Art History Art Pieces Midterm 1

art history chapters 1-5 of the art pieces studied/covered

CH1 - Spotted Horses and Human Hands2

• Pech-Merle Cave. Dordogne, France

• Paint on limestone

CH1 - Rainbow Serpent Rock

• Western Arnhem Land, Australia

CH1 - Decorated Ocher

• Blombos Cave, southern Cape coast, South Africa

• abstracted

• decorative

CH1 - Lion-Human

• mammoth ivory

• Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany

• zoomorphic

• 11 inches

CH1 - Woman from Willendorf

• Willendorf, Austria

• Limestone

• traces of red ocher

• exaggerated female attributes

• probably a representation of fertility

CH1 - Woman from Brassempouy

• Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France.

• Ivory

• 3.6 cm

CH1 - Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses and Auruchs

• Chauvet Cave. Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche Gorge, France

• pigment on stone

• naturalism and abstraction

CH1 - Hall of Bulls

• Lascaux, Dordogne, France

• mineral based pigment on stone

• polychrome

• used cave walls to create depth

• largest cave painted animals

CH1 - Bird Headed Man with Bison

• shaft scene in Lascaux Cave

• Paint on Limestone

• placement resembles constellations

CH1 - Bison

• Ceiling of a cave

• Altamira, Spain

• Paint on limestone

CH1 - House Catalhöyük

• Çatalhöyük, Turkey

• underground burials

• horns and skulls in walls

• recycled architecture / reincorporated pieces

• violent wall paintings

• domestic or sacred is uncertain

CH1 - Tomb Interior with Corbeling and Engraved Stones

• Newgrange, Ireland

• Corbeling and Engraved Stones

CH1 - Stonehenge

• Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England

• sarsen and bluestone

• Mortise & Tenon joinery

• megalithic monument

CH1 - Figures of a Man and a Woman, Romania

• Terracotta

• Carnovada

• Art for the sake of art

CH1 - Human Figure, Jordan

• Ain Ghazal, Jordan

• plaster, painted and inlaid with cowrie shell and bitumen

CH1 - Lepenski Vir House/Shrine

• unique trapezoidal houses

• limestone-plaster floor

• oriented facing the Danube River.

• descendants of the early European population hunter gatherer culture

• proves organized society could thrive on a sedentary lifestyle centered around fishing

CH1 - Human Fish Sculpture

• carved sandstone boulders and sculptures

• some of the oldest monumental stone art in Europe

CH2 - Stele of Naram Sin

• pink sandstone

• no registers (one narrative)

• hierarchal scale (Naram Sin is taller and at the top near the sun god)

CH2 - anu ziggurat and white temple

• great example of a ziggurat idk

• anu is the sky god

Mask of Warka/Head of a Woman

• expensive imported white marble

• found in sumerian city of Uruk

• possibly inanna (goddess of war)

• eyes meant to hold inlays

Warka Vase/ Carved Vessel from Uruk

• from Uruk in the Temple complex of Inanna (goddess of war/love)

• alabaster

Votive Figures, Eshnunna

• gypsum, shell, black limestone

• a symbolic “stand-in” for the donor in worship

• inlaid eyes

The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head and Sound Box

• Royal Cemetery Ur

• wood, gold leaf, lapis lazuli

• buried with sacrifices

• queens grave

Scenes of War & Victory/Standard of Ur

• wood, shell, lapis lazuli, red limestone

• registers

• hierarchal scale (king is taller than the frame)

CH2 - Cylinder Seal

• used as a signature

• rolled onto clay

Head of a Man, Ninevah

• hollow-cast copper-alloy sculpture

• Head of Sargon Akked

Nanna Ziggurat

Votive Statue of Gudea

• one of many

• diorite

• robes with prayer inscribed

• gursu, iraq

The Stele of Hammurabi

• systemic codification of rights and punishments (so laws)

• black basalt slab

• legendary event

• historical document

Ashurbanipal hunting lions

• North Palace of Ashurbanipal, Ninevah (modern Kuyunjik) Iraq

• gypsum

Citadel and Palace of Sargon II

• Dar Sharrukin, Iraq

• has the guardian lamassu figures in it

Guardian Figure, Lamassu

• winged human headed bull)

• citadel of Sargon II, Dar Sharrukin
  (modern Khorsabad) Iraq

• limestone

• 13 ft

• because of their appearance, turn back an evil person, guard the
  steps, and secure the path of the king who fashioned them

Enemies crossing the Euphrates/Assyrian archers pursuing enemies

• Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Kalhu

• gypsum

• 2 ft 10 inch

Palace of Sargon II

• Dar Sharrukin, Iraq

Assurbanipal and his Queen in their Garden

Ishtar Gate and Throne Room Wall

• Was constructed by the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar

• 8th gate of the city of Babylon (now Iraq)

• mainentrance into the city

• made the initial list of the 7 wonders

• brick glazed to mimic lapis

• silica, alkali and mineral fluxes to make it blue

• lots of lions

Apadana, Persepolis / Palace of Darius and Xerxes

• Fars, Iran

• relief sculptures

• 72 colunmns

• polychrome glazes

• palace layout inspired by Mesopotamia

Darius and Xerxes Receiving Tribute

Funerary Mask Tutankhamun

• Thebes, Egypt

• gold with semiprecious stones

• The back of the mask has a Spell from the Book of the Dead, a road map for the afterlife.

Palette of Narmer

• from Hierakonpolis

• slate

• makeup pallet

• sauropods

• registers

• unification of upper and lower egypt (dual crown)

Funerary Complex of Djoser

• first monumental structure made of stone

• imhoteps breakthrough

• dressed (smoothed) stone

Great Pyramids, Giza (Gizeh)

The Great Sphinx

• one of the worlds largest statues

• egyptians never mentioned the sphinx

• lions - symbol of royalty

• human head - symbol of intelligence

• human head might not be the original head?

Khafre Enthroned

• Horus is behind his head

• serene face representing divinity

• lions make up the throne

Menkaure & a Queen

• represents the physical ideals of the time

• meant to immortilize

• equal size = equal partners

• a perfect female counterpart to his maleness

Seated Scribe

• more normal body (soft belly/body, less muscle)

• realistic not idealized

• painted limestone

• Saqqara, Egypt

Ti watching a Hippopotamus Hunt

• Mastaba of Ti from Saqqara, Egypt

• painted limestone

• mixed perspective (frontal and profile)

• hierarchal proportions

• flat planes

• stiff pose

• grid layout

Head of Senusret

• not smiling

• his face is more aged/discontented/serious unlike other depictions of kings

• cobra on his head

• red quartzite

• nose broken off

Rock Cut Tomb Beni Hasan

• middle kingdom

• tombs of daily life

Stele of Userwer

• unfinished

Stele of Amenemhat

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Great Temple of Amun

• Karnak, Egypt

• clerestory windows for light

Hypostyle Hall

• tent pole columns

• sandstone, mud brick, paint

• colums

Hatshepsut Kneeling/Hatshepsut with offering jars

• Deir el-Bahri, Egypt

• red granite

Funerary temple of Hatshepsut

Nebamun Hunting Birds/family album

• from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt

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Colossal figure of Akhenaton

• from the temple of Amen-Re, Karnak, Egypt

• sandstone

• slightly feminine

• distinct facial features

Akhenaton and his Family

• sunken relief

Queen Tiye

• royal wife of amenhotep III

• mother of akhenaten

• distinct facial features

• from Gurob, Egypt

• wood with gold, silver, alabaster, & lapis

Nefertiti

• Egyptian Nfrt-jytj meaning "the beautiful one has come”

• from Tell el-Amarna

• painted limestone

Temple of Ramses II, Abu Simbel

Judgment of Hunefer

Karomama (Meritmut)

• bronze inlaid

• masterclass in metal inlay

• fabric looks real

• goes away from canon

Cycladic Figurine of a Woman

• marble painted with pigments

• one of many

Head with decoration

Kamares Ware Jug

• Knossos

• polychrome terracotta

• luxurious

• meant to give bird like quality with beak and big eye

• super thin

Palace Complex at Knossos

• Crete, Greece

• Ashlar construction

• cyclopean

• waste system

Stairwell

Bull Leaping

• palace at Knossos, Greece

• fresco

• Synoptic narrative

• dark skin = man light skin = woman

• profile and frontal conventions

Male Figure Statuette

Bull’s Head Rhyton

• Steatite with shell, rock crystal, and red jasper

• used to pour one or some argue blood sacrifices

Octopus Flask / marine style octopus jar

• Palaikastro, Greece

• ceramic

Bee/Wasp Pendant

• filigree, granulation, embossing

Vapheio Cup

• gold

• Laconia (sparta)

• Chiaroscuro (light and dark)

• repousse technique

• single handle flared cups are very Mycenean

Flotilla Fresco

• West House, Akrotiri, Thera

• fresco

• suggesting local marine or fishing festival

• Vertical Stratigraphy (distance vertically)

• Tiered Architecture

• The "Flying Gallop

• curvy Lines

Reconstruction Citadel at Mycenae

• highly fortified (unlike minoans)

Lion Gate

• lion facing guests to intimidate

• heraldic

• mycenaen

• limestone

Pylos: Plan of the Megaron

View of the Tholos / Treasury of Atreus

Dagger Blade & Lion Hunt

• looks different later ?

Tholos, Treasury of Atreus

• corbel vaulting

• structure relying on tension

• worlds largest dome (until the pantheon)

Warrior Cup

Minoan Snake Goddess

• Faience (Egyptian technique)

• snake representing rebirth

Mask of Agamemnon

• Mycenae

• beaten / hammered gold

CH5 - Exekias Painter

a painter on ceramics

CH5 - Funerary Krater

• 2 scenes

• horror vacqui (empty)

• keramikos cemetary, Athens

• Ceramic

CH5 - Corinthian Olpe

• polychromatic

• orientalizing style

• silhouette, incision, added colour

• ceramic

• paint scraped away

CH5 - Andocides Painter

• red figure and black figure sides

• signed

• human moment

• playing dice

CH5 -Euphronios Painter

• foreshortening/depth

• dramatic tension

• krater

• Advanced Human Anatomy

• signatures and inscriptions

• fine line mastery

CH5 - Achilles Painter

• long bodies

• lekythos (vessel for storing oil)

CH5 - Metropolitan Kouros

• nude youth concept - looking best young

• bilateral symetry

• dudalic

CH5 - Berin Kore

• stiff woman

• marble statue

• well preserved

• oldest representation of a large scale woman

• kore = maiden/daughter/young woman/goddess

CH5 - Anavysos Kouros

• archaic smile

• has volume

• marble

• 50 years after the metropolitan kouros

CH5 - Peplos Kore

• women must be clothed

CH5 - Kritios Boy

• no smile - thinking/pondering

• severe style (no smile)

• acropolis, athens, greece

• good anatomy

• pose of repose

• introduction to contropaste

• asymytry

CH5 - Polykleitas, Doryphoros

• the one holding the spear

• polykleitos had his own canon where he made them look as aesthetic as possible

• pose of repose

• harmonia and symetria

CH5 - Nike Adjusting her sandal

• made to look wet so they could depict womens bodies

• it was okay cause shes a goddess

CH5 - Praxiteles

• sculptor

CH5 - Man and Centaur

• Geometric

• Bronze

• Solid cast

• votive

• Agalma (ἄγαλμα) is an ancient Greek word meaning an ornament, a source of delight, a glory, or a pleasing votive gift and statue offered to a god

CH5 - Foundry Cup

• red figure