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- Jades appear in burials of people of high rank.
- Chinese linked jade with virtues: durability, subtlety, and beauty.
- Placed in a burial around bodies, some broken, some show signs of intentional burning.
- Made in the Neolithic era in China. |
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- Built by Darius I and Xerxes I; destroyed by Alexander the Great.
- Relief sculptures depict delegations from all parts of the empire bringing gifts to be stored in the treasury; Darius selected this central location in Persia to ensure the protection of the treasury.
- Built not much as a complex of palaces but rather as a seat for spectacular receptions and festivals.
- Many cultures (i.e, Greeks, Egyptians, Babylonians) contributed to the building of the site. |
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- Rare Hellenistic bronze
- May have been part of a group, or perhaps a single sculpture with a head turned to face a unseen opponent.
- Older man, past his prime, wearing a mostly defeated look; great emotion.
- May have been a good luck charm for athletes; evidence of the toes worm away by touching. |
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- extremely crowded surface with figures piled on top of each other.
- figures lack individuality.
- Youthful Roman generals appears center top with no weapons, and the only Roman with no helmet indicating that he is immortal and need no protection.
- Rome at war throughout the third century. |
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- Inspired by the Hagia Sophia, but a centrally planned building.
- Abundant window space makes for a brilliantly lit interior.
- Open air interior contrast with conventional mosques that have partitioned interiors.
- Part of the complex including a hospital, school, library, ect. |
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- Rectangle chapel attached to the church of Santa Croce, Florence.
- Interior has a restrained sense of color, muted tones, punctuated by glazed terra-cotta tiles.
- Chapter House: a meeting place for the Franciscan monks.
- Cross-Cultural Comparison: Personal Sacred Space. |
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- High-keyed colors, perhaps taking into account the darkness of the chapel it is placed in.
- No weeping, just yearning
- Anti-classical composition
- The painting is called "Entombment of Christ", although there is no tomb, just the carrying of Jesus's lifeless body. |
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- Only image of Rembrandt with his wife together in an etching.
- Images of Saskia abundant in Rembrandt's output, a source of inspiration for him.
Rembrandt painted 50 self-portraits; 32 self-portrait etchings; 7 self-portrait drawings.
- Not for general sale, but for private purposes. |
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- Angel depicted with an harquebus (a form of rifle) instead of traditional sword.
- Military poses derived from European engravings of military exercises.
- Latin inscription: "Asiel, fear of God"
- May have originated in the region around Lake Titicaca in the Collao region of Peru. |
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- Turkish elements; incense burner, peacock fan, tapestry like turban, hashish pipe, hence the name "odalisque"
- Inconsistent arrangement of limbs: rubber arm, placement of leg, one arm is longer than the other.
- Heavily influenced by Italian Mannerism in the exaggerated body form.
- A further development of the female nude form. |
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- Exhibited in the Impressionist exhibition of 1877.
- Monet famous for painting series of paintings on the same subject at different times of day and different days of the year.
- Effects of steam, light, and color; not really about the machines and the people.
- Forms dissolve and dematerialize; color overwhelms the forms. |
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- Movement towards abstraction; representational objects suggest rather than depicted
- Felt that sound and color are linked.
- Strongly articulated use of black lines
- Kandinsky wanted the viewer to respond to a painting the way one would to an abstract musical composition like a concerto, sonata, or symphony. |
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-Said to have been done in response to Picasso's claim that anything looks good in fur.
- Combination of unlike objects: fur-covered objects teacup, saucer, and spoon.
- Combined traditionally female and genteel objects vs. masculinity of sculpture done in hard surface in great scale and made vertically.
- Chosen by visitors to a Surrealist show in New York as the quintessential Surrealist work of art. |
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- 1500 large, mirrored, stainless steel balls placed on a lawn under a sing that said "Your Narcissism for Sale".
- Artist offered the balls for sale for 2 dollars as a commentary on the commercialism and vanity of the current art world.
- Narcissus Garden references the ancient myth of Narcissus, a young man who is enraptured by his image in reflecting water that he stares at it indefinitely until he becomes a flower.
- Installation later moved to water; balls move the currents of the water and wind, reflecting organically made ever-changing viewpoints. |
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- Tenochtitlan laid out on a grid; city seen as the center of the world.
- Two temples atop pyramid: north dedicated to Tlaloc: god of the rain.
south: dedicated to Huitzilopochtli: god of the sun and war.
- Spring and autumn equinoxes: sun rises between the two.
- Temples began in 1375, rebuilt 6 times, destroyed by the Spanish in 1520 |
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- Zimbabwe derives from a Shona term meaning "venerated houses" or "houses of stone"
- Prosperous trading center and royal complex
- Conical tower molded on traditional shapes of grain silos; control over food symbolized wealth, power, and royal largesse.
- Walls: 800 feet long, 32 feet tall, 17 feet thick at base. |
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- Helps the user remember key elements of a story.
- Reader holds Lukas in the left hand and traces the designs with the right index figure
- Ability to read the board is limited to a few people
- Each board's design is unique and represents the divine revelations of a spirit medium expressed in sculptural form |
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- Arabic read right to left.
- Great clarity of text important because several readers read the book at once, some at distance.
- Consonants are scripted, vowels are indicated by dots or markings around the other letters.
- Qur'ans were compiled and codified in the mid-seventh century; however the earliest surviving Qur'an id from the ninth century. |
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- Great Eastern Temple, refers to its location on the eastern edge of the city Nara, Japan,
- Influenced by monumental Chinese sculptures (cf. Longmen)
- Emperor Shomu embraced Buddhism and erected sculpture as a way to stabilizing Japanese population during economic crisis.
- Mudra: right hand means "do not fear"; left hand means "welcome" |
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- Many kept in religious buildings belonging to the community
- Represents individual deities.
- Simple geometric forms
- Horizontal lines used to indicate knee caps, navel, and waistline. |
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- Garden as a microcosm of nature
- Zen dey garden
- Wet garden
- Water symbolizes purification |
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- Korean artist using traditional ink on paper
- Large vertical lines of various thickness
- Subtle tonal various thickness
- Ink painting a traditional form of artist expression in Korea; this movement revitalizes ink in a modern context. |
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- Life-size sculpture of a bull made from flattened cans of corn beef.
- Canned corned beef a favorite food in Polynesia; exported form New Zealand.
- Introduction of canned meat caused a fall in traditional cultural skills of fishing, cooking, and agriculture.
- Theme of recycling emphasized by the reuse of these cans. |
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- Collaged female figures composed of human, animal, object, and machine parts.
- Commentary on the female persona in art history.
- Ironic twist on praying mantis.
- Insects use camouflage; this figure seems camouflage. |
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- Rare Hellenistic bronze.
- May have been part of a group, or perhaps a single sculpture with his head turned to face a unseen opponent.
- Older man, past his prime, wearing a mostly defeated look; great emotion.
- May have been a good luck charm for athletes; evidence of toes worn out away by touching. |
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