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Art History 175 exam 1
Art of Prehistoric, Ancient Near East, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Agean, Ancient Greece, Etruscan and Roman art.
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Undergraduate 1
09/25/2017

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Woman from Willendorf

- Austria

- c. 24,000 BCE

- limestone

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 Wall painting with horses 

- rhinoceros, and aurochs  

- Chauvet Cave

- France

- c. 32,000-30,000 BCE

- paint on limestone

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[image]
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 Bison 

- Le Tuc d’Audobert

- France

- c. 13,000 BCE

- unbaked clay

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[image]
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 Stonehenge 

- Salisbury Plain

- England

- c. 2900-1500 BCE

- bluestone and sarsen megaliths

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[image]
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 Figures of a Woman and a Man 

- from Cernavoda

- Romania

- c. 4500 BCE

- ceramic

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 Stele of Naram-Sin 

- from Sippar

- Iraq (Mesopotamia)

- 23rd cent. BCE

- limestone relief

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 Twelve Votive figures 

- Tell Asmar

- Iraq (Mesopotamia)

- c. 2900-2600 BCE

- limestone, alabaster, and gypsum

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 Nanna Ziggurat 

- Ur, Iraq (Mesopotamia)

- c. 21st cent. BCE

- brick

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 Stele of Hammurabi 

- probably from Sippar

- Iraq (Mesopotamia)

- 18th cent BCE

- basalt

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 Assurnasirpal II killing lions 

- Nimrud

- Iraq (Assyria)

- 9th cent. BCE

- alabaster relief

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 Darius and Xerxes receiving tribute 

- Persepolis

- Iran (Persia)

- 5th cent. BCE

- limestone relief

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 Funerary mask of Tutankhamun 

- Tomb of Tutankhamun

- Valley of the Kings

- Egypt

- 14th cent. BCE

- gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones

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[image]
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 Palette of Narmer 

- Hierakonpolis

- Egypt

- 30th cent. BCE

- green schist

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 Great pyramids 

- Giza

- Egypt

- 26th-25th cent. BCE

- limestone and granite

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 Menkaure and a Queen 

- Giza

- Egypt

- 25th cent. BCE

- painted greywacke 

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Akhenaten and his family 

- Tell el-Amarna

- Egypt

- 14th cent. BCE

- painted limestone relief

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 Nefertiti 

- Thutmose (artist)

- Tell el-Amarna

- Egypt

- 14th cent. BCE

- painted limestone

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 Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris from Book of the Dead 

- Egypt

- 13th cent. BCE

- painted papyrus

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 Figure of a woman 

- Cyclades

- c. 2600-2400 BCE

- marble

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 Bull leaping 

- Knossos

- Crete

- 15th-14th cent. BCE

- fresco

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[image]
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 Funerary mask (“Mask of Agamemnon”) 

- Mycenae

- Greece

- 16th cent. BCE

- gold

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 Corbel vault

- interior of tholos (“Treasury of Atreus”)

- Mycenae

- Greece

- 13th cent. BCE

- limestone

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 Funerary krater 

- Dipylon Cemetery

- Athens

- Greece

- 8th cent. BCE

- ceramic

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[image]
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Anavysos Kouros 

- near Athens

- Greece

- 6th cent. BCE

- painted marble

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[image]
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 “Peplos” Kore 

- Akropolis

- Athens, Greece

- 6th cent. BCE

- painted marble

- goddess once adorned in gold and jewels

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[image]
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 Parthenon 

- Kallikrates and Iktinos (architects)

- Akropolis

- Athens

- Greece

- 5th cent. BCE

- painted marble

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[image]
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 Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) 

- Polykleitos (artist)

- Roman copy of a Greek original

- original 5th cent. BCE

- marble (originally bronze)

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[image]
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 Laocoon and his sons 

- Hagesandros

- Polydoros, and Athenodoros (artists)

- either Rhodes, Greece or Rome, Italy

- 1st cent. BCE or 1st cent. CE

- marble

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 Nike of Samothrace (“Winged Victory”) 

- Samothrace

- Greece

- 2nd cent. BCE

- marble

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[image]
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 Reclining couple on a sarcophagus 

- Cerveteri, Italy

- 6th cent. BCE

- terracotta 

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 Patrician carrying portrait busts of two ancestors 

- Rome, Italy

- 1st cent. BCE or 1st cent. CE

- marble

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 Augustus of Primaporta 

- Primaporta, Italy

- 1st cent. BCE

- painted marble

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[image]
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 Imperial procession

- Ara Pacis Augustae

- Rome, Italy

- 1st cent. BCE

- marble

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[image]
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 Portrait of a Married Couple

- Pompeii, Italy

- 1st cent. CE

- wall painting

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Arch of Titus 

- Rome, Italy

- 1st cent. CE

- concrete and marble

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