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Woman, Limestone.

Worshippers and dieties from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar,Limestone, alabaster, gypsum

Palette of King Narmer Hierakonpolis

King Khafre Giza. Diorite

Queen Nefertiti, Tell el Amarna. Painted Limestone

Colossal head, olmec culture. Basalt.

The Acropolis, Athens, Greece.

Nike of Samothrace, marble.

Column of Trajan, rome. Marble

Theodora and Her Attendants. Mosaic.

Purse cover, from Sutton Hoo burial ship. Gold with india Garnets and cloisonne enamel, originally on an ivory or bone background.

Gislebertus, Last Judgement, tympanum and lintel.

Chartes Cathedral

Shiva Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Bronze.

Donatello, David. Bronze.

Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, Oil on Wood.

Raphael, The School of Athens, Fresco.

Coatlicue, Basalt

Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of St. Teresa. Marble

Caravaggio, Calling of St. Matthew. Oil on Canvas.

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat. Oil on Canvas.

Thomas Jefferson.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque. Oil on Canvas.

Edouard Manet, Olympia. Oil on Canvas.

Claude Monet, Impression--Sunrise. Oil on Canvas.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Moulin dr la Galette. Oil on Canvas.

Giacomo Balla, Dyanism of a Dog on a Leash. Oil on Canvas.

Umberto Boccioni, Unique Forms of Continuity in Space. Bronze.

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain.

Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory. Oil on Canvas.

Pablo Picasso, Guernica. Oil on Canvas.

Frida Kahlo, Las Fridas. Oil on Canvas.

neolithic

an era that produced large quantities of pottery and millet

neolithic
an era that produced large quantities of pottery and millet
megaliths
Huge stones used as monuments. constructed without mortars.
acropolis
A fortified hilltop in an ancient Greek city
ziggurat
Flatter and wider pyramid built by the Sumerians.With a sanctuary on top.
stele
An upright stone slab carved with a commemorative design or inscription.
Stupa
A large, mound-shaped Buddhist shrine.
ka

the Egyptian concept of vital essence, part of the soul.

canon of proportions
a set of ideal mathematical ratios in art based on measurements of the human body
contrapposto
A style of Greek sculpture where people are depicted standing and leaning so that the person's weight is being put on one side. People are depicted with their bodies curved like an "S"
mosque
A Muslim place of worship
early renaissance
From 1400-1494
high renaissance
1500-1527
baroque
1600-1750
rococo
A style of art popular in the first three quarters of the eighteenth century, particularly in France, characterized by curvilinear forms, pastel colors, and light, often frivolous subject matter
neoclassicism
A style of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries that w3as influenced by the greek classical style and that often employed classical theme for its subject matter
surrealism
A style of of art of the early twentieth century that emphasized dream imagery, chance operations, and rapid, thoughtless forms of notation that expressed the unconscious mind.
cubism
A style of art pioneered by pablo picasso and george braque in the first decade of the twentieth century, noted for the geometry of its forms, its fragmentation of the object and its increasing abstraction.
impressionism
An artistic movement that sought to capture a momentary feel, or impression, of the piece they were drawing
futurism
An early thwentieth century art movement characterized by its desire to celebrate the movement and speed of modern industrial life
hellenism
The culture of the ancient greece
minoans
A Neolithic people that started around 3000BC, supposedly the earliest people on the island of Crete. They were excellent sailors & traded w/ Egypt & the Fertile Crescent. Were conquered by mainland Greece.
mosaics
An art form in which small pieces of tile, flass, or stone are fitted together and embedded in cement on surfaces such as walls and floors.
tesserae
Small pieces of glass or stone used in making a mosiac
medici family
A family, made wealthy by starting a banking industry in Florence, who were major patrons to the arts during the renaissance.
olmec
1200-400 BC
maya
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Aztec

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Donatello
David, 1425-1430. Bronze. Early Renaissance.
Leonardo
Mona lisa, Oil on wood, 1504-1505. High Renaissance. Scythed chariot, pen and ink wash, 1487.
Michelangelo
The Last Judgement, Fresco, 1534-1541. Mannerism.
Raphael
The school of Athens, 1510-1511, fresco. High Renaissance.
Picasso
Guernica, 1937. Cubism. Oil on canvas.
Braque
Violin and Palette, 1909. Oil on canvas. Cubism.
Renoir
La Moulin de la galette, 1876. Oil on canvas. Impressionism.
Monet
Sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas. Impressionism.
Bernini
The Cornaro Family in a Theater Box. Marble. Baroque.
Jacques Louis David
The Death of Marat, 1793. Oil on canvas. Neoclassicism.
Balla
Dyanism of a dog on a leash, 1912. Oil on canvas. Futurism.
Duchamp

Fountain, 1912. Photograph. Dada/surrealism.