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The Arts- Hum
Works of art for humanities
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/13/2011

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Cards

Term
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Definition

Snake Goddess

Greek (Minoan, from Crete)

1500 BC

Sculpture (figurine)

Faience

Term
[image]
Definition

Alexander Mosaic

Roman

100 BC

Mosaic

Glass & Stone tiles

Term
[image]
Definition

Bayeaux Tapestry

Norman French/English

1075

Tapestry

Embroidery on cloth (wool & linen)

Term
[image]
Definition

Garden of Earthly Delights

Hieronymus Bosch

1502

Painting

Oil on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

Saltcellar

Benvenuto Cellini

1542

Objet d'art

Gold enamel, ebony

Term
[image]
Definition

Winter

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

1563

Painting

Oil on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

Ardabil Carpet

Persian

Mid 1500s

Carpet

Wool & silk

Term
[image]
Definition

Melancholia

Albrecht Durer

1514

Engraving

Print on paper

Term
[image]
Definition

The Kiss

Gustav Klimt

1907

Painting

Oil, silver & gold on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Book of Kells

Irish

c 805

Illuminated manuscript

Colors on vellum

Term
[image]
Definition

Isenheim Altarpiece

Matthias Grunewald

1515

Painting

Oil on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

White Crucifixion

Marc Chagall

1938

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Page from the Koran

Iraqi

1500s

Illuminated manuscript

Ink & colors on paper

Term
[image]
Definition

Olmec Head

Olmec culture, ancient Mexico

c 1050

Sculpture

Stone

Term
[image]
Definition

Funerary Portrait of a Roman Soldier

Roman/Egyptian

c 150

Painting

Encaustic on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Andrea Mantegna

c 1489

Painting

Distemper on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Arnolfini Portrait

Jan van Eyck

1434

Painting

Oil on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

Las Meninas

Diego Valasquez

1656

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Hohokam Jar

Hohokam culture USA

c 1000

Pottery

Painted ceramic

Term
[image]
Definition

The Scream

Edvard Munch

1893

Painting

Oil, casein & pastel on cardboard

Term
[image]
Definition

Broadway Boogie Woogie

Piet Mondrian

1942

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Bust of Nefertiti

Egyptian

c 1340 BC

Sculpture

Painted limestone

Term
[image]
Definition

Yoruba Palace Doors

Areogun (Yoruba culture, Nigeria)

1905

Sculpture

Wood Carving

Term
[image]
Definition

Horsemen from the Parthenon Frieze

Pheidias

c 440 BC

Sculpture

Marble

Term
[image]
Definition

David

Donatello

1435

Sculpture

Bronze

Term
[image]
Definition

Lillies of the Valley Egg

Peter Carl Faberge

1898

Objet d'art

Gold, silver, jewels

Term
[image]
Definition

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

1917

Readymade (found art)

Ceramic urinal

Term
[image]
Definition

Arc of Petals

Alexander Calder

1941

Mobile

Painted sheet metal & wire

Term
[image]
Definition

Tilted Arc

Richard Serra

1981

Sculpture

Steel

Term
[image]
Definition

God Creating Adam

William Blake

1795

Print

Colored print, pen, & water color on paper

Term
[image]
Definition

Icon of the Holy Trinity

Andrei Rublev

1411

Painted icon

Tempera on panel

Term
[image]
Definition

The Raft of the Medusa

Theodore Gericault

1819

Painting

Oil on Canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Christ Pantocrator

Greek

c 1150

Mosaic

Mosaic

Term
[image]
Definition

The Human Condition

Renee Magritte

1933

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Lavender Mist

Jackson Pollock

1950

Painting

Oil, enamel & aluminum paint on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

The Calling of St Matthew

Caravaggio

1599

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

The Two Fridas

Frida Kahlo

1939

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi

1613

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Aksum Stele

Axumite

c 300

Stele

Limestone

Term
[image]
Definition

Yoruba Female Head

Yoruba

c 1250

Sculpture

Terra cotta

Term
[image]
Definition

Moai Figures

Polynesian

c 1000

Sculpture

Stone

Term
[image]
Definition

Eagle Warrior

Aztec

c 1480

Sculpture

Painted earthenware & plaster

Term
[image]
Definition

Ecstasy of St Teresa

Gianlorenzo Bernini

c 1649

Sculpture

Marble

Term
[image]
Definition

Kneeling Archer

Chinese

c 214 BC

Sculpture

Painted terra cotta

Term
[image]
Definition

Catching a Catfish With a Gourd

Josetsu

c 1410

Painting

Ink & color on paper

Term
[image]
Definition

Seven Leagues Tea Bowl

Koetsu

c 1620

Ceramic

Glazed ceramic

Term
[image]
Definition

Shiva as Nataraja

Hindu

c 1050

Sculpture

Bronze

Term
[image]
Definition

Third of May 1808

Francisco Goya

1814

Painting

Oil on canvas

Term
[image]
Definition

Portrait of an Official

Korean

c 1650

Painting

Ink & color on silk

Term
[image]
Definition

Spiral Jetty

Robert Smithson

1970

Earth art

Basalt, earth & salt crystals

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