Art 85 MidTerm
| Lascaux | Cave painting, France. 17,000 BP |
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| Ishango Bone | Use to measure, keep tally. Found in Africa | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Petroglyphs | Carvings on rocks. Southwest USA | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Hieroglyphics | Egyptian symbols | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Sumerian | First true letter shape | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Cuneiform | First organized letter shape. Same cohesive look. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Phoenician | First 26 letter alphabet | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Roman/Greek | Simplified and organized version of Phoenician | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Sanskrit | Ancient language similar to Arabic | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Rosetta Stone | Stone with scripture in 3 languages. Used to decipher. Used for translation. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Unical | Capital letters. Just uppercase. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| half-unical | First time having both uppercase and lowercase together. New level of organization. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Column of Trajan | 100 ft tall Roman column for Emperor Trajan. Tells his story in a spiral down the column. |
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| Book of Kells | Ancient book to convert pagans to Christianity. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=75 |
| Michelangelo | Sistine chapel | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| DaVinci | Mona Lisa, Last Supper | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Titian | Venus of Urbino | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Raphael | ‘Assunta’ (Assumption of the Virgin Mary) | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Durer | German etchings, leading craftsman – 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| German Renaissance | Use of black letter shapes. Heavier gothic type. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Pi Sheng | First moveable type – jade | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Gutenberg | First use of printing press. 1450 | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Mainz | City where Gutenberg’s first press was housed | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Lyons | Start of printing in France | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Copperplate | First commercialized typeface | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Jensen | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Grilla | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Garamond | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Caslon | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Didot | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Bodoni | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Manitus | Inventor of first italic typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=216 |
| Poor Richards Almanac | First modern newspaper. Publisher: Ben Franklin | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Senefelder | Inventor of lithography | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Chromolithography | Use of multiple colors. Lithography with multiple colors. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Machine printing | First time they hooked up to an actual machine. Increased production. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Goudy | Typographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| Linotype | Machine typography. First time type could be set in a machine. Full lines of type set to whatever height and width you specify. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=222 |
| VOGUE | First magazines | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Harper’s Bazzar | First magazines. Weekly | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Cheret | French posters. Very specific aesthetic/style. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Beggarstaff Brothers | Commercial posters. Not fine art. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Niepce | Inventor of photography | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Talbot | Early photographer | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Daguerre | Inventor of Daguerre type | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Muybridge | Crazy SOB who invented motion pictures. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Edison | Wizard of Menlo Park – Countless patents. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Tesla | Nikola, electricity, radio, etc. | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?p=263 |
| Art Nouveau | Decorative art – circular | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Bauhaus/Dada | Design School – Art Movement | |
| Art Deco | Non-decorative art style – linear | https://art85.patrickaievoli.com/?page_id=547 |
| Farnsworth | Inventor of television |