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Stonehenge
location: Wiltshire, UK
Neolithic European Era
c.2500-1000 B.C.E.
Sandstone
function was to distinguish solstices
post and lintel structure used |
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Palette of King Narmer
location: Pre-dynastic Egypt
Greywacke is the medium used
c.3000-2920 B.C.E.
function was to depict the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt |
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Anavysos Kouros
location: Athens, Greece
Archaic
presents the idealized male body
Marble and has Egyptian like stance
c.530 B.C.E. |
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Sarcophagus of the Spouses
location: Rome, Italy
c.520 B.C.E.
function was to store the ashes of a dead spouse
Etruscan Art |
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Catacomb of Priscilla
location; Rome, Italy
c. 200-400 C.E.
function was a place of worship for Christians that was hidden because Christianity was illegal
medium is excavated tufa and fresco |
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Merovingian Looped Fibulae
Early Medieval Europe
silver with inlays of garnets
depicts a crossbow
function was a brooch made by Roman military campaigns |
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David
Donatello
medium is bronze
location: Florence, Italy
depicts biblical hero slaying Goliath
Renaissance
c. 1440-1460 C.E. |
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Annunciation Triptych
location: Metropolitan Museum, New York
medium is tempera on oil panel
people connecting to God through their feelings during the Northern Renaissance
c.1427-1432 C.E.
Robert Campin |
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San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
function is a church
medium is stone and stucco
Rome, Italy
Francesco Borromini
c. 1638-1646 C.E.
Baroque Art
built church for free because Borromini incorporated his own styles and techniques into the design |
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The Tete, From Marriage a la Mode
function is painting with medium oil on canvas
depicts married couple and lawyer
represents how arranged marriages usually don't end up working
middle class acquired more wealth
National Gallery, London
William Hogarth
c. 1743 C.E. |
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