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02: Ancient Near East; Ancient Egypt
Cal Poly Winter 2012: ART 112
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
01/13/2012

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Ziggurat at Ur

Sumerian

 

- mud brick; sacred mountain; closer to heavens; social status dictates level; three stairways

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votive sculptures

Sumerian

limestone

 

- devotional figures; stands in for person in worship; gods are demanding; hands clasped in prayer, large eyes = full attention; inlaid with decorative shells

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Bull lyre

Sumerian

Ur

 

- harp-like instrument; funerary item (King's tomb); gold and lapis lazuli - evidence of commerce; panel depicts scenes from Gilgamesh; twisted perspective

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Stele of Naramsin

Akkadian

limestone

 

- stele = vertical slab of stone; relief carving; twisted perspective; hieratic scale (Naramsin > his soldiers > their soldiers); grandson of Saurgon

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Stele of Hammurabi

Babylonian

basalt

 

- first code of law; Hammurabi presenting codes to God; Hammurabi depicted non-twisted, God is twisted

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Human-Headed Winged Lion

Assyrian

limestone

 

protect ruler; intimidate; relief sculpture on two faces; five legged to be recognizable from both faces; detailed wing, leg anatomy

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Ishtar Gate (reconstructed) and throne room wall

Neo-Babylonian

glazed brick

 

- glazed brick with ground glass for shimmer; crenellated towers

 

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Apadana of Darius I and Xerxes I

Persian

limestone

 

- Persepolis; audience hall

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Palette of Narmer

1st Dynasty, Egypt

 

- grind eyeliner; fish and chisel (nar and mer); depicts unification of Egypt; Narmer = King Menes?; two crowns of Egypt

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Palette of Narmer

1st Dynasty, Egypt

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Stepped pyramid

Old Kingdom

Saqqara

 

- first example of monumental architecture; surrounded by mini-city/compound; stacked mastabas

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Great Pyramids

Old Kingdom

Giza

 

- smoothed out stepped pyramids; huge tombs of cut stone; stones = 2.5 tons each, Khufu = 2.5 million stones

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King Menkaure and His Queen

Old Kingdom

Giza

 

- served ka; square and blocky (stiff, not all stone carved out); idealized naturalism; simple, timeless qualities; contact between figures (wife's arms)

 

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Head of Senusret III

Middle Kingdom

yellow quartzite

 

- political struggle; sculpture reflects this with deep set eyes, furrowed brow, downturned mouth

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Hypostyle hall

New Kingdom

Karnak

 

- rows of columns; stacked stone disks; painted and carved

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Akhenaten and his family

New Kingdom Amarna Period

painted limestone

 

- monotheistic religion of the rogue pharaoh; seen as heretic; sunken relief; less blocky, more curvy; interacting family; not imposing, not intimidating 

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