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African Art Before and After 1800
Gardner's Chapters 15 and 34
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Art History
12th Grade
12/12/2010

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Name: Lydenburg head

Date: 500 CE

Style:Nok/Lydenburg

Artist: African Artisan

Patron:N/A

Location: South Africa

Technique:Terracotta with clay fillets

Descriptive Terms: less naturalistic, clay fillets, possibly pot/ mask, scarification marks (deemed as beautiful), small animal on top of head, possibly of ceremonial function

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Name: Great Mosque

Date: 13th century

Style: Djenne and Lalibela

Artist: Laborers

Patron: Muslims of Africa

Location: Djenne, Mali Africa

Technique: Adobe and wood

Descriptive terms: large courtyard, roofed prayer hall, emulates earlier mosque plans, vertical butresses, adobe towers, majestic rhythm, wooden beams (perches for recoating clay ceremony).

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Name: "Beautiful Lady" dance mask

Date: late 20th century

Style: Senufo

Artist: unknown artisan

Patron: N/A

Location: Cote d'ivoire Africa

Technique: carved wood

Descriptive terms: female, small face, fine features, various motifs lighter than the masks men represented.

 

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Name: Throne and footstool of King Nsangu

Date: 1870 CE

Style: 19th century Africa

Artist: African Artisan

Patron:King Nsangu

Location:Bamum Cameroon

Technique:Wood, textile, glass beads, cowrie shells, paint and carvings

Descriptive terms: status symbol, colorful, dotted details, painted faces, colorful, rifles, drinking horns, serving bowl, shows levelof wealth

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