Art Hist Final Exam Boring Dates and Whatnot

Chuavet Cave

Vallon-Pont_D’Arc (France), Limestone & Red Ochre, 32-30k BCE Paleolithic

Venus of Willendorf

Limestone with red ochre pigment, Willendorf Australia, 28-26K BCE Paleolithic, 4.4”

Çatalhöyük residences and paintings

Turkey, Clay with Stucco, red ochre carbon black pigment on plaster, marble. catalhoyuk museum, 7-5K BCE Neolithic

Temple of Anu (“White Temple”) and ziggurat,

Mud brick with white plaster, Temple 35’ high, Ziggurat terrace 40’ high, 3,300 BCE, Uruk

Uruk “Uruk Vase”

Eanna precinct, Alabaster, h 41.4’. Now Baghdad, Iraq Museum, 3200 BCE

Victory stele of Naram-Sin

Susa, Iran, limestone, 6’7” high, 2254-2218 BCE- Akkadian, Paris, Louvre

Ishtar Gate of Nebuchadnezzar II, Babylon

Built by Neo-Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II, glazed mud brick wall reliefs, out gate 47” high. 575 BCE Neo-Babylonian, Berlin now

Statue of Menkaure and queen

Giza, Greywacke with red and black pigment, h 4’8”. 2532-2503 BCE Old Kingdom Dynasty 4, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

Funerary complex of Hatsheput, Deir el-Bahari, Thebes

Mortuary temple complex, limestone and granite with painted reliefs. 1472-1458 BCE New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts

Bust of Nefertiti, Amarna

Thutmose is the sculptor from Amrna, Painted in limestone in gypsum plaster and inlay, H: 18”, 1352-1336 New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Berlin

Temple of Amun-Ra, Karnak, Thebes

limestone, enclosed area: principal hypostyle hall, enclosing 1.2 acres (l. 338’, w. 170’, h. 78’) and containing 134 colossal columns (dia. 16.5’) with pylon gates, c. 13th century BCE (New Kingdom, Dynasty 18) with additions through c. 300 CE

Geometric krater, Dipylon cemetery, Athens

40.5”, 740 BCE, Terra-Cotta,

Exekias, amphora with Achilles and Ajax

Black figure terracotta, 24” height, 540 BCE, found in Vulci, Athens

Peplos Kore

47”, marble, Akropolis, Athens, 530 BCE

Polykleitos, Doryphoros 

6’11”, 440BCE, originally bronze,

Iktinos and Kallikrates, Temple of Athena Parthenos, “Parthenon”

447 BCE, Athens, Greece, Iktinos and Kallikrates literally designed it

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos

350BCE, Greece

Alexander Mosaic

H: 8’10” L 16’9”, from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, late second or early first century BCE

Pergamon Alter

H 40’, relief frieze h 7’6”, 180-160 BCE, Turkey

Augustus Prima Porta

6’8”, 20CE, Near Rome

Column of Trajan

Column shaft 100’, height 128’, 110 BCE 

Pantheon

142’ high, 110-128 CE, Rome

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius

175 CE, Rome

Basilica Nova

Brick and concrete with marble and granite columns, 115’ high, 305-313 CE

Colossal enthroned portrait of emperor Constantine

315-330CE, Head 8’6”, but was likely fully 40’ tall

Church of Hagia Sophia

 Brick and concrete core, marble columns and revetment, gold-glass mosaics, 532-537, Turkey

San Vitale

domed octagonal plan church. Brick and concrete core, marble columns and revetment, gold-glass mosaics, dome: 94’ high, 27’ diameter. Ravenna, Italy, 526-547. Mosaics: Christ enthroned between St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius (apse), emperor Justinian and attendants (north sanctuary wall, 8’8” ×12’), empress Theodora and attendants (south sanctuary wall, 8’8” ×12’), 546

Icon of Virgin (Theotokos)

 Wax encaustic painting on wooden panel, 2’3” height. Monastery of St. Catherine, Mount Sinai, Egypt, ca. 500-625

“Lindau Gospels” 

Saint Gall, Switzerland. Front cover of folio with gold, precious stones, and pearls, h. 1’1”. New, York, J. Pierpont Morgan Library, c. 870-890

“Gero Crucifix” 

commissioned by Archbishop Gero for Cologne Cathedral. Painted and gilded wood sculpture, figure 6’2” high. Cologne (G. Köln), Cologne Cathedral, c. 970

Dome of the Rock

Temple Mount, Jerusalem. Domed octagonal plan, dome diameter 66’. Brick

and masonry core, marble columns and revetment, gold-glass mosaics, and wood,

Ummayad period, 691-692.

“Blue Qur’an”

Folios, indigo-dyed parchment with gold and silver, h. 12”, l. 15.5”. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Abbasid period, c. 850-950

Great Mosque at Djenne

Niger Delta, Mali. Mud plaster with wood. Founded c. 1300-present. Equestrian rider in Djenne style, from Niger Delta, Mali. Fired clay, h. 27.5”. Washington D.C., National Museum of African Art, c. 1200-1400.

Bayeux “Tapestry”

from Bayeux Cathedral, Bayeux, France. Dyed wool embroidery wool and linen, h. 1’8” high, l. 229’8”. Centre Guillaume le Conquérant, Bayeux, c. 1070-1080

Basilica of Saint-Sernin, Toulouse 

Brick and limestone, 341’ length. Toulouse France, c. 1080-1118

Chartres Cathedral

 with Virgin and Child stained glass window. Limestone, marble, and stained glass, 430’ length, width 105’, height 344’. Chartres, France, building c. 1145-1155, windows c 1220-1230

Pisano, Pulpit of the baptistery, Pisa 

• with reliefs of Annunciation. Marble with vestiges of polychromy, granite columns, h. pulpit 15’, panel reliefs h. 2’10”, 1260

Duccio di Buoaninsegna, Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, Maestà, Siena

Tempera painting and gold leaf on wooden panel, 7’x 13’ (center panel). Siena, Museo dell’Opera del Duomo, 1308-1311not shown to general public 

Giotto di Bondone, Madonna and Child Enthroned (Ognissanti Madonna) 

From Church of
Ognissanti, Florence, Italy. Tempera painting and gold leaf on panel, 12’7” x 7’4”.
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Italy, c. 1305-1310

Giotto di Bondone, Arena Chapel (Capella Scrovegni), Padua

Nave fresco walls, 60’ long,
28’ wide, 42’ high. Fresco panels of Life of Christ, 6’6.5” x 6’0.5”. Padua, Italy. 1305-
1306

Bird Man Plate

• From “Rogan Plates”, found at Etowah, Mound C.

• Native copper plaque, h 11”

• Smithsonian Museum, Washington D.C. Muscogee Creek Nation, Oklahoma, c. 1350