AP Art History 250 Pieces

adding to this as we discuss in class

1.

1.

Apollo 11 stones. Namibia. 25500-25300BCE. Charcoal on stone.

2.

Great Hall of Bulls. Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe. 15000-13000BCE. Rock painting.

3.

Camelid sacrum in the shape of a canine. Tequixquiac, central Mexico. 14000-7000BCE. Bone.

4.

Running Horned Woman. Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria. 6000-4000BCE. Pigment on rock.

5.

Beaker with ibex motifs. Susa, Iran. 4200-3500BCE. Painted terracotta.

6.

Anthropomorphic stele. Arabian peninsula. Fourth millenium BCE. Sandstone.

7.

Jade cong. Liangzhu, China. 3300-2200BCE. Carved jade.

8.

Stonehenge. Wiltshire, United Kingdom. Neolithic Europe. c. 2500-1600BCE. Sandstone.

9.

Ambum Stone. Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. c.1500BCE. Greywacke.

10.

Tlatilco female figurine. Tlatilco, Mexico. c.1200-900BCE. Ceramic with traces of pigment.

11.

Terracotta fragment. Lapita. Solomon Islands, Reef Islands. 1000BCE. Terracotta (incised).

12.

White Temple and its ziggurat. Uruk (modern day Iraq). Sumerian. c.3500-3000BCE. Mud brick.

13.

Palette of King Narmer. Predynastic Egypt. c.3000-2920BCE. Greywacke.

14.

Statues of votive figures from the Square Temple of Eshunna. Sumerian. c.2700BCE. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone.

15.

Seated scribe. Saqqara, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c.2620-2500BCE. Painted limestone.

16.

Standard of Ur from the Royal Tombs at Ur. Sumerian. c.2600-2400BCE. Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone.

17.

Great Pyramids and Great Sphinx. Giza, Egypt. Old Kingdom, Fourth Dynasty. c.2550-2490BCE. Cut limestone.

19.

Code of Hammurabi. Babylon (modern Iran). Susian. c.1792-1750BCE. Basalt.

20.

Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th-19th Dynasties. Temple: 1550BCE; hall: 1250BCE. Cut sandstone and mud brick.

21.

Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut. Near Luxor, Egypt. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty. c.1473-1458BCE. Sandstone, partially carved into a rock cliff, and red granite.

22.

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. New Kingdom (Amarna). 18th Dynasty. c.1353-1335BCE. Limestone.

24.

Last judgement of Hu-Nefer, from his tomb (page from the Book of the Dead). New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty. c.1275BCE. Painted papyrus scroll.

25.

Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin. Neo-Assyrian. c.720-705BCE. Alabaster.

153.

Chavin de Huantar. Northern highlands, Peru. Chavin. 900-200BCE. Stone, granite, hammered gold alloy.

157.

Templo Mayor. Tenochtitlan. Mexica (Aztec). 1375-1520CE. Stone (temple), volcanic stone (Coyolxauhqui Stone), jadeite (Olmec mask), basalt (Calendar Stone).

168.

Great Mosque of Djenne. Mali. Founded c.1200CE, rebuilt 1906-1907CE. Adobe.

213.

Nan Madol. Pohnpei, Micronesia. Saudeleur Dynasty. c.700-1600CE. Basalt boulders and prismatic columns.

215.

‘Ahu ‘ula (feather cape). Hawaiian. Late 18th century CE. Feathers and fiber.

237.

Pisupo Lua Afe (Corned Beef 2000). Michel Tuffery. 1994CE. Mixed media.

244.

The Swing (after Fragonard). Yinka Shenibare. 2001CE. Mixed media installation.

247.

Preying Mantra. Wangechi Mutu. 2006CE. Mixed media on Mylar.