Rebekah Scoggins – Art Appreciation – February 5, 2013
Prehistoric to Greek Art Image List
Hohle Fels Figure. c. 35,000 B.C.E. Carved Mammoth Tusk. Height 2-1/2".
Venus of Willendorf (Woman) c. 25,000–20,000 B.C.E. (late Paleolithic). Limestone.
Earthenware Beaker. Susa, Iran. c. 4000 B.C.E. Painted terra cotta.
Stonehenge. c. 2000 B.C.E. Salisbury Plain, England.
Ziggurat of Ur-Nammu. Iraq. c. 2100 B.C.E.
Lyre. Front plaque & reconstructed lyre from "The King's Grave" tomb c. 2650–2550 B.C.E.
Wood with gold, lapis lazuli, shell, and silver
Head of an Akkadian Ruler. Nineveh. c. 2300–2200 B.C.E. Bronze.
The Great Pyramids. Giza, Egypt. Pyramid of Mycerinus (Menkaure), c. 2500 B.C.E.; Pyramid
of Chefren (Khafre), 2650 B.C.E.; Pyramid of Cheops (Khufu), c. 2570 B.C.E.
King Menkaura (Mycerinus) and Queen Khamerernebty. Egypt, Giza, Menkaure Valley Temple.
Egyptian, c. 2490–2472 B.C.E. Greywacke.
Mask from Mummy Case. Tomb of Tutankhamen. c. 1340 B.C.E. Gold inlaid with enamal and
semiprecious stones.
Funerary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut. Deir el-Bahari, Egypt. c. 1490–1460 B.C.E.
Wall Painting from the Tomb of Nebamun. Thebes, Egypt. c. 1450 B.C.E. Paint on dry plaster.
Euphronios, Krater. c. 515 B.C.E. Terra cotta.
Kouros (Statue of standing youth). Greek. c. 580 B.C.E. Marble.
Kroisos Kouros, ca. 530 BC. Marble.
Polykleitos. Spear Bearer (Doryphoros). Roman copy of Greek original. c. 440 B.C.E. Marble
(original in Bronze)
Ictinus and Callicrates. Parthenon. Acropolis, Athens. View from the northwest. 448–432
B.C.E.
Ictinus and Callicrates. The Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs. Metope from the Parthenon. c.
440 B.C.E.
Three Goddesses. Pediment sculpture from the Parthenon, Athens. 438–432 B.C.E. Marble.
Venus de Medici (Medici Venus). 3rd Century B.C.E. Marble.
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydiris of Rhodes, The Laocoön Group. Roman copy of a
1st- or 2nd-century B.C.E. Greek original, c. 1st Century C.E. Marble.