Venus of Willendorf

25,000 BCE

Limestone

Shows fertility and the red ocre covering it shows rebirth

Hall of the Bulls

15,000 BCE

Pre-Historic Style

Cave paintings focused on horse, bison and lion

Never focused on what they ate

No landscapes

Used twisted perspective and shading
Depicts rituals and mabe tribes(layered) 

Standard of Ur

2400 BCE

Sumerian style

Had both a war and peace side

Heiarchy of scale used on king

Shows the deceased being honored

Depicts a funeral banquet

lapiz lazuli and red limestone

Purpose is to be given as a funeral gift

Warka Vase

3,000 BCE

Sumerian Style

Alabaster material

Offering vase to Inanna

Story dipicted in registers

As you go up, the more important it is

Heiarchy of scale used

Higher up= closer to goddess

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

2218 BCE

Akkadian Style

Pink Sandstone

Shown as powerful

Both a god and strong military man

Close to mountain and bullhorn hat shows goddness

Shows military strentgh through ruthlessness

Big chest and legs and everyone looks up at him

Heiarchy of scale

Stele with Law Code of Hammurabi

1780 BCE

Basalt

Babylomian Style

Not actually a god

Very close to god 

Eye to eye with god

God is familiar with him

God gives him the list of laws

laws shown on actual stele

Palatte of King Narmar

3,000 BCE

Egyptian Style

Slate

Shape of a makeup palatte 

Shows one of the first kings

Maintaining order over chaos

Horus is shown( killed seth to retain order)

Shows king's responsibilities

Hiarchy of scale shows importance 

Stepped Pyramid 

Artist was Imhotep

2630 BCE

6 steps

Based off of Benben stone

Faced the noth star

runs north-south

Huge courtyard for sed festival

Maintains the ferro's identity

Great Pyramids

2500 BCE

Runs east-west

Amazing architecture

Limestone and materail from everywhere used

shows their identity

Khafre Enthroned

2500 BCE

Frontal posed like may sculptures

Waiting for offerings

Horus on back as a protector

Lotus flower on side to show life and unification

Perfect body and not aged

Expensive foreign material( diporite)

Permanent 

Seated Scribe

Painted limestone

2500 BCE

Very natural looking

Not loyal

Job security( wants to stay a scribe through eternity)

Holding papyrus

Nebamun Hunting Fowl

1400 BCE

Found on tomb wall

Shows the journey to afterlife

Maintaining balance and order

Tilapia fish show protection

The swamp shows dark and hard paths

Heiarchy of scale

Akhenaten Nefertiti and Three Daughters

1350 BCE

Limestone

Akhenaten changed religious views

Art changed as well

Aten is the sun god

Ferro is god on earth( Shown as male and Female)

More equal to wife

No crazy gods 

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Sarcophagus from Hagia Triada

1300 BCE

Minoean Style

limestone

Deceased rising from right

People bring offerings to the dead

Dead can benefit from the living

\Religious practices shown ( Bull sacrifice)

Tree of life

Knossos

1700 BCE

Minoean Style

Found in crete

Huge

No fortification

Lots of celebration and religious ceremonies

Abandoned 

Bull-Leaping from Knossos

1400 BCE

Fresco

East wall of Knossos

Minoean as movement is shown

Not known to show violence

Acrobats not killing it

Grab horns and jump on it

Snake Goddess

1600 BCE

Fertility goddess( Hat she wears)

Breasts are out 

Minoean Style

Faience materail

Lion Gate

1300 BCE

Mycenaean Style

Anaconic symbol

Two lions 

Inlaid Dagger Blade with Hunt Scene

1500 BCE

Bronze, inlaid with silver and gold

Minoean Style

Fighting lions

Fierce warriors