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69 Cards in this Set
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CHINESE HORSE - 15,000 BCE - lascaux caves - cave painting |
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HALL OF BULLS
-lascaux caves - 15,000 BCE - prehistoric • organized bulls facing same way • images applied over time • function: success in the hunt • subject: animals • painted on cave wall • pigments from nature: iron oxide, charcaol |
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VENUS OF WILLENDORF - 24,000 BCE - matriarchy - prehistoric • fits in hand • concentric circles on piece covering her eyes • large breasts/belly • standing position feet broken off • symmetrical pose •frontal • nude • unrealistic proportions • carved from stone •female features • amulet • used in ritual • textured |
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STONE HENGE -3,000-1,500 BCE - prehistoric (neolithic) - post and lintel • post and lintel structures • HEEL STONE: casts shadow on alter • alter for religious purposes • archittecture vs. art • radial symmetry • FIVE CIRCLES -outer ditch - embankment (ridge, ledge) - white markers (Small stone circle) - huge stones - large stone inner circle •monolithic: each piece is one piece of stone • uncarved stones • site chosen for flatness •archeo astronomy: monument falls into line with an astrological event |
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SHIPS OF THE DEAD - 3,500-3,200 BCE - egyptian - hi-era-kon-polis |
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PALETTE OF NARMER - 3000 BCE - egyptian - HIERARCHIC ART • REGISTERS • bands along the piece • front vs back • front has large human figure • back is more intricate animal figures • one man about to strike anothe r • difference in clothes= difference in social status • large man is looking beyond • servant visible • composite creature of human head, hot dog body • papyrus leaves • CARVED from STONE • relief •reenactment of historical event • shoes off to show respect • UPPER EGYPT = FALCON is controlling LOWER EGYPT which is back side: • victory parade with people carrying standards • 2 perspectives: from front and from above • composite creature- panthers with snake neck • bottom part: NARMER REPRESENTED AS A BULL OVER POWERING HIS ENEMY |
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STEPPED PYRAMID OF DJOSER - 2630 BCE - egyptian - imhotep • concentric mastabas • columns are paparyus leaves |
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KHAFRE -2,500 BCE -egytian -horus • pharoh • attoned figure • carbed from block • rigid pose • clenched fist • horus (bird on head) |
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Engaged Papayrus column of djoser •2,630 bce •Egyptian • imhotep |
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RAHOTEP AND NOFRET -2575-2550 BCE -egyptain -color coding of sexes |
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SEATED SCRIBE - 2500 -egyptian -elite job |
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TI WATCHING A HIPPO - 2400 BCE - egyptian -mastaba (ship of the dead) • head is profile • eyes frontalized • chest frontal • hips and legs profile • main man bigger • very subtile relief • top details foxes • four walls: four seasons • people walking animals through stream |
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Senusnet III -1860 BCE - egyptian -new kingdom |
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hatshepsut with offering jars -1473-1458 - cross dressing -egyptain |
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Akhenaten -1350 BCE - egyptain - monotheism (sun god) -curvaceousness |
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NEFERTITI -1350 bce - egyptian - monotheism |
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AKHENATEN AND FAMILY -1350 BCE -egytian -SUN DISK • sunken relief • stone carving • bilateral symmetry (two figures almost mirror one another) • fuidness in the body • children are smaller but with full bodies • hieroglyphics • sun disk sending out rays with hands • thin necks, big heads • HUMAN AFFECTION • ANKH- represents eternal life • held by hands coming from sun • large belly • rippling silhouette • papyrus plant underneath |
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INNERMOST COFFIN OF KING TUT -1323 BCE -egyptain - gold, turquoise, lapis lazuil, coral |
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DEATH MASK OF KING TUT - 1323 BCE -egyptian - gold, turquoise, lapis lazuil, coral |
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WOOD CHEST OF KING TUT -1323 BCE - Egyptian - aggrandizement |
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FEMALE HEAD -3200-3000 BCE - mono brow - ancient near east |
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VOTIVE STATUES -ca 2700 BCE - abu - ancient near east • giant eyes • groups of figures • abu is the largest • abus consort (mother goddess) second largest • god of fertility and crops • stone •doll size statuettes • communication btwn gods and other figures •proportions untrue to life •cone like shapes •simple geometry • cylindrical pedestals •monobrow • eyes shell and black stone • bitumen used to fill holes • unlife like hair • holding a cup for libation • prayer gesture |
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BULL HEADED HARP and inlaid sound box -dompting motif - 2600-2400 BCE - ancient near east • wood, gold, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen • replicated sound box • royal patron hired artist • functions as instrument • bull is natural, heard is stylized • expensive • panel: four registers top- dompting motif animal figures life like composite creatures scorpian man sistrum- shakey music thing black is bitumen, white is shell negative and positive field |
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AKKADIAN RULER - 2250-2200 BCE -cire perdu (lost wax) - Ancient near east |
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VICTORY OF NARAM-SIN -2250 BCE - Ancient near East - great horned headress • heirarchy - one is bigger than the others • main guy has crowns, weapons, has an army, stomping on people • COMPARE TO NARMER PALETTE • tree landscape setting •wiggly ground line •divine kingship • one man either dying OR sounding horn • text that possibly tells story of battle • cuneiform text • monument of stone (stele) placed in a place where everyone can see it • aggrandizing • commemorates an actual event |
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SEATED GUDEA WITH TEMPLE PLAN - 2100 BCE - cuneiform -ancient near east |
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GUDEA STANDING WITH OVER FLOWING WATER JAR -2100 BCE - ancient near east - cuneiform |
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LAW CODER OF HAMMURABIS SHAMASH -1780 BCE - ANE -ancient near east • stele covered with text • heirarchy • god seated on throne • man is king talking to god •great horned headdress • chest frontalized • holding ceptre and ring • rays of sun coming from him |
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Lion Gate 1400 BCE ancient near east apotropaic |
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Figurine of a woman Aegean 2500-2300 bce cyclades |
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ESSAY PALACE AT KNOSSOS aegean 1500 bce agglutinative - spaces are irregular - as many as four stories -stair cases - magazine storage areas -post and lintel - masonry laid loosely -undulating movement as decoration - tappered shaft on collumns - cushon on capitals shafts made of wood - kings thrown room queen's thrown room w/dolphins |
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bull leaping fresco aegean wasp-waisted figure |
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octopus vase aegean 1500 bce horror vacui |
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snake goddess aegean 1600 bce faience |
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harvester vase aegean 1500 bce sistrum |
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TREASURY OF ATREUS ESSAY aegean 1300-1250 bce bee hive tomb -underneath a mountain - coursed masonry - triangle over lintel - corbel arch - vault= not flat ceiling - treasury room placed off to the side - |
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lion gate 1300 bce aegean cyclopean masonry |
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funerary mask 1500 bce agean embossing |
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ESSAY VAPHEIO CUPS 1500 bce aegean diffusionism -unsure about weather they are Minoan or Mycenaean - repousse relief - fancy used for drinking by the very wealthy or for ritualistic purposes - depict the capturing of the bull, man concurring nature - found in tomb - made of gold - |
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ESSAY DIPYLON VASE 8th century bce geometric greek - greek key pattern -geometric figures -funeral art - negative and positive field - two colors - made of clay and baked - for a wealthy dead person - depicts funeral parade and women paid to be mourners pulling their hair or crying |
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Kouros 600 bce archaic greek |
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Anavysos Kouros 530 BCE plump line greek |
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ESSAY DIONYSOS ON BOAT 6th century bce exekias greek - black figure technique (red clay with black figures) - drinking cup - god of wine -myth of turning men into dolphins when they jumped over board at sight of god - vase has a large mouth, no shoulder, and a small foot - evil eyes depicted on the side of vase - a type of kylix (wine drinking cup) |
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niobid Vase 450 bce hubris greek |
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dying warrior 480 BCE archaic greek |
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Kritios boy 480 bce inset eyes greek |
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ESSAY DORYPHOROS 450 bce Polykleitos <- artist greek - means "spear bearer" in olympic times - this is a roman copy - one relaxed leg, one stiff one (contrapposto) -summarized anatomy -original made of bronze - life size harmony -tree in back not part of original - tilt of hips and slant of shoulders -idealism toward youth - solemn expression |
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Pericles 430 bce Kresilas greek |
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Diadoumenos 450 bce polykleitos greek |
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ESSAY PARTHENON 447-432 bce kallikrates & iktinos greek - built to honor athena - acropolis - built to replace an ealier temple that was destroyed - panathenaic procession- people march to parthenon - start at dipylon gate - it was blown up at one point and badly damaged - pediment=triangle on top - classical movement can be seen in one glance - coursed masonry -marble -well trimmed -paristyre= columns all the way around -larger room has a giant statue of athena made of gold and ivory SUN SHINES ON HER ON BIRTHDAY - in proportion 9:4 - three step platform - curved stairs and no straight lines to counteract the droopiness - columns 40ft tall - pediment had: goddess of moon and sun on either side of it, the birth of athena, personification of rivers, - lapiths v centuars all the way around it - shafts and columns are not monolithic -corners same height all the way around - continuous frieze of horses and riders carved in low relief by phidis - erectheum featured off to the side of it -only one entrance |
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Three Goddesses 447-432 bce wet drapery greek |
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Lapith and Centaur 447-432 bce phidias greek |
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Panathenaic horsemen 447-432 bce isocephaly greek |
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Marshals and young women 447-432 bce phidias greek |
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greek gods 447-432 bce phidias greek |
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erechtheum 405 bce caryatid greek |
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ESSAY CARYATID 405BCE erectheum greek - legs tilted inward -contrapposto pose - beautiful - no identity - wet drapery - function as columns |
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Hermes and infant dionysos 340 bce praxiteles greek |
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Aphrodite of Knidos 350 bce Praxiteles greek |
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lysippos 330 bce apoxyomenos greek |
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laocoön and his sons early 1st century CE roman hellenistic greek |
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ESSAY NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE 190 BCE in medias res greek - victory figure - remembers a battle that greeks won - public patrone - moment of victory on the prowl of a ship - contrast texture wet drapery twisting movement -multiple vantage points - |
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dying gaul 220 bc multi vantage points greek |
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ESSAY APOLLO FROM VEII 510-500 bce painted terracotta etruscan -life size -striding pose - tarracotta is a less valuable material frontalized drappery is unrealistic - siting on bridge of the temple - a god - mythic moment: apollo and hercules fight |
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ESSAY TEMPLE OF APOLLO AT VEII 510-500 bce podium etruscan -deep porch -columns not all around like greeks - wooden columns -bricks not marble - on a high podium, only stairs made of stone -one entrance -tiles on roof statues on roof triangular roof |
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couple on a sarcophagus 520 bce terracotta etruscan |
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ESSAY TOMB OF THE RELIEFS 3rd century bce living rock etruscan - Tufa: volcanic rock that is easy to carve - 3 headed dog guards underworld -military items - piers (4 sided columns) |
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mirror back 400-375 bce divination etruscan |
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Aule Metele first century bce blunt realism etruscan |
