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38 Cards in this Set
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Lion-Human
30,000 BCE Germany Paleolithic |
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Woman from Brassempouy
22,000 BCE France Paleolithic |
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Woman from Willendorf
22,000 BCE Austria Paleolithic attributes and abstract |
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Nike (Victory) Adjusting her Sandal
Fragment of relief decoration from Temple of Athena Nike Athens 410 BCE Classical GREEK |
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*drapery is flowing
*exact opposition of Kouri |
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Hall of Bulls
Lascaux caves, France 15,000 BCE Paleolithic |
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Stonehenge
England 1500 BCE Neolithic |
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Nanna Ziggurat
2100 BCE Sumerian Made of brick Ziggurat--a tall stepped tower of earthen materials |
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Votive Statues
2900 BCE Limestone, alabaster and gypsum Sumerian votive figure--an image created as a devotional offering to a god or other deity. |
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Bull Lyre
Ur 2500 BCE Sumerian *has tales to tell the meaning of life |
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Stele of Naramsin
2254 BCE Akkadian limestone stele--a stone slab placed vertically and decorated with inscriptions or reliefs hieratic scale--the use of different sizes for significant or hold figures and those of the everyday world to indicated importance |
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Palette of Narmer
3150 BCE Early Dynastic Egypt palette--a handheld support used by artists for the storage and mixing of paint during the process of painting canon of proportions--a set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body iconography--the study of the significance and interpretation of the subject matter of art |
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date? period? palette? canon of proportions? iconography? |
King Narmar is responsible for uniting upper and lower egypt.
Ruler is being viewed as a god. |
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Kind Djoser
Saqqara 2667 BCE Stepped Pyramid Designed by Imhotep Ka is a statue inside (sun god) necropolis--a large cemetery or burial area, literally a city of the dead |
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Pyramid of Khafra
Giza 2500 BCE |
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Khafra
2500 BCE Giza Valley Old Kingdom Egypt *a ruler is in charge while others are standing *lion-king *idealism in human form |
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Great Pyramids
2601 BCE Old Kingdom Egypt Giza 1) Menkaure 2) Khafra 3) Khufu veneer--the exterior facing a buidling, often in decorative patterns of fine stone or brick |
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Ti watching a Hippopotamus Hunt
2510 BCE Tomb of Ti Saqqara Old Kingdom Egypt |
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date? where? location? period? fractured pose? |
fracture pose
canon of proportion lower body in frontal view |
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Funerary Temple of Hayshepsut
1348 BCE New Kingdom Egypt colonnade--a row of columns, supporting a straight lintel axial plan--buildings are organized longnatudially |
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Male Lyre Player
2700 BCE Cycladic era lyre--the triangle instrument used to play music |
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*abstracted in basic shapes
*emphases on the person being ENGAGED in the act of playing music |
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Bull Jumping
1500 BCE Minoan period Crete *wall painting *the bull is shown from multiple persepectives *reconstructed from fragments |
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Funerary Vase (Krater)
Athens 750 BCE Geometric Style Greek |
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*focuses on reactions of mourners
*made of terri carda *registers--narrative in horizontal frames |
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Lapith Fighter a Centaur
metope relief from the Doric frieze on the Parthenon 440 CE Classical Greek |
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standing youth, kouros
580 BCE archaic period greek archaic smile--the curved lips of a Greek statue, animate features. |
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Peplos Kore
530 BCE Archaic Period Greek *served as gravemakers *commerorative of goddess or priest *tried to create a sense of texture |
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Exekias
The Suicide of Ajax-story 540 BCE Archaic Period Greek black figure decoration on an amphora |
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*he is making armour to die
*phycological drama |
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Kritios Boy
480 BCE Early Classical/Transitional Period Greek *no longer archaic style, right hip jets out, shoulders are more relaxed, more realistic, proportions, stance is more natual/pose, lines are softer, texture is more like human skin, idealism (represents universal idea of the young Greek male) |
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EXAM: look at pairing of kritios boy and kouros
Thesis: Progression from abstract style to a more representational style |
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Parthenon
Classical Greek Athens 447 BCE Kallikrates and Iktinos |
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*dedicated to goddess of wisdom
*made columns at center wider *center of structure is higher *columns at end are closer together *doric order |
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Spear Bearer, Polykleitos
450 BCE Doryphoros Classical Greek contrapposto--some limbs aare tense; some limbs are relaxed S shape curve to body (more active, alive natural work) |
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*Roman copy after the original bronze
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Nike (Victory) of Samothrace
Hellenistic Greeks 190 BCE Samothrace |
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Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (that is the entire fucking name)
310 BCE Hellenistic Greek foeshortening--3D on 2D wall modeling--use of highlights to see 3D (think hair model) composition--way things are arranged |
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date? period? mosaic? tesserae? foreshortening? modeling? composition? |
*an emotional work b/c Darius III lookes scared
*no landscape b/c the focus is on the battle |
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Dying Gallic Trumpeter
220 BCE Hellenistic Greek |
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*enemy b/c texture of hair--ratty
*barbarian b/c of the necklace *sypathctic treatment b/c of the defeated enemies *viewers feel sympathetic as oppsed to "good thing they lost and we won" |
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Athena Attacking the Giants
166 BCE Hellenistic Greeks undercutting--material is cut back to create shadows...casting forward object |
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*pull hair
*people in stable pyramid |
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Venus de Milo
Hellenistic Greeks 150 BCE |
title? danielle saw this in france
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*thin; longated
*exaggerated S form *controposte--twisted body position |
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Apollo from Veii
500 BCE Period: Etruscan |
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date? period? ridgepole? kiln? |
*archaic smile
*arms are moving as opposed to kouros *clothing is more pattern like as opposed to getting a sense of body |
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Alexander the Great Confronts Darius III at the Battle of Issos (that is the entire fucking name)
310 BCE Hellenistic Greek foeshortening--3D on 2D wall modeling--use of highlights to see 3D (think hair model) composition--way things are arranged |
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date? period? mosaic? tesserae? foreshortening? modeling? composition? |
*an emotional work b/c Darius III lookes scared
*no landscape b/c the focus is on the battle |
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She-Wolf
500 BCE Etruscan |
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Aulus Metellus
1st century BCE Republican Rome |
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*hand, giving people address
*Roman toga *Roman sandals |
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Pont du Gard
France 1st century BCE aqueduct--troth used to carry water over bridge arcade--series of arches |
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Ara Pacis
13 BCE Agustan Rome Marble apotheosis--deification of a person or thing. pax romana--roman peace |
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date? materials? location? pax romana? apotheosis? |
*propaganda
*we only see youthful images of emporer in art *women shown w/ 2 children representation of mother earth and prosperity |
