Vocab Terms 5/5

patera
concrete
oculus
verism
philosopher-king
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th style painting
chi rho
Nicene Creed

Images not in your Textbook for 4/30 lecture

Example of Egyptian Canon

Overview of Great Pyramids and surrounding area

Symbols in the Palette of Narmer

Judgement of Hu Nefer

Reconstruction of the Treasury of Atreus

Reconstruction of Palace at Knossos

Reconstruction of Mycenae

Vocab Terms 4/30

Horus
Osiris
Pharaoh
Canon
Narrative
Hedjet
Hieroglyphics
Heb-sed festival
Nemes headcloth
Polychroming
Ben-Ben
Amarna Period
Lapis Lazuli
Book of the Dead
Continuous narrative

Tholos
Corbelling
Cyclopean masonry
Amphora
Krater
Filling Ornament
Entasis
Korous
Kore
Stereometric
Epigastric arch
Archaic smile
Contraposto
Golden Mean
Symmetria
Gigantomachy

Building of the Pyramids

Short video with visuals on how the pyramids may have been built.

Terms and Vocabulary from 4-28 lecture:

Conceptual Analysis
Formal Analysis
Illusionism
Proportion
Composition
Linear perspective
Aerial perspective
Iconography
Shaman/shamanistic
Hunter-gatherer society
Mother-Earth goddess
Post and lintel
Cromlech
Blue stones
Great Causeway
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Cuneiform
Theocratic Socialism
City-state
Bent axis
Cella
Cult Statue
Ziggurat
Battered walls
Epic of Gilgamesh
Enkidu
Registers
Blue-glazed brick
Achmaenid Dynasty - Cyrus the Great
Zoroastrianism
Bas-relief
Column capital

First Day

Welcome to the Class Blog! I'm glad you've found it. I hope this will be a valuable resource to you in the coming weeks.

Below are some images from our first lecture that are not in your book.


The Great Lyre with bull’s head


Detail of Ishtar Gate


This is a close-up of a lion on the Ishtar Gate.