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Venus of Willendorf 
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Willendorf, Austria Prehistoric 27,000 BCE |
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Hall of the Bulls 
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Lascaux, France Prehistoric 15,000 BCE |
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Warka Vase 
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Warka, Iraq Ancient Near East Sumerians To Ianna goddess, registers, conceptual, hierarchy of scale 3000 BCE |
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Stele of Hammurabi 
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Susa, Iran Shamash, foreshortening 1780 BCE |
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Palette of King Narmer 
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Predynastic Egypt Goddess Hathor-cow, Horus-falcon, groundlines, hierarchy of scale, Uniting Upper, Lower Egypt 3000 BCE |
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Ti Watching a Hippopotamus 
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Saqqara, Egypt Old Kingdom Egypt Conceptual, strict canon of proportions, fording Nile was passage from life to afterlife 2450 BCE |
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Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut 
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Deir al-Bahri, New Kingdom Egypt Architect Senmut, hypostyle arches 1450 BCE |
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Akhenaton 
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Karnak, Egypt Amarna Period of New Kingdom *Stylistic change, effeminine, imperfect 1350 BCE |
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Landscape with Swallows 
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Akrotiri, Thera Minoan Opposite of earlier cave paintings where setting was forgotten and focus was on animals. 1650 BCE |
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Harvester Vase 
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Hagia Triada, Crete Minoan Funerary art, energy, musculature 1500 BCE |
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Dipylon Krater 
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Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, Greece Greek Geometric Period Meander pattern around top, funerary, genders distinguishable 740 BCE |
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Kroisos Kouros 
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Anavysos, Greece "Youth", funerary purpose, liberated from stone block, nude 530 BCE |
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Exekias Achilles and Ajax playing dice game 
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Vluci, Italy Greek Archaic Black figure, signed by Exekias 540 BCE |
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Kritios Boy 
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Acropolis, Athens, Greece Greek Archaic Contrapposto stance 480 BCE |
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The Parthenon-"Temple of Athena Parthenos" 
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447-438 BCE Greek Classical Athens, Greece On the Acropolis Optical refinements |
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Riace Warrior 
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460 BCE Greek Classical Shipwreck Inlaid eyes, silver teeth, copper lips and nipples |
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Venus de Milo 
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150-125 BCE Hellenistic World Milos By Alexandros of Antioch-on-the-Meander |
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Laocoon and his Sons 
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100 BCE Hellenistic World Rhodes Made by 3 artists movem't, tension, agony undercutting, negative space |
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Sarcophaguy with recling couple "Marriage Sarcophagus" 
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500 BCE Etruscan Cerveteri Ropelike braids, archaic smile, gesturing |
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Tomb of the Leopards 
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480 BCE Etruscan Tarquinia Light skin for women, dark for men Nudes are servants |
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Colossal head from La Venta 
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900-400 BCE Olmec La Venta Transformation from animal<-->human Jaguar |
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