Cue Card Format Tab #2: Handouts

4 different colored cards—Pink: Painting/drawing, Blue: Sculpture, Green: Architecture, Yellow: other works of art (photography, installation art, performance, etc.)

N=Name D=date P/S=period/style A=Artist or architect Pa=patron OL=Original LocationM/T=material/technique F=Function C=Context DT=descriptive terms

FRONT:

BACKN: Sumerian Votive OfferingsD: ca. 3000 BCEP/S: Sumerian (1st period of Mesopotamian Art)A: Unknown craftsman—votive makerPa: individual citizens of UrL: located in a temple precinct facing an image of the god being honoredM/T: Gypsum (stone)—subtractive method

Inset eyes of lapis lazuli or shell and black limestone inlaysF: Surrogate for donor (figures are NOT deities) offering constant prayer to deity with arms clasped

reverentially, in supplication, or awe.C: Placed in Temple precincts (“waiting rooms”) facing altar of statue of god

Appearance of figures relates to anxiety of after lifeProportions of figures relate to weakness of material, techniqueSize of figures = importance= hierarchal

DT: Stiff, rigid, not in proportion, awe, pessimistic, frontal, simplified, conical