AP Art History Unit 7

Petra, Jordan: Treasury and Great Temple

Nabataen Ptolemaic and Roman

c 400 BCE-100 CE

cut rock

Buddha

Bamiyan, Afghanistan, Gandharan

c 400-800 CE, destroyed in 2001

cut rock with plaster and polychrome paint

The Kaaba

Mecca, Saudia Arabia, Islamic/pre-Islamic

rededicated by Muhammad in 631-632 CE, multiple renovations

granite masonry, covered with silk curtain, calligraphy in gold/silver wrapped thread

Jowo Rinpoche, enshrined in the Jokhang Temple

Lhasa, Tibet, Yarlung Dynasty

believed to have been brought to Tibet in 641 CE

gilt metals with semiprecious stones/pearls, paint, various offerings

Dome of the Rock

Jerusalem, Islamic, Umayyad

691-692 CE, multiple renovations

stone masonry, wooden roof decorated with glazed ceramic tile/mosaics/gilt aluminum, bronze dome

Great Mosque (Masjid-e Jameh)

Isfahan, Iran, Islamic, Persian, Seliuk, Il-Khanid, Timurid and Safavid Dynasties

c 700 CE, 14/18/20

stone, brick, wood, plaster, glazed ceramic tile

Folio from a Qur’an

Arab, North Africa or Near East, Abbasid

8th/9th centuries CE

ink/color/gold on parchment

Basin (BaptistEre de St. Louis)

Muhammad ibn al-Zain

c 1320-1340 CE

brass inlaid with silver/gold

Bahram Gur fights the Karg, folio from the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama

Islamic, Persian, Il-Khanid

1330-1340 CE

ink/opaque watercolor/silver/gold on paper

The Court of Gayumars, folio from Shah Tahmasp’s Shahnama

Sultan Muhammad

c 1522-1525 CE

ink/opaque watercolor/gold on paper

The Ardabil Carpet

Maqsud of Kashan

1539-1540 CE

silk/wool