AP Art History Units 1 & 2 Flashcards

Question-and-answer flashcards based on the provided AP Art History course framework excerpt covering artworks 1 through 33.

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Name: Apollo 11 stones

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Year: c. 25500-25300 BCE

Culture group: Namibia

Medium: Charcoal on stone

Where is the Great Hall of the Bulls located, and what are its date range and medium?

Name: Great Hall of the Bulls
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Year: 15000-13000 BCE
Culture group: Paleolithic Europe
Medium: Rock painting

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Name: Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine
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Year: 14000-7000 BCE
Culture group: Tequixquiac, central Mexico
Medium: Bone

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Name: Running horned woman
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Year: 6000-4000 BCE
Culture group: Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
Medium: Pigment on rock

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Name: Beaker with ibex motifs
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Year: 4200-3500 BCE
Culture group: Susa, Iran
Medium: Painted terra cotta

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Name: Anthropomorphic stele
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Year: Fourth millennium BCE
Culture group: Arabian Peninsula
Medium: Sandstone

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Name: Jade cong
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Year: 3,300-2,200 BCE
Culture group: Liangzhu, China
Medium: Carved jade

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Name: Stonehenge
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Year: c. 2,500-1,600 BCE
Culture group: Neolithic Europe
Medium: Sandstone

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Name: The Ambum stone
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Year: c. 1500 BCE
Culture group: Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Medium: Greywacke (c. 1500 bce).

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Name: Tlatilco female figurine
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Year: 1200-900 BCE
Culture group: Centrol Mexico, site of Tlatilco
Medium: Ceramic; Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco

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Name: Terra cotta fragment
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Year: 1000 BCE
Culture group: Lapita, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands
Medium: Terra cotta (incised)

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Name: White Temple and its ziggurat
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Year: c. 3500-3000 BCE
Culture group: Sumerian
Medium: Mud brick

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Name: Palette of King Narmer
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Year: c. 3000-2920 BCE
Culture group: Predynastic Egypt
Medium: Greywacke; c. 3000–2920 bce (Predynastic Egypt).

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Name: Statues of votive figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
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Year: c. 2700 BCE
Culture group: Sumerian
Medium: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone

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Name: Seated scribe
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Year: c. 2620-2500 BCE
Culture group: Saqqara, Egypt; Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
Medium: Painted limestone

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Name: Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur
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Year: c. 2600-2400 BCE
Culture group: Sumerian
Medium: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

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Name: Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
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Year: c. 2550-2490 BCE
Culture group: Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty
Medium: Cut limestone

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Greywacke; c. 2490–2472 bce (Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty).

Name: King Menkaura and queen
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Name: The Code of Hammurabi
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Year: c. 1792-1750 BCE
Culture group: Susian
Medium: Basalt

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Name: Temple of Amun-Re
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Year: 1550 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties
Medium:Cut sandstone and mud brick

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Name: Hypostyle Hall
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Year: c. 1250 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom, 18th and 19th Dynasties
Medium: Cut sandstone and mud brick

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Name: Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
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Year: c. 1473-1458 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty
Medium: Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite

What period/dynasty and material are associated with Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters?

Name: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and three daughters
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Year: c. 1353-1335 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty
Medium: Limestone

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Name: Tutankhamun’s tomb, innermost coffin
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Year: c. 1323 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty,
Medium: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

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Name: Last Judgment of Hunefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead)
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Year: c. 1275 BCE
Culture group: New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty
Medium: Painted papyrus scoll

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Name: Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorabad, Iraq)
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Year: c. 720-705 BCE
Culture group: Neo-Assyrian
Medium: Alabaster

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Name: Athenian agora
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Year: 600 BCE-150 CE
Culture group: Archaic through Hellenistic Greek
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Name: Anavysos Kouros
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Year: c. 530 BCE
Culture group: Archaic Greek
Medium: Marble with remnants of paint

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Name: Peplos Kore
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Year: c. 530 BCE
Culture group: Archaic Greek
Medium: Marble with painted details

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Etruscan; terra cotta (c. 520 bce).

Name: Sarcophagus of the Spouses
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Name: Audience Hall (apadana) of Darius and Xerxes
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Year: c. 520-465 BCE
Culture group: Persian
Medium: Limestone

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Name: Temple of Minerva
Artist: Master sculptor Vulca
Year: c. 510-500 BCE
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Medium: Original temple of wood, mud brick, or tufa (volcanic rock)

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Name: sculpture of Apollo
Artist: Master sculptor Vulca
Year: c. 510-500 BCE
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Medium: Terracottasculpture

Where is the Tomb of the Triclinium located, and what is its medium?

Name: Tomb of the Triclinium
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Year: c. 480-470 BCE
Culture group: Etruscan
Medium: Tufa and fresco

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Anonymous vase painter of Classical Greece known as the Niobid Painter; clay, red-figure technique (white highlights) (c. 460–450 bce).

Name: Niobides Krater
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