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Survey of Art
Prehistoric Art in Europe
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
09/06/2013

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Woman From Willendorf

24,000BCE

(Paleolithic Era)

 

Bonus: Made from Limestone

Originally colored with red ocher

Just under five inches tall

Symbolizes fertility

 

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Horses and Hands

Pech-Merle Cave

25,000-15,000 BCE

(Paleolithic Era)

 

Bonus: Paint on Limestone

Lenth of horse: Five feet

the hands were later additions

The shape of the horse follows the shape of the rock it is on

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Lion Human

Hohlenstein, Germany

30,000- 26,000 BCE


Bonus: Carved from mamoth ivory

new development in art, not creating from sight, but rather the imagination.

Probable that they viewed animals and humans as a common group inhabiting the world


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Wall painting with horses, aurochs, and rhinoceroses

32,000-30,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Paint on limestone

in the same cave a childsfoot prints were imprinted in soft clay.


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Hall of Bulls, Lascaux Caves15,000 BC

15,000 BCE

Paleolithic

BonusPaint on limestone

Drawn from a composite view

new developmet: telling a story

 

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Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira, Spain

12,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Paint on limestone (ocher)

First piece to be discovered from the Upprer Paleolithic era


 

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Bison, Le Tuc dAudoubert

13,000 BCE

Paleolithic

Bonus: Unbaked clay

High Relief

Many foot prints found in soft clay here. (suggests many group rites and rituals took place here)

 

 

 

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A House in Çatalhöyük

7400-6200 BCE

Neolithic

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Men Taunting a Deer 

(detail of a wall painting from Çatalhöyük, Turkey)

6000 BCE

Neolithic

Bonus:Museum of Anatolian Civilization, Ankara, Turkey

Deer has erect penis

symbolism for masculinity

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Post-and-Lintel and Corbel Construction

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Tomb interior with engraved stones

3000-2500 BCE

Neolithic

Bonus:carvings marked out by strings or compases

Markings have religous meaning (supposedly cause people to have mental images or hallucinations)

 

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Diagram of Stonehenge

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Stonehenge

3000-1500 BCE

Neolithic

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England


Bonus: served as a cremation burrial, and ritual site.

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