exam 1 Flashcards
Woman from Willendorf,
Austria,
Paleolithic,
Spotted Horses and Human Hands,
Pech-Merle, France,
Paleolithic,
used natural surroundings as part of the “artwork”
Hall of Bulls,
Lascaux, France,
Paleolithic, p. 10
Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
Stonehenge,
England,
Neolithic,
burial grounds and healing and calendar/farming
Carved Vase,
Sumerian,
Iraq,
levels of importance: bottom = least important, high = important; scale of importance in society
Great Lyre with Bull’s Head and Front Panel,
Sumerian,
Iraq,
Ziggurat dedicated to Moon God,
Sumerian,
Iraq,
artificial/metaphorically a mountain (life support: natural falls/springs)
Stele of Naram-Sin,
Akkadian,
Iraq,
importance of mountain and overall stele as a mountain (mountain = life, waterfalls, springs)
Stele of Hammurabi,
Babylonian,
Iraq,
importance of scriptures
Assurbanipal and His Queen in the Garden,
Assyrian,
Iraq,
celebrating victory, placed in his palace, speaks of leadership and military of his
Palette of Narmer,
Early Dynastic Egypt,
upper and lower egypt combined
Step Pyramid and Funerary Complex of Djoser by Imhotep,
Old Kingdom Egypt,
Pyramids of Giza,
Old Kingdom Egypt,
Menkaure and Queen,
Old Kingdom Egypt,
Seated Scribe,
Old Kingdom Egypt,
Hatshepsut Kneeling,
New Kingdom Egypt,
female (whom requested to preists to be called pharo), offering to gods, artificial beard
Akhenaten and His Family,
New Kingdom Egypt,
during his reign he created a new religion of one god (which is the sun represented on the stone) instead of many, like the previous pharos did
Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun,
New Kingdom Egypt,
Temple of Ramses II,
Abu Simbel (in nubia),
New Kingdom Egypt,
political message of his conquers, most powerful of all pharos
Last Judgement Before Osiris from a Book of the Dead,
New Kingdom Egypt,
Mummy Wrapping of a Young Boy,
Egypt,
Roman period,
Figure of a Woman,
Cycladic,
mediterannian located, funerary context
Reconstruction, “Palace” Complex,
Knossos, Crete, Minoan,
more about trades than warefare according to structure
Young Girl Gathering Saffron, wall painting (fresco),
Minoan,
saffron for her cramps, changes into adulthood
Bull Leaping (fresco),
Palace of Knossos, Crete, Minoan,
Woman or Goddess with Snakes from the “Palace” Complex,
Knossos, Crete, faience, Minoan,
maybe representing fertility cause of the seashells used
“Mask of Agamemnon,” Funerary Mask from the Royal Tombs at
Mycenae,
Warrior Vase (Krater),
Mycenae,
appealed to war (ooposed to micinoans)
Funerary Vase (Krater),
Greek Geometric,
Exekias, Ajax and Achilles Playing a Game (Amphora; Black Figure Painting),
Greek Archaic,
Death of Sarpedon (Krater; Red Figure Painting) by Euphronios,
Greek Archaic,
god of sleep and death are present, Sarpedon was humilated on the battlefield
Dying Warriors from the Temple of Aphaia,
Greek Archaic,
the better and more believable one was redone about 10 years later
Berlin Kore,
Greek Archaic,
“archaic smile,” to honor a young woman, dedicated to god of spring (as symbolize w pomergranant in hand)
Standing Youth (Anavysos Kouros),
Greek Archaic,
“archaic smile,” to celebrate/comerate soldiers
