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Lascaux Cave
15,000-13,000 BCE
Dordogne, France
Homo sapiens (man), upper paleolithic |
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Woman from Willendorf
28,000-25,000 BCE
Austria
Limestone with traces of ocher paint, 4ft. Paleolithic. |
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Human figures from Ain Ghazal
6,750-6,250 BCE
Jordan
early Neolithic; plaster, paint and shells, bitumen for black eyes |
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Stonehenge
2,100 BCE
Wiltshire, England
neolithic people, monumental architecture, bluestones, gray sandstone, megaliths |
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White Temple & Ziggurat
3,500-3,000 BCE
Uruk, Iraq
mudbrick=platform, white washed brick, cella
Sumerian Culture |
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Female Head from Uruk
3,200-3,000 BCE
Iraq
Limestone
Sumerian culture; mix of stylization and naturalism |
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Statues from the Abu Temple
2,700-2,500 BCE
Tell Asmar, Iraq
Sumerian
Limestone, alabaster, gypsum |
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Standard of Ur
2,600
Royal Cemetery at Ur, Iraq
Sumerian
Wood inlaid with shell, limestone, and lapis lazuli
war and a peace side |
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Stele of Naram-Sin
2,254-2,218 BCE
Sippar, Iraq
Akkadian culture
upright marker stone, pink sandstone |
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Law Code of Hammurabi of Babylon
1,760 BCE
Iraq
Babylon culture
Diorite, 9ft tall, cuneiform |
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Citadel of Sargon II
721-706 BCE
Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
Assyrian culture
fortified palace, gate big lamassu (human headed bulls)
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Relief from Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Fugitives Crossing the River
883-859 BCE
Nimrud, Iraq
Assyrian culture
Alabaster
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Palette of King Narmer from Hierakonpolis
3,000 BCE
Slate, Upper Egypt, unifier=Narmer |
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Funerary complex of King Djoser
2630-2611
Saqqara
Step pyramid, made by Imhotep
limestone made to last |
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Pyramids of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure
2601-2515 BCE
Giza
smooth sided pyramid, near great Sphinx
big funerary complex |
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Khafra from Giza
2500
Giza (in hall of valley temple)
Diorite
idealized figure |
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Tomb of Ti
2510-2460
Saqqara
Painted limestone relief
{watching hippo hunt}shows conventions |
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Temple & Statue of Hatshepsut
1478-1458 BCE
Deir el-Bahri
Limestone, New kingdom funerary temple of woman
Senemut= architect
Statue= red granite, seen as male, kneeling with offering in two hands |
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Hypostyle Hall
1290-1224 BCE
Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak, Thebes
{room with many columns), limestone
sunken relief, clerestory window
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Tomb of Nebamun
1350 BCE
Thebes {New Kingdom}
Musicians and dancers, wall painted plaster |
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Statue of Akhenaten
1353-1335 BCE
Karnak, Thebes
Sandstone
Amarna style: break conventions of style |
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Relief of Akhenaten and His Family
1355 BCE
Amarna
sunken relief on altar stele, Limestone |
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Palace Complex
1700-1450 BCE
Knossos, Crete
Minoan
timbers, rubble masonry, mud brick; labrynth |
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Grandstand fresco
1500
Knossos, Crete in palace complex
mineral colors, applied to wet or dry plaster
minoan |
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Toreador fresco
1550-1450 BCE
fresco in palace complex, Knossos crete
Mycenaean occupation in Minoan style
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Bull's Head Rhyton
1500-1450 BCE
Minoan stone vessel
steatite, white shell linlaid, rock crystal for eyes
Knossos, Crete
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Snake Goddess
1650
religious life Minoan, Knossos Crete palace complex
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Octopus Vase
1500
Palaikastro, Crete
terracotta 'eggshell' ceramics
Marine motifs, naturalism, dynamic |
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Citadel
1600-1200 BCE
Mycenae, Greece
fortified palace
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Lion Gate
1250 BCE
Mycenae, Greece in citadel
principal gate, massive stones support lintel above; corbel arch above that with relieving triangle with lion relief
guardians |
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"Treasury of Atreus"
1300-1250 BCE
Citadel, Mycenae greece
great pathway (dromos) to entrace, green marble, decorative tomb with beehive like roof, corbel vault
tholos=round dramatic tomb |
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Dipylon Amphora
750
Athens. 5ft tall. clay
by the Dipylon master |
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Man and Centaur
750
Olympia? Bronze
votive offering, geometric pd. |
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Kouros from Attica (NY Kouros)
600-590
Attica=region aroudn athens
Marble, early Greek |
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Kouros from Anavysos (Kroisos)
540-525
marble, Archaeic pd. |
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West Pediment, Temple of Artemis at Corfu, Greece
600-580
limestone, medusa and children
high relief but almost not attatched |
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East pediment, Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece
500-490
limestone
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Achilles and Ajax playing Dice
Attic black-figured amphora by Exekias
540-530
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Dancing Revelers
Attic red-figured apmphora by Euthymides
510-500
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Kritios Boy from Acropolis, Athens
480
marble, example of weight shift
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Zeus
Artemision bronze
460-450
hollowcast bronze, found in sea |
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| an object deployed as a means of warding off evil; figural image like a medusa heard or composite image like near eastern lamassu into an architectural setting |
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| : principal enclosed room of a temple used to house an image (naos); entire body of a temple as distinct from its external parts |
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| : polis, began to develop in the course of the 7th and 6th centuries BCE and governed in variety of different ways in classical Greek world: including monarchy and oligarchy |
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| : greek word for male youth, archaic greek statue of a standing nude youth |
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| : wedge-shaped characters made in clay by the ancient Mesopotamians as a writing system |
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| : a row of windows in the upper part of a wall that rises above an adjoin roof. It’s purpose is to provide direct lighting |
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| : Italian word for fresh; painting on the plaster with pigments found in water so that the paint is absorbed by wet plaster and becomes part of the wall—wet and dry fresco techniques |
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| : a technique in which the important of figures is indicated by size so that the most important figure is depicted as the largest |
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| : a symbol often based on a figure animal or object that stands for a word syllable or sound. Found in early Egyptian writing system |
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| : a hall whose roof is supported by columns |
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| : an ancient guardian of a palace; often shown in sculpture as a human headed bull or lion with wings |
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| : an ancient Egyptian tomb, rectangular in shape, with sloping sides and a flat roof. It covered a chapel for leading to shaft to burial chamber |
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| : from the Greek word for large; central audience hall in Minoan or Mycenaean palace or home |
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| : upright slabs of fortification covering or lining the wall, often in order to protect a vulnerable material like mud brick |
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: a city state, in the classical greek world.
Pylon: greek word for gateway; monumental entrance building to an egyptian temple or massive wall with sloping sides pierced by a doorway or of two such walls flanking a central gate or a tall structure at either side of the gate bridge or avenue marking and approach on entrance |
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| : a horizontal band containing decoration, such as relief sculpture or a fresco painting. When multiple horizontal layers are used, registers are useful in distinguishing between different visual planes and different in visual narration |
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| : a space left open above a lintel to relieve it of the eight of masonry. This design was used in bronze age architects in gate and tomb construction |
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| : in Egyptian architecture, an enclosed room with an entrance, often found in a funerary context. Saqqara there’s a sculpture of the king inside |
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| : winged monster of thebes, lions body human head at Giza |
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| : standing block, an upright stone slab or pillar sometimes with a carved picture or inscription |
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| : mountain or height, pyramidal mound or tower but of mud brick forming the base for the temple, stepped |
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| : high relief (stand out) , low relief (pretty much attatched), sunken relief (carved in, family scene) |
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| : post and lintel and corbel construction (corbel arch, corbel vault) know the parts of column: base, shaft, capital |
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