Unit II: Art History Maps and Timelines
Name: Key (9 Artwork Blanks, 22 Concepts)
Block:
The Ice Age (15.2)
Timeline
Late Paleolithic
The Ice Age
25,000 BCE: Venus of Willendorf
13,000 BCE: Cave Paintings at Lascaux
Concepts
Ice Age People
People who hunted animals for food, clothing and shelter.
Cave Paintings
While the Ice Age people did sculpt, they are best known for their cave paintings.
Mainly found in Lascaux, France.
Materials Used
Made pigments from natural materials. Gypsum for white, iron oxide for reds and
yellows, and charcoal for black. They would mix these with animal blood or fat.
Animal bristles, blowpipes to spray the paint.
Subject Matter
Animals, shown from the side, vivid shape and color, little interest in compositional
placement
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Purpose for Creating
Art
Sculpture
Animal paintings served magical purposes…painting the animal gave them power
over it. Caves were temple-sanctuaries where hunters would gather to ensure
success in their hunt.
Made of clay, wood, and bone, Magic also played a role…ensure successful
childbirth through fertility figures.
Ancient Egypt (15.3)
Timeline
12th Dynasty
18th Dynasty
19th Dynasty
1991-1783 BCE:
1350 BCE: Fowling in the Marshes
1257 BCE:
Statuette of a Hippopotamus
1352 BCE: Wadjet Eye Pendant
Temple of Ramses II
Concepts
Hieroglyphics
The written language of Egyptians, a form of symbolic picture writing.
Sophisticated
Civilization
Experts in mathematics, engineering, and construction. Very conservative, cultural
forms changed little over thousands of years.
Religion
Polytheistic: worshiping more than one god. Also believed in immortality (life after
death) esp. for pharaohs, priests, and nobility.
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Burial Traditions
Pharaoh
Carefully preserved after death to ensure they lived forever. Each body was
embalmed and mummified.
“God-Like” leader of the Egyptian people. The most impressive art and artifacts
come from their tombs.
Tomb Decoration and The tomb was filled with earthly belongings and paintings of the deceased family,
Treasures
servants, and animals.
Rules of Style
Purpose for Creating
Art
Lacks three-dimensional depth, overlapping is minimal, figures shown larger or
smaller to indicate their rank in society, animals show no shading. Figure= heads,
legs, and feet shown in profile, while one eye and the shoulders are shown frontally.
Magical role of ensuring continued existence in the afterlife.
Classical Greece (15.4)
Timeline
Classical Period
530 BCE: Kore with Dorian peplos
500-400 BCE: Athena
500-400 BCE: The Discobolus
Concepts
Change in Style
Greek art changed stylistically over time. Simple and unmoving to naturalistic and
showing movement
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Great Era of Greek
Culture
(Achievements)
Famous Figures
Humanism
Idealism
Classical period: Achievements in art, architecture, philosophy, literature, science,
and mathematics.
Philosophers Plato and Socrates; Writers Sophocles and Euripides; Pericles, leader of
Athens who established that city as the center of art and culture in the Greek world.
A view of life based on the nature and interests of people.
A belief in the concept of perfection.
Ideal Proportions
Greek philosophers reasoned that there was a perfect, or ideal, form for everything,
so Greek sculptors developed a whole system of ideal proportions for the human
figure.
Weight Shift
Breakthrough in the art of representing the human figure, accurately depicts how a
figure looks when putting most weight on one leg and bending the other.
Depiction of the
Human Body
Highly prized physical fitness, believed that a well-developed body was beautiful and
a reflection of divine beauty. Balanced posture, symmetrical proportions, and
passive facial features.
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