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5 Cards in this Set
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Lion-Human -30k-26k BCE (Prehistoric) -Holhlenstein-Stadel, Germany -Sculpture in the round -Carved from mammoth ivory -Human figure with feline head -Strange, puzzling, but unique and interesting display of early human creativity |
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Woman from Willendorf -24k BCE (Prehistoric) -Austria -Sculpture in the round -Limestone, originially covered in red ocher -Exaggerated female attributes, perhaps to show fertility/health -Perhaps used as a means of nonverbal communication |
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Hall of Bulls -15k BCE (Prehistoric) -Lascaux Cave, Dordogne, France -Mural/Cave painting -Paint on limestone -Depicts cows, bulls, deer, horses, on rock layered on top of one another -Stylized to emphasize the most characteristic features -Composite pose: hooves, eyes, horns seen from front; bodies and heads seen from side |
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Twelve Votive Figures -2600 BCE (Sumerian) -Eshnunna, Iraq -Sculptures in the round -Limestone, alabaster, and gypsum -Votive/religious figures of men and women dressed as worshippers -Stylized with cylindrical bodies and large eyes, hands clasped, customary of Sumerian art |
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Head of Akkadian Ruler -2200 BCE (Akkadian) -Ninevah, Iraq -Hollow-cast sculpture -Copper alloy -Earliest known example of hollow cast sculpture using lost wax process -May reflect an ideal rather than individual -Damage may have been deliberately "blinding" and "deafening" sculpture |
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