Spotted Horses and Human Hands Pech-Merle Cave. Dordogne, France. Horses 25,000-24,000 BCE; hands c. 15,000 BCE

Notes: painted on limestone

Paleolithic Hand-Axe. Isimila Korongo, Tanzania. 60,000 years ago

Notes: Stone, height 10”

Lion-Human from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany. 30,000-26,000 BCE.

Notes: mammoth ivory,  Ice age. What does it imply about human and animal relationships?

Woman from Willendorf. Austria. c. 24,000 BCE

Notes: limestone, Body image of women, Enlarged reproductive organs, fertility, head covered.

Woman from Dolni Vestonice. Moravia, Czech Republic. 23,000 BCE

Notes: use of fire to make durable objects,

Wall Painting  with Horse, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs. Chauvet Caves. Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardeche Gorge, France. c. 32,000-30,000 BCE

Notes: earliest known sites of prehistoric cave paintings

Stonehenge, Slisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. c. 2900-1500 BCE

Notes: How are they still standing? When were they made? Weird arrangement?

Stele of Naram-sin. Shush, Iran (present day). 2254-2218 BCE

Notes: Sargons grandson Naram-sin, expression of physical and political power

Ruins and plan of the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple. Uruk. c. 3400-3200 BCE

Notes: Passageway to the Gods, very selective

Carved Vessel from Uruk. c. 3360-3000 BCE

Notes: use of registers, balance of power. Goddess of Inanna

Votive Figures from the Square Temple, Eshnunna. c. 2900-2600 BCE

Notes: large eyes, clasped hands, sense of worship or respect, gaze of the deity, how they are dressed.

Head of a Man (Known as Akkadin Ruler). Ninua, Iraq (present day). c. 2300-2200 BCE

Notes: someone destroyed his eyes?

Nanna Ziggurat. Ur. c. 2100-2050 BCE

Notes: Nanna-moon God, sponsored by King of Ur

Votive Statue of Gudea. Girsu. c. 2090 BCE

Notes: Looks strong and peaceful, large eyes, gaze of deity. No shoes, carrying water.

Stele of Hammurabi. probably from Sippar, found Shush, Iraq (present day). c. 1792-1750 BCE

Notes: First form of law, hierarchical object, Code of Hammurabi,

Assurnaspiral II Killing Lions. Nimrud, Iraq (present day). c. 875-860 BCE

Notes: pastime activity or ritual.

Reconstruction of the Citadel and Palace Complex of Sargon II. Khorsabad, Iraq (present day). c. 721-706 BCE.

Notes: Wealthy people, put time and effort into protecting it (walls), powerful, control church and state together.

Enemies Crossing the Euphrates. Nimrud, Iraq (present day). c. 875-860 BCE

Notes:

Guardian Figures at Gate A of Citadel Sargon II. Khorsabad, Iraq (present day). c. 721-706 BCE

Notes: dynamic mythical creatures protect the city.

Reconstruction and Ishtar gate at Babylon in 575 BCE

Notes:

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun, Eighteenth Dynasty, c.1327 BCE

Note:

Palette of Narmer. Hierakonpolis, early dynasty period. c. 2950 BCE

Notes: shows the unification of Egypt, profile angle of a man.

Reconstruction and remains of Djoser’s Funerary Complex, Saqqara, third dynasty, c. 2630-2575 BCE

Khafre Ka Statue, Giza, Valley Temple of

Khafre, Fourth Dynasty, c. 2520-2494 BCE

Seated Scribe from the tomb of Kai, Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty c. 2450- 2325 BCE. Painted limestone with.

Notes: Social status?

Stele of the Sculptor Userwer, Twelfth Dynasty, c. 1850 BCE, Limestone and ink

Iconography: Userwer sits at a table piled with offerings. Behind him is his wife

Facing him is another couple with offerings, his parents

Unfinished lower register

Reconstruction of the Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, Nineteenth Dynasty

c. 1292-1190 BCE May have been used for royal coronation ceremonies

Columns from the Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun

Karnak, Nineteenth Dynasty c. 1292-1190 BCE

Kneeling and Seated Statues of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri, Eighteenth Dynasty

c. 1473-1458

Colossal Figure of Akhenaten From the Temple Gempaaten Southeast of Karnak, Amarna

Period, c. 1353-1336 orig. 16

Akenanten and his Family Akhenaten and His Family, from Akhetaten, Eighteenth dynasty, c. 1353-1336...Technique of sunken relief.

Nefertiti, Akhetaten, Eighteenth

Dynasty, c. 1353-1336 BCE Painted limestone

Head with Remains of Painted Decoration, Cyclades. c. 2,500-2,200 BCE.

Notes: Neolithic carving, 1st wave of feminism: nose, ect..

Head with Remains of Painted Decoration, Cyclades. c. 2,500-2,200 BCE.

Notes: Neolithic carving, 1st wave of feminism: nose, ect..

Reconstruction of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete. Old Period (1900-1700 BCE) rebuilt New Period (1700-1450) destroyed 1375 BCE

Notes: administrative center? Royal palace?

Was rebuilt multiple times due to earthquakes

Reconstruction of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete. Old Period (1900-1700 BCE) rebuilt New Period (1700-1450) destroyed 1375 BCE

Notes: administrative center? Royal palace?

Was rebuilt multiple times due to earthquakes

Bull Leaping wall Painting. from palace complex. Knossos, Crete. c. 1550-1450 BCE

Notes: late Minoan period,

Statuette of a Male Figure. Palakastro, Crete. c. 1500-1475 BCE

Notes: made from ivory and gold

Harvester Rhyton from Hagia Triada, Crete New Palace period. c. 1650-1450 BCE

Notes: relief section: people bringing in the crops, celebrating the harvest, slender and skinny people (male)

Vapheio Cup near Sparta, Greece. c.1650-1450 BCE

Notes: pure gold, one of two cups, Mysinians (mainland tribe), Warlike people.

Influence of the Minoans: small waist, bull, composition is similar)

Landscape (“Spring Fresco”) from Akrotiri, Thera, Cyclades before 1650 BCE

Notes: It is a reconstruction, possible 1st landscape painting

Citadel at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. c. 1600-1200 BCE

Notes: built progressively, has walls, warrior mentality compared to Crete structures

Citadel at Mycenae, Peloponnese, Greece. c. 1600-1200 BCE

Notes: built progressively, has walls, warrior mentality compared to Crete structures

Lion Gate, Mycenae c. 1250 BCE. Peloponnese, Greece

Notes: entrance, post and lintel used, Lions at the top symbolic, pillars are simialr to Minoans.

Mask of Agamemnon from Shaft Grave, Mycenae, Greece. c. 1600-1550 BCE

Notes: authenticity has been questioned..

Corbal Vault Interior of Tholos, So-called Treasury of Atreus. Mycenae, Greece. c.1300-1200 BCE

Notes: spatial experience, located in the countryside.

Corbal Vault Interior of Tholos, So-called Treasury of Atreus. Mycenae, Greece. c.1300-1200 BCE

Notes: spatial experience, located in the countryside.