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What is the defination of Statigraphy?
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is the
stacking of stuff-example- rocks layers on top of each other
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What is the defination of Relief?
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is the
carving is when you have a flat lock of stone and the figure emerges
around and out of the stone- (its sculpted inside the stone with part of the
stone still attached) The artist cuts the design into the surface so that the highest projecting parts of the image are no higher than the surface itself.
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What is the definition of Incision?
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Taking a sharp tool and making marks inside it
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What is the definition of Outline?
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Would be
drawing the rest of the horse
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What is the definition of Silhouette?
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the example
in this painting would be on the head because it is filled in
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What is the definition of Composite Perspective?
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is showing
something that is impossible to see- example here is in the horns where you can
see both of them yet the picture is drawn from the side
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What is the definition of Armature?
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is basically the skeleton inside of the sculpture
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What is the definition of Confronted?
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two felines facing one another in the same pose
This is very common in royal formal art |
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What is the definition of Tumulus?
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very large mounded up tomb with a chamber in the middle
It’s significant because one day of the year the sun stabs down and pierces the back of the tomb |
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What is the definition of Megalithic?
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Things built out of large stones
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What is the definition of Stylized?
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the snake pot shows the swirling of the snake form the top to bottom
etc.
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What is the definition of Lapis Lazuli?
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It
is a bluish stone
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What is the definition of Iconography?
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Something that can be easily recognized to stand for something else.
example- the goddess with the sticks on the Warka Vase
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