... sculpture that projects from a flat background. A very shallow relief sculpture is called a bas-relief Stele: a stone slab used to mark a grave or a site Ziggurat: a pyramid-like building made of several stories that indent as the building gets taller; thus, ziggurats have terraces at each level EGYPTIAN ART Early Dynastic Narmer ... symmetrically arranged. Bodies are slightly turned. The interest in labeling names of figures is reminiscent of medieval art. David Composing the Psalms (from the Paris Psalter) 172 334 10th C Both the figures and the landscape are based on classical models. ...

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... of Athens. The Acropolis or city-state was the Greeks' distinctive political formation--a walled town with surrounding villages and countryside, and ideally politically independent of its neighbors. Acropolis was the site of shrines to locally important deities. Just like the Ancient Egyptians, Greeks believed in many deities, practised animal sacrifice, and invoked the gods far more frequently than do most moderns ... highly political: they favored those who gave them gifts. Wealthy Greeks spent money on festivals and sacrificed expensive animals to their honor in temple precincts. The...

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... specific features. The verticality of the interior space is supported by flying buttresses, which are arched bridges that reach upward to the critical spots, as we see in Notre-Dame, Paris (217). Probably the most well known feature of Gothic architecture would be the columns on the exterior of the cathedrals. The Gothic cathedrals are filled with mystery. People of the ... of giving ill gotten gains back to God. The people of this time believed investing substantial parts of your fortune would ensure their future salvation. The monastery was the major site of Romanesque art and archite...

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