ARTS 1303 MIDTERM

Title: Chauvet Cave | Period: Paleolithic

Neolithic revolution was when agriculture was invented

Title: Stonehenge | Period: Neolithic

represents you and serves god on your behalf in the temple since most people weren't actually allowed in

Title: Votive Sculptures | Period: Mesopotamian

king reciving laws from god

Title: Stele with the Laws of Hammurabi | Period: Mesopotamian

Egyptian mastabas predate the pyramids, function as tombs for kings, gov officials. Mastaba = Eternal Home

Title: Stepped Pyramid of King Djoser | Period: Ancient Egypt | Author: Imhotep

Ka- who we truly were, spiritual double, who we truly are. Ka needs an eternal home, whether it's a mastaba or a body (mummification). Ka also needs food (lots of pictures of food and hunting in tombs). Hunting scenes usually represent overcoming death

Title: Fowling Scene in the Tomb of Nebamun | Period: Ancient Egypt

places in front of false doors and statues in a king's tomb, anubis and isis 

Title: Offering Table | Period: Ancient Nubia

Title: Bull-leaping at the Palace of Knossos in Crete | Period: Minoan

Doric order are really geometric and minimalist with straight lines and no ornamentation. Thought as masculine. Ionic order is your fairly typical Greek column with the fancy curved top (kinda like a mustache) but nothing too special anywhere else Thought as feminine. Corinthian order are extremely detailed all the way from top to bottom layers and texture, plant inspired.

Title: Parthenon, Acropolis Hill | Period: Classical Greece | Authors: Iktinos and Kallikrates

a trivial moment, just about to take a bath. Contrapposto- Counterbalance, counterpose weight rests on one leg, the other leg bent at the knee. Invented with Kritios boy Ca 480 BCE

Title: Aphrodite of Knidos | Period: Late Classical Greece | Author: Praxiteles

Sarcophagus

Title: Sarcophagus with a reclining couple | Period: Etruscan

Benito Mussolini

Title: Altar of Augustan Peace | Period: Ancient Rome

relief sculptures tell the story of the
conquest of Dacia. Ultimate example of Roman propaganda

Title: Column of Trajan | Period: Ancient Rome | Author: Apollodorus of Damascus

maybe politcal, he is not charging for this fancy bread

Title: Bread Dole | Period: Ancient Rome

Panem Et circenses =bread and circuses~ idea that people need to have their basic needs like shelter food and safety met (bread) and after that people want to be entertained (circuses). Government idea that if you entertain em you can manipulate em

Title: Flavian Amphitheatre (or: Colosseum; either name is fine)
Period: Ancient Rome