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Beautiful vibrant red stands out against the darker black/brown and allows more details in the beasts appearance.

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Bull Headed Lyre Fragment, Middle East Galleries - Iraq, ca. 2450 BCE

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The blue lapis serving as the long hair on the bull, did bulls have beards back then?

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Model of a Chariot, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, 1800 -1600 BCE

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Human figures carved into chariot

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Relief Panel, Mesopotamia, Nimrud, 883-859 BCE

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Lots of detail in the leg compare to the other limbs

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King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2490-2472 BCE

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Kings headset is very sharp and angular while the queens is rounder.

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Old Kingdom, Egyptian King Menkaure (Mycerinus) and queen

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Fowling Scene, Paintings from Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, c. 1,400 BC

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Large variety of birds being shown

Side ponytail is symbolism of a child.

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Fowling Scene, Paintings from Tomb of Nebamun (?), Thebes, c. 1,400 BC

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Octopus Vase, Museum of Heraklion Palaikastro, c.1500 BCE

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The eyes are large and seem almost cartoonish to me

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Dagger from shaft grave, Mycenae, Blade, c. 1500 BC

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Interesting how two of the lions flee while one stands and fights, doesn't seem to be an artistic difference between male and female if there is supposed to be.

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Dagger from shaft grave, Mycenae, Blade, c. 1500 BC

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Ergotimos and Kleitias, François Vase, c. 575 BC

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Horses portrayed on the vase seem to be very thin/lean

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Ergotimos and Kleitias, François Vase, c. 575 BC

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Dying Warrior, from the east  pediment, c. 475 BC, from the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, c. 490 BC

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For how accurate and anatomically accurate it is, the beard seems quite sharp

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Pillars are even and balanced (symmetrical) all the way down

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Sarcophagus with a Reclining Couple, c. 520 BC

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Very similar long face shapes and large almond eyes

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Sarcophagus with a Reclining Couple, c. 520 BC

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Heavily detailed wrinkles, lack of eyes is slightly creepy. His cheeks seem to sink inward.

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Animals are depicted a lot smaller that the human figures.

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Aula Palatina, Trier, Germany, c. AD 310

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The section of the building that curves, seems to draw the eye. It stands out from the rest of the very square shaped building.

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Aula Palatina, Trier, Germany, c. AD 310

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The Parting of Lot and Abraham mosaic, Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome, c. 432-40
Augustine

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So many tiles in this mosaic piece, it allows for so much beautiful detail

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The hexagonal shape of the building and the white top roof continually draws my eye.

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Chi-rho(-iota) Page, Book of Kells, c. 800

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Circles seem to be a very repetitive shape in this piece.

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Chi-rho(-iota) Page, Book of Kells, c. 800

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The man seems very distressed, his surroundings/background also give me a very distressing feeling.

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Very symmetrical building, if a line was drawn down the middle it would almost be the same on both sides. Almost.

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So, so, so much stained glass. Like they wanted to fill the church with as much color as possible

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Abbey Church of St. Denis, near Paris, 1140-44 Suger

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Central tympanum, Royal Portals, Cathedral, Chartres, France, c. 1145-70

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The rows of people placed into the archway make this entrance slightly uncomfortable...im not sure why

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The amount of triangles and point on this building make me think it trying to pierce the sky

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Bamberg Rider, Cathedral, Bamberg, Germany, late 13th century

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The rider seems almost slouched in his seat, and the horses leg is cocked, like they are relaxed. Also the neck of the horse is very straight.

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The Large black circle draws the eye right to it, its like someone punched a hole right through the building.

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Eagle behind his head, his kilt - Symbol of power

Lotus - symbol of lower Egypt

Papyrus plant - High Egypt

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Carved from one large piece of limestone, one of the largest sculptures in the worlds.

240 ft long, 66 ft high

Color pigments of head/face.

Was buried until the 1800s

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It is a different culture in Aegean art, starts in Crete

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Very stylized landscape painting on the inside of houses

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Bulls horns on buildings resemble power

Columns are painted red and tapered

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Men were painted dark/Black

Women were painted light/white

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Tholos - circular tomb, massive entryway.

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-Young, nude, male figure

-monumental sculpture

-Stereometric sculpture

-Found in sanctuary as offering, sometimes they mark graves for males

-Stiff and formal with hint of smile

-Large abstract eyes

Similar to Menkaure and Wife figure from Old Egypt

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Funeral Oration of Pericles

Glorifies Athens instead of himself in his funeral oration.

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Used to help heal patients through the shows

At sanctuary of Asklepios

Built into the ground

great acoustics.

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Lots of monumentality -  large buildings/statues, life sized statues

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Paintings, Chauvet Cave, Ardèche, France, c. 30,000-28,000 BC

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Paintings in the paleolithic period showed animals as realistic while humans were stick figures.

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Possibly trying to picture the capture of the animals/ good fortune on a hunt?

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Statuettes from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar, Iraq, c. 2,700-2,600 BC

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Very similar shapes for both man and women, HUGE eyes.

They don't seem to serve much purpose other than decorative. Possibly worship?

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Statuettes from the Abu Temple, Tell Asmar

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Over 7 feet high and covered in legal codes. Hammurabi was inspired by the gods to write the laws and the depiction at the top shows him talking to a god. Propaganda.

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Hammurabi believed he was the favorite shepherd of the dun-god Shamash.

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Citadel of Sargon II, Khorsabad, c. 720 BC

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The palace itself had ~30 courtyards and 200 rooms. Lamassu stood at the gateway.

Lamassu - Guardian of the palace

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Lion Hunt, Relief from Nineveh, c. 640 BC

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Royals would release and hunt lions at the palace. Staged events held in a square.

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Lion Hunt, Relief from Nineveh, c. 640 BC

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Makeup pallet

The Bowling Pin Headdress is the crown of upper Egypt while the Curly one represents lower Egypt. Combining of Upper and Lower Egypt?

Composite poses.

Showing a battle

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Imhotep, Stepped Pyramid of Zoser (Djoser), Saqqara, c. 2,650 BC

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Mastabas - Tomb markers

Tombs would be quite a bit underground.

Started stacking the Mastabas

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Writes about Mycenean culture and what were originally orally told stories.

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Dipylon Krater, from Dipylon cemetery, c. 750-735 BC

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~5 feet tall

Lots of zones and geometric forms

Top has figures in the zones, emphatic zone/emphasized zine

Wife and child mourning the death of man?

Other mourning figures- pulling out their hair/fierce mourning

Bottom shows procession to the cemetery

Figures in black: Silhouette figures

Spots on heads are eye

Composite pose?

Not a lot of empty space - Filling ornament

Krater -  used for mixing water and wine, If in cemetery they were grave markers for men

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Dipylon Krater, from Dipylon cemetery, c. 750-735 BC

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In Greece, nudity was symbolic for heroism, or athleticism,  or divinity

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Treasury of the Siphnians, Delphi, c. 530 BC

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Used to collect offerings to Apollo

Columns were not originally there - possibly two female figure who acted as columns

Frieze sculpture and pediment sculpture tells the story of the Gods.

Figures from going left to right are the victors in most artwork

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Greeks conquered by alexander the great, after he dies the hellenistic era begins

Pergamon becomes the artistic center

Hippodamian plan - all streets are perpendicular to each other

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Great Altar of Zeus, Pergamon, c. 175-150 BC

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Ionic order

Freze is below the pillars