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1—Bear, Chauvet Cave, ca. 30,000 BCE
• Southern France and Spain
• Discovered in 1994
• One of the oldest cave paintings ever found
• Very realistic for how old it is
• Painted with fats, blood, dirt, plants, carbon from fires…
• Painted from memory
• outline conveys the hulk of the bear, using the bumps in the cave wall to add to the bear’s figure
2—Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux Cave, ca. 15,000 BCE
• More modern cave painting
• Much less realistic, more simplified
• More large animals overlaid and moving around this circular space
3—Rhinoceros, wounded man, and bison, Lascaux Cave, ca. 15,000 BCE
• Bison disemboweled
• Painting of a man w a bird head with bird headed stick on ground next to him
• Animals are more realistic than the human and has more weight to it, while the human is a stick figure with no weight to it
4—Woman or so-called “Venus” of Willendorf, ca. 28,000 BCE
5—Stonehenge, ca. 2,100 BCE
• Sculpture of woman 11inches tall
• Very different from cave art (interactions with it)
• Discovered in Willendorf in Germany
• Named because any nude female was supposedly called a Venus
• Statue was made into modern forms of soap bars etc.
• This was a glorious idea because people were starving for food
• Fertility charm
6—Royal Standard of Ur, ca. 2600 BCE
• It is a box thought to be something like a music box
• complexity of the society
• figures fit together like puzzle pieces- not painted
• materials from very far away (red marble, shells)- shows power in society because it is difficult to travel to far places, expensive and rare ultra-marine pigment
• Found in royal cemetery at Ur
• soldiers, war chariots, pulled by horses and mules
• an impossible pose (composite pose) emphasizes clarity (eye, weapon and strong shoulders)
• upper panel shows military strength; bottom shows stability as overall society-being able to sustain itself
7—Head of an Akkadian Ruler, ca. 2200 BCE
• possibly the great Akkadian king who made himself into a god while still alive
• showing his power through portrait and the bronze medium
• kind of a threat by having a bronze work made because bronze is expensive and used for weaponry
• full frontal, perfect symmetry, sense of an individual.
• Statue was attacked as if it were a human being (stabbed in eye, ears and nose chopped) as if they were punishing the statue
8—Stele with the law code of Hammurabi, ca. 1800 BCE
• The law code will survive and be eternal, laws written out in script
• depiction of Hammurabi and the god Shamash giving Hammurabi the staff of ruler ship
• he is getting his right to rule directly from the god
• famous for including provisions such as an eye for an eye and is the basis of law codes for century to millennia
• ends with an epilogue
9—Fugitives Crossing a River, ca. 900 BCE
• inside palace
• more of a story
• animal skin floaties to help them swim across the river
• fugitives trying to escape, people shooting arrows across as they swim across the river
departures from realism are purposeful and help tell a story-selective emphasis
• the parts of the story that are important are made larger
10—Lion Hunt, ca. 600 BCE
• in ancient Assyria, the king would hold staged lion hunts and he himself would hunt the lions (surrounded by servants)
• theatre power, realistic poses need to show the enemy as noble
• servants weren’t allowed to kill the lion, only keep it away from the king until the king could kill it with bow and arrow
• stylized lions, elegant manes, more
11—Palette of King Narmer, ca. 3100 BCE
• makeup palette made for the Egyptian king
• two sides of the same carved stone showing lower and upper Egypt
• Narmer was famous for having uniting upper and lower Egypt
• King in composite pose, defeating an enemy (more realistic)
• hieratic scale: Narmer is large, enemy smaller, servant smallest
12—Pyramids of Menkaure, Kafra, and Khufu, ca. 2500 BCE, Giza
• Cut blocks from cliffs around the Nile, carry them on sleds and wooden rollers
• hierarchy society, slavery,450 ft tall (45 stories)
13—Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty II, ca. 2500 BCE
• Same height, both included in same picture, poses similar
• impossible pose
• king wearing ceremonial crown
• queen much more powerful than other women, but not quite as powerful as the king
• difference in skin tone-women are pale because they stay indoors
• women wearing more clothes and jewelry, pose more inward
14—Queen/King Hatshepsut kneeling, ca. 1500 BCE
• Smashed
• son banned her from history
15—Akhenaten, ca. 1300 BCE
• Smashed all statues when died
• feminine figure, realistic?
• one god representing masculine and feminine
• sun god
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