Picture It!
Place = 1 point
Unit = 1 point
Mrs. Kowanes’
AP World
Pictorial Review
Angkor Wat, Cambodia
• Unit 2: 1100 C.E.
• A temple in Angkor Cambodia built for
King Suryavarmanis.
• A significant religious center
• First Hindu dedicated to god Vishnu, then
Buddhist.
Japan
Great Wave off Kanagawa
• Edo Period (1830s) Feudal Japan
• Famous block print – represents kami
(spirits) and kazi (wind) “wave of ocean”
• Style: Woodblock
• Mount Fuji
Gupta Golden Age! 320 AD
• Ajunta, India is famous for Gupta rock cut
cave temples, arcs and fresco paintings.
• Purpose: Sanctuaries and monasteries
• Focus: Religious and spiritual themes of
Hinduism (Vishnu, Shiva) and Buddhism
(images of Buddha refined)
Catal Huyuk
Unit 1: 6,500 B.E.
• One of the world's first towns, ancient
civilization
• Turkey when farming began
Europe and Asia
Unit 1: Paleolithic Era:
c. 20,000 years ago
•Venus Figurine
Olmec Colossal Head
Unit 1: Mesoamerica
1500 – 400 BCE
Mount Rushmore
U.S.A. ~ South Dakota
Unit 5: 1927-1941
Pantheon Temple, Rome
Unit 1: 118-126 AD
Parthenon, Athens Greece
Unit 1: 477 B.C.
Cairo, Egypt
Unit 1: 2480 BCE
Great Stupa, India
Buddhist monument
Unit 1: 200 BC
Notre-Dame Cathedral
Paris, France
Unit 2: 1163 AD
Flying Buttresses
Gothic Architecture
Washington Monument
Unit 4: 1848
Washington D.C.
Egyptian Obelisk
Unit 1: Foundations
Islamic Art ~ book binding
Safavid Empire
Unit 3: 1600 AD
Cordoba Mosque, Spain
Unit 2:
•Umayyad Caliphate (929–1031)
• Córdoba great intellectual center of Europe
• Consisted of libraries and schools
•Unique structure in multi-level arches never
used before in any mosque.
•Combination of Byzantine and Islamic art.
•Most Muslims rejected its design bc
inconsistent with natural and symbolic
qualities of a mosque
Edo Period, Japan
Unit 3: 1542 – 1616
Feudal society under Tokugawa Ieyasu, creativity came not
from its leaders, a conservative military class, but from the
two lower classes in the Confucian social hierarchy, the
artisans and merchants.
Source: Asian Art | Thematic Essays | Heilbrunn Timeline of
Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mughal Art, India
Unit 3: After 1600
Seated Buddha
Tang dynasty
Unit 2: (618–907)
Bronze
Shiva, India
Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer
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Unit 2: 1000 C.E.
Gourd Shaped Bottle
Mesoamerica!
The Manila Galleon brought porcelain, silk, ivory, spices, and
myriad other exotic goods from China to Mexico in exchange
for New World silver. (It is estimated that as much as onethird of the silver mined in New Spain and Peru went to the
Far East.)
Source: The Manila Galleon Trade (1565–1815) | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art
History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tenochtitlan, Mexico
Aztecs
Unit 3: 1486 AD
Jade Head Pendant
Mexico, Mayans
Unit 2:
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6
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9
Century
Mayan Spouted Vessel
Mexico
Unit 1: 1st Century BC – 1st
Century AD
Roman Fresco
Unit 1: 40 B.C.
Hagia Sophia
Unit 1: 360 AD
Icon Art
Byzantine Empire
Unit 3: 1400-1500
Ghana King, Africa
Unit 3: 17th Century
Cave Art
Natal, Southern Africa
Period 1 = Dates?
Nok Terracottas
Nigeria
Period 1 Dates = ?
Trans-Saharan Trade
Mansa Musa, Mali
Period 3 = Dates?
Queen Mask
Nigeria
16th Century = What Period?
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South West Asia
Sheikh Lotf Allah Mosque in Isfahan, Iran
Constructed during the reign of Shah Abbas I (1587-1629)
During the GUN POWDER empires!
– Safavid Empire of Persia
• Shah Ismail I 16th century
– Mughals
• Babur 1483-1530
• Akbar 1556-1605 legendary justice, combined customs and religious
traditions, toleration
– Ottomans (1299- 1922)
E. Asia: Japan - 750 C.E.
• Origami
• Trade secret of paper from China spread
to Japan during 600s (Heian
Period/Classical)
• Imperial Court – elegant use to pass time!
China
• Architecture
– Buddhist believed curved roof lines ward off
evil spirits which were believed to be straight
lines.
– different from most Western roofing systems
which puts stress on outer walls. Chinese
roof sits on timber frame, and distributes the
stress evenly–there’s no need to pre-plan a
system of inner walls to support the roof.
• Fung Shui – Daoist Principles
Aksum Stele
400 AD
• Ancient Kingdom of Askum (Ethiopia)
• Monuments built not for religious purpose
but to show their strength and power as
leaders
• 70 feet high, sculpted solid block of granite
Maori Mask, Oceania, 1800 CE
• Maoris - original people of New Zealand.
• Woodcarving is of an ancestor and would
have been found on a Maori meeting house.
The mask displays the fierce, aggressiveness
during war dances.
• The lines on this mask mirror Maori tattoos,
which, traditionally they had on their faces to
make them look fierce, and so scare off their
enemies.
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