perspective.
Hierarchy of scale
An artistic convention in which greater size indicates greater importance.
Heraldic composition
A composition that is symmetrical on either side of a central figure
Diorite
A dark granular igneous rock that consists of plagioclase and a ferromagnesian mineral such as hornblende.
Stele
A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events.
Lamassu
Assryian Guardian in the form of a man headed winged bull.
Arcuated
Arch-Shaped
Apadana
The great audience hall in Persian palaces
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