Art History 101

Art History

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Lion-human, Stadel Cave, Germany, ca. 40,000 BCE, mammoth ivory, 12.25 x 2.875”

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Woman of Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000 BCE, limestone, 11.1 cm high

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Lion Panel, Chauvet Cave, France, ca. 32,000 BCE

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Reconstruction image of architecture at the site of Çatal Hüyük, Turkey, original established ca. 7,500 BCE

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Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England, ca. 2100 BCE, circle dia. 97'

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Plastered human skull from the site of Jericho, ca. 7500 BCE, human bone, plaster, w. 14.6 x h.17 cm

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The Standard of Ur (Sumerian), ca. 2600 B.C.E., shell, limestone, lapis lazuli, and bitumen, 21.59 x 49.53 x 12 cm

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Digital reconstruction of the White Temple and ziggurat at Uruk (Sumerian), original ca. 3500 BCE

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Twelve Votive Figures from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (Modern Tell

Asmar, Iraq) (Sumerian), ca. 2900-2600 BCE, limestone, alabaster, gypsum, h.

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Cylinder seal (and modern impression) of Queen Puabi from Puabi’s Tomb Chamber

at the site of Ur (Sumerian), ca. 2500 BCE, Lapis lazuli, D. 2.60 cm, H. 4.90 cm

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Stele of Naram-Sin (Akkadian), ca. 2254 BCE, limestone, 6’6“

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Votive Statue of Gudea (Neo-Sumerian), ca. 2090 BCE, diorite, h. 29“

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Law Code Stele of Hammurabi (Babylonian), ca. 1750 BCE, basalt, h. 7’4

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Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions from the palace complex of Assurnasirpal II (Assyrian), ca. 875 BCE, alabaster, h. 39”