Art History Exam 1 Slide ID

Human with Feline Head

Paleolithic Period

Ivory (wooly mammoth tusk)

(anthropomorphized animal - abstract thought)

Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)

Paleolithic Period

(limestone, fertility sculpture?)

Woman Holding a Bison Horn

Paleolithic Period

(low relief carved in limestone, also fertility - bison horn)

Two Bison

Paleolithic Period

(high relief in clay sculpted around rock, more profile)

Bison Licking its Flank

Paleolithic Period

(reindeer antler, intentional to show profile)

Bison

Paleolithic Period

(used convex and concave, no ground line, some standing some lying)

Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Imprints

Paleolithic Period

(handprints=signature?)

Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison

Paleolithic Period

(one of first times man depicted in art)

Tel of Ancient Jericho

Neolithic Period

Ancient Jericho; Tel es-Sultan

tel: city mound (cities built on old civilizations)

Tower of Jericho

Neolithic Period

Ancient Jericho; Tel es-Sultan

Human skull with restored features

Neolithic Period

Ancient Jericho

(dead buried under homes → detach skull, decorate with plaster skin and shell eyes, and bury)

Human Figure

Neolithic Period

Ain Ghazal

(earliest large scale sculpture - settling so they can keep it in the home; ritualistically buried)

Landscape with volcanic eruption

Neolithic Period

Catal Hoyuk

(first known landscape painting - city is aerial view and mountain from ground level)

Newgrange Passage Grave

Neolithic Period

Neolothic Europe

(passage grave = tomb with long stone corridor leading to burial chamber beneath tumulus // tumulus = ancient burial mound // corbeled vault = piling stone blocked onto stacked horizontal rows)

Stonehenge

Neolithic Period

Neolithic Europe

(study elsewhere lol)

White Temple

Leaving Neolithic → Bronze Age

Ancient Sumer*

(center of Ancient Sumerian life, dedicated to the god Anu)

Standing Male Worshipper

Ancient Sumer

(votive offering, placed in a temple, represents an elite individual)

Stele of the Vultures (Battle scene fragment)

Ancient Sumer

(victory steele, common ground line, profile and frontal view)

Standard of Ur

Ancient Sumer

(war side and peace side)

Sound box of the bull headed harp

Ancient Sumer

(seen in Standard of Ur, Mesopotamian harp; soundbox for burial of king?)

Cylinder seal from tomb of Pu-abi (Banquet scene)

Ancient Sumer

(cylinder seals used to authenticate/wear to show status)

Head of Akkadian Ruler

Akkadian Empire

(thought to be Sargon)

Votive disk of Enheduanna

Akkadian Empire

(Sargon’s daughter, first known author - “wife of Nanna, daughter of Sargon king of the world”)

Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

Akkadian Empire

(new composition, views self as divine ruler, rising to heavens)

Ziggurat at Ur

Neo-Sumerian/Third Dynasty of Ur

(built to moon god Nanna)

Gudea standing, holding an overflowing water jar

Neo-Sumerian/Third Dynasty of Ur

(Gudea = priest-king; overflowing water = gods blessing him for being a good leader)

Stele with the Laws of Hammurabi

The Old Babylonian Empire

(first written law in history)