2-6

 Head of a Man (Akkadian Ruler), Nineveh, Iraq,  c. 2300-2200 BC

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earliest major work of hollow cast copper

sculpture known in the ancient near east

facial features generalized

deliberate damage to take away power

Copper alloy; Akkadian

 Akkadian

2-1

 Stele of Naram-Sin, Sippar,  r. 2254-2218 BC

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Limestone; Akkadian, triumph or victory; hierarchy of scale

NaramSin larger to signal hieratic scale

 Akkadian

Babylonian

Pg. 38

Stele of Hammurabi, Iran,  c. 1792-1750 BCE

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Diorite; showed the first known laws

Babylonian

Assyrian

Fig 2-10

Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions, Nimrud, Iraq, c. 875-860 BC

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relief 

use to show how mighty the ruler is

 Assyrian

Fig 2-12

Guardian Figures, Sargon II Citadel, Khorsabad, Iraq,  c. 721-706 BCE

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composite pose

image of ruler stylized

lion/eagle body

lamassus

Assyrian

Neo-Babylonian

Fig 2-15

Ishtar Gate and Throne Room Wall, Babylon, Iraq,  c. 575 BC

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marduk =dragon snake lion bird

adad= bull

Ishtar=Lion

blue gazed ceramic bricks and relief images of real and mythological images on this artwork that served as an entrance to the city of Babylon

 Neo-Babylonian

Persian

Fig 2-17

Apadana of Darius and Xerxes Ceremonial Complex, Persepolis, Iran,  518-c. 460 BCE

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Glazed brick

 Persian

Fig 2-18

Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute, detail from Appadana stairway, 

Persepolis, Iran,  491-486 BC

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Persian

Limstone; example of hierarchical scale

relief

darius receiving tribute

Egypt

Early Dynastic

Pg 52

Palette of Narmer,  c. 2950 BCE

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hierarical scale

first evedice of hieroglyphs

certouche

Early Dynastic

Fig 3-3    

Step Pyramid, funerary complex Djoser, Saqqara  c. 2630-2575 BC

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ashlar masonry

stairway to the sun god Ra

protecting a tomb

 Early Dynastic

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-4  

Great Pyramids of Giza, Giza,  c. 2575-2450 BC

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menkaure, khafre,khufu

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-6

Great Sphinx, funerary complex Khafre, Giza, Egypt  c. 2520-2494 BC

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composite animal=intelligence and strenghth

in front of Khafre's pyramid

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-8

Khafre,  valley temple Khafre, c. 2520-2494  BC

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idealized image of khafre

noempty spces to keep out evil spirits

intended to last forver

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-9  

Menkaure and a Queen,  c. 2490-2472 BC

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no empty spaces

figures are touching

left foot forward to show dominance

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-10

  Seated Scribe,  Saqqara,  c. 2450-2325 BC

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open spaces

natural looking

posture and body style used to show class

Old Kingdom

Fig 3-14  

Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt,  Saqqara,  c. 2450-2325 BC

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hierarical scale

active poses in lower servants

intended symbolism= stil bountiful after death

Old Kingdom

Middle Kingdom

Fig 3-14

Benni Hasan Rock-Cut Tombs, Benni Hasan,  c. 1938-1756 BC

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40 royal tombs

hollowed directly from cliff face

Middle Kingdom

Fig 3-13

   Head of Senusret III,  1836-1818 BC

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change in portrature from old kingdom

worried look-wrinkles-no beard

more realistic/accurate

Middle Kingdom

Fig 3-16

Stele of Sculptor Userwer,  c. 1850 BC

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cannon of proportions

Middle Kingdom

New Kingdom

Fig 3-18

Reconstruction Drawing Great Temple of Amun, Karnak,  c. 1579-1075 BC

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peristyle court surrounded by collums

hypostyle hall filled with collums

lotis blossum and bud collums

bilatteral symetry

clerestory

axial plan

Fig 3-20

Flower and Bud Columns from Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun

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papyrus capitals

New Kingdom

Fig 3-22  

Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, Deir el-Bahri,  c. 1473-1458 BC

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designed for funeral rites and commemorative ceremonies

not actual tomb

sweeping terraces and colonade

 New Kingdom

Fig 3-25    

Colossal Figure of Akhenaten, c. 1353-1336 BCE

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monothiestic ruler believed in Aten demoting Amun

androginist almost feminine looking

 New Kingdom

Fig 3-26    

Akhenaten and His Family,  c. 1353-1336 BCE 

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sunken relief

New Kingdom

Fig 3-27    

Queen Tiy,  c. 1352 BC

akhenaten's mother New Kingdom

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Fig 3-28

 Nefertiti,  c. 1353-1336 BC

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New Kingdom

akhenaten's wife

Fig 3-1  

Tutankhamun Funerary Mask, c. 1327 BCE

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New Kingdom

gold inlayed with glass and stones

Fig 3-29  

Tutankhamun’s Inner Sarcophagus,  c. 1332-1322 BCE

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New Kingdom

240 pounds of gold 

held the body of tutankhamun

Fig 3-31  

 Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris,  Book of the Dead,  c. 1285 BC

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book of the dead instructions on mumification and explination of what happens to Ka after death

New Kingdom

Pg. 77      

The Rosetta Stone, 196 BC

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3 registers

one in greek used to interpret the rest and lead to the furthur investigation of egypt gave birth to egyptology

New Kingdom

Aegean 

Cycladic

Fig 4-2

Figure of a Women,  Cyclades,  c. 2600-2400 BC

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found in graves 

made to lay flat

subtly carved

pubic triangle

 Cycladic

Fig 4-3  

Cyclades Head,  c. 2500-2200 BC

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paint possible expression of mourning

compared to Kafra statue same time period but stlistically different

 Cycladic

Fig 4-5  

 Kamares Ware Jug, Phaistos, Crete  c. 2000-1900 BC

minoan

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old palace

dark clay light paint

marine

curvy and animated

Minoan

Fig 1-4

Decorated Ocher, Blombos Cave, South Africa,

 77,000 BC

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paleolithic

mineral

recently found

oldest work of art

Fig 1-6

Lion-Human, Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany,  

c. 30,000-26,000 BC

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paleolithic

almost a foot tall

ivory

Fig 1-7

Woman from Willendorf, Austria,

 c. 24,000 BC

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exagerated female form to represent fertility.

pubic triangle

paleolithic

Fig 1-9

Woman from Brassempouy, Brassempouy, France,  

c. 30,000 BC

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elegant, stylized 

ivory

paleolithic

Fig 1-10

Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs, Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pontd’Arc, France,

 c. 320000-30,000 BC

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Chauvet Cave, france

The earliest known site of perhestoric cave painting

 paliolithic

Fig 1-1

Spotted Horses and Human Hands, Pech-Merle Cave, France,  c. 25,000 BC

 paleolithic

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limestone

Fig 1-11

Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Cave, France,  

c. 15,000 BC

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Lascaux Cave, France

most characteristic features emphasized

composite pose

paleolithic

Fig 1-12

Bird-Headed Man with Bison, Lascaux Cave,

 c. 15,000 BCE

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lascaux cave, frace

stylistically different from other drawings at Lascaux

paleolithic

Fig 1-14

Bison, Le Tuc d’Audoubert, France,  

c. 13,000 BC

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created my modeling

 paleolithic

Fig 1-21

Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England,

 c. 2900-1500 BC

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megalithic

mortis-and-tenon joints

trilithon

 neolithic

Fig 2-2

Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, Uruk,

 c. 3300-3000 BC

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mesopotamia

Sumerian

meeting place for humans and their gods

Fig 2-3

Uruk Vase or Carved Vessel, Iraq,

 c. 3300-3000 BC

[image]

mesopotamia

alabaster

used to tell storys

three registers

top register- goddess Inanna

Sumerian

Fig 2-4

Tel Asmar Votive Figures , Tel Asmar, Iraq,  

c. 2900-2600 BC

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devotional offering to a god or deity

Sumerian

[image]

 Sumerian

Fig 2-8

Gudea Votive Statue, Girsu,  

c. 2090 BC

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presents him as a strong, peaceful, pious ruler worthy of divine favor.

Sumerian

Fig 4-6    

Bull Leaping, Knossos, Crete,  c. 1550-1450 BC

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exagerated

women with pinched waiste

earthy colors

gender by skin color

Minoan

Fig 4-12  

Landscape (Spring Fresco), Akrotiri, Thera,  before 1630 BCE

[image]

animated

earlyest known example of landscape

 Minoan

Fig 4-7  

 Woman or Goddess with Snakes, Knossos, Crete,  c. 1700-1550 BCE

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faience-glaze

open bodiced dress

bell shapped skirt

apron

Minoan

Fig 4-9  

 Bull’s-Head Rhyton,  c. 1550-1450 BCE

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gilded horns

rhyton=container for liquid

bulls prominate in minoan art

Minoan

Fig 4-10  

 Octopus Flask,  Palaikastro, Crete,   c. 1500-1450 BCE

[image]

new palace

marine style

light clay dark paint

curvy/ animated

Minoan

Fig 4-13  

 Citadel at Mycenae, Greece, site occupied c. 1600-1200 BCE

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citadel=enclosed forteress

heavely walled

Mycenaean

Pp. 96-97

Lion Gate, Mycenae,  c. 1250 BCE

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post and lentel

courses=layers of stone blocks

corbel stone arch

relieving arch

Mycenaean

guardian figures

Pg. 95

Mask of Agamemnon, funerary mask, Grave Circle A, Mycenae, Greece, 

c. 1600-1550 BC

[image]

repousse

first human attenpt to sculpt face

Mycenaean

Fig 4-18

Treasury of Atreus, tholos entrance, Mycenae,  c. 1300-1200 BCE

[image]

beehive tomb=type of tholos

post and lintle

corbel

Mycenaean

Fig 4-19  

Treasury of Atreus Corbel Vault, Mycenae,  c. 1300-1200 BCE 

[image]

largest known vaulted space of the ancient world

Mycenaean

Fig 5-2

Funerary Krater,  c. 750-700 BCE

geometric

[image]

used for wine placed over grave 

lots of geometric shapes

Geometric

Fig 5-3

Man and Centaur,  c. 750 BCE

[image]

geometric

Fig 5-9

Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy,  c. 550-540 BCE

[image]

peristyle

cella=porch

doric

Archaic

Fig 5-10

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina,  c. 500 BCE

[image]

doric

Archaic

Fig 5-16

Metropolitan Kouros,  c. 600 BCE

[image]

young greek man

placed on grave/ infront of temple

Archaic

Fig 5-17

Berliln Kore,  c. 570-560 BCE

[image]

rapid change in sculpture

Archaic

Fig 5-1

Ajax and Achilles Playing  A Game,  Exekias,  c. 540-530 BCE

[image] 

black figure

Archaic

Pg. 119

Death of Sarpedon,  Euphronios,  c. 515 BCE

[image]

Archaic

Fig 5-23

Kritios Boy,  c. 480 BCE

[image]

shift in weight in legs and waist

enlayed eyes

new dirction for art

Early Classical

Fig 5-26

Riace Warrior,  c. 460-450 BCE

[image]

lost wax method

rationalism

Early Classical

Pg. 134

Spear Bearer (Doryporos), Polykleitos,  c. 450-440 BCE

[image]

polykleitos=the canon- for ideal proportions

contra pose

High Classical

Fig 5-31

The Parthenon, Kallikrates and Iktinos, Acropolis, Athens,  447-432 BCE

[image]

92 medopies

idealism

High Classical

Fig 5-33

Lapith Fighting a Centaur,  Doric frieze, Parthenon,  c. 447-432 BCE

[image]

 High Classical

Fig 5-35

Marshals and Young Women, Ionic frieze, east side, Parthenon,  c. 447-432 BCE

[image]

High Classical

Fig 5-39

Nike (Victory) Adjusting Her Sandal, Temple of Athena Nike, Acropolis, Athens,  c. 410-

405 BCE 

[image]

High Classical

idealised

relief