ART 204 (Intro to Western Art History) Midterm 1 – Flashcards

“Lion Man”
Paleolithic, Germany
c. 30,000 BCE

“Woman from Willendorf”
Paleolithic, Austria
c. 24,000 BCE

“Wall painting with horses, rhinoceroses, and aurochs”
Paleolithic, Chauvet Cave, France
c. 30,000 BCE

“Clay Bison”
Paleolithic, Le Tuc d’ Audoubert Cave, France
c. 13,000 BCE

A self contained, three dimensional space

exhibiting human features

exhibiting animal features

expressing an idea by using formal elements such as colors, lines, and geometric shapes without attempting to create a naturalistic person or thing

practice that involves a mediator reaching altered states of consciousness to perceive and interact with a spirit world

belief in which each human is thought to have a spiritual connection or a kinship with another physical being such as an animal or plant, aka “totem” or “spirit being”

a sculpture in which the surrounding material is carved away to form a background that sets off the projecting image

architecture concerned with domestic and functional (rather than monumental buildings)

“Reconstruction drawing of a house”
Neolithic, Catalhoyuk (Turkey)
c. 7400 BCE

“Megalithic passage grave?”
Neolithic, Newgrange, Ireland
c. 3000 BCE

protective, warding off evil

“Stonehenge”
Neolithic, England
c. 3000-1500 BCE

constructed with horizontals and verticals (trabeated)

“center of the world” , connects heaven and earth

“Votive figures”
Sumerian, Iraq
c. 2900 BCE

“Bull’s head lyre”
Sumerian, Ur (Iraq)
c. 2500 BCE

“Lapis lazuli cylinder seal and impression”
Sumerian, Ur (Iraq)
c. 2500 BCE

“Stele of Naram-Sin”
Akkadian, Iran
c. 2254 BCE

upright stone slab

a composition in which the relative size of the figures indicates relative importance

effort to promote or publicize a particular political cause, interest, or point of view

tells a story

“Nanna Ziggurat”
Neo-Sumerian, Ur (Iraq)
c. 2100 BCE

a rectangular stepped tower surmounted by a temple

“Reconstruction of citadel and palace complex of Sargon II at Dur Sharrukin (Iraq)”
Assyrian
c. 721 BCE

“Lamassu guardian figures at gate of Sargon II’s citadel”
Assyrian, Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
c. 721 BCE

“Reconstruction of Processional Way and Ishtar Gate”
Neo-Sumerian, Babylon (Iraq)
c. 575 BCE

“Ishtar Gate”
Neo-Sumerian, Babylon (Iraq)
c. 575 BCE

“Pyramids at Giza”
Egypt
c. 2575 BCE

life force of the pharoah

“Model of Giza Plateau”
Egypt
c. 2575 BCE

“Ka statue of King Khafre”
Giza, Egypt – from Khafre’s valley temple
c. 2520 BCE

“Great Sphinx”
Giza, Egypt – funerary complex of Khafre
c. 2520 BCE

“Menkaure and a Queen”
Giza, Egypt
c. 2490 BCE

“Seated scribe”
Egypt
c. 2450 BCE

“Painted relief of Ti watching a Hippopotamus Hunt”
Egypt – Tomb of Ti
c. 2450 BCE

“Hatshepsut kneeling”
Deir el-Bahri, Egypt – from Hatshepsut’s funerary temple
c. 1473 BCE

“Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut”
Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
c. 1473 BCE

row of piers or columns supporting a lintel

“Colossal figure of Akhenaten”
Egypt
c. 1353 BCE

“Bust of Nefertiti”
Egypt
c. 1353 BCE

“Relief with Akhenaten and his Family”
Egypt
c. 1353 BCE

“Fish-shaped perfume bottle”
(core-formed glass)
Egypt
c. 1353 BCE

“Judgement of Hunefer before Osiris”
Illustration from a Book of the Dead
(painted papyrus)
Egypt
c. 1285 BCE

“Figure of a woman”
Cycladic, Cyclades
c. 2600 BCE

Reconstruction drawing of “palace” complex
Minoan, Knossos, Crete
c. 1700 BCE

Stairwell, “palace” complex
Minoan, Knossos, Crete
c. 1700 BCE

column that tapers toward the bottom

“Bull-leaping fresco from ‘palace’ complex”
Minoan, Knossos, Crete
c. 1450 BCE

wall painting made by applying pigment to a wet plaster surface

wall painting made by applying pigment to a dry plaster

“Spring fresco” from Akrotiri, Thera (Cyclades)
Minoan
c. before 1630 BCE

“Lion Gate”
Mycenaean, Mycenae, Greece
c. 1250 BCE

“Reconstruction drawing of megaron of Pylos Palace”
Mycenaean, Mycenae, Greece
c. 1300 BCE

Mycenaean great room; architectural unit consisting of a large, axial room entered through a porch with columns and sometimes a vestibule

“Plan of megaron of Pylos Palace”
Mycenaean, Mycenae, Greece
c. 1300 BCE

“Mask of Agamemnon” funerary mask
Mycenaean, Mycenae, Greece
c. 1600 BCE

metalworking technique in which an artist gently pushes up relief forms by hammering from the back of a thin sheet of gold