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Chapter 01
Gardner's 11th Edition, Ch. 1
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Art History
12th Grade
01/21/2012

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Term
[image]
Definition

Waterworn pebble resembling a human face

Makapansgat, S. Africa

3 million BC

Reddish brown jasperite

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

  • 20 mi away from where pebble was likely found
  • probably orig. found as is
Term
[image]
Definition

Animal facing left

Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia

23,000 BC

Charcoal on stone

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Human with feline head

Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

30,000 - 28,000 BC

Ivory (carved and encised)

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Venus of Willendorf

Willendorf, Austria

28,000 - 25,000 BC

Limestone

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

 

  • woman = fertility (especially exaggerated boobs, pregnant belly, pubic triangle)
Term
[image]
Definition

Woman holding a bison horn

Laussel, France

25,000 - 20,000 BC

Painted limestone

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Reclining woman

Le Magdelaine cave, France

12,000 BC

rock-cut relief

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Two bison (reliefs)

Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France

15,000 - 10,000 BC

Clay

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Bison with turned head

La Madeleine, France

12,000 BC

Reindeer horn

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Bison

Altamira cave, Spain

12,000 - 11,000 BC

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

  • 1st cave painting ever discovered
  • different POVs - painted at different times?
Term
[image]
Definition

Spotted horses and negative hand imprints

Peche-Merle, France

22,000 BC

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Hall of the Bulls

Lascaux, France

15,000-13,000

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

  • twisted perspective
Term
[image]
Definition

Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses

Chauvet Cave, France

30,000 - 28,000 BC

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

  • no twisted perspective
Term
[image]
Definition

Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison

Lascaux, France

15,000 - 13,000 BC

 

Stone Age - Paleolithic

  • Poss 1st narrative?
Term
[image]
Definition

Great stone tower

Jericho, Jordan River Valley

9,000 - 7,000 BC

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Human skull with restored features

Jericho

7,000 - 6,000 BC

Features in plaster, painted, inlaid with shell

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

 

  • monumental sculpture
Term
[image]
Definition

Level VI

Catal Huyuk, Turkey

6,000 - 5,900 BC

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

Term
[image]
Definition

Deer Hunt

Level III, Catal Huyuk, Turkey

5750 BC

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

  • composite view
  • painted on plaster
Term
[image]
Definition

Landscape with volcanic eruption

Level VII, Catal Huyuk, Turkey

6150 BC

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

  • 1st known landscape
Term
[image]
Definition

Stonehenge

Wiltshire, England

2550 - 1600 BC

 

Stone Age - Neolithic

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