Art History Notes

Hall of the Bulls, Prehistory

Pech-merle paintings Prehistory

Ziggurat at Ur, Ancient Near East, Sumer

Statues of Gudea, Ancient Near East, Sumer

Victory Stele of Eannatum / “Stele of the vultures,” Ancient Near East, Sumer

Stele with law code of Hammurabi, Ancient Near East, Babylon

Mastaba, Egypt

Stepped pyramid and funerary complex of Djoser by Imhotep, Egypt

Giza Pyramids and Complex, Egypt

Khafre enthroned, Gizeh, Egypt

Menkaure and Khamerernebty statue, Gizeh, Egypt

Ti observing a hippopotamus hunt, Saqqara Egypt

Akhenaton statue, Karnak, Egypt

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters, tell el-Amarna, Egypt

Last judgment of Hu-Nefer Papyrus, Egypt.

Kouros (“young man”), Archaic Period Greece

Kroisos, from Anavysos, Archaic Greece

Kore from Acropolis, Archaic Greece

Zeus (or Poseidon) off Cape Artemision (shipwreck), Classical Greece.

Discobolus, created by Myron, Classical Greece

Doryphoros by Polycleitos. Classical Greece

Parthenon, Classical Greece

West pediment of Parthenon, Classical Greece

East pediment of Parthenon, Classical Greece

Metopes  of Parthenon, Lapiths vs Centaurs, Classical Greece

Continuous Frieze of Parthenon, Panathenaic festival procession, Classical Greece

Hermes and infant Dionysos by Praxiteles, late Classical Greece

Aphrodite by Praxiteles at Knidos, Late Classical Greece

 Portrait of Alexander the Great, Late Classical Greece

Battle of Issus (copy of the original), Late Classical Greece

Model of Priene, Hellenistic Era

Seated Boxer, Hellenistic Era

Sleeping Hermaphrodite, Hellenistic Era

Head of an elderly Patrician, Rome

Portrait of a Roman General. Rome

 Pompeii forum, Rome

Roman house with Atrium, Roman

Gardenscape, Villa of Livia, Rome

Ixion Room, House of the Vettii, Pompeii, Rome

Pont du Gard, Nimes France, Roman Empire

Colosseum Rome, 70-80 CE (Flavian Amphitheater)

Forum of Trajan, by Apollodorus of Damascus, 112 CE

Column of Trajan, with scene of Dacian wars by Apollodorus of Damascus

Pantheon, Rome

Catacomb of the Saints Peter and Marcellinus (+ good shepherd) . Early Christianity, Rome

Old Saint Peter’s Church, Early christianity, Rome

Mausoleum of Galla Placidia (+ Good shepherd), Ravenna Italy, Early christianity

Mezquite (Great Mosque), Cordoba Spain, Islamic / Spanish art

Court of the Lions, Alhambra, Granada Spain, Islamic / Spanish art

Plan for a monastery, from Saint Gall, Early Medieval Art

Reliquarty of Sainte-Foy, Romanesque Art

St. Sernin, Toulouse Romanesque Art

Last Judgement Tympanum, St. Lazare, by Gislebertus, Romanesque Art

Fontenary Abbey, Romanesque Art

Bayeux Taprestry, Romanesque Art

Chartres Cathedral, Gothic Art

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, Gothic Art

Hours of Jeanne D’Evreux, by Prucelle, Gothic Art

The Merode Altarpiece, by Robert Campin, patron Inghelbrechts, Early Renaissance

Saint Mark, by Donatello, Early Renaissance

Holy Trinity by Masaccio, patron gonfaloniere Lenzi, Early Renaissance

Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, by Michelozzo, Early Renaissance

David by Donatello, patron Medici, Early Renaissance

Birth of Venus, by Botticelli, for the Medici villa, Early Renaissance

David, by Michelangelo, High Renaissance

Tempietto, by di Bramante, High Renaissance

*Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, for Duke of Milan, High Renaissance Art

Disputa and Philosophy + School of Athens by Raphael, for Pope Julius, High Renaissance

The Four Apostles, Durer, High Renaissance

Ecstasy of St. Thersa, by Bernini, Baroque Italy

Cathedra Petri by Bernini, Saint Peter’s, Rome, Baroque Italy

David by Bernini, Baroque Italy

Sant’ Andrea al Quirinale, by Bernini, Rome, Baroque Italy

Conversion of Saint Paul by Caravaggio, Baroque Italy

Calling of St. Mathew, by Caravaggio, Baroque Italy

Entombment, by Caravagigio, Baroque Italy

*Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), by Velasquz, Baroque Spain.

View of Haarlem from the Dunes at Overveen, bu Van Ruisdael, Baroque Dutch Art

The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp, by Rembrandt van Rijn. Baroque Dutch Art

Still life of Flowers, Fruit, and Insects, by Rachel Ruysch, Baroque Dutch Art

The Bedroom, by De Hooch, Baroque Dutch Art

Celebrating the Birth, by Steen, Baroque Dutch Art

Illustrations  from the Encyclopedia, first edition, Enlightenment art

A philosopher giving a lecture, by Wright of Derby, Enlightenment art

Arkwright's cotton mill, by Wright of Derby, Enlightenment art

Stourhead Park, by Hoare II, Enlightenment art

Saltworks and Ideal City of Chaux, by Ledoux, Enlightenment art

Oath of the Horatii, by David, Neoclassical art

Death of Marat, by David, Neoclassical Art

Napoleon at the Penthouse at Jaffa, by Gros, Romantic era art

3rd of May 1808, by Goya, Romantic era art

Disasters of war, by Goya, Romantic era art

Raft of the Medusa, by Gericault, Romantic era art

Liberty Leading the People, by Delacroix, Romantic era art

The fighting Temeraire, by Turner, Romantic era art

Still life in studio, by Daguerre, Photography, daguerreotype

A Harvest of Death, by O’Sullivan, Gettysburg, Photography, Wet-plate method

Frederick Douglass, by Samuel Miller, Photography, daguerreotype

The Stone Breakers, by Courbet, Realism

Burial at Ornans, by Courbet, Realism