Art 105 Timothy Silva Exam 1

Human with Feline Head
-c. 40,000-35,000 BCE.
-Woolly Mammoth Ivory

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Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf)
-c. 28,000-25,000 BCE.
-Limestone
-may represent fertility, complete, sculpture in the round

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Bison licking its flank (fragmentary atlatl)
-Reindeer antler

Aurochs, Horses, and Woolly Rhinoceroses
-wall painting in the Caveat cave, Vallon-Post-d'Arc, France
-idea of hunting: training, ceremonial

Hall of the Bulls
-in the cave at Lascaux, France
-idea of hunting: training, ceremonial

Woolly Rhinoceros, Bird Headed Man, and Disemboweled Bison
-painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux, France
-c. 16,000- 14,000
-idea of hunting: training, ceremonial, NARRATIVE SCENE)

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Restored view of a section of Level VI
-Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
-c. 6,000 BCE.
-5 characteristics of civilization

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5 characteristics of civilization

1) permanent dwelling
2) agriculture
3) largescale buidlings
4) some evidence of spiritual belief system
5) burial of dead

Stonehenge
-Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
-Megalithic: big rocks, post and lintel, burial place, acts as calendar, discovered durrington walls/ Woodhenge, life (wood) vs death (stone)

Presentations of Offerings to Inanna (Warka Vase)
-Alabaster
-National Museum of Iraq, Baghdad
-ceremonial due to pictures & height

major development used for writing

stylus

White Temple
-Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq
-c. 3,300 BCE.
-Ziggurat

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Female Head (Inanna?)
-c. 3,300 BCE.
-Marble
-life-size made with expensive stone

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Statuettes of Two Worshippers
-Gypsum, shell, and black limestone
-bought at festival stalls & left them at the temple; used as a "stand in" for yourself, big eyes for communication

Bull-Headed Harp with Inlaid Sound Box, from the tomb of Puabi
-Wood, gold, Lapis Lazuli, Red limestone, and shell
-instruments buried with orchestra in perfect formation

Sound Box of a Bull-headed harp
-Wood, lapis lazuli, and shell
-animals playing instruments, a feast in underworld

Head of an Akkadian ruler (probably Sargon I)
-c. 2250-2200 BCE.
-Copper
-made by lost wax method, oldest sculpture we have, great detail

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Gudea Standing, Holding an Overflowing Water Jar
-Calcite
-buffing & sanding, same outfit even sitting down

Stele with the Law Code of Hammurabi
-set up at Babylon, Iraq
-Basalt
-earliest evidence formalizing law code

Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions
-gypsum
-relief

Lamassu
-limestone
-guardians & intimidation
-from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq

Aerial view of the palace (left: looking west with the Apadana in the background and three columns of the Apadana with the Animal Protomes (right), Persepolis, Iran

Persians and Medes
-Limestone
-detail of the processional frieze on the east side of the terrace of the apadana of the palace in Persepolis, Iran

Palette of Narmer
-c. 3000- 2920 BCE (predynastic)
-slate
-front & back, Narmer is bigger because of HIERARCHY IN SCALE, conventions of human figure: how they make figure look, unproportionate body

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Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid of Djoser
-Saqqara
-Imhotep is the architect, first to be known by name, steps between Mastaba and Great Pyramids

Aerial view of the fourth dynasty pyramids. From bottom: pyramid of menkaure, pyramid of khafre, great pryamid of khufu
Gizeh

Great Sphinx (with Pyramid of Khafre in the background)
-Sandstone
-Gizeh
-pyramids, royal burial, GUARDIAN OF MYSTERIES, living rock: made of the earth, not stone brought from somewhere else

Khafre Enthroned
-Diorite
-pharaonic image: for eternity

Menkaure and Khamerernebty
-Graywacke
-pharaonic image: for eternity

Seated Scribe
-Painted limestone
-rocks in eyes, looks like real person, fully human, not royal, more naturalistic

Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt, relief in the Mastaba of Ti
-Painted limestone
-Saqqara
-animals and greenery have much detail

Hatshepsut with Offering Jars
-Red granite
-defeminized, image of role of pharaoh

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
-Deir el-Bahri
-integrated into natural environment

Akhenaton, colossal statue from the Temple of Aton, Karnak
-Amarna Period
-Sandstone
-Egyptian Museum, Cairo
-promoted monotheism, could be naturalism

Portrait of Tiye
-Amarna Period
-Yew wood, gold, silver, alabaster, faience, and lapis lazuli
-extreme naturalism, real person

Thutmose, Bust of Nefertiti,
-Amarna Period
-painted limestone
-blows idea of naturalism, idealized

Akhenaton and Nefertiti with Their Daughters
-Amarna Period
-Limestone
-family scene, blessings from sun disk

Innermost Coffin of Tutankhamen
-gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones

Death Mask of Tutankhamen
-Gold with inlay of semiprecious stones

Facade of the Temple of Ramses II
-Sandstone
Abu Simbel

Figurine of a Woman (Cycladic Idol)
-Marble

Restored View of the Palace at Knossos
-c. 1700-1370 BCE
-island of Crete, massive complex structure, five stories

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Stairwell in the residential quarter of the Palace at Knossos
-c. 1700-1370 BCE

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Bull-leaping (Toreador Fresco)
-Fresco
-Fresco is painted on wall while plaster is still wet

Octopus Flask
-Painted terracotta
-theme: marine life

Snake Goddess
-Faience

Harvesters Vase
-Steatite
-ceremonial piece

Lion Gate, Mycenae
-c. 1300-1250 BCE
-Limestone, relief panel

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Interior of the Treasury of Atreus, Mycenae

Mask of Agamemnon
-Beaten gold
-promoted by Heinrich Schliemann

Two Goddesses and a Child
-Ivory

Armana Period

1353-1335 BCE