Art History/Survey 200 Exam 1

1-1 Spotted Horse and Human Hand(Upper Paleolithic)Pech-Merle Cave, Dordogne, France.
Horse 25,000-24,000 BCE;
Hand c. (circa) 15,000 BCE.
Painted on Limestone, horse over 5' (1.5M) in length.

1-2 Lion-Human (Upper Paleolithic)
From Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany.
C. 30,000 BCE.
Mammoth ivory, height 11^5/8" (29.6 cm).
Ulmer Museum, Ulum, Germany

1-4 Woman from Willendorf(Upper Paleolithic)
Austria, c. 24,000 BCE
Limestone, height 4^{3/8" (11cm)}
Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Scultpture in the Round, Relief Sculpture

1-7 Hall of Bulls (Upper Paleolithic)
Lascaux Caves. c 15,000 BCE
Painted of Limestone

1-8 Bird Headed Man with Bison(Upper Paleolithic)Lascaux Caves. C. 15,000 BCE
Painter on Limestone

Length Approx. 9 feet

1-9 Bison (Upper Paleolithic)
Altamira, Spain, on ceiling in cave.
C. 35,000 and 11,000 BCE
Painted on Limestone, Geological Protrubances length approx. 8' 3" (2.5m)

1-11 People and Animals (Neolithic Period)
detail of a rock-shelter painting in Cogul, Lleida, Spain.
C. 4,000-2,000 BCE.Domestication of Animals
Museu Arqueologic, Barcelona, Spain

1-14 House Interior, Skara Brae (Neolithic Period)
Orkney Islands, Scotland.C. 3100 BCE.

Post and Lintel, Corbeled Stones
Roof; Hides and Turf

1-15 Tomb Interior with engraved stones, (Neolithic-Megalithic)
Newgrange, Ireland.c. 3,000-2,500 BCE

Corbled Vault, Post and Lintel, Engraved stone; rings, triangles, Light enters through opening

Cairn 280 ft. diameter 44 feet tall

1-16 Stonehenge (Neolithic-Megalithic)
Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England.
C.3,000-1,500 BCE

Gray Sarsen, chalk, bluestone (dolerite) ring; theraputic powers.
Post and Lentel, Trilitihions
4 building phases
Summer sunrise over Heel stone (35 ton, 66ft high)
Winter sunset over Heel stone
Observatory for Astronomers

1-18 Horse and Sun-Chariot (Bronze and Iron Age)

C. 1800-1600 BCE
Bronze and Gold, 23 1/4 in Length
Incised Patter
Representing Sun God. Ceremonial.

2-1 Stele of Narim-Sin (Babylonian)
Sippar (found at Susa)
C. 2254-2218 BCE
Limestone, Height 6 ft 6 in
Heiratic Scale, Mesopitamia

Musee du Louvre, Paris, France

2-3 Carved Vessel from Uruk (Modern Warka, Iraq)
C. 3,300 - 3,000 BCE (Summerian)
Alabaster, Height 36 in
Carved, Registers-Story bottom to top.

Iraq museum, Baghdad

2-4 "Votives Statues" from Sqaure temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar, Iraq)
C. 2900-2600 BCE

Limestone, Alabaster and Gpsum 30in i tallest Votive,
Religious Art, Conventional Art,
Votives offering prayers on behalf of person to their God.

2-5 Nanna Ziggurat, UR
C. 2,100-2050 BCE (Sumerian)

Ziggurat- stepped zig-zag pyramidal structure, with a temple of shrine on top.

Meeting place between heaven and earth