Art History 1450: Western Art I

Khafre Enthroned
2570-2544 BCE
diorite
height 5ʼ 6"
discovered in his Valley Temple at Giza

Herakleides Mummy
120-140 CE
Roman Egypt
Human and bird remains; linen, pigment, beeswax and wood

Hieroglyphic Inscription
Middle Kingdom, 12th dynasty
limestone
White Chapel, Karnak

Scene from a Magical Papyrus
664-525 BCE
papyrus and ink
Elephantine

“Vénus impudique”

Paleolithic

ivory

8 cm

Capitoline Venus
Roman
Marble
193 cm

Woman of Willendorf
Paleolithic (c. 32,000 BCE)
limestone and ochre
11.1 cm

Venus of Hohle Fels
Paleolithic (c. 40,000 - 35,000 BCE)
ivory
6.6 cm

Venus of Brassempouy
Paleolithic (c. 25,000 BCE)
ivory
3.65 cm
Found in 1892

Venus of Laussel
Paleolithic (c. 25,000 BCE)
limestone
46 cm

Partial Venus, Chauvet Cave
Paleolithic (c. 30,000 - 20,000 BCE)
charcoal on limestone

Birdman, Lascaux Cave
Paleolithic (c. 15,000 BCE)
charcoal on limestone

Lion-man of Hohlenstein-Stadel
Prehistoric (c. 40,000 - 35,000 BCE)
ivory
31.1 cm

San Lorenzo Colossal Head
(Olmec Heads)
Basalt
1200-900 BCE

Seated Figure
Olmec, 12th-9th cent. BCE
H. 13 3/8 x W. 12 1/2 x D. 5 3/4 in.
Ceramic, cinnabar, red ochre

El Manatí Wooden Bustsc
1200 BCE

eñor de Las Limas
c. 1200-400 B.C.E.
(Olmec, Las Limas, Jesús Carranza, Veracruz)
serpentine and pyrite
23 x 43.5 x 55 cm

"Kunz Axe"
jadeite
1000-400 BCE

Human mummy
Gebelein cemetery
c. 3400 BCE

Mummy and Mummy Case of the Lady Tashat
c. 1085-710 BCE
Thebes
mummy in cartonnage casing of plaster andlinen, painted.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Mummy of Nesmutaatneru
Mid-Dynasty 25, c. 700-675 BCE
Thebes
Mummy, linen, glazed ceramic (faience), etc.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Canopic Jars of Neshkons
21st Dynasty, 1069-945 BCE
painted limestone.

The Gold Mask of Tutankhamen
1327 BCE
Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian, quartz,obsidian, turquoise, and colored glass
weight 28 lbs.
Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Mummy with an inserted panel painting of a youth
80 -100 CE
Encaustic on limewood, human remains, linen, mummification material

Christ Pantocrator icon
6th century CE
encaustic

New York Kouros
Archaic Period
590-580 BCE
Marble
H (without base): 76 5/8"

Polymedes of Argos
Kleobis and Bitonc.
580 BCE
Delphi

Kroisos (Anavysos Kouros)

540-525 BCE

Marble

height 6’ 4”

National Museum, Athens.

Nikandre Kore
Archaic
650 BCE
marble
5'9"

Lady of Auxerre
Archaic
650 - 625 BCE
limestone
65 cm (25") tall

Phrasikleia Kore
Archaic
550 - 540 BCE
marble
1.79 m (70.4") tall

Peplos Kore
530 BCE
marble
118 cm (46" tall)

Capitoline Brutus
bronze
late 4th - early 1 st cent BCE
69 cm (27")

Portrait bust of a Man
marble
Late Republican, c. 60 BCE
33 cm (1' 1")

Patrician Torlonia
marble
1st cent BCE
33 cm

Tusculum Portrait of Julius Caesar
marble
50 - 40 BCE
1' 1"

Chiaramonti Caesar
marble
44-30 BCE

Pompey the Great
50-30 BCE
marble
25"
Porta Pia, Rome

Green Caesar
slate
1st cent CE
41 cm (16")

Patrician carrying two portraits heads
marble
first century CE
1.65 m (5' 5")

Tivoli General
marble
Late Republican
80 - 60 BCE

Virgin and Child Enthroned (Theotokos)
Encaustic on Wood Panel
69 x 48 cm
6th cent CE
Monastery of St. Catherine, Egypt

Veil of Veronica
Acheiropoieta - "made without human hands"

Triumph of Orthodoxy
Late 14th cent. CE
egg tempera, gold leaf on wooden panel surfaced with gesso and linen
height: 37.8 cm, width: 31.4 cm, depth: 5.3 cm
British Museum

Khludov Psalter
FOL. 67R THE ICONOCLASTS AND THE CRUCIFIXION
illuminated manuscript
tempera on vellum
mid 9th cent
195 mm by 150 mm

Constantinople Archangel Michael
Cloisonné icon
1100

Great Departure of Prince Siddhartha
limestone
Great Stupa, Amaravati, Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh, India
2nd century CE
British Museum

Bodhi tree with shrine, eastern gateway
Sanchi Stupa no. 1
2nd-1st century BCE

Great Stupa, Sanchi
3rd - 1st centuries BCE

Buddha and Attendants
Early 2nd cent. CE
Red sandstone
27 in high (69 cm)

Stonehenge
3000-1500 BCE
Neolithic
sarsen and bluestone

Mural, Çatal Huyuk,
Neolithic
6,000 BCE

Seated Woman
Çatal Huyuk
Neolithi
6,000 BCE
clay

Female Figurine
Çatal Huyuk
Neolithic
6,300 - 6,000 BCE
crystallized limestone
17 cm

Painted Female Figurine
Çatal Huyuk
Neolithic
6,000 BCE

Cylinder Seal
The king-priest and his acolyte feeding the sacred herd
Uruk period
3200 BCE

Limestone statuette of bearded man (possibly priest-king"ensi")
Uruk Period
3300 BC

Cone Mosaic, Cone Mosaic Courtyard, Eanna District
Uruk
3000 BCE

Mosaic Cones
Limestone
3500 BCE
11 x 3.8 cm

Mask of Warka/Lady of Uruk
3200-3000 BCE
marble
20 cm (8")

Uruk Vase (Warka Vase)
Alabaster
3200 BCE
1 meter

Torah Niche
Synagogue
Dura Europos
245 CE

Christian House-Church Wall Paintings (tempera on plaster)
Dura Europosc.
245 CE

Baptistery wall painting
Christian House-Church
Dura Europos
245 CE

Baptistery Wall Painting
Christian House-Church
Dura Europos
245 CE