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Western Art Midterm

Kristen Garrett English 26 cards

Title: Horses, Aurochs, and Rhinoceroses, Chauvet Cave Country: France Period: Prehistoric Art Date: 32,000-30,000 BCE Art…

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1—Title: Horses, Aurochs, and Rhinoceroses, Chauvet Cave
Country: France
Period: Prehistoric Art
Date: 32,000-30,000 BCE
Art History Term: realism
Significance: earliest known cave painting; depicts memories of creatures in two-dimensional representations
2—Title: Votive Statues from the square temple, Eshnunna
culture: Sumerian
Period: ancient near east
Date: 2900-2600 BCE
Art history term: stylization
Significance: wealthy people set up a statue of themselves before a god, hands clasped, attentive gaze.
3—Title: Stele of Naram-Sin
culture: Akkadian
Period: Ancient Near East
Date: 2254-2218 BCE
Art history term: hierarchic scale
Significance: political stratification expressed, claiming divinity for himself (horns), military victories are also expressed, art that combines symbols with stories
4—Title: Stonehenge
culture: 3000-1500 BCE
Period: Neolithic period
Date: 3000-1500 BCE
Art history term: Megalithic monument
Significance: constructed in many phases, many theories but none supported, nearby settlements also round in nature but made of wood instead of stone, trailers pilgrimage there for ancestral worship and rituals.
5—Title: Lyre with bull's head
culture: Sumerian
Period: Ancient near east
Date: 2600-2500 BCE
Art history term: inlay
Significance: shows they participated in trade as lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan
6—Title: The palette of Narmer
culture: Old kingdom Egypt
Period: Early dynastic period
Date: 2950 BCE
Art history term: hierarchical scale
Significance: Used as a makeup palette also involved in ceremonies; white crown of upper Egypt, falcon god Horus represents lower Egypt, personification of cities
7—Title: Woman from Wildendorf
culture: Austria
Period: Prehistoric Art
Date: 24,000 BCE
Art history term: Idealization
Significance: well nourished body suggests health and fertility leading to strong children and the survival of the community.
8—Title: Imhotep Stepped Pyramid
Culture: ancient Egyptian
Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt
Date: 2630-2575 BCE
Art history term: monumental architecture
Significance: used for continuing worship of the dead king; built of finely cut stone; signals a tomb not a temple
9—Title: Khafre
Period: Old Kingdom Ancient Egypt
Culture: ancient Egyptian
Date: 2520-2494 BCE
Art history term: idealization
Significance: strong sense of dignity, calm, and permanence; compactness of the body (arms pressed to the body, body anchored on the seat) projects the sense of unwavering power in an athletic body at the peak of perfection. Protected by falcon god Horus, short kilt false beard and folded headers expresses his kingship.
10—Title: Kneeling Figure of Hatshepsut
Culture: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt
Period: Ancient Egyptian art
Date: 1473-1458 BCE
Art history term:
Significance: there was not a convention to represent a female ruler so she was adapted to the convention, priority given to tradition and continuity
11—Title: Colossal Figure of Akhenaten
Culture: New Kingdom Ancient Egypt
Period: Amarna period
Date: 1353-1336 BCE
Art history term: Stylized
Significance: in this new period royalty is expressed as very stylized and even distorted, facial features are exaggerated and distorted; flail and shepherds hook symbols of pharaoh's sovereignty.
12—Title: Anavysos Kouros
Culture: Ancient Greece
Period: archaic period
Date: 530 BCE
Art history term: idealization of the archaic greek person
Significance: lifelike power and presence expressed by freed arms and legs from the body, makes the sculpture more free and energetic. Archaic smile to enliven the expressiveness of the face, expressed in nude to remove the figure from a specific time, place, or social class.
13—Title: Polykleitos. Spear Bearer
Culture: Ancient Greece
Period: High classical period
Date: 450-440 BCE
Art history term: humanism, realism, idealism
Significance: was created to demonstrate perfect proportion; the cannon, the beginnings of contrapposto
14—Title: Parthenon
Culture: Ancient Greece
Period: High classical period
Date: 447-432 BCE
Art history term: symmetric
Significance: made adjustments to natural optical illusions that would occur when looking at the building from a distance in order to create the perfect building, the columns have a subtle swelling, base curves slightly upward, columns tilt inward; peristyle plan, meant to be walked around instead of approaching it from one direction, a temple dedicated to Athena
15—Title: Lapith Fighting a Centaur
Culture: Ancient Greece
Period: High classical period
Date: 447-432 BCE
Art history term: metope sculptures
Significance: theatrical representation of
16—Title: Aphrodite of Knidos
Culture: Ancient Greece
Period: Late classical period
Date: 350 BCE
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17—Title: Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors
Culture: Roman republic
Period: Republican period
Date: end of 1st century BCE
Art history term: Verism (strict naturalism)
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18—Title: Augustus of Primaporta
Culture: imperial Rome
Period: the age of Augustus
Date: early first century CE
Art history term: Visual propaganda
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19—Title: Arch of Titus
Culture: Roman
Period: imperial Rome
Date: 81 CE
Art history term: visual propaganda
Significance: used to represent Titus's rule and the inside depicts the taking over of Jesurseulm and the precious items that stole from them.
20—Title: Pantheon
Culture: imperial Rome
Period:
Date: 110-128 CE
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21—Title: the good shepherd
Culture: christian
Period:
Date: second half of the 3rd century
Art history term:
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22—Title: The good shepherd
Culture: christian
Period:
Date: 425-426
Art history term:
Significance: represents the new acceptance of christianity from a barbaric religion to an established one, this is shown by the halo now behind the shepherd's head
23—Title: Church of Hagia Sophia
Culture: byzantine
Period:
Date: 532-537
Art history term:
Significance: floating dome effect (necklace of pearls,
24—Title: Empress Theodora and her attendants
Culture: byzantine
Period:
Date: 547
Art history term:
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25—Title: Chi Rho page, Gospel of Matthew, Book of Kells
Culture: the British isles
Period: early medieval art
Date: 800
Art history term: ornamental decoration
Significance:
26—Title: Crucifixion with angels and mourning figures
Culture: the Carolingian revival
Period: early medieval art
Date: 870-880
Art history term: repousse technique
Significance: ultimate triumph over death, calmness expressed, embraces death rather than fearing it.