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Venus of Wilendorf
 Limestone. Austria. Paleolithic. 

Affect the unknown.  
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Venus of Laussel.
Limestone. Carved in Low relief.  Laussel, France. Paleolithic. 
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Hall of bulls. Axial gallery.
Lascaux, France.

Lots of energy in the animals and not the humans.  

(Paleolithic)  
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Stonehenge.
Salisbury plain. Neolithic. 
Megalith, Post and Lintel system. 
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Jericho Walls and tower.
Fortification. Mud brick. Neolithic. (7000)

Walls, towers, dry moat.  
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Catal Huyuk
Anatolia (Modern turkey), Neolithic 

Sundried Bricks, Ladders to get into anything, high windows.  
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Throne room of catal huyuk.
Neolithic. (6000)
Bulls represent male potency  
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Ziggurat at Ur.
Sundried bricks, Mesopotamia, Neolithic (2500)

Sir Leonard Wooley heavily excavated it.  
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Standard at Ur (Peace/War)

Mesopotamia/Sumer, Iraq.  
Inlaid wood, gold, shell, lapus lazuli, red limestone. Neolithic (2500)

Hieractic scale 
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Winged Human-Headed Bull (lamassu)

Citadel of Sargon (Assyria). Limestone Neolithic (750)
 
Could be gilgamesh subduing lions?  
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Citadel of Sargon II
Khorsabad, Iraq.

Forticational purposed gates.  
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Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions *,
The Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, gypsum, Neolithic (750) 
 

relief sculpture—low relief or bas relief

 Formal and stylized people but animals are more natural.

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Palette of King Narmer
Slate sculpture, Ancient Egypt. (3500) Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt.  

Known for unifying Egypt 
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Stepped Pyramid of King Zoser.

IMHOTEP 

Necropolis, oldest stone structure in Egypt. In situ 
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Khafre
Diorite sculpture, in the round, Ancient Egypt (2500)
 
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Fowling Scene
Fresco painting on dry plaster. Conservative.  
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Musicians and Dancers.

Fresco, and dry plaster, Conservative. Compositie view, Hieractic. 

New Kingdom  

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Akhenaton

statue from the temple of Amen-Re, Karnak, Sandstone. 

Very feminite, wide hips, semi-breast, illongated, rounded. 
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Thutmose, Queen Nefertiti,

Tell el-Amarna, painted limestone (gold with lapis lazuli)

With Osiris and Isis emblems. 

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Tutankhamen (ruled 1353-1335 B.C.E.)— New Egypt,
gold and inlaid coffin, death mask, painted chest, tomb at Thebes. 

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Tut Death Mask

Gold, Lapus Lazuli.

Idealized Face  
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Palace of King Minos at Knossos, Crete*: magazines, megaron

plan    labyrinthian  Theseus and the Minotaur

Cycladic Art  

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Megaron
Cycladic  
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Toreador Fresco
Minoan. Fresco uses paint on wet plaster

Cycladic (1500)  
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Snake Goddess

Faience (non clay glaze), Palace of Knossos (crete)

Cycladic  
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Springtime Fresco

Not in situ, picked up and taken to greece. Playful lines

Cycladic 
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Citadel of Tiryns
Corbeled gallery, megaron:fortified walls. Lookout areas

Mycenean (1500) 
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LIons gate

LImestone relief, Corbeled Arch 

Mycenean (1500)  
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Inlaid dagger blades with lion hunt, bronze with gold, silver*: a hunting scene, people in composite view.

Mycenean (1500 bc)  

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Warrior Vase

Mycenean, Composite view

Mycenean (1500)  
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