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37 Cards in this Set
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Prehistoric Art "Hall of the Bulls" 15,000- 10,000 BCE Cave art=Pigment -Animals, hunting |
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Prehistoric Art "Venus of Willendorf" 25,000-20,000 BC Limestone -Fertility |
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Prehistoric Art "Stonehenge" 2000 BC Architecture -Astronomical observations, 1st example of public art -Post and lintel construction |
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Prehistoric Art "The Dying Lioness" 650 BC Bas-Relief Sculpture -Hunting a wounded beast -Syrian Kings decorated palaces with these battle images, King keeping kingdom safe |
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Egyptian Art "Palette of King Narmer" 3000 BC Slate -Documenting victory of Narmer of upper egypt over lower egypt |
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Egyptian Art "The Great Pyramids of Giza" 2528-2490 BC Architecture -limestone -temples inside |
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Egyptian Art "The Great Sphinx of Giza" 2551-2528 BC Sandstone -human head rising from a lion body -regarded as the sun God |
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Egyptian Art "Queen Nefertiti" 1348-1335 BC Painted Limestone -Akhenaten's Style (more naturalistic) -made massive changes in religion and society |
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Egyptian Art "Temple of Hatshepsut" 1478-1458 BCE Living rock -Dedicated to the sun God |
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Egyptian Art "Cover of the Coffin of King Tut" 1327 BC Gilded and inlaid wood -death and the preparation for death is an important part of Egyptian life -Picture of person was put on tomb so Ka (soul) will enter it |
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Egyptian Art "Fowling Scene from the Tomb of Nebamun" 1450 BC Wall painting -comfort in after-life for their rulers |
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Ancient Near Eastern "Figure Cyclades" 2500 BCE Marble -people who inhabited the Cycladic islands often buried dead with marble sculptures |
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Aegean Art "The Queen's Megaron, Palace of Minos" 1700-1300 BC Fresco |
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Aegean Art "Snake Goddess" 1650 BC Metal -mother and fertility goddess -snakes = male fertility |
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Aegean Art "The Lion Gate" 1250 BC Architecture -stone |
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Greek Art "Dipylon Vase" 750 BC Terracotta -functioned as a grave monument |
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Greek Art "Kouros" 580 BC Marble -Male funerary memorial -smile because Athens rises to the forefront of Greek culture |
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Greek Art Kore 520 BC Marble -Female funerary memorial |
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Greek Art "Dying Warrior, from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia" 480 BC Marble |
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Greek Art "Herakles Strangling the Nemean Lion" 525 BC Black-Figured Amphora - Pottery |
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Greek Art "Zeus" 460-450 BC Bronze -Contrapposto (S shape in body) |
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Greek Art "The Parthenon" 448-432 BC Marble |
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Greek Art Doric Order -straight/ nothing fancy Ionic Order - A bit thinner at the top/ a bit fancier Corinthian Order - fanciest -use primarily indoors |
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Greek Art "Aphrodite of Knidos" 340-330 BC Marble -contrapposto stance |
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Greek Art "Dying Gaul" 230-220 BC Roman copy after bronze original |
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Greek Art "Nike of Samothrace" 190 BC Marble -story of goddess just descending to the prow of a ship and is still partly airborne |
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Etruscan Art "Sarcophagus from Cerveteri" 520 BC Terracotta -husband and wife shown on their tomb |
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Etruscan Art "Tomb of Hunting and Fishing" 520 BC Fresco |
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Etruscan Art "Apollo" 510 BC Terracotta |
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Etruscan Art "She-Wolf" 500 BC Bronze -suckling are Romulus and Remus the mythical founders of Rome |
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Roman Art "Augustus of Primaporta" 20 AD Marble -idealized sculpture of Ceasar Augustus first Emperor of Rome |
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Roman Art "Equestrian Statue of Marcus" 161-180 AD Bronze |
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Roman Art "Column of Trajan" 106-113 CE Marble |
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Roman Art "The Colosseum" 77-80 AD Understructure of concrete and covered with tufa, marble, etc |
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Roman Art "The Pantheon" 118-125 AD Marble, Brick and concrete -roof lets in light |
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Roman Art "Constantine the Great" 312 AD Marble |
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Roman Art "Arch of Constantine" 312-315 CE Architecture - marble |
