Art History Study Guide 1

Art History 1003 with Wiseman at University of Arkansas - Fayetteville

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Name: God as Architect
When: Mid-13th century-Illumination

Name: Venus of Willendorf
When: c. 25,000-21,000 B.C.
Type: Sculpture made of Limestone, carved
Monumental object
Paleolithic
Pigment

Name: Chinese Horse
Artist: Lascaux
When: 15,000-13,000 B.C.
Where: Dordogne, France
Limestone
Paleolithic
Pigment

Name: Stonehenge
Where: Salisbury Plain, England
When: c. 2800-1500 B.C.
Most famous Neolithic cromlech in Western Europe.
Neolithic

Name: Post-and-Lintel Construction
How Stonehenge was built.
Post-and-lintel

Name: Pyramids at Giza, Egypt
When: 2551-2472 B.C.
The pyramid of Khafu, his son Khafre, and Khafre's son, Menkaure.-Limestone
Old Kingdom

Name: Cross section of pyramids of Khafu.
The burial chamber was located in the middle of the pyramid.

Name: Seated statue of Khafre
Where: Giza, Egypt
Over life size diorite statue of Khafre illustrating the conventional representation of a Pharaoh.
Block of stone, carved
Canon of Proportions

Name: Menkaure and Queen Khamerernebty
When: 2490-2472 B.C.
Where: Giza, Egypt
Illustrates certain conventional differences between males and females in Egyptian art.
Carved stone

Name: Nebamun Hunting Birds
Where: From the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes, Egypt
When: c. 1390-1352 B.C.
Gypsum plaster

Name: Geometric Amphora
When: 8th century B.C.
Meander patterns are typical of Geometric pottery design.
Made of Terra Cotta
Slip

Name: Polyphemos Painter, amphora
When: 675-650 B.C.
Shapes larger than Geometric style
Picture of Odysseus and his men driving a stake into the cyclops' eye.
Terra Cotta and slip

Name: Shows Achilles and Ajax Playing a Board Game.
When: 540-530 B.C.
Artist: Exekias
Known as black-figure
Terra Cotta
Pigment and slip

Name: Reed Painter, Warrior by a Grave
When: c. 410 B.C.
Terra Cotta
Detail of White-ground lekythos
Pigment
Classical style

Name: New York Kouros
Where: Attica
When: c. 600 B.C.
Marble
Standard Egyptian pose
Cut away from original block of marble leaving open spaces.

Name: Peplos Kore
Where: Found on the Acopolis in Athens.
When: c. 530 B.C.
Parian Marble
"Archaic Smile"

Name: Kritios Boy
From: Acropolis Athens
When: c. 480 B.C.
Early Classical Style
Contrapposto-torso shift and shoulder lowered.
Parian Marble

Name: Warrior from Riace
When: c. 450 B.C.
Bronze with bone, glass paste, and copper inlay.
End of early classical and beginning of Classical.
Lost wax process

Name: Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)
Artist: Polykeitos of Argos
When: c. 440 B.C.
Marble copy of Bronze original
Contrapposto, even more than Kritios Boy
Idealism

Name: Acropolis
Where: Acropolis, Athens
When: Second half of 5th century B.C.
Classical style
Built on an elevated rock supporting several temples, precincts, and other buildings.

Name: Reconstruction of Parthenon
Where: Athens
Architects: Iktinos and Kallikrates.
Completed: 432 B.C. as a temple to Athena.
Temple

Name: Equestrian group from the north frieze of the Parthenon
When: c. 442-439 B.C.
Illustrated the greater Panathenaic procession.
Pentelic marble
Frieze

Name: Reconstruction of Phidias's Athena from naos of the Parthenon.
Wood covered with gold and ivory painting
Armed as goddess of war
Statue of Nike and a shield
So large to represent the importance of athena.

Name: Aphrodite of Knidos
Artist: Praxiteles
When: c. 350 B.C.
Where: Knidos
"Praxitelean curve"
Made of marble
Canon of Proportions

Name: Winged Nike (winged victory)
Where: Samothrace
When: c. 190 B.C.
Made of Marble
Oustretch wings and swirling clothes evoke wind pressure as she descends from the heavens.

Name: Laocoon and his two sons
Roman copies
The "Z" movement in this sculpture is violent.
Counterbalance
Pain is expressed
Marble
Realism

Name: Capitoline Wolf
When: c. 500 B.C.
Where: Museo Capitolino Rome
Story of Romulus and Remus
Capture agressive anger of a mother protecting her cubs
Bronze
Lost wax process

Name: Apollo of Veii
Where: Veii
When: c. 515-490 B.C.
Painted Terra Cotta
Originally decorated the roof of the temple
Temple

Name: Sarcophagus
Artist: Cerveteri
When: c. 520 B.C.
Painted Terra Cotta
Made to contain cremated remains
Sarcophagi

Name: Tomb of the Leopards
When: 480-470 B.C.
Fresco
Shows men and women reclining on banqueting couches; the standing figures are servants.

Name: Side view of Colesseum
Where: Rome
When: c. A.D.72-80
Concrete. travertine, tufa, brick, and marble.
Public spectacles

Name: Pont de Gard
Where: near Nimes, France
When: Late 1st century B.C.
Stone
Barrel Vaulting
Vaulting

Name: Exterior view of Parthenon
Where: Rome
When: A.D. 117-125
Marble, brick, and concrete
Most innovative Roman temple
Dome

Name: Interior of Parthenon
Artist: Giovanni Paolo Panini
When: c. 1740
Oil on Canvas
Oculus in the center of dome

Name: Trajun's Column
Where: Rome
When: dedicated A.D. 113
Marble
In honor of trajun's victory over the Dacian's.
Frieze

Name: Arch of Constantine
Where: Rome
When: c. A.D. 313
Marble
Largest triumphal arch in Rome
Arches

Name: Portrait of a young Flavian Lady
When: c. A.D. 90
Marble

Name: Augustus of Prima Porta
When: early 1st century A.D.
Marble
Unfinished indicating the statue was intended for niche.
Cupid rides a dolphin and serves as a reminder that Augustus traced his lineage to Aeneas (venus' son)

Name: Monumental head of Constantine
Where: From the Basilica of Constantine, Rome
When: A.D. 313
Marble
Colossal size

Name: Still Life
Artist: Herculaneum
When: c. A.D. 50
Fresco
Spatial projection, shaded surfaces, highlights to create volume.
Illusionism, fresco

Name: Hercules Strangling the Serpents
Where: House of Vettii, Pompeii
When: A.D. 63-79
Juno was jealous of her husbands infidelity and tried to kill the infant.
Her plot failed.

Name: St. Paul Outside the Walls
Where: Rome
When: begun A.D. 385
Gives some idea of the original appearance of Early Christian Churches
Clerestory
Nave, arches, cathedral, apse

Name: Exterior of San Vitale
Where: Ravenna
When: A.D. 54--547
Brick facing
Barrel Vaulting
Dome
Apse

Name: Interior of San Vitale Looking East
When: A.D. 540-547
Arches
Cathedral

Name: Apse Mosiac showing Christ with San Vitale, Bishop Ecclesius and 2 angels.
When: c. A.D. 547
Depicts a young beardless Christ.
Perspective
Apse

Name: Court of Justinian
Where: Apse Mosiac, San Vitale
When: c. A.D. 547
Wears royal purple, the same as Christ.
Apse

Name: Court of Theodora
Where: Apse Mosiac, San Vitale
When: c. A.D. 547
Royal purple like her husband.
Apse

Name: Hagia Sophia
Where: Constantinople
When: completed A.D. 537
Holt (hagia) Wisdom (sophia)
Mosque
Nave
Vaulting, arches, dome

Name: Interior of Hagia Sophia after conversion to a mosque
Shows a dazzling effect of the mosaic decoration.
Great dome and arches
Mosque

Name: Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
From: Vienna Genesis
When: Early 6th century
Depicts events from the life of Joseph.
Illuminated Manuscript

Name: Christ
Deatil of a deesis mosaic
Byzantine style

Name: Arches of the Great Mosque
Where: Cordoba, Spain
When: begun 785-786
Bigger than any other christian church.
Arches, dome

Name: Mihrab Bay in the Great Mosque
Where: Cordoba Spain
3 domed chameber entered through three tiers of lobed arches that cross over each other.
Mosque, Cathedral

Name: Dome in front of the Mihrab
Where: Great Mosque, Cordoba Spain
When: c. A.D. 961-976

Name: Lion Symbol of Saint John
From: The book of Durrow
When: After A.D. 650
Illuminated manuscript
Illusionism

Name: Tunc Crucifixerant XPI
From: The Book of Kells
When: Late 8th or Early 9th Century
Illuminated Manuscript

Name: Four Evangelists
From: Carolingian Gospel book
When: Early 9th century
Demonstrates both a new interest in naturalism and the Classical revival.
Illuminated Manuscriptd

Name: Christ in Majesty
Vivian Bible
Diamond shape
Elongated body, hand in a symbol, halo around head.
Unrealism and the figure in Illuminated Manuscripts.

Name: Restored Abbey Church of St. Michael's
Where: Hildesheim
When: c. 1001-31.
Destroyed during WWII

Name: Bronze doors
Where: St. Michaels, Hildesheim
Made of Bronze

Name: The Vision of Constantine, The Stavelot Triptych, open.
Shows power of Relie
Tells a story
Behind the cross held a small pouch with symbolic items

Name: Aerial View of Sainte-Foy, Conques
Where: Auvergne, France
When: c. 1050-1120
Pilgrimages
Clerestory

Name: The Flight Into Egypt
Artist: Gislebertus
Very old looking jesus because he was wise for his age.
Mary holding him
Joseph pulling the donkey.
Romanesque

Name: Last Judgement
Artist: Gislebertus
Tympanum

Name: Detail of Last Judgement
Artist: Gislebertus
Showing the weighing of sous
Lower right corner of Tympanum

Name: Manuscript page from the Life of Saint Denis
Saint Denis was the patron saint of France and first bishop of Paris.
Illuminated Manuscript
Clerestory

Name: Interior of Saint Denis
Arches
Columns
Rib Vaults
First changes from Romanesque to Gothic.
Gothic
Radiating Chapels, vaulting

Name: Carpenter' Guild
Chartres Cathedral
13th century
Stained glass window

Name: South wall of Chartres Cathedral
Everyone poured money into this church.
Where: South of Paris, France
Unsymmetrical towers.
Famous for Labyrinths.
Nave, Cathedral, apse

Name: Plan of Chartres Cathedral
Shows nave, radiating chapel, buttress, and apse.
Built as tall as they possibly could

Name: West facade, Chartres Cathedral
Has a crypt that is older than the rest of the church
Gothic

Name: Tympanum, lintel and archivolts.
Represents the second coming of Christ with the 4 apocalyptic symbols of the evangelists.
West facade of Cathedral
Gothic
Tympanum

Name: Saints Theodore
Where: Chartres Cathedral
South transept.
Rebuilt part of Cathedral after fire
More labor and material in this than used in all pyramids of Giza

Name: Nave, Chartres Cathedral
Spires
Flying Buttresses
Stained glass
Arches
Clerestory
Vaulting

Name: Rose window and lancets
North transept, Chartres Cathedral
Most famous window in Chartres

About this deck

By: Shelby Free
Created: 2010-09-13
Size: 75 flashcards
Views: 496

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