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Bear, Chauvet Cave, ca. 30,000 BCE |
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Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux Cave, ca. 15,000 BCE |
-Very hard to reach, deep in cave |
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Rhinoceros, wounded man, and bison, Lascaux Cave, ca. 15,000 BCE |
-Rarely humans in the Cave drawings -Human vs. Animal(size) |
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Woman or “Venus” of Willendorf, ca, 28,000 BCE |
-No face -Portable (hand-sized) -Limestone -Fertility, emphasis on the reproductive qualities |
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Stonehenge, ca. 2,100 BCE Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire England |
-Mysterious, no one knows the purpose, rituals? Passing of time? King Arthur? -Heavy rocks, moved from where? |
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Royal Standard of Ur, ca. 2600 BCE |
-Mosaic from precious material -Composite point of view -Soldiers, Chariots trampling on enemies; showing power -Lower class bringing food to the king -King is bigger than the rest |
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Stele with the law code of Hammurabi, ca. 1800 BCE |
-The first written law code -An eye for an eye, tooth for tooth -Hammurabi meeting with a god, being given a scepter. |
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Fugitives Crossing a River, ca. 900 BCE |
-People shooting them from both sides -Can't swim, blowing into animal skin to float -Departure from naturalism -The bow in front of the archer's arm -Non-heroic story |
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Lion Hunt, ca. 600 BCE |
-Animal dominance vs. Human dominance -Power of animal: size
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Palette of King Narner, ca. 3100 BCE |
-Makeup palette mixer -Ceremonial object -Legend of king reunited upper& lower Egypt |
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Pyramids of Menkaure, Kafra, and Khufu, ca. 2500 BCE, Giza |
-Known as the 3 great pyramids -concealed burial chamber to trick robbers |
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Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II, ca. 2500 BCE |
-Power is more equal -Women for hereditary heir -Motionless, left foot forward -Unity as pair |
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Queen/King Hatshepsut kneeling, ca. 1500 BCE |
-Female King -Wearing traditional clothing for Kings -Depicted with masculine built, no breasts -Kneeling making an offering; humble |
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Akhenaten, ca. 1300 BCE |
-Son of Queen Hatshepsut*** -Changed the religion of worshiping many gods to 1 god -Includes both genders like the gods -Wide hips and thighs, pot belly |
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Temple of Hera II at Paestum, ca. 500 BCE |
-Order: Doric -Fluted columns -Most Greek temple were not open to the public -Tall and compact -Hexastyle (six columns) -Entasis (column bulge outwards in the middle) |
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Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, Athens, ca. 400 BCE |
-Commissioned by Pericles (ruler at the time) -Made with illegal military budget (During when Athens was constantly in war) -Dedicated to Athena |
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Erechtheion, Athens, ca. 400 BCE (Both the 'porch of the Maidens and the ionic portico) -Supports carved into women -Political; lost, women captured, slaves; to bare the burden of holding the columns |
-Uneven ground -Site of Mystery Cults (snake in basement, Neptune's trident) -Archeic statue of Athena next to an Olive tree -Ionic order |
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Exekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing Dice, ca. 500 BCE |
-Black figured technique -Tension of the warriors playing dice -Moment of relaxation during a fierce war -Looks ready to spring in action -Irony because Achilles dies during the battle |
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'Kritios Boy,' ca. 500 BCE |
(marble) - contrapposto |
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Lapith and Centaur, metope from the Parthenon, ca. 400 BCE |
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Horsemen, west frieze of the Parthenon, ca. 400 BCE |
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Nike (from the balustrade of the Temple of Athena Nike, ca. 400 BCE |
Temple of Athena Nike |
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Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, original from ca. 300 BCE (Roman copy) |
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Dying Gaul trumpeter, perhaps a Roman copy of a bronze original of ca. 200 BCE |
Epigonos of Pergamon (?) |
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Hagesandros, Polydorus, and Athenodorus of Rhodes, Laocoön, Hellenistic (ca. 200 BCE) or Roman (ca. 100 CE) |
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Athena and the Giants (from the frieze of the Great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon), ca. 200 BCE |
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Nike of Samothrace, ca. 200 BCE |
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The Battle of Alexander and the Persians, mosaic copy of ca. 100 BCE of a Hellenistic painting of ca. 300 BCE |
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**** Check Janson |
Portrait of a Man (fig. 7.12 in Janson), ca. 0 CE |
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Augustus of Primaporta, original or possibly a later copy of an original of ca. 0 CE |
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Imperial Procession (Ara Pacis Augustae), ca. 0 CE |
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Wall painting of a garden (from the Villa of Livia at Primaporta), ca. 0 CE |
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Colosseum, Rome, ca. 100 CE |
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Pantheon, Rome, ca. 100 CE |
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Overall view of the arch |
Arch of Titus, ca. 100 CE, Relief of Titus Riding in Triumph |
Relief showing the Procession of Spoils from the Temple in Jerusalem
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Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, ca. 200 CE |
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Portrait group of the Tetrarchs, ca. 300 CE (porphyry) |
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Good Shepherd (mosaic in the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia), ca. 400 CE |
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Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Hagia Sophia, Istanbul (previously Constantinople), ca. 500 CE, exterior and interior |
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Emperor Justinian, the Bishop Maximianus, and attendants (mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna), ca. 500 CE |
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Empress Theodora and her attendants (mosaic, San Vitale, Ravenna), ca. 500 CE |
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Interior of Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Córdoba, ca. 900 CE |
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Court of the Lions, Alhambra, ca. 1300 CE, Granada, Spain |
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Sinan, Mosque of Selim II, ca. 1600 CE, Edirne, Turkey, interior and exterior |
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Clasp, Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, ca. 600 CE |
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Cross Page, Lindisfarne Gospels, ca. 700 CE (tempera on vellum) |
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Chi Rho Iota Page, Book of Kells, ca. 800 CE |
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Temptation and Fall (Doors of Bishop Bernward, Hildesheim Cathedral), ca. 1000 CE |
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