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‘Venus of Willendorf', c. 30,000 BCE
Hall of the Bulls, Lascaux, France, c. 15-13,000 BCE
Chinese Horse
Charging Bison, Altamira Spain
Stonehenge, 2300 - 2000 BCE, England
Horizontal stone beams or lintels which are bore by columns or posts
Post-Lintel Architecture
Plastered skull from neolithic Jericho
‘Warka Head’ from Uruk - 3300 BCE
Imprinting symbols on wet clay
Cuneiform script
Ziggurat at Ur - Mud brick - Temple
Tell Asmar Abu Temple figures
Hieratic Scale
an artistic convention that uses relative size to indicate the importance of figures in a composition
Sumerian - Standard of Ur
Ground Line
baseline which represents a ground plane upon which all figures and objects are placed
Direction of Victory
Left to Right
Ambiguity of View
When the face and feet are shown in a side profile but the viewer can see both arms and chest of figure
Akkadian: the Victory Stele of Naram Sin, c. 2250 BCE
Cylinder Seal
Akkadian Ruler Portrait
Neo-Sumeran: Gudea, king of Lagash
Old Babylonian: Hammurabi receives the law from Shamash
Guardian Figure/ Lamassu Assyrian
Lion Hunt relief from the palace of Ashurbanipal
Neo-Babylonian: the Ishtar Gate, from city of Babylon, c. 575 BCE, Glazed Brick
Persian Soldiers
Persian Palace of Persepolis 6th BCE
Double Bull head capital from palace at Persepolis
Persian Rhyton
Palette of King Narmer
Mastaba Burials
Step Pyramid of King Zoser - Architect Imhotep
Engaged Columns
the pyramids at Giza 2500 BCE Old Kingdom
Mortuary Temple
King Kafre old kingdom
Scribe statue 2500 BCE
Ka Aper Wooden statue
Sunken Relief
Background of relief is left and figures are carved in
Raised Relief
Background is carved away leaving figures
Painting of Osiris on papyrus scroll
Sarcophagus
Coffin - mummiform
Rock Cut Tomb - Middle Kingdom
Middle Kingdom portrait of Pharaoh
Block statue
entrance facade of a New Kingdom pylon temple
Hypostyle hall with Clerestory windows for lighting
New Kingdom Arch
Rock-cut mortuary temple of Remses II
Akenaten = Amarna Period
Nefertiti, Akenaten’s wife
Gold Mask of Tutankhamun
Dancers and musicians from New Kingdom
Cycladic Harp Player
Pottery from Crete (older)
Eggshell ware from Crete
Palace at Knossos Column made of wood
Torreador Fresco
Springtime Fresco from Thera
Terracotta 'Snake Goddess' figurine
the 'Harvester Vase’
Mycenae: the Lion Gate
Corbelled Arch
successive masonry that narrows as it goes on
Beehive tomb - corbelled dome
Mask of Agamemnon
Gold rhyton lion’s head
Prostyle Temple = Temple with Porch
Peripteral Temple cella = inner room
Facade
Front of Temple
Volute Capital of Ionic Temple
Ionic Corner Capital
the Corinthian Capital based on acanthus leaves
farther = basilica closer = temple of Hera II Poseidonia, Italy
Caryatids
Tholos
Acropolis of Athens rebuilt 450 BCE
Acropolis of Athens: Propylaeia = gateway
Acropolis of Athens: Temple of Athena Nike
Acropolis of Athens: Erechtheion
Acropolis of Athens: Caryatid Porch of Erechtheion
Acropolis of Athens: Parthenon
Outer Doric and inner Ionic friezes of Parthenon
Theater
Geometric Style
Archic Style
Kouros
Greek statue honoring a young man, standing and often naked
Kore
A statue of a young woman clothed
Kore wearing Chiton
Kore wearing peplos
Statue in pediment corner of Temple of Athena
Charioteer of Delphi - severe style
Apollo from temple of Zeus
Zeus throwing a bolt
Kritios Boy - Classical Style 480 BCE
Contrapposto Pose
a natural-looking stance for a figure with weight on one leg
Haplites = solider
Dionysos from pediment of the Parthenon by Pheidias
Wet Drapery Convention
Way of showing the female form without nudity
Battle with Centaur, metope of Parthenon by Pheidias
Horsemen from inner ionic frieze of Parthenon by Pheidias