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Art Before History Ch 1 Flashcards

AACC History of Western Art 1

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136663072Animal Plaque, Appollo 11 Cave, 23,000 BCE0
136663073Human with Feline Head, Hohlenstein-Stadel, 30,000- 28,000 BCE1
136663074"Venus" of Willendorf, 28,000- 25,000 BCE2
136663075Woman with Bison Horn, Laussel, ca. 25,000- 20,000 BCE3
136663076Two Bison, Le Tuc d' Auboubert ca. 15,000- 10,000 BCE4
136663077Bison with turned head, La Madeleine, ca. 12,000 BCE5
136663078Hall of Bulls, Lascaux, 15,000- 13,000 BCE6
136770733Rhinoceros, wounded man, disemboweled bison, Lascaux, 15,000- 13,000 BCE7
136770734Deer Hunt, Catal Hoyuk, ca. 5750 BCE8
136770735Passage Grave, Newgrange, c. 3200- 2500 BCE9
136770736Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, ca. 2550- 1600 BCE10
136770737PaleolithicThe "old" stone age, during which humankind produced the first sculptures and paintings.11
136770738NeolithicThe "new" stone age.12
136770739BurinA pointed tool used for engraving or incising.13
136770740Relief SculptureFigures projecting from a background of which they are part.14
136770741MuralA wall painting15
136770742MegalithGreek, "great stone." A large, roughly hewn stone used in the construction of monumental prehistoric structures.16
136770743TumulusLatin, "burial mound." In Etruscan architecture, tumuli cover one or more subterranean multi-chambered tombs cut out of the local tufa (limestone).17
136770744Corbelled VaultA vault formed by the piling of stone blocks in horizontal courses, cantilevered inward until the two walls meet in an arch.18
136770745Post and Lintela system of construction in which two post support a lintel.19

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