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Art History 110: Midterm 1
Prehistoric art through Early classical period art
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
09/15/2013

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Lascaux Cave

15,000-13,000 BCE

Dordogne, France

Homo sapiens (man), upper paleolithic

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[image]
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Woman from Willendorf

28,000-25,000 BCE

Austria

Limestone with traces of ocher paint, 4ft. Paleolithic.  

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[image]
Definition

Human figures from Ain Ghazal

6,750-6,250 BCE 

Jordan

early Neolithic; plaster, paint and shells, bitumen for black eyes

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[image]
Definition

Stonehenge

2,100 BCE

Wiltshire, England

neolithic people, monumental architecture, bluestones, gray sandstone, megaliths

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[image]
Definition

White Temple & Ziggurat

3,500-3,000 BCE

Uruk, Iraq

mudbrick=platform, white washed brick, cella

Sumerian Culture

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[image]
Definition

Female Head from Uruk

3,200-3,000 BCE

Iraq

Limestone

Sumerian culture; mix of stylization and naturalism

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[image]
Definition

Statues from the Abu Temple

2,700-2,500 BCE

Tell Asmar, Iraq

Sumerian

Limestone, alabaster, gypsum

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[image]
Definition

Standard of Ur

2,600

Royal Cemetery at Ur, Iraq

Sumerian

Wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli

war and a peace side

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[image]
Definition

Stele of Naram-Sin

2,254-2,218 BCE

Sippar, Iraq

Akkadian culture

upright marker stone, pink sandstone

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[image]
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Law Code of Hammurabi of Babylon

1,760 BCE

Iraq

Babylon culture

Diorite, 9ft tall, cuneiform

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[image]
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Citadel of Sargon II

721-706 BCE

Dur Sharrukin, Iraq

Assyrian culture

fortified palace, gate big lamassu (human headed bulls)

 

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[image]
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Relief from Palace of Ashurnasirpal II

Fugitives Crossing the River

883-859 BCE

Nimrud, Iraq

Assyrian culture

Alabaster

 

 

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[image]
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Palette of King Narmer from Hierakonpolis

3,000 BCE

Slate, Upper Egypt, unifier=Narmer

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[image]
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Funerary complex of King Djoser

2630-2611

Saqqara

Step pyramid, made by Imhotep

limestone made to last

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[image]
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Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

2601-2515 BCE

Giza

 smooth sided pyramid, near great Sphinx

big funerary complex 

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[image]
Definition

Khafra from Giza

2500

Giza (in hall of valley temple)

Diorite

idealized figure

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[image]
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Tomb of Ti

2510-2460

Saqqara

Painted limestone relief

{watching hippo hunt}shows conventions

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[image]
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Temple & Statue of Hatshepsut

1478-1458 BCE

Deir el-Bahri

Limestone, New kingdom funerary temple of woman

Senemut= architect

Statue= red granite, seen as male, kneeling with offering in two hands

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[image]
Definition

Hypostyle Hall

1290-1224 BCE

Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak, Thebes

{room with many columns), limestone

sunken relief, clerestory window

 

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[image]
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Tomb of Nebamun

1350 BCE

Thebes {New Kingdom}

Musicians and dancers, wall painted plaster

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[image]
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Statue of Akhenaten

1353-1335 BCE

Karnak, Thebes

Sandstone

Amarna style: break conventions of style

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[image]
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Relief of Akhenaten and His Family

1355 BCE

Amarna

sunken relief on altar stele, Limestone

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[image]
Definition

Palace Complex

1700-1450 BCE

Knossos, Crete

Minoan

timbers, rubble masonry, mud brick; labrynth

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[image]
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Grandstand fresco

1500

Knossos, Crete in palace complex

mineral colors, applied to wet or dry plaster

minoan

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[image]
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Toreador fresco

1550-1450 BCE

fresco in palace complex, Knossos crete

Mycenaean occupation in Minoan style

 

 

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[image]
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Bull's Head Rhyton

1500-1450 BCE

Minoan stone vessel

steatite, white shell linlaid, rock crystal for eyes

Knossos, Crete

 

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[image]
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Snake Goddess

1650

religious life Minoan, Knossos Crete palace complex

 

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[image]
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Octopus Vase

1500

Palaikastro, Crete

terracotta 'eggshell' ceramics

Marine motifs, naturalism, dynamic

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[image]
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Citadel

1600-1200 BCE

Mycenae, Greece

fortified palace

 

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[image]
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Lion Gate

1250 BCE

Mycenae, Greece in citadel

principal gate, massive stones support lintel above; corbel arch above that with relieving triangle with lion relief

guardians

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[image]
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"Treasury of Atreus"

1300-1250 BCE

Citadel, Mycenae greece

great pathway (dromos) to entrace, green marble, decorative tomb with beehive like roof, corbel vault

tholos=round dramatic tomb

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[image]
Definition

Dipylon Amphora

750

Athens.  5ft tall. clay

by the Dipylon master

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[image]
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Man and Centaur

750

Olympia? Bronze

votive offering, geometric pd.

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[image]
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Kouros from Attica (NY Kouros)

600-590

Attica=region aroudn athens

Marble, early Greek

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[image]
Definition

Kouros from Anavysos (Kroisos)

540-525

marble, Archaeic pd. 

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[image]
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West Pediment, Temple of Artemis at Corfu, Greece

600-580

limestone, medusa and children

high relief but almost not attatched

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[image]
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East pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece

500-490

limestone 

 

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[image]
Definition

Achilles and Ajax playing Dice

Attic black-figured amphora by Exekias

540-530

 

 

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[image]
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Dancing Revelers

Attic red-figured apmphora by Euthymides

510-500

 

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[image]
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Kritios Boy from Acropolis, Athens

480

marble, example of weight shift

 

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[image]
Definition

Zeus 

Artemision bronze

460-450

hollowcast bronze, found in sea

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Apotropaic
Definition
an object deployed as a means of warding off evil; figural image like a medusa heard or composite image like near eastern lamassu into an architectural setting
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Canon
Definition
a law, rule, standard
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Cella
Definition
: principal enclosed room of a temple used to house an image (naos); entire body of a temple as distinct from its external parts
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City-state
Definition
: polis, began to develop in the course of the 7th and 6th centuries BCE and governed in variety of different ways in classical Greek world: including monarchy and oligarchy
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Kouros
Definition
: greek word for male youth, archaic greek statue of a standing nude youth
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Cuneiform
Definition
: wedge-shaped characters made in clay by the ancient Mesopotamians as a writing system
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Clerestory
Definition
: a row of windows in the upper part of a wall that rises above an adjoin roof. It’s purpose is to provide direct lighting
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Fresco
Definition
: Italian word for fresh; painting on the plaster with pigments found in water so that the paint is absorbed by wet plaster and becomes part of the wall—wet and dry fresco techniques
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Hieratic scale
Definition
: a technique in which the important of figures is indicated by size so that the most important figure is depicted as the largest
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Hieroglyphs
Definition
: a symbol often based on a figure animal or object that stands for a word syllable or sound. Found in early Egyptian writing system
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Hypostyle hall
Definition
: a hall whose roof is supported by columns
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Lamassu
Definition
: an ancient guardian of a palace; often shown in sculpture as a human headed bull or lion with wings
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Mastaba
Definition
: an ancient Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape, with sloping sides and a flat roof. It covered a chapel for leading to shaft to burial chamber
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Megaron
Definition
: from the Greek word for large; central audience hall in Minoan or Mycenaean palace or home
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Orthostats
Definition
: upright slabs of fortification covering or lining the wall, often in order to protect a vulnerable material like mud brick
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Polis
Definition
: a city state, in the classical greek world.
Pylon: greek word for gateway; monumental entrance building to an egyptian temple or massive wall with sloping sides pierced by a doorway or of two such walls flanking a central gate or a tall structure at either side of the gate bridge or avenue marking and approach on entrance
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Register
Definition
: a horizontal band containing decoration, such as relief sculpture or a fresco painting. When multiple horizontal layers are used, registers are useful in distinguishing between different visual planes and different in visual narration
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Relieving triangle
Definition
: a space left open above a lintel to relieve it of the eight of masonry. This design was used in bronze age architects in gate and tomb construction
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Serdab
Definition
: in Egyptian architecture, an enclosed room with an entrance, often found in a funerary context. Saqqara there’s a sculpture of the king inside
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Sphinx
Definition
: winged monster of thebes, lions body human head at Giza
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Stele
Definition
: standing block, an upright stone slab or pillar sometimes with a carved picture or inscription
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Votive
Definition
: an offering
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Ziggurat
Definition
: mountain or height, pyramidal mound or tower but of mud brick forming the base for the temple, stepped
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Sculpture
Definition
: high relief (stand out) , low relief (pretty much attatched), sunken relief (carved in, family scene)
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Architecture
Definition
: post and lintel and corbel construction (corbel arch, corbel vault) know the parts of column: base, shaft, capital
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Realistic/idealized
Naturalistic/abstract/stylized
Definition
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