Semester 1 Exam Flashcards by Emma Lipori

1 Apollo 11 Stones

(25,500- 25,300 BC)-dated by later of dirt found in Namibia

Charcoal on stone

Windhoek, Namibia

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2 Great Hall of the Bulls

(15,000-13,000 BC)

Paleolithic Europe

Rock Painting

Lascaux, France

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3 Camelid Sacrum

(14,000-17,000 BC)

Central Mexico

Bone

lost (no place of residence)

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4 Running Horned Woman

(6,000-4,000 BC)

Algeria

Pigment on Rock

Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria

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5 Bushel with Ibex Motifs

(4,200- 3,500 BC)

Susa CUlture (Iran)- in burial mound

painted terra cotta

Paris, France

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6 Anthropomophic Stele

(4000-3000 BC)

Ha’il, Saudi Arabia

Sculpted Stone

National Museum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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7 Jade Cong

(3,300- 2,200 BC)

Liangzhu Culture in the Yangtze River Delta of China (also make bi= round jade disc)

Carved Jade (must be sanded)

British Museum, London

-use unknown; always reclangle with cirlcular hole and horzontal striations

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8 Stonehenge

(2,500-1,600 BC)

Wiltshire, UK–Neolithic Europe

Sandstone (each boulder 25 ft high and 25 tons)

related works: Ménec France, Zorats Karer

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9 Ambum Stone

(1500 BC)- dated usinf foilage inside when broken in transport

Ambum Valley, Enga Province, Papua New Guine

stone carving (used as mortar and pestle)

Australia National Gallery, Canberra

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10 Tlatilco female figurine

(1200–600 BC)

Tlatilco, Mesoamerica (present-day Mexico)- found in burail site

ceramic with traces of pigment

Princeton University Art Museum

typical female association: breasts and wide hips
emphasis on duality (shared body and eye)

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11 Terracotta fragment

(1000 BC)

Lapita people; Santa Cruz Islands Polenesia

red-slip earthenware

University of Auckland

-you can see a face carved in

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12 White Temple and its Ziggurat

(3517-3358 BC)

Uruk, Iraq (Sumerian)

Mudbrick

Warka, Iraq

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13 The Palate of King Narmer

(3,000-2,920 BC)

Pre-Dynastic Egypt (Hierakonpolis, Egypt)

Greyware (sandstone and clay)

Egyptian Museum, Cairo

-used to grind pigments

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14 The Votive Figures

(2700 BC)

Sumerian from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (Tell Asmar, Iraq)

gypsum alabaster, shell, black limestone, and bitumen

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY, NY)

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15 Seated Scribe

(2620-2500 BC)

4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom Egypt

painted limestone with rock crystal, magnesite, and copper/arsenic inlay for the eyes

Musée du Louvre, Paris

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16 Standard of Ur

(2600-2400 BC)

Royal Cemetery at Ur, Mesopotamia

shell, red limestone, lapis lazuli, and bitumen

British Museum, London

tells story of war and eveyday life on either side
buried next to a warrior

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17 Great Pyramids of Giza and the Great Sphinx

(2551-2528 BC)

Giza, Egypt

50ton stone blocks

Giza

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18 King Menkaura and Queen

(2490–2472 BC)

Menkaure’s Pyramid Giza, Egypt

greywacke

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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19 The Law Code Stele of Hammurabi

(1792-1750 BC)

Babylon, Mesopotamia (Iraq)

Stele Carved; cuneiform inscribed

Louvre, Paris

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20 Temple of Amun-Re and Hypostyle Hall

(2055-1650 BC)

18th and 19th Dynasties, New Kingdom

sandstone and mud brick

Luxor, Egypt

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21 Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

(1479-1458 BC)

New Kingdom, Egypt

stone maonry

Deir el-Bahri, Egypt

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22 Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters

(1350 BC)

New Kingdom, Amarna period, Egypt

limestone

Berlin, Germany

-new depiction of royalty in more soft, relatable sense

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23 Tutankhamun’s tomb

(1323 BC)

New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Egypt

gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones (form of a god)

Egyptian Museum, Cairo

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24 Last judgment of Hu-Nefer, (Book of the Dead)

(1275 BC)

9th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Egypt

ink on papyrus

British Museum, London

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#25 Lamassu

(720-705 BC) citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (Khorsabad, Iraq) Gypseous alabaster Musée du Louvre, Paris -have five legs; stoic front, welocoming side

#27 Anavysos Kouros

(530 BC) Greek Marble National Archaeological Museum, Athens - figure is still and unatrually stiff - statue of a dead kid

#28 Peplos Kore

(530 BC) Greek Marble Acropolis Museum, Athens - peplos= young woman - unrealistically stiff positioning of body

#29 Sarcophagus of the Spouses

(520 BC) Etruscan (Cerveteri, Italy) painted terracotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rome -a couple lounging at a banquest, finly detailed

#30 Audience Hall of Darius and Xeres (Persepolis)

(520-465 BC) Achemedid Persia limestone and mudbrick Fars, Iran - is an apadana - lots of relief carving of military, etc

#31 Temple of Minerva Sculpture of Apollo

(510-500 BC) Etruscan painted terra-cotta Museo Nazionale di Villa Giulia, Rom

#32 Tomb of the Triclinium

(470 BC) Etruscan frescos Monterozzi necropolis of Tarquinia, Italy -shows seens of a typical banquest: dancing, singing, eating ,etc

#33 Niobides Krater

(460-450 BC) Niobid Painter red figure painting on clay Musée du Louvre, Paris -Apollo and Artemis killing Niobie's children; other side= Heracles surrounded by Athena and heroes in arms

#34 Doryphoros

(450-444 BC) Greek Sculpture copied by Romans original in bronze, copies in marble Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Naples - Elizabeth's Boy - Canon: ideal form to strive to mathmatical symmetry

#35 Acropolis (two parts)

a)Parthenon (447-432 BC) Greek Marble Athens, Greece; some pieces in British Museum, London - two pediments depict birth of Athena and battle between Athena and Posiedon, procession of citizens on Athena's birthday b) Victory adjusting her sandel, Temple of Athena Nike (410 BC) Greek Marble British Museum, London -taking off sandal to step on sacred ground, important because of the counterbalance of figure

#36 Grave Stele of Hegeso

(410 BC) Greek, Post High Classical marble and paint National Archaeological Museum, Athens - essentially a grave stone - seated woman holding a pyxis (makeup box) with a maid standing next to her

#37 Winged Victory of Samothrace

(190 BC) Hellenistic Greece marble Musse de Louve, Paris - goddes protecting island of Samothrace - clothes look likt they are floeing in wind= high technique

#38 Great Altar of Zeus and Athena at Pergamon

(200-150 BC) Hellenistic Greek Marble Pergamon Museum, Berlin -freeze is battle between giants and gods

#39 House of the Vettii

creation date unknown preseved by 79 CE volcanic eruption Roman stone, bricks, and fresco Pompeii, Italy - fourth style frescos show literacy of owner - two atriums= wealth of owner

#40 Alexander Mosaic

(100 BC) Roman mosaic tile House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy -tons of small pieces= more precise body form, etc

#41 Seated Boxer

(100 BC) Hellenistic bronze Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome -stray from typical Greek "perfect" form to express sorrow

#42 Head of a Roman Patrician

(75-50 BC) Late Roman Republic Marble Palazzo Torlonia, Rome -verism: realisti protrayal shows age and gavitas

#43 Augustus of Prima Porta

(1st century CE) Roman Marble Vatican Museum -breastplate depicts the Gods as they are on Augusts' side

#44 Colosseum

(70-80 CE) Roman travertine and limestone Rome, Italy -for gladiatior fights and other entertainment

#45 Forum of Trajan

(112-113 CE) Roman concrete and brick (markets), carera marble (colum), marble and stone (forum) Rome, Italy - colum depicts Trajan's victory over the Dacians - first of this style of market, individual office fronts, two stories - lots of differnt colors of marble from around the world

#46 Pantheon

(27 BC-14AD) Roman concrete Rome, Italy - large oculus dome is its defining feature - rebuilt three times - to celebrate military victory and all of the gods

#47 Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

(250-260 CE) Romans marble Museo Nazionale Romano-Palazzo Altemps, Rome - Romans fighting the Goths - stray from typicall singlr figure or space betwwen figures, instead piled atop eachother

#48 Catacomb of Pricilla

(200-400 CE) Christain Rome carved tufa (bedrock) and paintings Rome, Italy - 40,000 tombs (loculi) - lots of art, first depiction of maary and child?

#49 Santa Sabina

(432 CE) Roman crystalized gypsum, marble, mosaic tile Aventine Hill, Rome

#50 Rebecca and Elizer at the Well and Jacob Wrestling the Angel

(500 CE) Byzantine tempera, gold and silver on purple vellum Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna -important picture curves instead of going straight

#51 San Vitale

(526-547 CE) Byzantine reused brick, marble, and mosaics Ravenna, Italy - new style of cloumn capital unique to time - two important mosaics Justinian and Theodora

#52 The Hagia Sophia

(532-537 CE) Byzantine brick, gold, mosaic, fresco, plater Istanbul, Turkey - Greek Orthodox-\> Muslim -\>Museum - debate over plastered over frescos and mosaics if they should be uncovered

#54 Merovingian Looped Fibula

(550 CE) Frankish silver gilt worked in filigree with inlaid garnet and other stones Musée des Antiquities Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye -decorative jewelry

#55 Virgin and Child Between Saints Theodore and George

(600 CE) Byzantine Painting St. Catherine's Monastery, Sinai, Egypt -all figures seem out of tune with viewer except baby Jesus

#55 Lindisfarne Gospels

(700 CE) Hiberno-Saxon ink on paper British Library - large beginning letters= insular majiscule - cross carpet patterns

#56 Great Mosque of Córdoba

(572 CE) Islam in Spain (Al-Andalus) stone, mosaic, paint Córdoba, Spain - mix of Roman, Visigoth, and Abbasid architecture - horseshoe arches

#57 Pyxis of al-Mughira

(969 CE) Umayyad ivory and jade Musée du Louvre, Paris - ivory carving relatively new in islamic art at this point - pyxis= cosmetic box

#58 Church of Sainte-Foy

(1050–1130 CE) Romanesque sone, gold reliquary statue Conques, France - pilgrimage destination - famous last judgement typmanum - once a monestary as well

#59 Bayeux Tapestry

(1070 CE) Norman (French) wool embroidery on cloth Bayeux Museum - William the Conquerer's conquest of England - scenes tell lots of culyute: battle gear, food prep/type, dining style, etc

#60 Chartes Cathedral

( 1145 and 1194 CE) Gothic France Stone Chartres, France - Sancta Camisa, which is said to be the tunic of the Virgin Mary worn during Jesus Christ’s birth - sort of transition between Romanesque and Gothic

#61 Dedication Page with Blanche of Castille and King Louis IX

(1226-1234 CE) Gothic Europe gold foil and ink on paper The Morgan Library and Museum (NY,NY) -shows the king and his regent mother as well as a scribe and a priest

62 Rottgen Pieta

(1300-1325 CE) Middle Ages Europe painted wood Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany -first pieta to show Mary with look of sorrow

#63 Scrovengi Chapel

(1300-1303 CE) Giotto (artist) Marble, stone, fresco Padua, Italy - frescos depict life of Jesus; new style peoples' backs face you seems af if you are in secene - The Lamentation= important scene angels and people week over dead Christ

#64 Golden Haggadah

(1320 CE) Spanish Jews Gold foil and ink on paper British Library - due to lack of use marks and extravagance for wealthy - narrates freedom of Jews from Egypt (to be read at passover) - influence of Christian art

#65 Alhambra

(1232-1492 CE) Nasrid Dynasty Muslims in Spain stone, mosaics, carving Granada, Spain -palace complex

#153 Chavín de Huántar

(900-200 BC) Chavin culture mudbrick and stone carving Andean Peru - two temples - many carvings of god, Lanzon (Spear God)

#154 Mesa Verde Cliff Dwellings

(400-1300 CE) Puebloan Peoiple (Anasazi) Mudbrick Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, USA -all housing groups have a Kiva (hole with fire pit and a ceremonial sipapu)

#155 Yaxchilán

(681 CE) Mayan (Shield Jaguar II) stone blocks and carved stone Chipas, Mexico -lintels= carvings; one of queen passing barbed rope through her tounge to let her blood

#156 Great Serpent Mounds

(1000-1650 CE) Fort Ancient Culture Mounded earth Ohio River Valley (SE Adams County, Ohio) -not burial mound but people buried near it

#157 Temple Mayor

(1375–1520 CE) Aztec (Tenochtitlan) Stucco destroyed,ruins in Mexico City (smaller pieces found in museums in Mexico) - Huitzilopochtli Temple: sacrifice stone - Coyolxauhqui Stone: myth of Mexica patron goddess Huitzilopochtli - Calendar Stone

#158 Ruler's Feather Headdress

(1428-1520 CE) Aztec (Montezuma II) Quetzal feathers, gold, beads World Museum in Vienna -disputes over where it should reside

#167 Conical tower and circular wall of Great Zimbabwe

(1000-1400 CE) Shona people of Zimbabwe stone bricks Zimbabwe -tower= cylo for grain

#168 Great Mosque of Djenné

(1200 CE) more adobe added each year Sudano-Sahelian adobe mudbrick Djenné, Mali

#181 Petra Treasury and Great Temple

(100 CE) Nabatean Carved rock cliff Petra, Jordan - Treasury, tombs, etc - hellenistioc influence in columns

#182 Bamiyan Buddhas

(500-600 CE) Afghani Buddhists Carved rock cliffs Bamiyan Valley, Afghanistan -first buddhas of this size/ not intended for circumambulation

#183 The Kaaba

(rebuilt 608 CE) Abraham (allegedly) granite masonry covered with a silk curtain with calligraphy made from silver and gold thread, and gold door Mecca, Saudi Arabia - a new cover cloth is made evey year - Hajj: people journey to it

#184 Jowo Rinpoche

(600-650 CE) Tibetain gold, pearls. pigments, other stones Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, Tibet -said to be carved from a picture of buddah (only "real" depiction of him)

#185 Dome of the Rock

(685-691 CE) Umayyad (Abd al-Malik) gold, stone, mosaic Jerusalem, Isreal - Important icscription on outside - rock said to place of Muhammud's night flight (goes to heaven for a short period) and Abraham was set to sacrifice his son

#186 Great Mosque of Isfahan

(700-1900 CE) Muslim (beginning with Seljuk Turks) Stone, mosaic Isfahan, Iran -simple outside with extravagant and detailed interior

#187 Folio from a Qur'an

(750-1000 CE) Muslim gold and ink on paper Morgan Library and Museum, NY,NY -specific planning; each page 9 lines

#192 Great Stuppa Sanchi

(300 BC) Ashoka rammed earth and carved wood (lots of reliefs) Sanch, India - said to house one of Buddah's relics - built for circumambulation

#193 Terracotta Warriors

(221-206 BC) Qin Dynasty CHina (Qin Shirhuangdi) sculpted terracotta (clay and water) Xi'an, China -each soldier has individual face (over 8,000 in complex)

#194 Funeral banner of Lady Dai

(206 BC-220 CE) Han Dynasty China dyed silk Hunan Provincial Museum, China -first pictoral/portrait art in China

#195 Longmen Caves

(475-725 CE) Northern Wei and Tang Dynast China stone relief carving Luoyang, China - style influenced by Bamiyan Buddha - from traditional to more stylistic depictions

#196 Gold and Jade Crown

(450-500 CE) Silla Dynasty (Korea) gold and jade Gyeongju National Museum, Korea -used for burial and ceremonial purposes

#197 Todai-Ji

(728-740 CE) Emperor Shomu bronze, gold, lacquered pillars, and a tile roof Nara, Japan -holds the Vairocana Buddha

#198 Borobudur Temple

(800 CE) Śailendra Dynasty (architect= Gunadharma) mounded earth (base to build upon), bricks Java, Indonesia - 72 stuppas and 504 buddha statues - reliefs tell story of buddha teaching and following Dharma - tiers represent different classes of life

#199 Angkor Wat

(1100's CE) kingdom of Khmer (King Suryavarman II) stone Cambodia - Hindu - tiers= reincarnation levels

#200 Lakshmana Temple

(954 CE) Chandella (King Yashovarman) Stone Madhya Pradesh, India - Hindu - tiering= different levels of reincarnation - Nagara style architecture; shrine known as vimana and a flat-roofed entry porch called mandapa

#201 Travelers among Mountains and Streams

(1000 CE) Fan Kuan ink on silk scroll National Palace Museum, Taibei) -social class division (lower class (herder)-\> stream (seperation)-\> middle class (hill and tmeple)-\> fog (seperation) -\> ruling class (mountain)

#202 Shiva as Lord of Dance

(10,000's CE) Chola Dynasty copper alloy (bronze) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, NY -shiva= destroyer

#203 Night Attack on the Sanjô Palace

(1400 CE) Kamakura Period Japan ink and water color on a scroll Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - narrative (right to left); Fujiwara Nobuyori leads attack on Sanjo Palace - depersonalized fiures (lines for eyes)

#204 The David Vases

May 13, 1351 Yuan Dynasty China (Zhang Wenjin) cobalt (from Iran=due to Mongol conquest) dyed porcelin Bristish Museum, London - specifically for the alter of a Daoist temple in Xingyuan, China - earliest example of blue and white porcelin

#205 Portrait of Sin Sukju

(1417-75 CE) Joseon dynasty Korea ink and color on silk Goryeong Sin Family Collection, Cheongwon -verism: realistic depiction in face

#206 Forbidden City

(1420 CE; later continuously added to) Ming and Quing China Red walls with yellow tile roofs, gold, paintings, etc Beijing, China - housed 24 emperors - inner (private) and outer (public) courts - yellow five toed dragon= symbol of emperor

#213 Nan Madol

(1180-1200 CE) Saudeleur Dynasty mainly coral, volcanic rock, and columnar basalt built upon pre-existing shallow coral flats off coast of Pohnpei, Micronesia - place where the nobles could live and be watched over and thus kept in line

#214 Moai

(1200 CE) Rapa Nui most of volcanic tuff, 14 of basalt Easter Island (far off Chile) -face directly in towards where villages would be and their backs face directly to the ocean ("watching over" people)

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