ANSC 2310 Horses in World Art Test 1

Przewalksi's horse "Primitive Horse"

30,000 BC

Caves of Chauvet

30,000 BC

Peche Merle Cave

Dordogne

25,000 BC

Caves of Lascaux

17,000 BC

King Tut's belt buckle and chest

1370-1352 BC

Parthenon

438 BC

Athens

Horseman from the west frieze of the parthenon

438-432 BC

Parthian Horseman

300-201 BC

Mosaic of Alexander and Bucephalus

Pompeii

100 BC

Head of Selene's Horse

Moon Goddess

447-432 BC

Four Horses of Saint Marks

Venice

Acropolis

Greece

800 BC- 480 BC

Marcus Aurelius

175 AD

empire was from 161-180 AD

Terracotta Army

Qin Dynasty

221-206 BC

Milan patron Ludovico Storza

missing notebooks of da Vinci found in Spain in 1960s

finished by nina akuma in 1999

Study of a Horseman

da Vinci 1485-90

Sfroza Monument

Regisola- Horse Walking

1490

da Vinci

size of a stamp, based on a sculpture

Race Horses at Longchamps

Edgar Degas

1871

French Impressionism

The Racecourse- Amateur Jockeys near a Carriage

Edgar Degas

1876-87

French Impressionism

Races at Longchamps

1864

French Impressionism

Edouard Manet

The Jockey by Henri de Toulouse- Latrec

1899

French Impressionism

Gallop by Eadweard Muybridge

1887

New Market Start by Alfred Munnings

1944

Whistlejacket by George Stubbs

1762

Naturalism

Hambletonian by George Stubbs

1800

Naturalism

Lustre held by a Groom by George Stubbs

1760-62

Naturalism

The Escape Artist

Edgar Sotelo

Greener Pastures

Edgar Sotelo

Freedom Run by Edgar Sotelo

Who's Leading Who?

Edgar Sotelo

Cutting the Dry Ones

Edgar Sotelo

Bringing them Home

Edgar Sotelo

The Sentinel

Edgar Sotelo

Storm on the Plains

Bruce Greene

First Dance

Bruce Greene

First Dance sculpture

Bruce Greene

The Wagon Fly Incident of '98

Bruce Greene

Buffalo Hunt

Charlie Russel

1897

The Bucker

Charles Russell

1904

Charles Russell on Neenah

1906

When Shadows Hint Death

Charles Russell

1915

The Bronc Twister

Charles Russell

1905

In what year were horses domesticated?

6,000 BC

What pigment did they use when painting in the Caves of Chauvet?

natural pigments: mud, charcoal, iron, manganese oxide

What tools did they use to paint in the Caves of Chauvet?

stencils

blow pipes

The dots on the painted animals are representative of what in the Caves of Chauvet, Peche Merle and Lascaux?

Shamanism- religion

What are theories for the meaning of the paintings in the caves?

Religion

Hunting

Representing World

What time period did the Magdelanian people flourish with their specialized art?

18,000 BC- 10,000 BC

Eohippus (Hyracotherium)

In which caves did people actually live as well as paint?

Cave de la Pileta, Ronda, Spain

When the horse was first domesticated what were they used for?

farmed for meat, milk and hides

bones became ornaments and utensils

carrying or pulling

When were horses first ridden?

3500-1000 BC

Which civilizations provided their royalty with provisions for the afterworld?

Egyptians

Scythians

Qin Dynasty

How do we think King Tut died?

Chariot accident

Which King was shown being gifted a horse to represent their value?

Darius I of Persia

Scythia

What were Scythians and Parthians known for?

being extremely skilled horseman

What was representative of an honorable death to a horse?

arrow to the head

Which dynasty was known for their chariot burial pit?

Eastern Zhou Dynasty

256 BC

What are the sculpture representative of all over the parthenon?

They are showing they are on their way to the yearly festival celebrating Athena

Which British lord took these sculptures from the parthenon?

Elgin

Who was the director the art of the parthenon?

Phidias

Why were a lot of the sculptures on the parthenon over exaggerated?

They were meant to be seen from far below, so they made them bigger in order to see the detail better

Which civilization had a very good knowledge of the anatomy and confirmation of a horse?

Greeks

Quad

4 horses used to pull one chariot

Where was Alexander the Great from?

Macedonia

What range of countries did Alexander the Great conquer?

Macedonia to India

Where were the Four Horses of Saint Marks originally from?

Hippodrome in Constantinople

In the painting of the Four Charioteers, what were the jersey colors representative of?

In the chariot races, a quarter of the city would cheer for one charioteer represented by color

What is the title of the song about Charlie Russell and who wrote it?

The Gift by Ian Tyson

Where was Charlie Russell originally from?

St. Louis, Missouri

Where did da Vinci work for most of his life?

Milan

Who was da Vinci's patrons in Milan?

Ludovico Sforza

What horses did Sforza own that influenced da Vinci?

Andalusians, Spanish war horses

Known as horse of kings

oldest of warmbloods

Who finished da Vinci's horse and in what year and state?

Nina Akuma in 1999 in Oklahoma

Who was the first artist to show that horses get all four feet off the ground when they run?

Eadweard Muybridge in his serious of photographs titled Gallop

Who painted the signature piece of the 2014 AQHA Hall of Fame and Museum?

The Sentinel by Edgar Sotelo

Which painting is on the front of the textbook and who is it by?

Freedom Run by Edgar Sotelo

What is Edgar Sotelo famous for?

The grey horse

What kind of artist is Edgar Sotelo?

Contemporary

Where is Edgar Sotelo from?

Durango, Mexico

Where did Edgar Sotelo go to school?

Texas Tech University

Animal and Food Science

Where does Edgar Sotelo live now?

Sulphur Springs, Texas

What ranch did Edgar Sotelo ride along to create the painting Greener Pastures?

Tongue River Ranch in Dumont, Texas

What ranch did Edgar Sotelo ride along to in order to take the picture for the branding?

Sibley's Last Chance Ranch in Sulphur Springs, Tx

Where was the picture taken for the painting Freedom Run?

Hunt Land and Cattle Company in Wheeler, Texas

What is the medium of the four charioteers?

mosaic