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Venus of Wilendorf
Limestone. Austria. Paleolithic.
Affect the unknown. |
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Venus of Laussel.
Limestone. Carved in Low relief. Laussel, France. Paleolithic. |
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Hall of bulls. Axial gallery.
Lascaux, France.
Lots of energy in the animals and not the humans.
(Paleolithic) |
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Stonehenge.
Salisbury plain. Neolithic.
Megalith, Post and Lintel system. |
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Jericho Walls and tower.
Fortification. Mud brick. Neolithic. (7000)
Walls, towers, dry moat. |
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Catal Huyuk
Anatolia (Modern turkey), Neolithic
Sundried Bricks, Ladders to get into anything, high windows. |
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Throne room of catal huyuk.
Neolithic. (6000)
Bulls represent male potency |
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Ziggurat at Ur.
Sundried bricks, Mesopotamia, Neolithic (2500)
Sir Leonard Wooley heavily excavated it. |
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Standard at Ur (Peace/War)
Mesopotamia/Sumer, Iraq.
Inlaid wood, gold, shell, lapus lazuli, red limestone. Neolithic (2500)
Hieractic scale |
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Winged Human-Headed Bull (lamassu)
Citadel of Sargon (Assyria). Limestone Neolithic (750)
Could be gilgamesh subduing lions? |
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Citadel of Sargon II
Khorsabad, Iraq.
Forticational purposed gates. |
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Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions *,
The Palace of Ashurbanipal, Nineveh, gypsum, Neolithic (750)
relief sculpture—low relief or bas relief
Formal and stylized people but animals are more natural.
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Palette of King Narmer
Slate sculpture, Ancient Egypt. (3500) Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt.
Known for unifying Egypt |
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Stepped Pyramid of King Zoser.
IMHOTEP
Necropolis, oldest stone structure in Egypt. In situ |
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Khafre
Diorite sculpture, in the round, Ancient Egypt (2500)
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Fowling Scene
Fresco painting on dry plaster. Conservative. |
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Musicians and Dancers.
Fresco, and dry plaster, Conservative. Compositie view, Hieractic.
New Kingdom |
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Akhenaton
statue from the temple of Amen-Re, Karnak, Sandstone.
Very feminite, wide hips, semi-breast, illongated, rounded. |
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Thutmose, Queen Nefertiti,
Tell el-Amarna, painted limestone (gold with lapis lazuli)
With Osiris and Isis emblems. |
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Tutankhamen (ruled 1353-1335 B.C.E.)— New Egypt,
gold and inlaid coffin, death mask, painted chest, tomb at Thebes. |
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Tut Death Mask
Gold, Lapus Lazuli.
Idealized Face |
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Palace of King Minos at Knossos, Crete*: magazines, megaron
plan labyrinthian Theseus and the Minotaur
Cycladic Art |
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Toreador Fresco
Minoan. Fresco uses paint on wet plaster
Cycladic (1500) |
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Snake Goddess
Faience (non clay glaze), Palace of Knossos (crete)
Cycladic |
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Springtime Fresco
Not in situ, picked up and taken to greece. Playful lines
Cycladic |
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Citadel of Tiryns
Corbeled gallery, megaron:fortified walls. Lookout areas
Mycenean (1500) |
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LIons gate
LImestone relief, Corbeled Arch
Mycenean (1500) |
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Inlaid dagger blades with lion hunt, bronze with gold, silver*: a hunting scene, people in composite view.
Mycenean (1500 bc) |
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Warrior Vase
Mycenean, Composite view
Mycenean (1500) |
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