discovered in Austria, made c. 25,000 bce, artist unknown

Materials: limestone and ocher

palm sized

could have been used to travel with

Stampede, Chauvet Cave

France, c. 30,000 bce, artist(s) unknown

Charcoal, overt, and chalk were used

Made by spitting (saliva and animal fat)

Shading and overlapping were used

Caves that were painted in were not lived in

Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux Cave 

France, c. 15,000 bce., artist(s) unknown

Auroras, each 13-16ft

Ocher and charcoal on limestone

spitting on the ceiling in darkness

contortion of animals  

Stonehenge

England, 3,000m bce - c.1500 bce (those dates are fine and easier to remember than the ones given in the Kahn website), artists unknown.

Oldest parts are on the outer circumference 

White Temple and Ziggurat

Uruk, Iraq, c. 3500-3300 bce, artists unknown

Mud Brick

About 40 feet tall

only religious figures could enter

Built to be closer to the gods

Standing Male Worshiper from Tell Asmar

 Iraq, 2900 bce, artist unknown

Stele of Hammurabi

raq, 1793 bce-1750 bce, artist unknown.

Basalt

Representing the ruler; establishing law 

Palette of Narmer 

Egypt, 3000 bce, artist unknown

25 inches high

Made from a type of slate

was a ceremonial palette

2 sided to establish the name of the ruler

Hierarchic - not a representation of how things actually looked, but symbolic of power  

Step Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser) 

Egypt, 2600 bce, Imhotep 

200 ft high

Made from limestone 

Big field next to the pyramid

Hed Seb - 50 yard dash king would do

Great Pyramids of Giza

(For Khufu, Khafre and Menkaure), Egypt, just say 2,500 bce for all three

One of the seven wonders of the ancient world 

Akhenaten, Nefretiti and their Three Daughters

Egypt, c.1350 BCE, artist unknown.

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Great Stupa at Sanchi 

India, 1st century ce, artist/architect unknown

Seated Buddha

 India (late 1st c. CE-3rd c. CE), artist unknown

 Doryphoros

 (also known as The Canon), c. 450 bce

6ft11in

Made from bronze

"the canon" - the ideal measurements for an Egyptian body

Aphrodite of Knidos

 (Cnidos), Greece, 2nd century bce (this sculpture is also known as the Venus Pudica)

Iktinos and Kallikrates

The Parthenon, Greece, 440 bce

Augustus of Prima Porta 

Rome, 1st cent ce, Rome

Colosseum 

(also known as Flavian Amphitheater), c. 70 ce, artist unknown, built by Flavian Family