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| Art
of the Ancients |
| Architecture |
The art and science of designing aesthetic
buildings, bridges, and other structures to help people meet
their personal and communal needs. |
| Canon of proportions
|
A set of rules governing the proportions of
the human body as they are to be rendered by artists. |
| Capital |
In architecture, the area at the top of the
shaft of a column, which provides a solid base for the horizontal
elements above. Capitals provide decorative transitions between
the cylinder of the column and the rectilinear architrave above.
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| Colonnade |
A series of columns placed side by side to
support a roof or a series of arches. |
| Cosmetic palette
|
A palette for mixing cosmetics, such as eye
makeup, with water. |
| Emboss |
To decorate with designs that are raised above
a surface. |
| Fertile Crescent
|
The arable land lying between the Tigris and
Euphrates rivers in ancient Mesopotamia. |
| Fertile Ribbon |
The arable land lying along the Nile River
in Egypt. |
| Foreshortening |
Diminishing the size of the parts of an object
represented as farthest from the viewer. Specifically, diminishing
the size of parts of an object rendered as receding from the
viewer at angles oblique to the picture plane, so that they
appear proportionately shorter than parts of the object that
are parallel to the picture plane. |
| Idealism |
In art, the representation of forms according
to a concept of perfection. |
| Labyrinth |
Maze. |
| Magazine |
In architecture, a large supply chamber. |
| Megalith |
A huge stone, especially as used in prehistoric
construction. |
| Mesolithic |
Referring to the Middle Stone Age. |
| Mortuary temple |
An Egyptian temple of the New Kingdom in which
the pharaoh worshiped and in which the pharaoh was worshiped
after death. |
| Neolithic |
Referring to the New Stone Age. |
| Pictograph |
A simplified symbol of an object or action;
for example, a schematized or abstract form of an ancestral
image, animal, geometric form, anatomic part, or shape suggestive
of a cosmic symbol or microscopic life. |
| Sculpture |
The art of carving, casting modeling, or assembling
materials into three-dimensional figures of forms; a work of
art made in such a manner. |
| Shrine |
A setting for an art object intended to arouse
feelings of religious devotion; a small structure or area intended
for private religious devotion; a site or structure used in
religious devotion. |
| Stele |
An engraved stone slab or pillar that serves
as a marker. |
| Throwing (a pot)
|
In ceramics, the process of shaping that takes
place on the potter's wheel. |
| Upper Paleolithic
|
The later years of the Old (Paleolithic) Stone
Age. |
| Venus |
The Roman goddess of beauty; a prehistoric
fertility figure such as the Venus of Willendorf. |
| Ziggurat |
A temple tower in the form or a terraced pyramid
used by ancient Assyrians and Babylonians. |
