250 works of art Flashcards
Where: Namibia
When: 25,500 - 25,300 BCE
Description: Charcoal on stone used for hunting flora and fauna.
Apollo 11 Stones
Where: Lascaux, France. Paleolithic Europe
When: 15,000-13,000 BCE
Description: Rock painting showing a drawing of bulls.
Great Hall of The Bulls
Where: Tequixquiac, central Mexico.
When: 14,000-7,000 BCE.
Description: Manipulation of bone to create a new shape.
Camelid Sacrum in The Shape of a Canine
Where: Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
When: 6,000 - 4,000 BCE
Description: Pigment on rock depicting a horned woman.
Running Horned Woman
Where: Susa, Iran
When: 4200 - 3500 BCE
Description: Painted terra cotta with animal forms and geometric shapes.
Beaker with Ibex Motifs
Where: Arabian Peninsula
When: Fourth Millennium BCE
Description: Sandstone sculpture having a human form associated with religious or burial practices, such as a grave marker.
Anthropomorphic Stele
Where: Liangzhu, China
When: 3300-2200 BCE
Description: Carved jade, polished versions of utilitarian stone tools.
Jade Cong
Where: Wiltshire, UK
When: Neolithic Europe
Description: Sandstone within great circular ditch about six feet deep; dug with a bank of dirt within it about 360 feet in diameter.
Stonehenge
Where: Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
When: 1500 BCE
Description: Carved Graywacke, religious object. Smoothly curved neck and head suggest its possible utility as a pestle.
The Ambum Stone
Where: Central Mexico, site of Tlatilco
When: 1200-900 BCE
Description: Small ceramic figures, often of women with emphasis on the wide hips, the spherical upper thighs, and the pinched waist while showing no interest in the hands or feet.
Tlatilco Female Figurine
Where: Lapita, Reef Islands, Solomon Islands
When: 1000 BCE
Description: Pottery shaped by hand/tool and placed in open fires to harden. Decoration of the pottery consists of stamped and incised motifs that adhere to a very regular, structured, and repeated set of specific patterns.
Terracotta Fragment
Mud Brick raised platform with four sloping sides temple dedicated to the sky god Anu. large scale makes the tower visible from a great distance. visual connection to the god or goddess honored there, but also recognized that deity’s political authority.
White temple and its Ziggurat
Smooth greyish-green siltstone one of the most important artifacts from the dawn of Egyptian civilization that has never been permitted to leave the country. Used grind or mix makeup.
Palette of King Narmer
Made with Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone. These figures, with their wide eyes and attentive stance, were meant to offer prayers to the gods continually. Their unique design, including the cylindrical body and geometric patterns, symbolizes timelessness and devotion.
Statues of Votive Figures, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
Pyramids made of cut limestone built over the span of three generations. Each pyramid was part of a royal mortuary complex that also included a temple at its base and a long stone causeway leading east from the plateau to a valley temple on the edge of the floodplain. this massive depiction of a recumbent lion with the head of a king was carved for Khafre.
Great pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) and Great Sphinx
Nearly life-size Grey Wacke Sandstone statue where the two figures stand side-by-side on a simple, squared base and are supported by a shared back pillar. They both face to the front.
King Menkaura and queen
The 4,000-year-old Babylonian monument made out of basalt stone shows the king receiving authority from the sun god Shamash. The stele contains over 300 laws that reflect the culture and issues of ancient Mesopotamia, such as agriculture, family, and justice.
The Code of Hammurabi
