Art History Exam 1

Upper Paleolithic (Germany)

Lion-Man Figure

40,000 years old

Mammoth Tusk

Neolithic (Algeria)

Running Horned Woman

6,000-4,000 BCE

Pigment on rock

Neolithic (North American)

Curved Pick Bannerstone

6,000-1,000 BCE

banded slate

Ancient Mesopotamia

Morgan Library Seal 824

550-450 BC

Cylinder seal of agate

Ancient Mesopotamia (Uruk)

Warka Vase (Carved vessel with figure of Inanna)

3300-3000 BCE

Alabaster

Ancient Mesopotamia (Babylonian)

Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi

1792-1750 BCE

Basalt

Imhotep

Stepped Pyramid Complex of Zoser (Djoser)

Old kingdom, 2675-2625 BCE

Limestone masonry

New Kingdom

House Alter depicting Akhenaten, Nefetiti and Three of their Daughters

1350 BCE

Limestone

Middle Preclassic Olmec

Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby

900-300 BC

Jade

Late Shang Dynasty

Bronze yue axe with a pair of confronting gui dragons, from the Tomb of Fu Hao

1200 BCE

Bronze

Qin Dynasty

Funeral Complex of Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi

210 BCE

Painted Terracotta

Proto-Archaic Greece

Anavysos Kouros

530 BCE

Marble

Proto-Archaic Greece

Peplos Kore

530 BCE

Marble

Polykleitos

Doryphoros

450-440 BCE

Marble

Iktinos and Kallikrates

Parthenon Acropolis, Athens

447-432 BCE

Marble

Praxiteles

The Capitoline Venus (Aphrodite of Knidos)

2nd century CE

Marble

Hellenistic Period

The Alexander Mosaic

2nd century BCE

Tesserae (stone and glass) mosaic

Roman Empire

Augustus of Primaporta

1st century CE

Marble

Roman Empire (Pompeii)

Portrait of Couple (Terentius Neo and wife)

1st century CE

fresco

Roman Empire

Arch of Titus

81 CE

Marble

Classic Maya

Mirror-Bearer

410-650 CE

Wood and red hematite

Classic Maya

Yaxchilán lintel 24, Lady K’abal Xoc

752 CE

Limestone

Roman Empire

Dura-Europos Christain Baptistry

233-256 CE

Domestic architecture with Painted plaster

Roman Empire

Catacombs of Priscilla

Late 2nd-4th century CE

Fresco and Christain Burial Architecture

Medieval France

Church of Sainte-Foy

1050-1130 CE

Romanesque Architecture

Medieval France

Last Judgement Tympanum

1050-1130 CE

Romanesque Architecture

Muslim Iberia

Great Mosque of Córdoba

Begun 786 and enlarged from 9-10th century

Islamic Architecture

Medieval Islamic Sudan

The Great Mosque of Djenné

800-1250 CE

Mud-Brick Architecture

Batammariba

Siken (plural) Takienta (singular)

17th-18th century

Mud-Brick Architecture