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Armana Characteristics: -small period of egyptain art that is different
-Akhenaton destroys all references to the old gods
-deity is Aton
increase naturalism
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Aton: -disk sun god
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bent axis approach: 3 entrance stair cases
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bud: cluster capitals made to look like clustersof papyrus buds
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Bull-Headed Lyre: 2600 bce from Sumer; stylized bull head and sound box; same heraldic grouping as found in early Egyptian art
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campainiform: bell shaped capital
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celstory: arrangment of the collums allows for windows to let light in
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corridor axis approach: the highter you go, only some people can go up higher
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Funerary Temole of Queen Hatsheput: -built into the eart
-colums holding roff
-natural outgrowth of the enviroment
-middle:sanctum sancorum(actually in cliff)
-corridor axis approach
-the more holy a space, less people can enter
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hypostyle hall: a buliding that has rowas of cloums holding up a roof
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Lamassu: -a colossal winged human-headed bull in Assyrian art, used as a guardian
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Minoan Figures: -speak of a society of joyous disposition
-natural
-characteristic elegance of form
-palaces were built mainly to serve the organizational, and administrative needs of their society
-the small waist, the fluidity of line, and the vitality of character
-geometric division
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Pharaohs headress: Iris
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Pylon: The simple and massive gateway, with sloping walls, of an Egyptian temple
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Queen Ti/Smenkhkare and Wife: -Akhenaton's mother
-shown in old age
-she is african
-long neck
-akhentans wife
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Standard or Ur: -one side is war(coming into battle, taking captives, blindfolded slaves being brought to king)
-one side is banquet side(very peaceful, no war)
-divided into registers
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Stele of Hammurabi: -This code of law inscribed on this black stele was the first standardized code of law.
-top is used for political propaganda
-image with text
-composite view
-hieratic scale
-lack of background
-cylindrical
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Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser: -made by Imhotep
-stone & white limestoe
-rayal tomb and to protect the mummified king and his possessions
-symbolize by its giant presence, his god like power
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Temple of Amen-Ra: -silid wall, all around
-one grand entrance
-hypostyle hall
corridor axis approach
-campainiform
-Bud
-pylon entryway
-celstory
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Temple of Ramses: -4 sculptors in the front are colossi
-purpse of colassi is to intimadte
-no tomb inside
-atlantid(collom in the form of a man)
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Ti watching a hippo hunt: -limestone
-relief decorating the walls of the masta
-used to decpit Ti while hunting, after his life
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Ziggurat of Ur: -bent axis approach
-not a tomb, but a temle platform
-raised hight because of flooding
-made of mud bricks
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Ziggurates: -rectangular stepped towers