VIAR 120 - Test Two | Fall 2023

What artwork is this?

Engraved ochre

What date was this made?

75,000 BCE

What period was this made in?

Paleolithic

What medium was used?

Ochre

What artwork is this?

Hohle Fels figure

What date was this made?

35,000 BCE

What period was this made in?

Paleolithic

What medium was used?

Mammoth tusk

What artwork is this?

Wall painting of animals (Chauvet Cave, France)

What date was this made?

28,000 BCE

What period was this made in?

Paleolithic

What medium was used?

Wall painting

What artwork is this?

Woman of Willendorf

What date was this made?

25,000 BCE

What period was this made in?

Paleolithic

What medium was used?

Limestone

What artwork is this?

Earthenware beaker with ibexes

What date was this made?

4000 BCE

What period was this made in?

Neolithic

What medium was used?

Terra cotta

What artwork is this?

King Menkaura and Queen Khamerernebty

What date was this made?

2500 BCE

What period was this made in?

Egyptian

What medium was used?

Greywacke stone

What artwork is this?

Wall painting from the Tomb of Nebamun

What date was this made?

1450 BCE

What period was this made in?

Egyptian

What medium was used?

Paint on dry plaster

What artwork is this?

Kouros

What date was this made?

600 BCE

What period was this made in?

Archaic

What medium was used?

Marble

What artwork is this?

Doryphoros

Who made this?

Polykleitos

What date was this made?

400 BCE

What period was this made in?

Classical

What medium was used?

Marble

What artwork is this?

The Laocoön

What date was this made?

100 BCE

What period was this made in?

Hellenistic 

What medium was used?

Marble

What artwork is this?

Lamentation

Who made this?

Giotto

What date was this made?

1300

What period was this made in?

Early Renaissance

What medium was used?

Fresco

What artwork is this?

The Holy Trinity

Who made this?

Masaccio

What date was this made?

1425

What period was this made in?

Early Renaissance

What medium was used?

Fresco

What artwork is this?

Mona Lisa

Who made this?

da Vinci

What date was this made?

1500

What period was this made in?

High Renaissance

What medium was used?

Oil on panel

What artwork is this?

Creation of Adam

Who made this?

Michelangelo

What date was this made?

1500

What period was this made in?

High Renaissance

What medium was used?

Fresco

What artwork is this?

The Conversion of Saint Paul

Who made this?

Caravaggio

What date was this made?

1600

What period was this made in?

Baroque

What medium was used?

Oil on canvas

What artwork is this?

David

Who made this?

Bernini

What date was this made?

1600

What period was this made in?

Baroque

What medium was used?

Marble

What artwork is this?

Susanna and the Elders

Who made this?

Gentileschi

What date was this made?

1600

What period was this made in?

Baroque

What medium was used?

Oil on canvas

What artwork is this?

The Kitchen Maid

Who made this?

Vermeer

What date was this made?

1650

What period was this made in?

Baroque

What medium was used?

Oil on canvas

Engraved Ocher had

• abstract pattern

• unlikely for practical use

When did humans beings began to develop choppers and axes that were symmetrical and refined in shape

750,000 years ago

first step in the history of art

awareness of relationship of form to function

each shell has

a hole pierced through it and a covering of red ochre, an ancient pigment made from clay.

Paleolithic Period

40,000–8,000 BCE

• Stone period figures (abstract or naturalistic)

• Cave paintings (highly naturalistic

Earliest definitive art findings from

40,000 years ago

Hohle Fels figure is the

Oldest surviving carved human figure

First carved human figures are called "Stone period figures

May have been religious art (a depiction of the Great Mother Goddess)

Height of the Hohle Fels figure

2-1⁄2"

Paleolithic cave paintings expressed

Nationalism & representational 

petroglyphs

made by scratching or pecking surface of exposed stone

Neolithic art

from 10,000-3,000 BCE

• Reflects shift in living patterns

• Geometric abstract art > often derived from plant or animal forms

What kind of art is this?

representational

What kind of art is this?

abstract

What kind of art is this?

nonrepresentational

Paleolithic art period had

naturalism art

Neolithic art period had

abstract art

anachronism

the act of attributing a custom, meaning, or term to a period to which it does not belong

Women of Willendorf is theorized

to be made by women to help guide them through their pregnancies & made by women looking down at her body