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Venus of Willendorf
http://www.fortunecity.es/imaginapoder/artes/154/E11_Venus_de_Willendorf.jpg |
Nude woman from Willendorf, Australia
ca. 28,000-25,000 Paleolithic statue fertility image exagerated female parts suggest preocupation with women, child bearing, fertility |
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La Madeleine Bison
http://www.jungny.com/bison%20485.jpg |
broken spearthrower
France ca 12,000 bce head turned 180 degrees details incised with stone burin |
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Pech-Merle spotted horses
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-actually-women-missions-pictures/images/primary/090626-01-pech-merle-spotted-horses-mural_big.jpg |
Cave pech-merle
France painted hands and spotted horses may represent something ca 22,000 bce 11'2'' long |
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Hall of the Bulls
http://www.nadudanacattleqld.com.au/_lib/historical/15000BC-hall-of-bulls-lasca.jpg |
Lascaux, France
ca. 15,000-13,000 largest bull 11'6'' long several species of animals appear together in the hall of the bulls many are collored silhouettes others created by outline outline and silhouettes- two basic appreaches to art animals may have been painted at different times heads in profile but horns upfornt |
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Chauvet Cave
http://randomknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/500_chauvet.jpg |
found in Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, France
horns represented in a more natural way Oldest paintings known but exhibit advanced features ca 30,000-28,000 or 15,000-13,000 |
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Rhiniceros, wounded man and disemboweled bison
http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii3/arthistory_photos/1%20-%20paleolithic%20and% |
Lascaux, France
ca. 15,000-13,000 a man makes an appearance may depict a hunting scene which would constitute the earliest exampke of narrative art ever discovered two animals and a masked man |
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Catal Hoyuk painting pg 13
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Turkey ca 6150 bce
lanscape with volcanic eruption, wall painting from leve VII late seventh millennium bce mural painting may reporesent datal hoyuk during a vulcanic erupion |
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Megalithic tomb pg 14
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Newgrange, Ireland ca 3200-2500
early example of corbeled vaulting at winter soltice the sun illuminates the passegeway and the burial chamber |
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Stonehendge
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Salisbury Plain, England ca 2550-1600
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White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk pg 18
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Summerian
Uruk 5000 years old using muddbrick the Sumerians erected platforms called ziggurats several centuries before the Egyptians modern Warka ca 3200-3000 |
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Reconstruction drawing of the White Temple and Ziggurat, Uruk pg 19
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Probably dedicated to Anu, the sky God
has central hall ,cella, with a stepped altar where the Sumerian priests would await the apparition of diety. corners of the White Temple are oriented to the cardinal points of the compass |
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warka vase
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summerianresentation of offerings to Inanna, Iraq
ca 3200-3000 Oldest known example of summerian Art divided the tall stone vase's reliefs into registers, a significant break with the haphazard figure placement found in the earlier art. depicts a religious festival in honor of the goddess figures stand on ground line shows crops above a wavy line representing water, ewes and rams the crops and the alternating male and female animals were the staple commodities and associated with fertility naked men in the middle represent votive offering female is goddess Inanna |
