AP ART HISTORYS GREATEST HITS. Paleolithic Venus of Willendorf 28,000- 25,000 BCE Characteristics: Served as fertility image. No facial features Ball-like.

AP ART HISTORY’SGREATEST HITS

Paleolithic

• Venus of Willendorf

•28,000- 25,000 BCE

•Characteristics:

•Served as fertility image.

•No facial features

•Ball-like shapes

Neolithic

•Landscape with Volcanic Eruption

•6150 BCE

•Characteristics

•World’s 1st landscape

•This mural is the 1st depiction of a place devoid of both humans and animals

Old Kingdom Egypt

•Khafre

•2520-2494 BCE

•Characteristics

•Diorite

•Rigidly uptight

•Flawless body

•Idol Proportions

•Bilaterally Symmetrical

•Houses the “Ka”

New Kingdom Egypt•Akhenaton

•1353-1335 BCE

•Characteristics

•Long face, full lips, and curves

•Far cry from the proportional figures of the pharos

Sumerian

• Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

•2254-2218 BCE

•Characteristics

•Godlike sovereignty the kings claimed

•King is bigger than everyone else

•1st time the King appears as a god in Mesopotamian art

Assyrian

•Lamassu

•720-705 BCE

•High relief

•Characteristics

•5 legs makes this a conceptual picture

Persian

•Head of a Sasania King (Shapur II)

•350 BCE

•Characteristics

•Suggests the splendor of Sasanian dynasty

•Repousse

Minoan

•Bull Leaping

•1450-1400 BCE

•Characteristics

•Bull Elongated

•Women have fair skin, Man has dark skin

Cycladic

• •Figurine of a Woman

•2500-2300 BCE

•Characteristics

•Triangles dominate

•Emphasis on breasts

•Fertility goddess (?)

Mycenaean

• • Lion Gate

•1300-1250 BCE

•Characteristics

•Capped with a huge lintel

•Above lintel is corbelled arch

•Relieving triangle

Archaic Greek Sculpture

• Kouros

•600 BCE

•Characteristics

•Life-size, nude, young men are kouroi and life-size, clothed, young women are korai

•Emulates the stance of Egyptian statues

•Foot advanced

•Nude Perfect body

Archaic Greek Architecture

• Temple of Hera I

•550 BCE

•Characteristics

•Doric Temple

•Peripteral Colonnade

Classical Greek Sculpture

•Kritios Boy

•480 BCE

•Characteristics

•Contrapposto

•Broke the rule of frontality

Classical Greek Architecture

•Parthenon

•447-438 BCE

•Characteristics

•Perfect proportions in Doric temple design

•Doric columns

Hellenistic Greek Sculpture

•Seated Boxer

•100-50 BCE

•Characteristics

•Heavily Battered, defeated veteran

•Nose broken, teeth missing

•Appealed to the emotions

•Realism

Etruscan

•Sarcophagus of Lars Pulena

•Early 2nd Century

•Characteristics

•Somber- Symptomatic of economic and political decline of the once mighty Etruscan city-state

Roman Sculpture

•Equestrian Statue

•175 CE

•Characteristics

•Superhuman grandeur and larger than a normal human

•Shows mercy

Roman Architecture

•Pantheon

•118-125 CE

•Characteristics

•Oculus

•Temple of all the gods

•Influential

•Concrete

Early Christian Architecture

•Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

•425 CE

•Characteristics

•Cruciform

•Longitudinal

Byzantine Architecture

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•Hagia Sophia

•532-537 CE

•Characteristics

•Mystical Quality of light that floods the interior

•Central Dome

Byzantine Painting

• •Virgin (Theotokos) and Child

•Late 11th Century to Early 12th Century

•Characteristics

•Virgin of Compassion

•Mary- Long nose and long fingers

Hiberno-Saxon

• •Book of Kells, Chi-Tho-Io

•Late 8th or Early 9th Century

•Characteristics

•Elaborately Decorated

•Illuminations

Carolingian

•Saint Matthew Folio Recto

•800-810 CE

•Characteristics

•Deft illusionist brushwork

•Color and modulation of light and shade to create shapes

Ottonian

•Column with relief's illustrating the life of Christ

•1015-1022 CE

•Characteristics

•Narrative

•Similar to the column of Trajan

Romanesque Architecture

•St.- Sernin, Toulouse

•1070-1120 CE

•Characteristics:

•Pilgrimage Church

•Geometrically precise

•Simple ratios

•Groin vaults

Romanesque Sculpture

•King David

•1180-1190 CE

•Characteristics

•Absent weight Shift

•Freestanding in a niche

Gothic Architecture

•Notre-Dame

•1180-1200 CE

•Characteristics

•Stained glass oculi

•Flying buttresses

Gothic Sculpture

•Saints Martin, Jerome, and Gregory. Jamb statues

•1220-1230 CE

•Characteristics

•Break rigid vertical lines

•Drapery falls softly

•Features: Distinctive personality revealed in faces

Gothic Painting

•Belleville Breviary

•1325 CE

•Three dimensional architectural setting

•Convincing Perspective

•Close observation of the natural world

Ancient Japan

•Amida Triad

•710

•Characteristics

•Simple and iconic

•Became a major trend

•Indian sensuality surfaces in this work

•Smooth brush strokes

Ancient China

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•Travelers Among Mountains and Streams

•Early 11th Century

•Characteristics

•1st masters of the recording of light, shadow, distance and texture

•Intricate details

Islam

•Dome of the Rock

•687-692

•Characteristics

•1st great achievement of Islamic architecture

•Octagonal dome

•Interior is vivid and colorful

Ancient North America

•Incised Shell Gorget

•1250-1300 CE

•Characteristics

•Running Warrior

•Composite profile

•Elaborate headdress

•Gifts to the dead

Ancient Mesoamerica

• •Colossal Head

•900-400 BCE

•Characteristics

•Human body

•Great ruler and exhibits power

Ancient South America

•Raimondi Stele

•1st Millennium BCE

•Characteristics

•Represents “staff god”

•Multiplicity and dual readings

•God transforms before the viewer’s eye

•Core aspect of Andean religion

Ancient Africa

•Nok Head

•500-200

•Characteristics

•Flaring nostrils and triangle eyes are unique to Nok art

•African culture liked heads

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Ancient India

•Shiva as Nataraja

•1000

•Characteristics

•Nataraja means Lord of the Dance

•Portable image

•Dwarf that she is standing on represents ignorance

Early Renaissance Sculpture

•Saint Mark by Donatello

•1411-1413

•Characteristics

•Contrappasto

•1st with voluminous drapery

•Stirring limbs

Early Renaissance Painting

•Tribute Money by Massacio

•1427

•Characteristics

Narrative Light is coming from a specific source

Chiaroscuro Vanishing Point

Aerial Perspective Distance

High Renaissance Sculpture

•David by Michelangelo

•1501-1504

•Characteristics

•Formal references to classical antiquity

•Compositionally and emotionally connected to an unseen presence

•Head turned to show pent up energy

High Renaissance Painting

•Mona Lisa by Da Vinci

•1503-1505

•Characteristic

•Chiaroscuro and atmospheric perspective

•Smoky sfumato means softened edges

•Unrecognizable landscape makes it mysterious

Renaissance Architecture

• •Capitoline Hill designed by Michelangelo

•1537

•Characteristics

•Organized units symmetrically around a central/ unique axis

•Trapezoid plane

•Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius