Chapter 15: From the Earliest Art to the Bronze Age

  • Vocabulary:
    • Petroglyph
    • Hierarchic scale
  • Periods:
    • Paleolithic:
    • Blombos Cave
    • Female "venus" figures
    • Chauvet cave paintings
    • Neolithic:
    • Earthenware Beaker from Susa, Iran
    • Stonehenge
  • Cultures:
    • Mesopotamia:
    • Ziggurat of Ur
    • Head of an Akkadian Ruler
    • Egypt:
    • King Menkaura group statue
    • Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
    • King Tutankhamen

Chapter 16: Classical and Medieval West

  • Vocabulary:
    • Kouros
    • Contrapposto
    • Basilica
    • Iconoclast
  • Columns:
    • Doric
    • Ionic
    • Corinthian
  • Art Styles:
    • Greek:
    • Archaic: Kouros
    • Classical: Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer)
    • Hellenistic: Laocoon
    • Roman: Portrait Bust of Vespasian
    • Byzantine:
    • Head of Constantine
    • Mosaics from San Vitale
    • Medieval: The Book of Kells
  • Architecture:
    • Parthenon
    • Pantheon
    • Romanesque: St. Madeleine
    • Gothic: Notre Dame de Chartres

Chapter 17: Renaissance and Baroque Europe

  • Vocabulary:
    • Humanism
    • Genre Painting
  • Artists and Works:
    • Italian Renaissance:
    • Lamentation
    • David (1425-30)
    • Birth of Venus
    • The Last Supper
    • David (1501-04)
    • The Sistine Chapel frescoes/ The Creation of Adam
    • The School of Athens
    • Northern Renaissance:
    • The Arnolfini Portrait
    • Hunters in the Snow
    • Baroque:
    • The Conversion of St. Paul
    • David (1623)
    • Las Meninas
    • The Kitchen Maid
    • Rococo: Happy Accidents of the Swing

Chapter 20: Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

  • Cultural Significance:
    • Africa:
    • Benin: Head and Pendant Mask
    • Yombe (Congo): Mangaaka Power Figure
    • Ghana: Kente Cloth
    • Oceania:
    • Prow Figure
    • Maori: Waitangi Meeting House
    • Americas:
    • Mayan: "Lintel 24"
  • Possible Short Answer Topics:
    • Compare Egyptian and Archaic Greek sculpture
    • Compare the three David statues
    • Significance of the Mangaaka Power Figure