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Chauvet Cave ca. 35,000 B.C.E.
Chauvet, France |
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female figure
Wiliendorf, Austria
25,000 B.C.E.
Neolithic figure |
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Stonehenge
ca. 2550-1660 B.C.E.
England
megalithic complex (post and lintel) |
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Cuneiform tablet
ca 2000 B.C.E.
first known type of writing |
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Stele of Hammurabi
Babylonian
ca. 1800 B.C.E.
new law carved into stone and placed in public space |
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The Palette of King Narmer
Egypt, 3000 B.C.E.
depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt of King Narmer |
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Menkaure and his Wife
Giza, Egypt ca. 2400 B.C.E.
shows canon of proportions (perfect geometric features) |
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Ka-Aper
Saqqara, Egypt
ca. 2400 B.C.E.
less important individuals were depicted are naturalistic and use less sig. materials |
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Fowling Scene
tomb painting in Egypt
ca 1400 B.C.E.
Fresco |
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Great Pyramids at Giza
ca 2600 B.C.E. Egypt |
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Death mask of King Tut
Thebes, Egypt
1300 B.C.E.
tomb discovered completely intact |
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Cycladic Art
Cyclades Islands
3000-1600 B.C.E.
Neolithic period- abstract geometric figures |
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Geometric Period Krater
Athens, Greece
ca 700 B.C.E. |
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Archaic Period
Kouros (always depicted naked)
Greece
ca. 600 B.C. |
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Kritios Boy
ca 480 B.C.E.
example of contrapposto |
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Polykleitos
Greece ca 450 B.C.E.
Doryphoros
ca. 450 BCE
Classical period |
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Parthenon
Athens, Greece
450 B.C.E.
dedicated to the goddess Athena |
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the Acropolis
Athens, Greece
highest site in Athens
site of the Parthenon |
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Laocoon and his sons
1st century C.E.
Hellenistic period- movement with heightened expression through extremes of pose, emotion |
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Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de Milo)
Greece ca 150-125 B.C.E.
Hellenistic Period |
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Augustus of the Primaporta
Rome
20 B.C.E. |
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Pont-du-Gard
Nimes, France
19 B.C.
Aqueducts built by romans
carries water to the city by gravity, walking bridge |
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The Pantheon
Rome
ca. 120 C.E.
"temple to all the gods"
Dome |
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Dura Europas
Syria 244-45 C.E.
no longer exists- destroyed by ISIS in 2015 as an act of Iconoclasm |
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"price tag" attacks 2012
act of Iconoclasm usually fro religious purposes |
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Basilica Ulpia
Rome 122 CE
Baslica
structure with raised central space flanked by lower aisles
rome: meeting hall
christians: basic church shape |
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Old Saint Peter's Basilica
Rome, 330 C.E. |
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Hagia Sophia
Istanbul, Turkey
532-537 C.E.
became the model for much of "byzantine" Christian art and architecture |
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Justinian and His Retinue
Ravenna, Italy ca 547
mosaic |
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Church of San Vitale
Ravenna, Italy
ca 547 |
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Illuminated manuscript page from the Lindisfarne Gospels
700 C.E.
pages were meant to prompt intense meditation on scripture |
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Equestrian portrait of Charlemagne of Charles the Bald
Metz, Germany
early 800's
made of bronze |
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Church of Sainte-Foy
Conques, France
ca 1050-1130
"romanesque" architecture refers to late medieval buildings that use round arches
-style is NOT roman, but uses round arch form |
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Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral
Paris, France
ca 1200
high gothic style (pointed arches) |
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Last judgement
St. Foy, Conques
c. 1120
limestone |
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North rose window
Chartres Cathedral
France
c. 1220 CE |
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Court of the Lions, Palace of the Lions
Alhambre
Granada, Spaain
1354-1391 |
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The Lamentation
Arena Chapel
Padua, Italy
ca 1300 |
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