Flashcards and Answers – Art History Chapter 1
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Left wall of the Hall of the bulls in the cave at Lascaux, France
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15,000-13,000 BCE Largest bull 11'6\" long
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Human with feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany
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30,000-28,000 BCE Mammoth Ivory 11 5/8\" tall one of the oldest know ivory sculptures. composite creature or human wearing an animal mask?
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Head of a woman, Brassempouy
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1 1/2\" high made of ivory 25,000-20,000 BCE
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Woman holding a bison horn, from Laussel, France
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25,000-20,000 BCE Painted limestone 1'6\" high One of the oldest known relief sculptures depicts a woman who holds a bison horn and left arm draws attention to her belly.
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Two bison, reliefs in the cave at Le Tuc d'Audoubert, France
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15,000-10,000 BCE Clay right bison 2' 7/8\" long Built using a stone spatula-like smoothing tool and fingers to shape the details.
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Bison licking it's flank, fragmentary spear-thrower, from La Madeleine, France
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12,000 BCE Reindeer horn 4 1/8\" long Sculptor turned the bison's head a full 180 degrees to maintain the profile view and incised the details with a stone burin.
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Bison, detail of a painted ceiling in the cave of Altamira, Spain
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13,000-11,000 BCE Standing bison 5' 2.5\" long no ground line or indication of setting. sole concern was to represent the animals not to locate them in a specific place.
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Spotted horses and negative hand imprints, wall painting in the cave at Pech-Merle, France
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23,000-22,000 BCE 11' 2\" long Purpose and Meaning unknown. think the painted hands near the Pech-Merle horses are \"signatures\" of community members or of individual painters.
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Aurochs, horses, and rhinoceroses, wall painting in the Chauvet Cave, Vallon-Pont-d' Arc, France
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30,000-28,000 BCE or 15,000-13,000 BCE Right rhinoceros 3' 4\"long They exhibit surprisingly advanced features, such as overlapping animal horns.
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Rhinoceros, wounded man, and disemboweled bison, painting in the well of the cave at Lascaux
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16,000-14,000 BCE Bison 3' 4 1/2\" long Constitute the earliest example of narrative art ever discovered.
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\"Chinese horse\" Lascaux
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16,000-14,000 BCE 4' 11\" long
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Stone tower built into the settlement wall, Jericho
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8,000-7,000 BCE Protecting Neolithic Jericho were 5' thick walls and at least one tower 30' high and 33' in diameter contructed of stone laid without mortar
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Human skull with restored features, from Jericho
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7200-6700BCE Modeled in plaster, painted, and inlaid with seashells. Life-size. Farmers removed the skulls of their dead before burial, modeled them in plaster, and inlaid the eyes to create lifelike \"portraits\" of their ancestors.
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Human figure, from Ain Ghazal, Jordan
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6750-6250 BCE. Plaster, painted and inlaid with bitumen 3' 5 3/8\" high the dozens found are earliest large-scale sculptures known.
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Deer hunt, detail of a wall painting from level III
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5750 BCE Painter depicted human figures as a composite of frontal and profile views, the most descriptive picture of the shape of the human body. became the rule for millennia.
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restored view of Catal Hoyuk
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6000-5900 BCE Houses in the early city adjoined with one another and had no doors. Openings in the roof provided access to the interiors.
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Landscape with volcanic eruption, Catal Hoyuk, Turkey
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6150 BCE detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting from level VII. First known landscape painting in which neither humans nor animals appear.
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Corbeled vault of the main chamber in the passage grave, Newgrange, Ireland
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3200-2500 BCE Early example of corbeled vaulting.
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Aerial view of the ruins of Hagaar Qim, Malta
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3200-2500 BCE Neolithic builders incorporated both rectilinear and curved forms.
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Aerial of stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Whiltshire, England
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2550-1600 BCE Circle 97' in diameter trilithons 24' high trilithons probably functioned as an astronomical observatory and solar calendar. Some of the megaliths weigh 50 tons.
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Animal facing left, from the Apollo 11 Cave, Namibia
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23,000 BCE charcoal on stone 4 1/4\" X 5\"
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Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf), from Willendorf, Austria
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28,000-25,000 BCE Limestone 4 1/4\" high typical of Paleolithic representations of women, whose child-bearing capabilities ensured the survival of the species.
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Waterworn pebble resembling a human face, from Makapansgat, South Africa
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3,000,000 BCE reddish-brown jasperite 2 3/8\" wide Stone is not an artwork because it was neither manufactured nor modified.
