Art History Exam 1

• Pebble resembling a human face

  • Makapansgat

  • 3mil BCE

    • pareidolia, capacity to imagine

• Handaxe from Meyral, France 

  • 250k years old

    • capacity to make tools

• Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)

  • Willendorf, Austria

  • 28-25k BCE

  • Limestone

• Human with feline head

  • Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

  • 40-35k BCE

  • wooly mammoth ivory

• Lascaux Cave

  • 15k BCE

  • France

  • Left Wall of the Hall of Bulls

    • Minstall pigments like limenite or hematite

• Chauvet Cave

  • 33k BCE

  • France

  • Prehistoric animals, wall painting

• Chauvet Cave

  • 33k BCE

  • France

  • Prehistoric animals, wall painting

• Pech-Merle Cave

  • 23-22BCE

  • Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting

    • Fitted to the wall

• Cuneiform tablet with Atra-Hasis epic

  • 17th cent. BCE

• Gilgamesh Tablet

  • Neo-Assyrian, Iraq

  • 7th cent. BCE

• Gudea seated, holding a plan of the temple

  • Girsu, Iraq

  • 21kBC

  • Diorite

• Ram in the thicket

  • 25k BCE

  • Ur, Iraq

• Bull-headed harp with inlaid sound box from the tomb of Puabi

  • Royal cemetery, Ur, Iraq

  • 25k BCE

  • wood, gold, lapis lazuli, red lime-stone, shell

• White Temple of Uruk

  • Uruk, Iraq

  • 33k BCE

• White Temple of Uruk

  • Uruk, Iraq

  • 33k BCE

• Ziggurat, Ur

  • Iraq 21k BC

  • red and blue paint at the top

• Ziggurat, Ur

  • Iraq 21k BC

  • red and blue paint at the top

• An Assyrian “hanging garden” relief wall panel

  • Gypsum stone, 669-631 BC

  • Nineveh, Iraq

• Return to paradise: The king before God and the “Tree of Life” 

  • King Ashurnasirpal and a sacred tree

  • gypsum stone, 860 BC

    • eye scratched out

• Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II

  • Limestone (other is gypsum alabaster)

  • 720 BC, Iraq (other 880 BC)

• Relief of King Ashurbanipal hunting lions

  • Gypsum

  • 640 BC, Nineveh

• Ishtar Gate, Babylon

  • Iraq 575 BC

• Ishtar Gate, Babylon

  • Iraq 575 BC

• The Narmer Palette 

  • 30 BC 

  • slitstone

  • temple of Horus

• People, boats, and animals copy of painting from tomb 100

  • Heirakonpolis, Egypt

  • 35k BC

• Menkaure and Khamerernebty

  • Gizeh, Egypt

  • 2490 BC

  • Graywacke

    • angles, power

• Ankhhaf (Prince and son of pharaoh sneferu)

• 26k BCE

• Limestone with painted plaster covering

• Kaaper

• 24k BCE

• Wood?

• Face of Senswosret III

  • 1850 BC

  • Red quartzite

    • imperfections, flaws, tired

• Senwosret III as Sphinx

  • 1850 BC

  • upper Egypt