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ARTH1100

Laura Sandor English 38 cards

Name: Lion- Human Year: 30,000-26,000 BCE Shows that the carver had the ability to create a creature that has not been seen…

Cards in this deck (38)

1—Name: Lion- Human
Year: 30,000-26,000 BCE
Shows that the carver had the ability to create a creature that has not been seen in nature before.
2—Name: Nude-Women (Venus of Willendorf)
Year: 28,000-25,000 BCE
Shows an exaggeration of women features to possibly show health and fertility for the survival of the clan.
3—Name: Stonehenge
Year: 2550-1600 BCE
Situated with solstice and the position of the sun.
4—Name: Çatalhöyük
Year: 7400-6200 BCE
Shows early representation between architecture and art. Housing was not only for shelter but also a place of spirituality and history of community.
5—Name: View of Ur
Year: 3000 BCE
Shows a complex of religious, administrative and service buildings developed in each city as centres of worship and government.
6—Name: Palette of King Narmer
Year: 3150-3125 BCE
Figures are not done to scale, tells us that the scales is a metaphor for importance, and power. This image chows how impression is used.
7—Name: Last judgement of Hu-Nefer
Year: 1290-1280 BCE
Papyrus scrolls that represents two tests of the last judgment seen by Osiris and Anubis.
8—Name: Funerary mask of Tutankhamun
Year: 1327 BCE
used the technique of cloisonné in order to decorate metal objects.
9—Name: Ti watching a Hippopatamus Hunt
Year: 2450-2325 BCE
Shows an example of how Ti being important is portrayed as strong and conventional compose pose and much taller. Hunters who are less than Ti are seen working and more life-life.
10—Name: Step Pyramid,Funerary Complex of Djoser
Year: 2667-2648 BCE
This structure of the pyramid consists of 6 mastabas structures. The meaning of the steps was to reach the sun god Ra and their.
11—Name: Khafra enthroned
Year: 2520-2494 BCE
Form a cult statue where the form of a god inhabits the statue for a while living a temporary home.
12—Name: Great Pyramid of Giza
Year: 2560-2540 BCE
Built for emperors for the afterlife as funerary temples.
13—Name: Nefertari and Osiris
Year: 1298-1235 BCE
Shows how much Egyptians valued the afterlife and their connection of the supernatural and painting the tombs.
14—Name: Luxor Temple
Year: 1498-c. 1213 BCE
Important major religious centre in Thebes that is located near the Nile. Has areas with small rooms that was not accessible for the ancient public.
15—Name: Royal tombs of Ur
Year: c. 2600 BCE
Shows the technique of vaulting which is a form of self supporting arched form.
16—Name: Votive statue of Ebih-II
Year: c. 2400 BCE
An example of effigy which is a representation of a specific person in the form of a sculpture in a three demential medium. Individuals could have them made about themselves to ass a shrine for a god. Locked in wide-open eye contact and in the act of worship.
17—Name: Stele of Naram-Sin
Year: 2254-2218 BCE
Reinforced political stratification that was part of a visual language. Akkadian is large in size, conforming to an artistic practice which is relative to his importance. His pose shows his superiority.
18—Name: Votive Statue of Gudea
Year: c. 2090 BCE
Stands out in history as the earliest ruler to understand branding. Having the statues around shows a virtual stranding presence.
19—Name: Stele with Law Code of Hammurabi
Year: c. 1760 BCE
Written is Hammurabi's systemic codification of his people's rights, duties and punishments of wrongdoing.
20—Name: Ishtar Gate
Year: c. 575 BCE
This gate is a restoration of the original which symbolized babylonian power. It was destroyed and reconstructed into a museum.
21—Name: Terracotta krater
Year: c. 750-735 BCE
Figures are designed around geometric patterns. Gives insight on what greek ideas of paintings would have been during that time period.
22—Name: Exekias, Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice
Year: c. 540-530 BCE
Shows that there was not a lot of continuity in art.
23—Name: Kouros (Youth)
Year: c. 600-590 BCE
Shows "orientalizing" influencing of the Near East with stiff and linear bodily features.
24—Name: Disk thrower
Year: 450 BCE
Carved by Myron originally. The greeks raised the status of the artist because they have the ability to visualize perfection and ideas beyond the real world. Loss of the vertical upright form.
25—Name: Spear Bearer
Year: c. 450-440 BCE
Polykleito's most famous work, may have been the 'canon' theoretical look that reinforces the ideals and the good.
26—Name: Parthenon
Year: 447-432 BCE
Was designed only to be seen from the outside. Can only be see the interior states through the open doors.
27—Name: Temple of Athena and Nike
Year: 421-405 BCE
Shows an example of Ionic order columns.
28—Name: Nike of Samothrace
Year: C. 190 BCE
The forward momentum of the Nike's have body is balanced by the powerful backward thrust of the enormous wings. Shows an example of Hellenistic art.
29—Name: Athenodros, Hagesandros, Polydoros of Rhodes
Year: 1st cen. BCE
Shows the intricate diagonal movements, and skillful unification of diverse forces in a complex composition.
30—Name: Ashikan Pillar
Year: c. 246 BCE
Has the basic part as other columns. At the top there is a lotus to symbolize buddha with a lion as a symbol of power.
31—Name: Great Stupa
Year: c. 150-50 BCE
The shape is circular which is a buddhist design like the wheel which represents no begging or end.
32—Name: Monkey giving Buddha Honey
Year: c. 150-50 BCE
All the action is organized geographically in the scene as it plays out between the palace and the forest. The tree indicated the transition into the forest setting.
33—Name: The life and death of the Budda
Year: 2nd century CE
Order is created around him by the representation of symmetry, Bowl around head and elongated earlobes shows enlighten status.
34—Name: Buddha Preaching his first Sermon
year: c.465-485
The yogic posture which is a gesture indicative of the First Sermon. The simplicity and plain robe and the downcast eyes suggest other wordily introspection and is countered by the detailed structures around.
35—Name: Kankali Devi Temple
Year: 350 CE
Wants the opposite of the stupa therefore the shapes were more square to be more Hindu and less Buddhist. The square represents the earth and the world.
36—Name: Kaṇḍāriyā Mahādeva Temple
Year: c. 1030
Carvings align with the spiritual journey you take in a 4 part model of the spirit of reality you find in.
37—Name: Shiva Nataria
Year: 12th century
The multiple limbs demonstrate a cosmic activity, an intense supernatural reign, battling demons and creating the world.
38—Name: Angkor Wat
Year: First half of 12 century
Biggest temple in the world. Shows the spread of hinduism through the subcontinent.