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Fine Arts 110
History of Western Art, 1Midterm Study Page
Updated for 2008
Mary Prevo, Instructor
| Syllabus
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Identification of image includes: title,
culture or period, medium, date. For some works, we know the maker,
either an architect or sculptor.
The midterm will be a series of comparisons (probably five at 10 minutes a piece, but maybe six or seven at 5 minutes). For the comparisons, you will expected to write a short essay. To study for the midterm, review your notes, the text, and the quiz study pages (1 and 2) with a eye to works that relate to one another either by subject, technique, patron, or composition. Comparisons To write a successful comparison, first identify the works of art so you are sure where they fall in relation to one another. Are they contemporary? From the same place? Then ask yourself, "What does this comparison illustrate?" Example: Khafre, from Giza, Old Kingdom, Egypt, diorite,
c. 2570 BCE
To nail the comparison, you should state explicitly that the comparison illustrates the differences between a ka statue for a ruler and a ka statue for a common person during the Old Kingdom in ancient Egypt. Use specific elements of the two sculptures to illustrate this general statement. For example, the more expensive and permanent material used for the Pharaoh. How do they sit? What do they hold? |
Archaic Period
Classical Period
Vocabulary - to review. I will be looking for evidence in your comparisons that you understand and can use the architectural and art historical vocabulary below.
| Art in General | Architecture | Sculpture | Geography/culture |
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patron maker or artist style abstraction stylized iconography form composition space, mass, volume perceptual (optical) representation conceptual representation
proportions monumental roundel
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plan section load-bearing wall corbel corbeled arch post and lintel menhir henge column
base, shaft, capital lotus capital ziggurat mud-dried brick glazed brick citadel palace complex pyramid mastaba rock-cut tomb temple compex hypostyle hall clerestory peristyle court obelisk
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sculpture in the round relief sculpture high relief low relief sunken or negative relief register
groundline votive figure |
Paleolithic Neolithic Bronze Age Iron age
Fertile Crescent Gilgamesh cuneiform writing city-state empire lamasu Egypt, Upper and Lower Ka serdab Horus Isis Osirus necropolis hieroglyphic writing cartouche
city-state papryus mummy Book of the Dead
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| Questions? maryp@hsc.edu Office: Winston Hall, Lobby left | P.O. Box 843 Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943 USA (434) 223-7057 |
Questions or corrections, please contact me at mprevo@hsc.edu.