Art Exam 1

For each art piece, include: *Name *Artist (if known) *Period/Civilization *Original Location *Medium/material

Human with Feline Head

Artist Unknown

Paleolithic Era (30000 - 26000 BCE)

Holenstein-Stadel, Germany

Carved Mammoth Ivory

Venus of Willendorf (Nude woman)

Artist Unknown

Paleolithic Era (29000 - 25000 BCE)

Willendorf, Austria

Carved Limestone

Hall of Bulls

Artist Unknown

Paleolithic Era (15000 BCE)

Lauscaux, France

Painted

Bison

Artist Unknown

Paleolithic Era (12500 BCE)

Altamira, Santander, Spain

Painted

Stonehenge

Artist Unknown

Neolithic Era (2900 - 1500 BCE)

Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

Megaliths (sandstone + blue-stone volcanic rock)

Presentation of Offerings to Inanna

Artist Unknown

Sumerian (3200 - 3000 BCE)

Iraq

Alabaster

Bull-Headed Lyre

Artist Unknown

Sumerian (2600 BCE)

Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq

Wood inlaid with gold, lapis and shell

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Artist Unkown

Akkadian (2254 - 2218 BCE)

Susa, Iran

Pink sandstone

First king to appear as god in Mesopotamia

Ziggurat

Built by Urnamu and son, Shogi (kings)

Neo-Sumerian (2100 BCE)

Ur, Iraq

Mudbrick

Honored Inanna

Stele with Law Code of Hammurabi

Artist Unknown

Babylonian empire

Susa, Iran

Basalt

First complete set of laws discovered

God Shamash is found at the peak

Lamassu

Artisit Unknown

Assyrian

Dur Sharrkin, Iraq

Limestone

Composite creature

Ishtar’s Gate

Neo Babylon

Artisit Unknown

Babylon, Iraq

Blue glazed brick

Dragons, bulls and lions depicted on this

City of Persepolis

Achaemenid Persian

Built by Darius I and finished by Xerxes

Persepolis, Iran

Limestone(?)

Palette of King Narmer

Early Dynastic

Artist Unknown

Hierakonpolis, Egypt

Siltstone

Narmer is unifying upper and loewr egypt for the first time

(Stepped) Pyramid of Djoser

Old Kingdom

Imhotep

Djoser, Saqqara, Egypt

Limestone

Great Pyramids of Giza

Old Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Giza, Egypt

Limestone

Built to honor Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure

Khafre

Old Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Giza, Egypt

Diorite

Bilateral symmetry

Ti watching a Hippo Hunt

Old Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Ti, Egypt

Painted/carved on limestone

Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

New Kingdom

Senenmut (artist)

Al Qarna, Egypt

Limestone

Akhenaton

New Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Karnak, Egypt

Sandstone

Death mask of Tut

New Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Thebes, Egypt

Gold and lapis lazuli

Four statues of Ramses II

New Kingdom

Artist Unknown

Abu Simbel, Egypt

Sandstone/limestone

Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer (Book of Death)

New Kingdom

Artist Unkown

Thebes, Egypt

Painted papyrus

Great Stupa at Sanchi

Mauryan Era

King Ashoka

Sanchi, India

Brick

South Torana

Mauryan Era

King Ashoka

Sanchi, India

Brick

Apadana

The large hall in Persepolis

Composite Pose

A form of art where something is depicted in more than one angle (think egyptian art)

Heraldic motif

A symbol drawn on armor, such as shields. Think of a country’s flag on a shield.

Hypostyle Architecture

A building supported by pillars

Lintel

A flat horizontal beam that spans the space between two pillars

Megalith

A large stone that forms the basis of prehistoric monuments.

Relief

An art style where the art pops out of an attached surface (high relief) or is engraved into the surface (low relief)

Sculpture in the round

A sculpture that fully represents the subject in 3D

Stele

An upright stone monument

Torana

The gateway’s for the Buddhist temples

Twisted perspective

This is the same as a composite pose; something painted/sculpted to be partially facing the viewer

Trilithon

Two upright megaliths holding a lintel up.

Yakshi

Female spirit figurine in Buddhism

Zoroastrianism

An old Iranian religion; it is based around a never ending battle between a good god, Ahura Mazda, and an evil spirit, Ahriman.

Amarna

City built by Akhenaten

Ben-ben

A stone located at the top of a pyramid

Canon of proportion

Art style where bodies (and art) were drawn proportionally using grids.

Corbel

Imagine a bracket installed on walls and pillars to help support weights

Demotic

Colloquial language

Propylon

A massive stone gate

Serdab

The room where the Ka statue was store

Symbols of the pharaoh

Uraeus cobra, nemes, scarab, cartouche, ankh, false beard, flail, scepter, double crown