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, 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