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72 Cards in this Set
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Woman, Limestone. |
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Worshippers and dieties from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar,Limestone, alabaster, gypsum |
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Palette of King Narmer Hierakonpolis |
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King Khafre Giza. Diorite |
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Queen Nefertiti, Tell el Amarna. Painted Limestone |
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Colossal head, olmec culture. Basalt. |
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The Acropolis, Athens, Greece. |
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Nike of Samothrace, marble. |
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Column of Trajan, rome. Marble |
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Theodora and Her Attendants. Mosaic. |
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Purse cover, from Sutton Hoo burial ship. Gold with india Garnets and cloisonne enamel, originally on an ivory or bone background. |
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Gislebertus, Last Judgement, tympanum and lintel. |
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Chartes Cathedral |
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Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Bronze. |
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Donatello, David. Bronze. |
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Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Oil on Wood. |
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Raphael, The School of Athens, Fresco. |
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Coatlicue, Basalt |
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Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. Marble |
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Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew. Oil on Canvas. |
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Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat. Oil on Canvas. |
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Thomas Jefferson. |
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque. Oil on Canvas. |
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Edouard Manet, Olympia. Oil on Canvas. |
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Claude Monet, Impression--Sunrise. Oil on Canvas. |
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Moulin dr la Galette. Oil on Canvas. |
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Giacomo Balla, Dyanism of a Dog on a Leash. Oil on Canvas. |
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Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Bronze. |
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Marcel Duchamp, Fountain. |
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Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory. Oil on Canvas. |
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Pablo Picasso, Guernica. Oil on Canvas. |
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Frida Kahlo, Las Fridas. Oil on Canvas. |
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neolithic |
an era that produced large quantities of pottery and millet |
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neolithic
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an era that produced large quantities of pottery and millet
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megaliths
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Huge stones used as monuments. constructed without mortars.
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acropolis
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A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
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ziggurat
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Flatter and wider pyramid built by the Sumerians.With a sanctuary on top.
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stele
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An upright stone slab carved with a commemorative design or inscription.
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Stupa
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A large, mound-shaped Buddhist shrine.
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ka
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the Egyptian concept of vital essence, part of the soul. |
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canon of proportions
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a set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body
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contrapposto
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A style of Greek sculpture where people are depicted standing and leaning so that the person's weight is being put on one side. People are depicted with their bodies curved like an "S"
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mosque
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A Muslim place of worship
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early renaissance
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From 1400-1494
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high renaissance
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1500-1527
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baroque
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1600-1750
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rococo
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A style of art popular in the first three quarters of the eighteenth century, particularly in France, characterized by curvilinear forms, pastel colors, and light, often frivolous subject matter
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neoclassicism
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A style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that w3as influenced by the greek classical style and that often employed classical theme for its subject matter
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surrealism
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A style of of art of the early twentieth century that emphasized dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid, thoughtless forms of notation that expressed the unconscious mind.
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cubism
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A style of art pioneered by pablo picasso and george braque in the first decade of the twentieth century, noted for the geometry of its forms, its fragmentation of the object and its increasing abstraction.
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impressionism
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An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing
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futurism
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An early thwentieth century art movement characterized by its desire to celebrate the movement and speed of modern industrial life
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hellenism
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The culture of the ancient greece
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minoans
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A Neolithic people that started around 3000BC, supposedly the earliest people on the island of Crete. They were excellent sailors & traded w/ Egypt & the Fertile Crescent. Were conquered by mainland Greece.
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mosaics
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An art form in which small pieces of tile, flass, or stone are fitted together and embedded in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors.
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tesserae
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Small pieces of glass or stone used in making a mosiac
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medici family
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A family, made wealthy by starting a banking industry in Florence, who were major patrons to the arts during the renaissance.
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olmec
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1200-400 BC
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maya
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Aztec
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Donatello
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David, 1425-1430. Bronze. Early Renaissance.
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Leonardo
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Mona lisa, Oil on wood, 1504-1505. High Renaissance. Scythed chariot, pen and ink wash, 1487.
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Michelangelo
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The Last Judgement, Fresco, 1534-1541. Mannerism.
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Raphael
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The school of Athens, 1510-1511, fresco. High Renaissance.
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Picasso
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Guernica, 1937. Cubism. Oil on canvas.
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Braque
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Violin and Palette, 1909. Oil on canvas. Cubism.
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Renoir
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La Moulin de la galette, 1876. Oil on canvas. Impressionism.
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Monet
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Sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas. Impressionism.
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Bernini
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The Cornaro Family in a Theater Box. Marble. Baroque.
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Jacques Louis David
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The Death of Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas. Neoclassicism.
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Balla
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Dyanism of a dog on a leash, 1912. Oil on canvas. Futurism.
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Duchamp
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Fountain, 1912. Photograph. Dada/surrealism. |