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Chapter 2 - ANCIENT NEAR EAST |
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Apotheosis | → | ____
Deification of an individual. In painting, often shown as an ascent into heaven, borne by angels or putti |
Base | → | ____
A slab of masonry supporting a statue or the shaft of a column |
Capital | → | ____
The sculpted block which tops a column, with varying decorative elements (see: Doric, Ionic & Corinthian orders) |
Citadel | → | ____
An area of a fortress or defended city placed in a high, commanding spot |
Cone Mosaic | → | ____
An early (Sumerian) type of surface decoration created by pressing colored cones of baked clay into prepared wet plaster |
Crenellation | → | ____
A pattern of open notches built into the top of many fortified buildings for the purpose of defense |
Cuneiform writing | → | ____
An early form of writing with wedge-shaped marks impressed into wet clay with a stylus |
Cylinder seal | → | ____
A small cylindrical stone decorated with incised patterns, used with clay or wax to form an identifying signature |
Fluting | → | ____
In architecture, evenly spaced parallel vertical grooves incised on the shafts or columns |
Gold leaf | → | ____
Paper-thin sheets of hammered gold that are used in gilding (common in Byzantine icons and paintings) |
Grid | → | ____
A system of regularly spaced horizontally and vertically crossed lines that gives regularity to an architectural plan |
Groundline | → | ____
Solid baseline that indicates the ground plane of an image on which the figure stands |
Inlay | → | ____
Decorative process in which pieces of one material are set into the surface of an object made from a different material |
Lost-wax casting | → | ____
Method of casting bronze by pouring hot metal into a hollow form made of wax |
Monumental | → | ____
Giving the impression of grandeur and excellence |
Pictograph | → | ____
Highly stylized depiction serving as a symbol for a person or object |
Register | → | ____
Device used in spatial definition, placing self-contained bands in a vertical arrangement to differentiate layers of space within an image. |
Shaft | → | ____
Main vertical section of a column, between the capital and the base |
Stela | → | ____
A stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs, used as a grave marker or memorial |
Stylization | → | ____
Manner of representation that conforms to an intellectual or artistic idea rather than to naturalistic appearances |
Stylus | → | ____
Instrument with a pointed end, which makes a delicate line or scratch. Used for writing |
Terminal | → | ____
Any element of sculpture or architecture that functions as decorative closure |
Torque | → | ____
A neckpiece fashioned as a twisted metal collar |
Votive figure | → | ____
Image created as a devotional offering to a god or other deity |
Ziggurat | → | ____
A man-made mountain. A tall, stepped tower of earthen materials, often supporting a shrine |
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