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title: Bushel with ibex motifs
date: 4200-3500 B.C.E painted terra cotta created in Susa,Iran
the artwork is a painted terra cotta and its function serves as a funerary object fiven to the deceased during a secondary burial |
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title: The code of Hammurabi
date: 1792-1754
The code of Hammurabi was made in modern Iran and acts as a system of Babylonian laws
carved with 300 laws, the first to know set of ruler enforced laws |
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title: Tutankhamun's tomb, innermost coffin
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty c. 1323 B.C.E gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones
The tomb represents mummification of he king with the importance of their mummification culture to the Egyptians |
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title: Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon. Asia Manor (present day Turkey)
date: c.175 B.C.E marble (architecture and sculpture)
Hllenistic Greek
Artist: King Eumenes III
Function: worship shows the battle between the Olympian Gods and the Giants, that depicts the life of Telephus |
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Forum of Trajan (Rome, Italy)
106-112 C.E;column completed in 113 C.E Brick and concrete (architectures) marble (column)
Function: dedicated to emperor Trajan in honor of his victory over Dacia in Rome Italy |
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Pyxis of al-Mughira
Umayyad.c.968 C.E. Ivory
Function: cyndrical box used for cosmetics
Historical background: Pyxis was a gift to a 19 yeaar old al-Mughira son of calip coming of age present that symbolizes love |
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title: Golden Haggadah
late medieval Spain. c. 1320 C.E. Illuminated manuscript (pigments on vellum)
function: ritual; story of when Mosses led the Jews out of slavery in Egypt with events
located in Catalonia Spain |
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Venus of Urbino. Titian.c. 1538 C.E. Oil on canvas
Function: elevates to the status of classical mythology what probably merely represents a courtesan in her bed chamber |
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title: Calling of Saint Matthew
Carravagio. c. 1597-1601 C.E. oil on canvas
Function: painting that honors Saint Matthew which the artist painted for the side walls of the Contarelli chapel in San Luogi de Francessi in Rome
-Renaissance artwork |
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Title: The Virgin of Guadalupe
Miguel Gonzalez.c.1698 C.E. based on original Virgin of Guadalupe. Basilica of Guadalupe, Mexico city. 16th century C.E.oil on canvas on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl |
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Title: The oath of Horatii
Jacques Louis David. 1784 C.E. oil on canvas
Function: depicts 3 men, boothers, saluting towaard three swords held up by their father as the women behind him grieve
revolutionary painting that changed French artworks and reflects American revolution as well |
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Title: Olympia
Edouard Manet.1863 C.E. Oil on canvas
Function: depicts a prostitute;female nude
Realism artwork that wa first exhibited at the 1865 Paris salon that shows a woman lying on a bed brought flowers by a black servant |
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Title: The kiss
Gustav Klimt. 1907-1908 C.E. oil on canvas
Function: embraces the love of the couple embracing their bodies entwined in elaborate robes created in Belvedere palace, Vienna
Klimt depicts the couple locked in intimacy while the rest of the painting dissolves in shimmering pattern |
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Title: Memorial sheet for Karl Liebknecht
kathe Kollwitz. 1919-1920 C.E. woodcut.
Function: depicts the people in response to the assassination of the communist leaser Karl Liebknecht
In 1919 Germany went through a period of social and political upheaval
also refletcs the reaction of real people about the assassination |
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Title: Woman I
Willem de Kooning. 1950-1952 C.E Oil on canvas
Function: depicts a human with staring eyes and big breasts
Female nude/ Feminist
Mr. Greffen has been collecting art for decades who raised $421 million |
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title: Yaxchillan
Maya.725 C.E. Limestone (architectural complex)
Function: depicts rituals performed by shield Joguar II and his wife, commissioned by Bird Jagvar IV
scene represented a blood letting ritual performed by King of Yaxchillan,shield Jaguar the Great and his wife |
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Title: Hide painting of Sun dance
Attributed to Ctsiogo (Cadzi Cody) Eastern Shoshone, wind river reservation.Wyoming c. 1890-1900 C.E painted elk hide.
Function: worn as a robe over time the shoulders of the warrior where men painted hides to narrate an event
-North American Indian Art |
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Title: Bandumask 20th century
Sande Society,Mende peoples (West African forestst of Sierra Leone and Liberia) 19th to 20th century C.E wood,cloth,and fiber
Function: mask worn by women in West Africa
costumed women work black gowns of raffia that hides their bodies |
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Title: Dome of the rock
completed in 691 C.E
Iconic Images in the Middle East made of stone masonry and wooden roof
Dome of the Rock sets the sun of Jerusalem and reflects religious beliefs |
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Title: Longmen caves
493-1127 C.E.
Function: contains Buddhist relics in Luoyang china made of limestone
Worship and power struggles; Buddhism was orginated in India but transmitted to China in the first century C.E that reflects how Buddhism which originates in China |
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Title: Portrait of Sin Sukju
1417-1475 Imperial Bureu of painting
Function: commemorated both life and death of Sin Sukju depicting meritoroius subject an offical honored for service at court
-Hanging scroll -Korea -Portrait |
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Title: 'Ahu'ula (feathers cape)
coat made of bird feathers worn by men
-Hawaii -Feathers and fiber bird feathers came from Hawaii
reflects the red royal color in Polynesia
reflects artists who chanted the wearer's ancestors to impute their power |
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Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Honors the Vetrans who died during the war
Location: Washinton D.C
made of granite which allows the viewers to be reflected whenever they are viewing the names of the people that died which gives them an idea of the past and how the future of those people could have been saved
Lin's polished marble looks like two intersecing wall standing on top of a hill and inscribed with 58,000 names |
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Title; Rebellious Silence
Function: makes others, especially Westerners to rethink stereotypical perspective that they believe in
Ink on photograph - Photograoh of a slamic women
Uses gun,veil,text to 'comment' on the violence that was brought to the people or Iran |
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Title: Old man's cloth
Function: shows distinction of fine art Versus craft tradition in Africa
-small metal fragments constructed from flattened liquor bottle labels that the artist collected near Southern Africa |
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