Civilization - cultures that have fairly complex social orders and relatively high degrees of technical development.
Ziggurat - massive religious temples built in ancient Mesopotamia and western Iranian plateau, having the form of a terraced step pyramid of successively receding stories or levels.
Pyramid - a gigantic mountain-like structure built in ancient Egypt as a burial vault for a pharaoh.
Hierarchic Scale - the manipulation of size and space in a picture to emphasize the importance of a specific object or figure.
Classical Art - art which emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion.
Capital - the top of a column; it identifies the column’s architectural order.
Idealized - the representation of natural objects, scenes, etc., in such a way as to show the characteristics considered most important by a given culture.
Icons - small Byzantine style paintings, usually depicting a biblical figure or a saint, which are used to inspire devotion during worship, but not worshiped in themselves.
Flying Buttress - An arch or half-arch that transfers the thrust of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support.
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