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Nude Woman of Willendorf
Paleolithic Art
c. 28,000- 25,000 BC |
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Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Imprints
Pech- Merle, France
c. 22,000 BC
Paleolithic Art |
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Stonehenge
Wiltshire, England
2550- 1600 BC
Neolithic Art |
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Statuettes of Worshippers
Sumerian Art
2700 BC
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Stele with the Law Code of Hammurabi
c. 1780
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Great Pyramids at Giza
Pyramids of Menkaure, Khafre and Khufu
c. 2490- 2528 BC
Old Kingdom Period |
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Figurine of a Woman
Cycladic Period
Greece
2500- 2300 BC |
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Khafre
Old Kingdom Art
c. 2520- 2494 |
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Figurine of a Woman
Cycladic Art
2500- 2300 BC |
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Kouros
Archaic Greek Art
600 BC |
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Herakles Wrestling Antaios
Euphronios
Archaic Greek Art
510 BC |
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Doryphoros
Polykleitos
Classical Greek Art
450-440 BC |
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Dying Warrior on the West Pediment
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece
Archaic Greek Art
500-490 BC |
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Dying Warrior on the East Pediment
Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece
Classical Greek Art
490- 480 BC |
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Warrior
Classical Greek Period
460- 450 BC |
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Head of an Old Man
50 BC
Roman Republic Period |
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Nike of Samonthrace
Hellenistic Greek Art
190 BC |
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Model of an Etruscan Temple
500's BC (6th century)
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Temple of Portunus
Rome, Italy
Roman Republic Period
75 BC |
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Augustus of Primaporta
Early Roman Empire
1st century copy of a bronze original (c. 20 BC)
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Colosseum
Rome, Italy
CONCRETE !
70- 80 AD
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Pantheon
Rome, Italy
High Roman Empire
118- 125 AD |
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Christ as the Good Shepherd
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Ravenna, Italy
Early Christian Art
425 AD |
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Justinian, Bishop Maximianus and attendents
San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy
Byzantine Art
547 AD |
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Sarcophagus of Junis Bassis
Early Christian Art
359 AD |
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Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs
Late Roman Empire
305 AD |
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Cross and Carpet Page
Lindisfarne Gospels
Early Medieval Art
698-721 AD |
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Sainte- Etienne Cathedral
Caen, France
Romanesque Art
1067 AD |
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Last Judegment
Gislebertus
Saint- Lazare, Autun, France
Romanesque Art
1120- 1135 AD |
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Battle of Hastings Tapestry
detail of the Bayeux Tapestry
Romanesque Art
1070- 1080 AD |
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Notre- Dame Cathedral
Paris, France
Gothic France
1163 AD |
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Reims Cathedral
Reims, France
Gothic France
1225- 1290 AD |
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Sainte- Chapelle
Paris, France
Gothic France
1243- 1248 AD |
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Patelle of King Narmer
Old Kingdom Egyptian art
3000- 2920 BC
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Laocoon and His Sons
Athanadoros, Hagesandros and Polydoros of Rhodes
Hellenistic Greek Art
Early 1st Century AD |
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Parthenon
Iltinos and Kalikrates
Athens, Greece
447- 438 BC |
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| A fresco made when the plaster is wet |
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| the content and study of said content of a piece of art |
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| fresco made on dry plaster |
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| figures projecting from the background of which they are a part |
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| an ancient egyptian rectangular brick of stone structure with sloping sides erected over a subterranean tomb |
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| the idealizing of a portrait to make one look like they were the ideal being, not realistic |
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| showing as it appears in the real world |
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| showing how one actually looked |
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| a hall with a roof supported by columns |
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| the uppermost member of a column, serving as a transition from the shaft to the lintel |
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| the fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts, oldest know are egyptian |
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| a projecting wall member used as a support for some element in the superstructure (when 2 meet it is a corbelded arch) |
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| In mycenaean architecture, the triangular opening above the lintel that serves to lighten the wieght being carried by the lintel itself |
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| the uppermost course of the platform of a classical temple, which supports the column (ie, the bottom of the cloumn) |
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| the smile that appears on all Archaic greek statues form about 570- 480 BC, indicates that the person portayed is alive |
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| made to look like how the artist wants, not a realistic approach |
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| most simple of the columns, no bases, superstructure plain |
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| characterized by bases, superstructure has scrolls on it |
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| columns all around the cella and it's porches |
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| Most elaborate style of columns, highly decorated superstructure characterized by flowers and swirls |
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| the triangular space (gable) at the end of a building, formed by the ends of the sloping roof, |
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| the disposition of the human figure in which one part of the body is turned in opposition to another part (usually hips and legs one way, shoulders and torso another) |
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| a method of bronze casting in which plaster molds filled with wax have molten bronze poured in to replace the wax |
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| any sculpted or pained band in a building |
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| the chamber in the center of a greek temple , the room in which the cult statue usually stood |
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| columns that are there for decorational purposes only and are part of the walls of the temple, half round column attached to the wall |
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| true to appearance, superrealistic |
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| method of perspective in which one uses straight lines and a single vanishing point to create a realistic portrayal of depth |
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| the point at which all parallel lines converge |
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| french for deceives the eye, illusionistic painting |
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| depicting the world as it is actually affected by the atmosphere, things in the background appear more blue and hazy than those in the foreground |
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| in roman architecture, a free standing arch commemorating an important like a military victory |
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| semicylindrical in cross-section, basically a tunnel of arches |
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| the point at which 2 barrel vaults come together at 90 degree angles to form an intersection |
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| groin vaults that have windows above to let light in, usually a series of parallel halls intersecting one perpendicular tunnel |
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| a sunken panel, often ornamental, in a vault of a ceiling |
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| a round central opening in a dome, latin for "eye", |
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| the re-use of earlier building material or decorative sculpture on new monuments |
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| in early christian art, a figure with both arms raised in the ancient gesture of prayer |
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| In early christian art, the depiction of Old Testament figures and events as prophetic forerunners of Christ and the new testament (sarcophagus of junis bassis) |
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| In roman architecture a civic building for legal and other civic proceedings, rectangular in plan with an entrance usually on the long side. In christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the roman basilica, usually entered from one end with an apse at the other |
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| A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a building, commonly found in the east end of a church |
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| the central area of an ancient roman basilica or church, demarcated from the isles by piers or colums |
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| a semicircular area (with the flat side down) in a wall over a door or window, also a painting or relief with a semicircular frame |
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| A portrait or image, especially in Byzantine churches, a panel with a paining of a sacred person that are objects of veneration |
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| The destruction of images, in Byzantium, the period between 726 and 843, where there was an imperial ban on images |
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| the reintroduction and renewed devotion to icons after the period of iconoclasm |
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| a luxurious handmade book with painted illustrations and decorations |
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| calfskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting |
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| lambskin prepared as a surface for writing or painting |
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| the use of perspective to represent in art the apparent visual contraction of an object that extends back in space at an angle to the perpendicular plane of sight |
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| A monastery courtyard, usually with covered walks or ambulatories along the sides |
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| an arch separating ove vaulted bay from the next |
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| the space enclosed by the lintel and an arch over a door way |
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| In church architecture, the pillar or center post supporting the lintel in the middle of the doorway |
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| an almond shaped nimbus surrounding the figure of Christ or another sacred figure |
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| and exterior masonry structure that opposes the lateral thrust of an arch or vault, a flying buttress consists typically of a inclined member carried on an arch or series of arches and a solid buttress to which it transmits the lateral thrust |
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| a circular stained glass window |
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