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Paleolithic Age |
Old stone age; prehistoric period of human history |
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Petroglyph |
Rock engraving; art associated with prehistoric cultures |
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Neolithic Age |
New stone age; period of human history which saw the beginnings of agriculture
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Civilization |
A culture that was fairly complex social orders and relatively high degrees of technical development |
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Ancient Mesopotamia |
Civilization located between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, spanning 3100 BCE - 539 BCE; the land between rivers
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Ancient Egypt |
Civilization along the Nile River, spanning from 3150 BCE - 30 BCE
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Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic |
Three periods of Ancient Greece
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Doric, Ionic, Corinthian |
Three architectural styles developed in Ancient Greece
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Constantine |
First Christian Roman Emperor, ruling from 306-377
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Middle Ages |
Time between the fall of the Greek and Roman Empires and the rebirth of Greco-Roman ideas in the Renaissance
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Renaissance |
Rebirth of classical Greek and Roman ideals; philosophical, literary and artistic movement
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Contrapposto |
A classical pose in which a figure stands with one leg holding most of its weight and the other leg relaxed; counterpoised
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Protestant Reformation |
16th century protest of Western Christianity which resulted in a divided church
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Baroque |
Period of art that used dramatic action and exaggerated emotion, supported by the Catholic Church
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Chiaroscuro |
Use of light and dark in painting to show forms and highlight subjects
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Tenebrism |
Highly exaggerated use of light and dark, utilized by the artist Caravaggio
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Rococo |
Highly decorative and whimsical period of art in the late 18th century
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Romanticism |
Period of art which focused on emotion and feeling, often through nature and human experience
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Realism |
A style of art and literature that depicts ordinary existence without idealism, exoticism, or nostalgia
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Impressionism |
A style of art which aimed to capture the "impression" of what the eye sees rather than what the mind knows |
