ART 175 - Key Images (Exam I)

Painting of animal and hand stencils / Maros-Pangkep Caves, Sulawesi, Indonesia / c. 37,000-34,000 BCE / paint on limestone

Hall of Bulls / Lascaux cave, France / c. 15,000 BCE / paint on limestone

Woman from Willendorf / Austria / c. 24,000 BCE / limestone

Megalithic structure / Göbekli Tepe, Turkey / c. 9000 BCE / limestone masonry

Stonehenge / Salisbury Plain, England / c. 2900-1500 BCE / bluestone and sarsen megaliths

Ain Ghazal statue / Jordan / c. 6750-6500 BCE / Reed core, lime plaster, cowrie shell, and bitumen

Palette of Narmer / Hierakonpolis, Egypt / c. 3000 BCE / greywacke

Pyramids / Giza, Egypt / 2589-2503 BCE / limestone and granite

Menkaure and a Queen / Giza, Egypt / 2532-2503 BCE / painted greywacke

Akhenaten and his family / Tell el-Amarna, Egypt / 1352-1336 BCE / painted limestone relief

Judgment of Hunefer before Osiris from Book of the Dead / Egypt / c. 1275 BCE / painted papyrus

Temple of Apedemak / Naqa, Sudan (Nubia) / c. 50 BCE / Stone masonry with incised carving

4.1: Temple of Anu at Uruk (reconstruction) / Warka, Iraq (Mesopotamia) / c. 3300 BCE / earthen platform, mud bricks, and gypsum plaster

4.3: Votive Figures from Eshnunna / Tell Asmar, Iraq (Mesopotamia) / c. 2750-2600 BCE / limestone, alabaster, gypsum, and shell

4.5: Stele of Naram-Sin / from Sippar, Iraq (Mesopotamia) / 2254-2218 BCE / limestone relief

4.6: Gudea of Lagash / from Telloh, Iraq (Mesopotamia) / c. 2120 BCE / diorite

4.8: Stele of Hammurabi / originally from Babylon, Iraq (Mesopotamia) / c. 1760 BCE / basalt

4.10: King Ashurbanipal killing lions, from a palace at Nineveh / Mosul, Iraq (Assyria) / c. 645-635 BCE / gypsum relief

6.1: Figure of a woman / Cyclades / c. 2600-2300 BCE / marble

6.4: Bull leaping (“Toreador”) from the palace at Knossos / Knossos, Crete / c. 1400 BCE / fresco

6.7: Death mask (“Mask of Agamemnon”) / Mycenae, Greece / 1550-1500 BCE / gold

6.10: Corbel vault, interior of tholos (“Treasury of Atreus”) / Mycenae, Greece / 1300-1250 BCE / limestone

1.4: Geometric krater / Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece / c. 740 BCE / terracotta

7.3: “Peplos” Kore / Akropolis, Athens, Greece / c. 530 BCE / painted marble

7.4: Anavysos Kouros / Attica, Greece / c. 530 BCE / painted marble

7.5: Amphora: Ajax and Achilles playing a board game / Exekias (painter) / Athens, Greece / 550-540 BCE / ceramic with black-figure decoration

7.10: Parthenon / Iktinos and Kallikrates (architects) / Akropolis, Athens, Greece / 447-432 BCE / marble

7.13: Spear Bearer (Doryphoros) / Polykleitos (artist) / Roman copy of a Greek original / original 450-440 BCE / marble (original was bronze)

9.3: Nike of Samothrace (“Winged Victory”) / Pythokritos of Rhodes (?sculptor) / Samothrace, Greece / 220-150 BCE / marble

9.7: Apulu (Apollo) from the roof of the Temple of Mnerva / Vulca (?sculptor) / Veii, Italy / c. 510 BCE / painted terracotta

9.10: Sarcophagus of the Spouses / Cerveteri, Italy / c. 520 BCE / terracotta

9.13: House of the Vettii (view from the atrium toward the peristyle garden) / Pompeii, Italy / 2nd century BCE (rebuilt 62-79 CE) / stone masonry and fresco

9.16: Portraits, Tomb of the Rabirii / Rome, Italy / Late 1st cent. BCE / marble

11.1: Augustus as Imperator / Primaporta, Italy / 1st cent. CE / painted marble

11.4: Pont du Gard aqueduct / Nîmes, France / late 1st cent. BCE / limestone masonry

11.12: Dome of the Pantheon / Rome, Italy / 110-128 CE / brick, concrete, marble