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Name: Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Sacrum
Date:14,000-7,000 BCE
Art History Period: Global Prehistory
Location:Texuiquiac,Central Mexico
Keys About This Art Period:bones,rough,spiritual,symbolic
Function:to contain the spiritual essence of a hunted animal,thus having the mask.
Context:Used as a mask |
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Name:Statues of Votive Figures, from the Square Temple at Eshunna
Date:2700 BCE
Art History Period:Ancient Near East
Original Location:Mesopotamia
Medium:Gypsum Inlaid with shell and black limestone
Function:replacements of people who want to pray constantly to their deities.
key terms: disproportional,stiff,rigid |
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Name:Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
Date:1473-1458 BC
Art History Period:Egyptian Art
Artist:Senmut
Location:Near Luxor
medium:sandstone,partly carved into a rock cliff,red granite
Function:funerary temple for the queen at the time in Egypt
Context:built as a rememberance for the queen and her achieved accomplishments.
key terms:granite,carving,sandstone,mortuary temples, |
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Name:Niobides Krater
Date:460-450 BC
Art History Period:Classical Greek
Artist:Anonymous Niobid painter
medium:clay,red-figure technique
function:vase of worship
Context:Engraved figures are Greek Gods, Apollo and Artemis killing the children of Niome. |
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Name:Augustus Of Prima Porta
Date:20 C.E.
Art History Period: Early Roman Empire Art
Location:Rome
medium:marble
Function:commeroative monument
context: Political Art, conveys a influential message of Augustus as general and whats to come for his people. |
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Name:Virgin(Theotokos) & Child Between Saints Theodore and George
Date: 6th or Early 7th Century
medium:encaustic on wood
Art History Period:Byzantine
function:Display of a Spirtual matter where Mary(Theotokos) whom happens to be the Mother of God, has a vision of looking towards her future,while the two warrior saints on the sides look directly at the viewers.
Context:Religious event perceived from the Byzantine Empire perspective. |
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Name:Last Supper
Date:1494-1498 CE
Art History Period:High Renaissance
meduium:tempera and oil
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Function:The last dinner honoring Jesus with his followers of his new-founded religion that ultimately led to his crucifixion
Context:Jesus' last meal before his crucifixion |
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Name:Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza
Date:1541-1542
location:New Spain
Function:A record of what Antontio de Mendoza's first encounter with the Aztec Empire was.
Context:The codex contained information about the lords of Tenochtitlan. |
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Name:Fruit and Insects
Date:1711
Medium:Oil on wood
Location:Ufizzi,Florence
Function:Representation of the cycle of life
Context:The contrasts of light within the artwork is supposed to portray the sense of life,being born and coming around ultimately leading to death. |
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Name:Terracotta Warriors from the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor of China
Date:221-206 B.C.E
Medium:painted terracotta
Location:Shaanxi,China
Function:Sets of dozens of thousands of warriors placed to protect the first Qin emperors funerary grave. |
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