Analyzed Art Flashcards
What are the Chauvet Cave Paintings?
Paleolithic cave paintings from the south of France.
What is speculated to be the purpose of the Venus of Willendorf?
A fertility figure or good luck totem.
What period is the Venus of Willendorf from?
Paleolithic period.
What period was the Stonehenge built in?
Neolithic period.
What is the importance of the Rosetta stone?
It allowed researchers to translate hieroglyphics.
What story does the Narmer Palette tell?
The victory of pharaoh Narmer in battle and his unification of Egypt.
What is different about Akhenaten and family?
It defies the perspective that the pharaoh is all-godly and all-powerful, as he is depicted as a normal family man.
A stele; the most complete collection of Babylonian law codes.
Law Code of Hammurabi.
A temple or place of worship in Ancient Mesopotamia.
Ziggurat.
What is the importance of the Flood Tablet in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
It resembles the story of Noah’s Ark.
What is the significance of the Dura Europos?
It shocked historians, challenging the traditional view that Jews would never crate an elaborated place of worship, interpreted by the 2nd Commandment.
The Pillar of Ashoka’s lions…
…represent the cardinal directions.
What is the significance of the Seated Buddah?
Statues embodying the “enlightened” were not made before that.
What is strange about the Parthenon?
It has three different art styles: Ionic, Doric, Corinthian.
What is the importance about the Kritios Boy?
The first statue which mastered a complete understanding of how different body parts act as a system. The free-standing nude.
