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Hall of Bulls - Lascaux Cave
Cave Painters
15,000 - 10,000 BCE.
Paliolithic
Dordogne, France
Significance: one of the earlist human visual communication. |
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Rhinoceros,Wounded Man, Disemboweled Bison - Lascaux
Cave Painters
15,000 - 13,000 BCE.
Paleolithic
Dordogne, France
Significance: rare human forms
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Spotted Horses and Human Hands- Pech Merle Cave
Cave Painters
Horses 25,000 - 24,000 BCE.
Hands 15,000 BCE
Upper Paleolithic
Dordogne, France
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Chauvet 1995 France 32,000 - 30,000
Cosquer 1994 France 27,000 - 19,000 Altamira 1868 Spain 16,000 - 14,000
Lascaux 1940 France 15,000 - 10,000
Paleolithic 2,000,000 - 10,000 BCE. naturalistic.
Mesolithic 10,000 - 8000 BCE. settlement.
Neolithic 8000 - 2000 BCE. domesticate animals and algriculture. monumental architechture. |
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Woman from Willendorf
28,000 - 24,000 BCE.
Paleolithic
Willendorf, Austria
significance: symbol/promotion of fertility, one of the oldest statues to survive. |
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Stonehenge - Salisbury Plain
2100 BCE.
Neolithic
Wiltshire, England.
significance: diameter of circle 29.6m.
astronomical observation or rituals.
post and lintel
megaliths - huge rock
cromlechs - circle
stone traveled from Whales |
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Plastered Skull
7000 BCE.
Neolithic
Jericho, Jordan.
significance:oldest known city.
ancestor worship.
buried dead family members under floor of household.
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-Lasted about 2500 years, longer than the time from Christ's birth to today.
- -began about 3000 BC when Narmer united Upper and Lower Egypt.
- -Old Kingdom-2700-2100 BC
- -Middle Kingdom-2100-1700 BC
- -New Kingdom-1600-1000 BC
- -525 BC Persians conquered Egypt, 332 BC Alexander the Great
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Female Head
3200 - 3000 BCE.
Uruk, Iraq
significance:large eyes, dramatic eye brow. cult statue. |
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Votive Figures
2700 -2500 BCE.
Tell Asmar, Iraq
Significance:poses and costumes represent conventions of Sumerian art - ritual gesture or less likely to break.
wide open eyes |
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Goat in Thicket (a pair)
2600 BCE.
Sumarians
Royal Cemetery of Ur. Muqaiyir, Iraq.
significance: funementary goods.
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Royal Standard of Ur
2700 BCE.
Sumarians
Royal Cementory of Ur
significance: depicted military victory and a celebration/ritual feast.
each unfolding in three superimposed registers.
HIERATIC SCALE - the larger the figure, the greater their importance. |
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Bull Lyre and Inlay Panel
2600 BCE
Sumarian
the tomb of Queen Pu-abi, Ur, Iraq
- sounding box for a string instrument.
- man embracing two human-faced bulls.
- animals perform human tasks.
- human-animal hybrid served the apotropaic function of turning away evil forces.
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Stele of Naram-Sin
2254 - 2218 BCE.
Akkadian
- commemorates Naram-Sin's victory over the Lullubi, eastern Mesopotamia.
- Ordered march contrasts with the enemy's chaotic rout - victorious and defeated.
- king larger scale and central position.
- mascular limbs and powerful stance - heroic.
- solar deities shine auspiciously overhead, witness his victory.
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