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Ancient Art Final
Asia, Islam, India
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
05/02/2018

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Indus Valley Seals

 

  • 2500-1700 BCE
  • Indus River Calley Civilization
  • Steatite/Ceramic
  • Various (British Museum, National Museum)
  • (New Delhi, National Museum, Karachi)
Term
[image]
Definition

Mojenjo-Daro Dancer

 

  • 2100-1700 BCE
  • Indus River Valley Civilization
  • Bronze
  • National Museum, New Delhi
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[image]
Definition

Ashokan Pillar

 

  • Mid 3rd C. BCE
  • Mauryan Empire
  • Polished Sandstone
  • Various Locations, India
Term
[image]
Definition

Great Stupa Gate at Sanchi

 

  • 3rd - 1st C. BCE
  • Mauryan and Sunga Dynasties
  • Sandstone
  • Madhya Pradesh, India
Term
[image]
Definition

Scenes of the Life of the Buddha

 

  • 1st- 3rd C. CE
  • Gandharan period
  • Schist
  • Various Collections
Term
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Definition

Bamiyan Buddhas

 

  • 6th C. CE
  • Sandstone and Stucco
  • Baniyan, Afghanistan
Term
[image]
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Vishnu Temple

 

  • Early 6th C. CE
  • Sandstone
  • Deogarh
  • Uttar Pradesh, India
Term
[image]
Definition

Rock Cut Temples at Mahabalipuram

 

  • Early 8th C. CE
  • Sandstone
  • Mamallapuram
  • Tamil Nadu, India
Term
[image]
Definition

Lakshmana Temple (plus relief sculptures)

 

  • 10th C. CE
  • Sandstone
  • Khajuraho
  • Madhya Pradesh, India
Term
[image]
Definition

Nataraja (Shiva Lord of the Dance)

 

  • 10th C. Chola period
  • Bronze
  • LA County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Term
[image]
Definition

Stupa at Borobudur

 

  • 9th C.
  • Stone
  • Java, Indonesia
Term
[image]
Definition

Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom

 

  • Early 12th - 13th C.
  • Khmer Empire
  • Stone
  • Angkor Archeological Park, Cambodia
Term
[image]
Definition

Ding, Ritual Bronze Vessel

 

  • Tomb of Fu Hao
  • 1200 BCE
  • Shang Period
  • Bronze
  • China
Term
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Definition

Terracotta Army

 

  • Tomb of Emperor Qin
  • Shihunagdi
  • 219-210 BCE
  • Qin Dynasty
  • Lintong District, Xi'an
  • Shaanxi province, China
Term
[image]
Definition

Han Tomb Models

 

  • Han Dynasty
  • Veramic
  • Various Collections
  • China
Term
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Definition

Gu Kaizhi, Admonitions of the Instructress to the Court Ladies

  • Jin Period (Tang Dynasty Copy of Jin Original)
  • Handscroll
  • Ink, color on silk
  • British Museum, London
Term
[image]
Definition

Han Gan, Night-Shining White

 

  • Tang Dynasty
  • 750 CE
  • Handscroll
  • Ink on Paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Yamantaka Mandal with Imperial Portraits

 

  • 1330-1332
  • Yuan Dynasty
  • Silk Tapestry (Kesi)
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Wu Boli, Dragon Pine

 

  • 1400 CE, Mind Dynasty
  • Hanging Scroll
  • Ink on paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Forbidden City, Royal Palace

 

  • Mind Dynasty
  • Wood Architecture
  • Beijing, China
Term
[image]
Definition

Old Silla Gold Crown

 

  • 5-6th C.
  • Old Silla Period
  • Gold and jade
  • National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Term
[image]
Definition

Bodhisattva Maitreya in Meditation

 

  • 7th C.
  • Silla Period
  • Gilt Bronze
  • National Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea
Term
[image]
Definition

Lotus Sutra

 

  • 12th Century
  • Heian Period
  • Gold on Indigo-dyed paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Illustrated Legends of the Kitano Shrine

 

  • 13th Century
  • Kamakura Period
  • Handscroll
  • Ink and Color on paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Mikaeri Amida

 

  • Amida Looking Back
  • Late 12th C. Kamakura Period
  • Gilt Wood
  • Eikando, Zenrinji
  • Kyoto, Japan
Term
[image]
Definition

Kano Tan'yu, The Sixth Patriarch of Zen the Moment of Enlightenment

 

  • 1635-45, Edo Period
  • Ink on paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave at Kanagawa

 

  • From a series of 36 views of mount Fuji
  • 1831-33, Edo Period
  • Published by Eijudo
  • Polychrome ink and color on paper
  • Metropolitan museum of art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

House of the Prophet 

  • 635 CE
  • Architecture
  • Medina, Saudi Arabia
Term
[image]
Definition

Coins of Abd al-Malik

 

  • Pre-Reform and Post Reform
  • 675-696 CE
  • Bronze, Gold
Term
[image]
Definition

Haram al-Sharif (Dome of the Rock)

 

  • 690 CE, Umayyad Period
  • Designed by Abd al-Malik
  • Architecture
  • Jerusalem
Term
[image]
Definition

Great Mosque of Damascus

 

  • 713 CE, Umayyad Period
  • Designed by Al Walid
  • Architecture
  • Damascus
Term
[image]
Definition

Great Mosque of Cordoba

 

  • 10th-14th CE
  • Architecture
  • Cordoba, Spain
Term
[image]
Definition

Plan of Baghdad

 

  • 9th Century
  • Architecture
  • Baghdad, Iraq
Term
[image]
Definition

The Mosque of Al-Mutawakkil

 

  • 836 CE
  • Architecture
  • Samarra, Iraq (minaret)
Term
[image]
Definition

Coronation Robe of Roger II

 

  • 1133 CE
  • Gold Brocaded Silk
  • Imperial Treasury, Vienna
Term
[image]
Definition

Imam Dur Mausoleum

 

  • 1085 CE
  • Brick and Stucco
  • Iraq (Murqarnas)
Term
[image]
Definition

Folio From the "Blue" Quran

 

  • 850-950 CE, Fatimid Period
  • Dyed Parchment and Gold Lettering
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Mosque, Madrassa and Mausoleum COmplex of Sultan Hassan

  • 1356, Mamluk Period
  • Limestone
  • Cairo, Egypt
Term
[image]
Definition

Mosque, Madrassa, and Moausoleum Complex of Sultan Hassan

  • 1356, Mamluk Period
  • Limstone
  • Cairo, Egypt
Term
[image]
Definition

Quran of Baybars II

 

  • 1304-1306, Mamluk Period
  • Manuscript
  • British Library, London
Term
[image]
Definition

Folio from a Shahnama, Iskandar(Alexander the Great) at the Talking Tree

  • 1330-1340, Iikhanid Period
  • Ink on paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Term
[image]
Definition

Aq Saray Palace

 

  • 1380-1385, Timurid Period
  • Brick and Tile
  • Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan
Term
[image]
Definition

The Alhambra Palace

  • 13th-15th C, Nasrid Dynasty
  • Stucco and Architecture
  • Granada, Spain
Term
[image]
Definition

Sinan, Sulemaniye Cami

 

  • 1550 CE
  • Architecture
  • Istanbul, Turkey
Term
[image]
Definition

Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent

 

  • 1555 CE
  • Ink, Watercolor and gold on paper
  • Freer and Sackler Gallery
  • Smithsonian, Washington D.C.
Term
[image]
Definition

Taj Mahal

  • 1632-53, Mughal Period
  • Sandstone and Marble
  • Agra, India
Term
[image]
Definition

The Conference of the Birds

  • Page from manuscript of the Mantiq al-Tayr of Farid al-Din Attar
  • 1600, CE, Safavid Period
  • Opaque watercolor, ink, silver, gold on paper
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art, New york
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