Art Pieces Flashcards
NAME: Narmer Pallet
LOCATION: Hierkanopolis
TIME PERIOD: Pre-Dynastic (3,100 - 3,000 BC)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Shows King in triumphant procession with prisoners of war, displays evidence of conflict
- Precedes United Upper and Lower Egypt
NAME: The Great Sphinx
LOCATION: Gizeh
TIME PERIOD: Old Kingdom (2575 - 2550 BC, 4th Dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
-Protector of tomb, like Mesopotamia’s Lamassu
NAME: Khafre Enthroned
LOCATION: Gizeh
TIME PERIOD: Old Kingdom (2575 - 2550 BC, 4th Dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Features little definition, very smooth
- Pharaoh’s headdress and beard symbolizes royalty and the divine right to rule
- Pharaoh’s chosen to rule as human representative of the gods
NAME: Menkaure & Khamerenetby
LOCATION: Gizeh
TIME PERIOD: Old Kingdom (2525-2475 BC, 4th Dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
-Both have very rigid stance, shows artisitc style of the time
NAME: Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
LOCATION: Deir el-Bahir
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1490 - 1460 BC, 18th Dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Senmut (architect) = possible secret lover
- Hatshepsut’s mummy found in 2006 in KV60
NAME: Senmut with Princess Nefrua
LOCATION: Thebes
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1490-1460 BC, 18th Dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
-Suggests close relationship between the two, possibly father-daughter
NAME: Akhenaten
LOCATION: Tell of Amen-Re, Karnak
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1355-1335 BC, 18th dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Black sheep of family
- Focuses on phyical irregularities, art style at the time? Realism?
NAME: Bust of Nefertiti
LOCATION: Tell el-Amarna
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1355-1335 BC, 18th dynasty)
NAME: Akhenaten & Nefertiti
LOCATION: Tell el-Armana
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1335 BC, 18th dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Portrays close, personal relationship
- Could also be his half-brother
NAME: Death Mask of Tutankhamun
LOCATION: Thebes
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1325 BC, 18th dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Stylised
- Mummy found in 1922, KV62
NAME: Temple of Ramses II
LOCATION: Abu Simbel
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (1275-1225 BC, 19th dynasty)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Relocated in 1968
- Lacks refinement, more focused on size
- Mummy discovered in 1881
NAME: Toreador Fresco
LOCATION: Palace of Knossos
TIME PERIOD: Minoan (1600 BC)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Show important aspects of life
- Shows they’re peaceful
- Bulls were sacred
NAME: Gold Funerary Mask
TIME PERIOD: Mycenean (1600 - 1500 BC)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- King was very important
- Marked beginning of Greek bronze age
- Thought to be of Agamemnon
NAME: Attic Geometric Krater
TIME PERIOD: Geometric Period (740 BC)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Used to mark graves
- Depicts funerary visitations, and common images of horses and chariots
- Offering to gods to keep deceased relative happy
NAME: Kouros
TIME PERIOD: Greek Archaic Period (600 BC)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Rigid sculptures, moving toward idealism
- Influenced by Egypt, first free-standing sculptures
NAME: Diskobolos
TIME PERIOD: Greek Classical Period
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Idealism, perfected human form, incredibly popular today
- Represents peak of Greek society
NAME: The Laocoon
TIME PERIOD: Hellenistic
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Shifted from idealism to realism, displayed pain and suffering
- Laocoon was priest of Troy, Poseidon sent snakes to attack him and his sons for warning the Trojans about the Trojan Horse.
NAME: Doric
STYLE: Simple/plain
- Favoured in Athens
- Used in Parthenon
NAME: Ionic
STYLE: Curled (looks like ram’s horns)
NAME: Corinthian
STYLE: Rich/Ornate (carved to look like leaves
NAME: Cleopatra
TIME PERIOD: New Kingdom (51 BC, Ptolemaic dynasty)
NAME: Lion Gate
TIME PERIOD: Mycenean (1300 - 1250 BC)
NAME: Inlaid Dagger
TIME PERIOD: Mycenean (1300 - 1250 BC)
NAME: Minoan Goddess/Lady
TIME PERIOD: Minoan (1450 - 1400 BC)
NAME: Snake Goddess
TIME PERIOD: Minoan (1600 BC)
NAME: Head of Sphinx
TIME PERIOD: Mycenean (1300 - 1250 BC)
NAME: Corinthian Black Figure Amphora
TIME PERIOD: 625 - 600 BC
NAME: Andokides Painter, Ajax/Achilles
TIME PERIOD: 525 - 520 BC
NAME: Peplos Kore
LOCATION: Acropolis
TIME PERIOD: Greek Archaic (530 BC)
NAME: Lady of Auxerre
TIME PERIOD: Greek Archaic (650 - 625 BC)
NAME: Parthenon (Temple Athena)
TIME PERIOD: Greek Archaic (447 - 438 BC)
NAME: Nike of Samothrace
TIME PERIOD: Hellenistic (190 BC)
NAME: Temple of Olympian Zeus
TIME PERIOD: Greek Classical
NAME: Venus de Milo
TIME PERIOD: Hellenistic (150 - 125 BC)
NAME: Riace Warrior
TIME PERIOD: Greece Classical (460 BC)
NAME: Portrait of Tetrarches
TIME PERIOD: Late Roman Empire
NAME: Arch of Titus
TIME PERIOD: Early Roman Empire (81 AD)
NAME: Circus Maximus
TIME PERIOD: Early Roman Empire (81 AD)
NAME: Colosseum
TIME PERIOD: Early Roman Empire (70 - 80 AD)
NAME: Pont-du-Gard, Nimes
TIME PERIOD: Early Roman Empire (16 BC)
NAME: Pantheon
TIME PERIOD: High Roman Empire (118 - 125 AD)
NAME: Column of Trajan
TIME PERIOD: High Roman Empire (118 -125 AD)
NAME: Portrait of Augustus
TIME PERIOD: Early Roman Empire (20 BC)
NAME: Portrait of Constantine
TIME PERIOD: Late Roman Empire
NAME: Hagia Sofia
TIME PERIOD Byzantine (532 - 537)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Built by Justinian
- Size, volume, height gives it importance
- 5 years to build
NAME: Justinian Mosaic
TIME PERIOD: Byzantine (547)
NAME: Theodora and Attendants
TIME PERIOD: Byzantine (547)
NAME: Christus Ravenna Mosaic
TIME PERIOD: Byzantine
NAME: Ceiling Mosaic at the Masoleum of Galla Placida
TIME PERIOD: Byzantine
NAME: Vladimir Madonna
TIME PERIOD: Byzantine (12th Century)
SIGNIFICANCE:
- Painted after iconoclastic controversy
- Exemplifies iconoclastic debate, common icon traits
- Sideward tilt of the head common
- Shows cultural and religious misson of the Empire
