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AHI 001 Midterm

Izzy Fondnazio English 37 cards

Nude woman (nickname: Venus of Willendorf) from Willendorf, Austria - 28,000 - 25,000 BCE - limestone - 4 1/4" high

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1—Stone Age Art: Paleolithic cave paintings
- pebble with natural wear that resembles a human face
- Makapansgat, South Africa
- 3,000,000 BCE
- reddish brown jasperite
- 2 3/8" wide
2—Nude woman (nickname: Venus of Willendorf) from Willendorf, Austria
- 28,000 - 25,000 BCE
- limestone
- 4 1/4" high
3—Stone Age: Swimming reindeer, from Montastruc, France
- 11,000 BCE
- Mammoth ivory
- 20.7 cm long
4—Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison
- painting in the cave at Lascaux, France
- 16,000 - 14,000 BCE
- Bison 3" 4 1/2" long
5—Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, France
- 30,000 - 28,000 or 15,000 - 13,000 BCE
- right rhinoceros 3' 4" long
Why is the dating of this controversial?
- artworks showing more advanced techniques or skill or style are assumed to have been made at a later date
- Chauvet is one of the many examples showing that it does not
- very early use of sophisticated naturalistic profile representation of animals and perhaps narrative
6—Bust of Nefertiti, by Thutmost, from Amarna, Egypt
18th dynasty, ca. 1353-1335 BCE
- Painted limestone 1' 8" high
7—So-called 'Aphrodite of Knidos"
- based on original by Praxiteles, Roman
- 1st century BCE
- Marble 4' 11 3/4"
8—Stone Age: from Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, 1.4-1.2 million years ago
9—Stone Age: Man with lion's head
- from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
- 40,000 - 35,000 BCE
- Mammoth ivory, 11 5/8" high
10—Stone Age: Head of a woman from the Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, France
- 25,000 - 20,000 BCE
- Ivory 1 1/2" high
11—Stone Age: Nude woman, from Hohle Fels, Germany
- 40,000 - 35,000 BCE
- Ivory 2 1/4" high
12—Stone Age: Woman holding bison horn, from Laussel, France
- 25,000 - 20,000 BCE
- Painted limestone, approx 1'6" high
13—Stone Age: Two bison, reliefs in cave at Le Tuc d'Audourbert, France
- 15,000 - 10,000 BCE, clay, each 2' long
14—Stone Age: Bison licking its flank, fragmentary spearthrower
- from La Madeleine, France
- 12,000 BCE
- Reindeer horn, 4" long
15—Stone Age: Running horse, detail of the left wall in the Axial Gallery of the cave at Lascaux, France
- cave painting
- 15,000 - 13,000 BCE
- horse 4'11" long
(other cave paintings like this were from the stone age)
16—Catalhoyuk
17—Stone Age - Neolithic
- Deer hunt, detail of a wall painting from Level II, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
- 5750 BCE
18—Stone Age - Neolithic age
- Nude seated woman, terra cotta
- 12 cm, Cata Hoyuk, Turkey
- 6000 BCE
19—Gobekli Tepe
world's earliest religious site?
- 9000 BCE
20—Stonehenge
- outer ring (100 feet diameter)
- inner ring of volcanic rocks around horseshoe shape (open at one end) of 5 trilithons
- 'heel stone' and entrance walkway
- sun sets between the Great Trilithon uprights on the winter solstice, rises behind the Heel Stone on the summer solstice
21—Bronze Age - Mesopotamian Art
Female head, from the Inanna temple complex, Uruk, Iraq
- 3300 BCE
- Marble 8" high, carved in the round, missing eyes, eyebrows, wig
22—Bronze Age - Mesopotamian Art
- earliest known work of narrative relief sculpture
- Presentation of offerings to Inanna, from the Inanna temple Complex, Uruk, Iraq
- 3200 - 3000 BCE
- alabaster, 3'1/4"
- three bands of decoration = registers
- figures placed on ground line
23—Bronze Age - Akkadians
- a priestess and a poet, Votive disk of Enheduanna, From Ur, Iraq
- 2300 - 2275 BCE, Alabaster, diameter 10"
- single register, all figures on the same ground line
- hierarchy of scale
24—Bronze Age - King of the Akkadians
- Victory of Naram-Sin, 2254 - 2218 BCE, Pink sandstone 6'7" high
- stele carved in relief
- landscape setting
- figures on multiple ground lines, rather than in registers
- king represented as a god - horned helmet = symbol of divinity
25—form: high relief sculpture (plaque)
material: terracotta
technique: baked clay
color: traces of paint surviving
scale: miniature
subject matter: winged nude female with birds feet, flanked by owls, standing on crouching lions
26—The Bronze Age -- Assyrians
- The Lamassu, winged man-headed bull or lion
- protected the gates to Assyrian palaces
- 721 - 705 BCE, limetone 13' 10" high
27—Egypt -- Predynastic wall-painting
- people, boats, and animals
- wall painting from tomb at Hierakonpolis Egypt
- 3500 - 3200 BCE, paint on plaster
28—Compare and Contrast:
- form: stepped syriamid made of limsetone; mud-brick raised platform
- function: monument on top of a burial chamber; platform to support temple
- commong theme?: both slop wpwards towards the gods
29—Egypt - Old Kingdom - Statue of a scribe
- frontal, seated on the ground, painted/inlaid eyes, lively personal facial features, soft torso showing portruding belly, signs of aging, holding writing tools
- painted limestone
- 1'9" high
- showing scribes has overweight was a symbol of their high status and comfortable lifestyle
30—Egypt (2040 -1640 BCE)
The Middle Kingdom
- a troubled time
- kings showing more emotion...still idealized bodies but more realistic faces
31—Egypt - Middle Kingdom tombs
- rock-cut tombs
- replace the mastaba as common tomb type
32—Egypt art
Funerary complex of Hatshesput
18th Dynasty 1473-1458 BCE
33—Bronze Age - Aegean art
cycladic figurines
- nude woman, arms folded across chest
- abstract form - body represented as series of triangles
- made of marble
34—Bronze Age - Aegean art
Cycladic art
Male lyre player, 2600 - 2300 BCE
- simple geometrid shapes
- also found in graves -- musician involved in honoring the dead?
35—Minoans
Palace at Knosses
- clusters of rooms arranged around central rectangular court
- as many as 3 stories in much of the palace, some areas had 4 or 5 stories
36—Bronze Age: Aegean Art
- Minoans
The bull-leapers
37—the 'Lion' gate at Mycenae
- "cyclopean" walls -- huge rough stone walls must have been constructed by giants...
- Mycenaean palaces vs. Minoan palaces = Mycenaean palaces heavily fortified against invaders