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Earliest age of homo-sapiens which started to do cave aintings and very very general sculptures and forms.
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Drawing of charcoal on stone. Depicts human form encountering an animal form. Found in Namibia, in the Paleolithic Era.
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The age of settling, art became slightly more advanced pottery became more important in order to store food.
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Burial object made of Terra Cotta found in Susa, Iran. There is a mountain goat depicted in the middle with other various animals around it.
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Found in the Arabian Peninsula made from Sandstone. Early human form.
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Predynastic Egypt created out of Greywacke. Depicts King Narmer bigger than everyone else standing over beheaded enemies on the front side. On the back side it shows Narmer has a symbol of strength: a bulls tail. With a servent holding his sandels showing he is on sacred ground.
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Art was generally centered around preserving life after death and preserving the order of existence.
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Created in Giza, Egypt out of sandstone with limestone casing. Three pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu) which held the Pharaohs mummified bodies after they died to honor them. And the Great Sphinx guarded and represented the Pharaoh Khafre.
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Found in Ancient Mesopotamia created by king Hammurabi of the Babylonians. It has the first forms of a law system written on the stone. The picture at the top depicts King Hammurabi with Shamash, the sun god, implying divine power.
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More abstract art, a lot less realistic. Started to give the idea of the bigger = the better.
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Made of greywacke, found in Ambum Valley, Papa New Guinea. Used as a pestle and mortar.
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Located on the Western bank of the Nile. Hatshepsut was the first female monarch and create this temple to show her power.Inside the temple there are writings that tell about her stories and life. There were many statues of her around the temple but were destroyed by following Pharaohs. one that survived shows her kneeling and offering something to the gods and sculpted with a false beard to show wisdom.
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Carving of Limestone created in the New Kingdom found in Egypt. It depicts a Pharaoh, Akhenaten, receiving the blessing from the sun god, Atem.
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Time period during Egyptian history which marks the change of royalty to Akhetaten.
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Created by Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad, Iraq) by the Assyrians out of limestone. The Lamassu's were winged men-headed bulls that protected the entrance into an Assyrian palace and had an attempt of movement by showing all 4 legs.
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Centrally public space in Athens, Greece that had commercial, civil, and entertainment shops/events. It had a central road going through called the Panathenaic way.
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Archaic Greece,Archaic smile, Marble, life-like and realistic, depicts ideal form of human body. acted as a grave marker.
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Archaic Greece, Archaic smile. Marble and wearing a Peplos which conceals her body which indicated respect and honor with women. Stylistically similar to Anavysos Kouros and potentially could be the Goddess Artemis.
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Persepolis, Iran created out of limestone. Guest hall with a total of 76 huge columns and carvings on the side. One side depicts war and battle showing the king's power and the other side shows People giving tribute to the King.
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During this period Governors were annually elected and was more democratic. Art depicted battle victories or in humans, wisdom =, hard working, age, and soldiers.
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Entered into the Greek Golden Age especially Athens. This period followed the victory in the Persian war which lead to many art pieces depicting victory.
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Sculpted by Polykleitos originally of Bronze by the Greeks but the Romans melted it down and remade it of marble. It gives the original canon of proportions for the human body and gives the idea of contrapposto (relaxed body form).
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An ancient citadel located in Athens, Greece that sat high above the city. This was built to honor the Goddess Athena and acted as a treasury
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Followed Alexander the Great's death and the Hellenistic culture spread far across the empire into other cultures and influenced the Romans. Emperors without a beard became very popularity showing age without showing weakness.
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Depicts Alexander the Great fighting against the Persians (and winning). Roughly 1.5 million tiles in the mosaic. Great showing of depth and foreshortening.
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Hellenistic Greece, made of bronze (last few bronze Greek sculptures). Beat up body, tired and hurt with copper infused in the bronze to be shown as blood. Not ideal body was unusual for sculptures and used a technique called lost wax for molding.
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Large stadium where battles for entertainment were held, could hold 70,000 people. Made of concrete and stone built in Rome, Italy. It consisted of multiple levels up and into the ground. First level had Tuscan Columns, second had Ionic and third had Corinthian.
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Ausgustus's rule started the Imperial Rome time period and art now started to go back to classical times and idealizing figures usually emperors depicting them very strong and wise.
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Imperial Rome made of marble. Sculpture put everywhere to depict Emperor as divine, Wise and all powerful because it is an ideal human.
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Imperial Rome made from concrete with stone facing. Temple for all gods, had a large dome with a oculus in the top for light. Coffers are in place around dome to take away weight.
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