ArtArch Midterm 1

Woman of Willendorf (Date)

24,000-22,000 BCE

Woman of Willendorf (Medium)

Limestone tinted with Red Ochre

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Woman of Willendorf

Lascaux Cave Paintings: Hall of the Bulls and “Chinese” Horse (Date)

20,000-15,000 BCE

Lascaux Cave (Medium)

Ochre, Charcoal

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Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux

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Chinese Horse, Lascaux

Stonehenge (Date)

2000 BCE

Stonehenge (Medium)

Bluestone and Sarsen Stones

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Stonehenge

Nebra Sky Disk (Date)

1700 BCE

Nebra Sky Disk (Medium)

Bronze and Gold

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Nebra Sky Disk

Standing Male Worshipper (Date)

2800 BCE

Standing Male Worshipper (Medium)

Gypsum Alabaster, Shell, Black Limestone, Bitumen

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Standing Male Worshipper

Goat in a Thicket (Date)

2600 BCE

Goat in a Thicket (Medium)

Gold, copper, shell, limestone, lapis lazuli

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Goat in a Thicket

Standard of Ur (Date)

2500 BCE

Standard of Ur (Medium)

Shell, limestone, lapis lazuli, bitumen

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Standard of Ur

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin (Date)

2250 BCE

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin (Medium)

Sandstone

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Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Head of an Akkadian Ruler (Date)

2200 BCE

Head of an Akkadian Ruler (Medium)

Bronze

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Head of an Akkadian Ruler

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Date)

2018

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Medium)

Iraqi date cans

The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist (Artist)

Michael Rakowitz

Ishtar Gate (Date)

570 BCE

Ishtar Gate (Medium)

Blue glazed bricks

Ishtar Gate (Commissioner)

King Nebuchadnezzar II

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Ishtar Gate

Palette of Narmer (Date)

3200-3000 BCE

Palette of Narmer (Medium)

Siltstone

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Palette of Narmer

Pyramid of Djoser (Date)

2650 BCE

Pyramid of Djoser (Architect)

Imhotep

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Pyramid of Djoser

Great Pyramid of Khufu (Date)

2600 BCE

Great Pyramid of Khufu (Medium)

Limestone and Granite

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Great Pyramid of Khufu

Great Sphinx (Date)

2500 BCE

Great Sphinx (Medium)

Limestone

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Great Sphinx

King Menkaura and Queen (Date)

2490 BCE

King Menkaura and Queen (Medium)

Greywacke stone

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King Menkaura and Queen

Standing Hippopotamus (Date)

1900 BCE

Standing Hippopotamus (Medium)

Faience

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Standing Hippopotamus

Great Hypostyle Hall, Temple of Amun-Ra (Luxor/Thebes) (Era)

Middle-New Kingdom

House Alter depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three of their Daughters (Date)

1350 BCE

House Alter depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three of their Daughters (Medium)

Limestone

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House Alter depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti and Three of their Daughters

Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun (Medium)

Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, obsidian, turquoise, glass paste

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Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun

Bust of Nefertiti (Date)

1345 BCE

Bust of Nefertiti (Medium)

Limestone and stucco

Bust of Nefertiti (Artist)

Thutmose

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Bust of Nefertiti

Petroglyphs

rock carvings

pictographs

rock paintings

palimpsest

figures overlapping

ochre

Earthy pigment made of iron oxide

Parietal Art

Wall art

Catalhoyuk

Neolithic town, houses stacked, no streets, enter from top, 7500 BCE

Henge

man-made circular landscape

post-and-lintel

Two vertical posts hold up a horizontal lintel

megalith

big rock

trilithon

formation of three stones

Chauvet Cave (Date)

30,000 BCE

Chauvet Cave (identifiers)

Lions, rhinos, bears

Votive Sculpture

Sculpture created as an offering to a spirit, often for a fulfillment of a vow

Cuneiform

First known system of writing (3,000 BC)

Registers

Horizontal Bands

Hieratic Scale

Size of figures are directly relative to their importance

Relief Carving

Carved from a flat background and figures are attached to background

Iconoclasm

Destruction of art/icons, usually for religious or political reasons

Stele

Marker

Ziggurat

Mesopotamian squat pyramid with stairs to the heavens

lamassu

Mesopotamian guardian statue with body of bull, head of human, and wings. Often found outside palaces.

Hieroglyphs

Egyptian pictograph system of writing

papyrus

Egyptian plant used to make paper, or the paper itself

mummification

process of preparing bodies for the afterilfe (removal of organs, preservation of body, wrapped in linen, etc.)

Pharaoh

god-king

Orientalism

Imitation of Eastern art and culture in Western society

King Djoser

Commissioned the first pyramid (Stepped pyramid at Saqqara)

Imhotep

First named architect, architect of Pyramid of Djoser