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Beginning Periods of Art History
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
03/12/2011

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Period: Paleolitic

Title: Venus of Willendorf

Date: 2500BC

Artist: Unknown

Function: Fertility

Formal Element: Slight Distortion(breast, stomach, hips)

Significant Event: Survival 

Content: Connected to child bearing

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Period: Mesopotamia

Title: Worshipers (Abu Temple)

Date: 2700BC

Artist: Unknown

Function: divinity

Formal Element: Stylized Distortion

Significant Event: Metaphysical

Content: Offerings being made

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Period: Egypt

Title: Pyramids at Giza

Date: 2550BC

Artist: Unknown

Function: Funerary

Formal Element: Perfect triangular mass

Significant Event: belief in afterlife

Content: tomb

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Period: Roman

Title: Pont du gard

Date: 1st Century BC

Artist: Unknown

Function: Publich Engineering

Formal Element: Arch

Significant Event: Emperical Pride

Content: Transport H2O

 

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Period: Middle Ages

Title: Rose Windows and lacets of north transept of chartres Cathedral

Date: 1220 AD

Artist: Unknown

Function: Religion

Formal Element: Stained Glass

Significant Event: Rise ans Spread of Christianity

Content: Biblical

 

 

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