Chapter 1-2 Art History

30,000-8000 B.CE

Human with a feline head, from Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany, 30,000 Bce., Mammoth made from Ivory.
One of the oldest known sculptures,

Name- Venus of Willendorf(Nude Woman),
Location- Willendorf, Austria.
Date-25,000 BCE,
Material-made from Limestone.
explanation-The anatomical exxagerations, are typical for Paleothic art of women, who represented fertility, whose child-bearing capabilities ensured the survival of the species.

Name- Spotted horses and negative handprints
Location- Perch-Merle, France
Date-20,000
Material- wall painting in a cave
explanation- The hands might be signatures of community members or of individual painters.

Name- Rhinocerous, wounded man, and disembled bison
Location- Lascaux, France
Date-15,000 BCE
Material-painting in the well
explanation-Earliest form of narrative explanation, man is more abstract, bison is more naturalistic, and bigger than man, so more important.

8000-2300 BCE

Name- Landscape with Volcanic eruption
Location- Catal,Huyuk, Turkey level 7
Date-6000 Bce
Material- watecolor, copy
explanation-Oldest mural paintings, first known landscape painting neither human not animals appear, may have represented the settlement during a volcanic eruption.

Name- Deer Hunt
Location- Catal Huyuk, Turkey, Level 3
Date-4000 BCE
Material- wall painting
explanation-depicts humans as a composite of frontal and profal views, the most descriptive picture of the shape of the human body, this became the format of the millennia.

Name- Aerial View of Stonehenge
Location- Salisbury Plain, England
Date-2000 BCE
Material-stone
explanation- probably functioned as a solar calender, the sun rises over its heel stone. tremendous engineering skills for its time.

Name- White Temple and ziggurat
Location- Urak,Iraq
Date-3000 Bce
Material- mud bricks
explanation- Temple plaforms, known as ziggurats, central roles of the gods in their daily life.

Name- Warka Vase, Presentations of offerings to Innana
Location- Uruk, Iraq
Date-3000 Bce
Material-Alabaster
explanation- Sumerian Narrative Art, divided the tail stone vase reliefs into registers.

Name- Statuettes of two worshippers
Location- Square temple,Iraq
Date-3000 BCE
Material- black limestone
explanation-oversized eyes symbolize the weakness of these worshippers offering prayers to the diety, the beakers, were used to pour libations for the gods.

Name- War side of Standard of Ur
Location- Ur,Iraq
Date-3000
Material-wood, lapis lazuli, shell and limestone.
explanation- depicts a battlefield victory in three registers. The size of the figures depend on their importance is society.

Name- Victory stele of Naram-sin
Location- Susa,Iran
Date-2000 BCE
Material- pink sandstone
explanation- To commemrate his conquest of the Lullubi, set up this stele showing him lead his army up to a mountain, see him climbling over the army (showing his importance)

Name- Stele with the laws of Hammurabi
Location- Susa,Iran
Date-2000 BCE
Material-basalt
explanation-records his laws, the sun God, is giving the king the symbols of his authority to govern and judge.