Art 101 Images

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-Bulls- Cave of Lascuax
-Paleolithic 15,000-13,000 BCE
-Naturalistic,earth pigments, used for sympathetic magic.

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Venus of Wilendorth, austria
Paleolithic 25000-20000 BCE
made of stone 4 and 3/8 inches
impersonal, everything large

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-stonehenge, sallsbery plain, woleshire england
- Neolithic
winter and summer solstice. calender.
190 miles of transportation, small igneous blue stones around the outside cicle. Neolothic observatory, may have had religious purpose, perhaps sacriffice, agragarian

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Vessle of Uruk
3200-3000 BCE
Alabaster 3ft high
celebrate goddess of fertility
low relief
summerian

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worshippers and deities
2750 BCE, Summerian, jipson
modern Iraq
largest, 2ft 3 inch
polytheistic society, animalistic
represented you for praying
had history, law, invented the wheel

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Votive Palette of King Narmer
Old kingdom, predynastic
3150-3125 BCE
slate
2 ft 1 inch tall
-show unification of upper and lower egypt
-Narmer is large in comparison
-gods are represented at the top
-See narmer controlling
-side B
-see fallen enemies
-2 heads, upper and lower side of europe.

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Votive Palette of King Narmer
Old kingdom, predynastic
3150-3125 BCE
slate
2 ft 1 inch tall
-show unification of upper and lower egypt
-Narmer is large in comparison
-gods are represented at the top
-See narmer controlling
-side B
-see fallen enemies
-2 heads, upper and lower side of europe.

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Great Pyramids of Giza
2601-2515 BCE
Limestone and granite
largest 480' high 755' wide
it was a monument to death
old kingdom fell apart because of spedning such as this
left to right menaure, khaffre, khufu
each corner faces N,S,E, and west
built by the people not by slaves
high water supplied transport
largest to smallest, khufue, Kafra, mankaure

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Queen Nefertiti
New Kingdom, Amarna period
1360 BCE
Limestone and plaster
height 19"
artist thutmost
first time artist mentioned in egyption art

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Pond in a garden, fragment from the tomb of Nebamun
-thebes,
-new kingdom
-1400 BCE
-paint on a plaster wall 2'X2'
-depicted a day in egyption culture

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snake goddess or priestess
minoan
found at the palace of knossos, crete
1800-1550 BCE
Faience
showed that women had an abnormally higher status in this culture

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Bull leaping
minoan 1
1750-1450 BCE
palace of knossos, Crete
Height approx 2'8"
restored
abstract

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Lion gate
Entance to Mycenae, Greece
1300-1200 BCE
Limestone height of carved slab 9'6"

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Funerary Mask
found at Mycenae, Greece
1550-1500 BCE
gold
Repausse technique
impression mold
Behive tomb
abstract
mask of agamenan
beard naturalistic

approx 1'

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Etruscan sarcophagus with reclining couple
from verveteri tuscany, italy
525-550 BCE
terra cotta
lenght 6;7"
figures are life size
happy- emotional content
women had a high social status
peaceful outlook on death
fluid,bright, intepreatitve
in the round

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Panathenaic Amphora with runners
prize- gift to an athlete-slightly large
Ancient Greek 520 BCE
Painted terra cotta
height 2' 1/2"
Naturalistic, love to show skin
performed nude
symmetrical
black figure style

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Death of Sarpedon during the Trojan war.
515 BCE
ancient greek bowl with handles used for mixing wine with water
Painter- Euphronios and Euxitheos
Red-figure style
painted terra cotta
1'6"
hermes in the background
personification
is a calyx krater

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Exekias: achilles and Ajax playing draughts
530 BCE detail of black figure decoration on an amphora
painted terra cotta
height 2'
exekias potter and painter
trey were playing during the trojan war

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Mourners around a Bier
750 BCE
Geometric style
terra cotta
height 5'1"
athens, greece

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heracleitus: the unswept floor
mosaic variant of the second century BCE painting by Sosos of Pergamon
naturalistic, realistic
sign of wealth, having art is a sign of wealth.

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Kouros, also known as the Kritian Boy
480 BCE
Severe style(greek style)
marble fragment
height 3'
naturalistic, contropostal

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Zues
460 BCE
Severe style (greek style)
bronze with inlaid eyes and teeth lips and nipples overlian in copper,
height 6' 10"

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polykleitos, doryphoros (spear carrier)
Roman-marble copy of a bronze orig.
450 BCE
Classical style
marble, height 7'
assembled based on writings
nothing of polykleitos survived
contropostal

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Kallikrates and Iktinos: Parthenon
acropolis, Athens
447-438 BCE
sculpture created by 432
Pentelic marble
111'X 237" at the base 65' high

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Phidias and workship: Horsemen
from the frieze of Parthenon
438-432 BCE
marble height 3' 7"

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winged victory of Samothrace
from the sanctuary of the
great Gods, Samothrace
190 BCE
marble, height 8'

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Dying Trumpeter
Roman marble copy after a lost bronze original
230-220 BCE
from pergamon.
marble- life size in the round
(from a sculptural groupling that featured several figures figures that included a Gaul who has killed his wife and is comming suicide rather than being captured.)
commisioned by king attalus 1 of Pergamon

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Emperor Augustus
15 CE
Marble with traces of paint and perhaps also gilding
height 7'.
commissioned by augustus's wife Livia
idealistic propaganda
painted and gilding
copy of idealism
iconography shows a lineage to god
shows/tells a story of diplomatic, military, provider
shows youth.
great warrior

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Marcus Aurelius
161-80 CE
bronze- over life size
commissioned by Marcus Aurelias

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Column of Trajan
Rome 113 CE
Marble height originally 128'
commissioned by Trajan
trajan was once on top where st peter is now.
this shows a conquering of religion over past trajan
if unrolled would be 600 ft

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Column of Trajan
Rome 113 CE
Marble height originally 128'
commissioned by Trajan
trajan was once on top where st peter is now.
this shows a conquering of religion over past trajan
if unrolled would be 600 ft

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Laocoon and his Sons
first century BCE
marble
done by Hagesandros, Athenodors, Polydoros
6'
can see expression, the story is that he knew of the trojan horse so they punished him with snakes.
hellenistic- though not during hellenistic era

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still life with eggs and thrushes
79 CE
painting from the house of Julia Felix
Pompeii
Fresco 35X48"
Repoussoir, looks real

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Flavian Amphitheater
Rome, Italy
Begun 72 CE dedicated 80 CE
Completed 96 CE
approx 615x510 m
commisioned by vespasian, and completed by his sons Domitian and Titus
held 50,000 people
gladiator games from etruscan society
travertine, concrete and tootha, brick (materials)