List of Textbook ImagesList of Images fr: Gardner's Art Through the Ages, 12th ed.
TEST 1 ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 16. 8:30AM. SCANTRON, PENCIL, ERASER
Last Update on 10/12: added Persian and Sassanian images for Test 1.
Test images to memorize have asterisk * and are in bold print.
INTRODUCTION, CHAPTERS 1 & 2
Introduction
vocabulary words: subject (narrative), subject vs. content, form, iconography, patron
Chapter 1: Stone Age
Paleolithic
*Woman of Willendorf (1.4) 28,000-23,000 BC
*Caves of Lascaux (1.11, 1.13)15-13,000BCE
Neolithic
*Catal Hoyuk, Turkey (1.16, 17, 18) 6000-5900 BC
incl diagram, shrine reconstruction, Deer Hunt,
Landscape w Volcano.
Ch 1 Qs (in addition to ID):
Probable funtions/uses/significance of objects and cave paintings we discussed?
Identify subjects and describe style of cave paintings
How is Neolithic culture different from earlier period?
Characteristics of Catal Hoyuk settlement, shrine rooms, houses?
"Firsts"???
Vocabulary:
relief sculpture (vs sculpture in round, composite view (frontal + profile), obsidian
Chapter 2: Near East & Mesopotamia
Sumerian:
White Temple of Uruk (now Warka, Iraq) (2.1-2) 3200-3000 BCE
-Female head (2.3) fr Uruk marble
-Warka Vase fr Uruk alabaster
-legendary Gilgamesh
"Royal" Cemetery of Ur
*-Standard of Ur (2.8a-b), 2600 BCE 8"
*-Bull Headed Lyre (2.9, 2.10), 2600 BCE 5'5"
-Cylinder seal (2.11)
*Votive Statues from Temple to Abu p 30 (2.5), 2600 BCE fr TellAsmar
Neo-Sumerian:
*Ziggurat of Ur (2.14), 2100 BCE
Gudea (2.15) 2100 BCE 2.5' diorite
Akkadian:
*Victory Stele of Naram Sin (2.13), 2254-2218 BCE 6.5' sandstone
Head of Ruler from Nineveh (2.12) 2250-2200 BCE copper
Babylonian:
*Stele of Hammurabi (2.16), 1780 BCE 7.5' basalt
Elamite:Susa (pre Persian Empire)
Statue of Queen (2.19) fr Susa, Iran 1350-1300 BCE
-bronze w/copper shell, 3700lb
Assyrian:
Citadel of Sargon II (now Khorsabad Iraq) 720 BCE w 7 story ziggurat
-Lamassu from citadel Sargon II (2.21), 720 BCE
*Lion hunt relief sculpture fr Nineveh (2.24) 645 BCE
Battle scene fr palace of Ashurnasirpal (2.22) 875-860 BCE 2'hi
Dying Lioness, fr palace at Nineveh (removed fr text, 650 BCE
Neo-Babylonian:
*Ishtar Gate from Babylon (2.26), 575 BCE, carved glazed brick
Achaemenid Persian:
*Persepolis Royal Audience Hall, Palace of Darius I & Xerxes I in
Persepolis, Persia (2.27), 521-465 BCE
*-relief sculpture of processions
Sassanian (fr Persia):
Palace of Shapur I, Ctesiphon (2.28), 250 CE
*Head of Sassanian king (2.29), 350 BCE silver w/ mercury gilding
Triumph of Shapur over Roman Valerian, 260 CE, Iran, rock cut relief
Nabatean:
Al-Khazneh, Petra, Jordan, 2nd C AD (video)
Ch 2 Qs:
Meaning of "Mesopotamia," ID rivers, discovery of 1922, basis of law code, Gilgamesh & hero's journey, war booty, Petra: ID function, influences, technique. Object once presumed destroyed in US bombing 2003? Technical, religious, social/political innovations of various cultures? Iconography of royalty, diety, bull? Social "beliefs" gleaned from law code, inherrent expense in construction material or technique,
Ch 2 Vocabulary:
lyre, horizontal register, ziggurat, votive statue, stele, citadel, cuneiform, lyre, lapis lazuli, lamassu, repousse
Who's Who?
(Legendary figures, historical figures, deities):
Deities: Anu, Inanna/Ishtar, Nanna/Sin, Marduk,
Gilgamesh, Naram Sim, Shamash, Hammurabi, Sargon II, Darius, Alexander (the Great)
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