1. APAH Review Focus on the 250
Fully Identify = Formal IDs (try to know three factoids for each piece)
Decode short response (1 page) and long-essay questions (2-3 pages) and write to task component specifically
Use the suggested pieces for the LEQ
Sprinkle “SHARED LANGUAGE” in your writing

2. SHARED LANGUAGE Anything except the verb “shows” Form Function Content
Context
Audience
“Meaningful juxtaposition”
“Cultural hybridity”
“Change/continuity within a tradition”
“Post-Colonial”
“Architectural Complex”

3. Pre-historic Art

4. PALEOLITHIC ERA Old Stone Age 30,000 BCE – 9,000 BCE
Hunting and Gathering
Humans lived in caves
No Written Records
Cave Paintings
Animals detailed-profile view
Some people abstract
Symbols: dots, handprints
Sculptures
Small OR Open-Air Reliefs
Fertility symbols
Carved from tusk, bone and stone

5. NEOLITHIC ERA New Stone Age 8,000 BCE – 2,300 BCE
Man changes from hunter/gatherer to a farming
Domesticated animals
Permanent housing
Social Classes
Specialization
Trade/Cultural Diffusion
First Walls, Emphasis on Face, Landscape, Corbelled Vaulting, Post & Lintel Architecture, Figural Groups depicted in art

6. Ancient Mediterranean: Near Eastern and Egyptian Art

7. Key Ideas Death/Afterlife are key themes in art
The role of kings varies from Egypt to the Near East
Material conveys meaning and status
Size conveys significance and status
Egypt and Persia create massive architectural complexes to convey the power and authority of Pharoahs (Egypt in death) and Shahs (Persia in life)

8. Vocabulary Terms
Fresco Secco- egg yolk is mixed with water and applied to plaster
Narrative- tells a story
Pylon- monumental gateway in Egyptian temples
Hypostyle- roof supported by columns
Hierarchy of Scale- manipulation of size and space to emphasize importance of a specific object

9. Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Etruscan, Rome

10. Key Ideas Early Greek Stylistic Periods – Geometric, Oriental, Archaic
Greek High Classical – Art that captures the ideal and perfect as Greece (Athens) is strong and prosperous
Greek Hellenistic – melodramatic and less perfect as Greece was in a period of war
Roman Republic – art reflected the respected values of wisdom, knowledge, and honesty
Early and High Roman Empire – art shows the ambitions of a powerful empire with monumental buildings and sculptures
Late Empire – art depicts the chaos of the era and/or early Christian motifs syncretically blended with Roman pagan conventions

11. Vocabulary Terms
Contrapposto – graceful arrangement of the body based on tilted shoulders and hips and bent knees
Perspective – depth and recession in a painting (linear: makes in 3D, aerial: gives illusion of distance)
Orthogonals – lines that draw the viewer back in space to a common point (vanishing point) in linear perspective
Veristic – sculptures from the Roman Republic with extreme realism of facial features
Fresco – painting using water-based paints on fresh plastered walls
Spolia – reusing art/architecture from the past in a new space

12. IDs

14. Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico
Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14,000-7,000 BCE, Bone

16. Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe
Great Hall of the Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15,000-13,000 BCE, Rock Painting

18. The Ambun Stone, Ambun Valley, Enga Provinc, Papua New Guinea. c
The Ambun Stone, Ambun Valley, Enga Provinc, Papua New Guinea. c BCE, Greywacke

20. Jade cong. Liangzhu, China. 3,300-2,200 BCE, carved jade

22. Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar,Iraq) Sumerian. C.2700 BCE Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

24. The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (Modern Iraq). Susian. c
The Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (Modern Iraq). Susian.c BCE basalt

26. Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3000-2920 BCE Greywacke
Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c BCE Greywacke. (2 images)

28. Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) and the Great Sphinx
Great Pyramids (Menkaure, Khafre, Khufu) and the Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt.
Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c BCE Cut Limestone.

29. Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna)
Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna). 18th Dynasty. C BCE
Limestone

31. Seated Scribe. Saqqara, Egypt, Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty.
c BCE Painted Limestone

33. Last Judgment of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom,
19th Dynasty. c.1275 BCE painted papyrus scroll

34. MC Question #1 Jade cong was most likely placed in a Temple Tomb
3) Palace
4) Garden

35. MC Question #2 What is a composite view of human representation?
frontal torso, profile head, legs and arms
several views sectioned together
several views superimposed on each other
frontal torso and head, profile legs and arms

36. MC Question #3
What is the name of the first architect in history whose name in known? 1) Akhenaton 2) Narmer 3) Imhotep 4)Nebamun

37. MC Question #4
In Egyptian art, the convention of representing social importance by size, for example, where the pharaoh is shown much larger than his subjects, is known as A) foreshortening B) composite view C) pyramidal composition D) hierarchy of scale

38. MC Question #5
Rock-Cut Tombs, such as Hatshepsut’s tomb, are most likely associated with 1) Persia 2) Old Kingdom Egypt C) Middle Kingdom Egypt D) New Kingdom Egypt

39. MC Question # 6
In the Archaic era _______________ began to appear in Greek sculpture.
kouroi and korai
stiff, highly stylized forms
nude female forms
great emotion and feeling

40. MC Question #7 The Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus in from Republican Rome
High Empire Rome
Late Imperial Rome
Early Christian tradition

41. MC Question #8
A highly idealized, perfect, heroic sculpture would most likely be from which stylistic period
Etruscan
Greek Hellenistic
High Classical Greece
Roman Republic

42. MC Questions #9 This work can best be described as Geometric Archaic
Hellenistic
Classical

43. MC Question #10
The Column of Trajan functioned as all of the following EXCEPT a:
Viewing stage to see Trajan’s accomplishments
Narrative of Trajan’s victories
Burial site of the emperor
Library to all of Trajan’s writings

44. Sample Short Response

45. Fully identify the image below and explain how this work of art exemplifies the predominant theory of its creator.

46. Sample Long Essay

47. Identify the architectural complex below
Explain how this complex conveys power and authority
Identify another architectural complex that also conveys power and authority
Compare and contrast how both complexes manipulate space to communicate a message to their audience
Suggested Comparisons:
The Parthenon
The Forbidden City
The Palace of Versailles
The Hagia Sophia