Chapter 1: Prehistoric Art
Figures:
1-1
1-7
1-11
1-12
1-13
1-21
Spotted Horses and Human Hands, 25,000-24,000 BCE, painting, PechMerle Cave, France
Woman from Willendorf, c. 24,000 BCE, Limestone, Willendorf,
Austria
Hall of the Bulls, c. 15,000 BCE, painting, Lascaux cave, France
Bird-Headed Man with Bison, c. 15,000 BCE, painting, Lascaux cave,
France
Bison, c. 12,500 BCE, painting, Altamira cave, Spain
Stonehenge, 2750-1500 BCE, stone, Wiltshire, England
Important terms and ideas:
post-and-lintel
mortise-and-tenon joints
composite form (book uses the term composite pose)
abstraction
naturalism
realism
sculpture in the round
relief sculpture
Chapter 2: Art of the Ancient Near East
Figures:
2-1
2-2
2-4
2-5
p. 35
p. 35
2-7
2-8
p. 38
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-15
Stele of Naram-Sin, 2254-2218 BCE, limestone, Susa, Iran
Ruins of the Anu Ziggurat and White Temple, 3300-3000 BCE, Uruk, Iraq
Votive Figures from the Square Temple, 2900-2600 BCE, limestone,
alabaster and gypsum, Iraq
Cylinder seal, 2550-2400 BCE, lapis lazuli, Ur, Iraq
The Great Lyre with Bull’s Head, 2550-2400 BCE, gold leaf and lapis
lazuli over wooden core, Royal Cemetery, Ur, Iraq
Sound Box of The Great Lyre
Reconstruction of the Nanna Ziggurat, 2100-2050 BCE
Votive Statue of Gudea, 2090 BCE, diorite, Girsu, Iraq
Stele of Hammurabi, 1792-1750 BCE, diorite, Susa, Iran
Assurnasirpal II Killing Lions, 875-860 BCE, alabaster, from the Palace of
Assurnasirpal II, Nimrud, Iraq
Reconstruction of citadel of Sargon II, 721-706 BCE, Dur Sharrukin, Iraq
Guardian figures at Gate A of the Citadel of Sargon II During its
Excavation, Dur Sharrukin, c. 721-706 BCE (Lamassu Figures)
Ishtar Gate, 575 BCE, glazed brick, Babylon, Iraq
Important terms and ideas:
stele
votive figures
iconography
idealization
hieratic scale
registers
cuneiform
ziggurats
Chapter 3: Art of Ancient Egypt
Figures:
3-1
p. 52
3-2
3-3
3-4
3-8
3-9
3-10
3-14
3-18
3-19
3-20
3-21
3-22
3-25
3-26
3-28
3-29
Funerary mask of Tutankhamun, 1332-1322 BCE, gold with inlay of glass
and semiprecious stones, Eighteenth Dynasty, Thebes
The Narmer Palette, 2950 BCE, green schist, Early Dynastic period
Reconstruction Drawing of Djoser’s Funerary Complex, Saqqara, 26302575 BCE
The Step Pyramid, and Sham Buildings, Funerary Complex of Djoser,
Saqqara, limestone, height of pyramid 204’
Great Pyramids, 2575-2450 BCE, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
Khafre, 2520-2494 BCE, anorthosite gneiss, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
Menkaure and a Queen, 2490-2472 BCE, graywacke with traces of red
and black paint, Fourth Dynasty, Giza
Seated scribe, 2450-2325 BCE, painted limestone, Fifth Dynasty, Saqqara
Rock-cut tombs, 1938-1755 BCE, Twelfth Dynasty, Beni Hasan
Reconstruction Drawing of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, New
Kingdom, c. 1579-1075 BCE
Reconstruction drawing of the Hypostyle hall, Temple of Amun, 12921190 BCE, Nineteenth Dynasty, Karnak
Ruins of the Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, 1579-1075 BCE
Hatshepsut Kneeling, Eighteenth Dynasty, 1473-1458 BCE, red granite
Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut, 1473-1458 BCE, Eighteenth Dynasty, Deir elBahri
Akhenaten, 1353-1336 BCE, sandstone, Eighteenth Dynasty, Karnak
Akhenaten and His Family, 1353-1336 BCE, limestone sunken relief, Tell
el-Amarna, Egypt
Nefertiti, 1353-1336 BCE, painted limestone, Eighteenth Dynasty,
Tell el-Amarna
Inner Coffin of Tutankhamun’s Sarcophagus, 1332-1322 BCE, gold with
inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones, Eighteenth Dynasty, Thebes
Important terms and ideas:
mastaba
hypostyle hall
stele
necropolis
clerestory
Chapter 4: Art of the Ancient Aegean
Figures:
4-2
4-4
4-5
4-6
4-7
Figure of a Women, 2600-2400 BCE, marble, Cycladic Islands
Reconstruction of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete, 2000-1375 BCE
Kamares Ware Jug, 2000-1900 BCE, Phaistos, Crete
Bull Leaping, 1550-1450 BCE, fresco, Knossos, Crete
Woman or Goddess with Snakes, 1700-1550 BCE, faience, Palace of
Knossos, Crete
4-10 Octopus Flask, 1500-1450 BCE, Palaikastro, Crete
4-12 Landscape (Spring Fresco), before 1630 BCE, fresco, Akrotiri, Thera
p.92-3 “Flotilla” Fresco, 1650 BCE, fresco, Room 5, West House, Akrotiri, Thera
4-18 Exterior view of Tholos, the So-Called Treasury of Atreus, 1300-1200
BCE, Mycenae, Greece
4-19 Corbeled Vault of the Treasury of Atreus
Important terms and ideas:
Potter’s wheel
abstract forms
labyrinth
minotaur
dry fresco (fresco secco)
wet fresco (true fresco)
corbel vault, corbeling
Chapter 5: Art of Ancient Greece
Figures:
5-1
5-2
5-9
Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a game, 540 BCE, Orvieto, Italy
Funerary Vase (krater), from the Dipylon cemetery, 750-700 BCE,
Athens, Greece
Plan and Exterior of Temple of Hera I, Paestum, Italy, 550-540
BCE
Metropolitan Kouros, 600 BCE, marble, 6’ tall
Anavysos Kouros, 530 BCE, marble, Anavysos, Greece, 6’ 4” tall
“Peplos” Kore, 530 BCE, marble, from the Acropolis, Athens, Greece
Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a game (detail), 540 BCE, Orvieto,
Italy
5-26 Warrior, 460-450 BCE, bronze, Riace, Italy
5-31 Iktinos and Kallikrates, Parthenon, 447-432 BCE, Athens, Greece
5-32 Photographic Mock-Up of the East Pediment of the Parthenon (including
The Three Goddesses), 447-432 BCE
5-33 Lapith Fighting a Centaur, 447-432 BCE, metope from Parthenon, Athens,
Greece
p. 134 Polykleitos, Spear Bearer (Doryphorus), 450-440 BCE, Roman marble
copy after the bronze original
5-35 Marshals and Young Women, Panathenaic Festival frieze, 447-432 BCE,
marble, Parthenon, Athens, Greece
5-39 Nike (Victory) Adjusting her Sandal, 410-405 BCE, Temple of Athena
Nike, Athens, Greece
5-45 Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, 350 BCE, Roman marble copy
5-52 Dying Gallic Trumpeter, 220 BCE, Roman copy
5-54 Athena Attacking the Giants, from the Altar of Pergamon, 175-150 BCE,
marble
5-55 Hagesandros, Polydoros, and Athenodoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and His
sons, 1st century, marble, 8’
5-16
5-18
5-19
5-22
Important terms and ideas:
Geometric period
Archaic period
Classical period
Hellenistic period
doric
ionic
corinthian
entabulature
pediment
frieze
kouros, kore
archaic smile
red-figure and black-figure painting
contrapposto
relief sculpture
expressionism
emotionalism
Chapter 6: Etruscan and Roman Art
Figures:
6-3
Reconstruction of an Etruscan temple
p. 170 Patrician Carrying Portrait Busts of Two Ancestors, end of 1st century
BCE or beginning of 1st century CE, marble, height 5’5”
6-13 Portrait Head of an Elder, 80 BCE, marble, life size
p. 172 Pont du Gard, late 1st century BCE, Nîmes, France
6-16 Temple, perhaps dedicated to Portunus, late 2nd century BCE, Rome, Italy
6-18 Augustus of Primaporta, early 1st century BCE, marble copy of bronze
original, Primaporta, Italy
p. 176 Ara Pacis Augustae, 13-9 BCE, Rome, Italy
p. 177 Imperial Procession, south façade of the Ara Pacis, 13-9 BCE, Rome, Italy
6-23 Peristyle Garden, House of the Vettii, rebuilt 62-79 CE, Pompeii, Italy
6-29 Cityscape, Late 1st century CE, from a bedroom in the House of Publius
Fannius Syistor, Boscoreale, Italy
6-32 The Arch of Titus, 81 CE, Rome, Italy
6-33 Spoils from the Temple of Solomon, scene from the Arch of Titus
6-35 Flavian Amphitheater, The Colosseum, 70-80 CE, Rome, Italy
6-36 A Young Flavian Woman, 90 CE, marble
6-37 Middle-Aged Flavian Woman, late 1st century CE, marble
6-43 Column of Trajan, 113-116 or after 117 CE, forum of Trajan, Rome, Italy
6-44 Column of Trajan Detail
6-45 Pantheon, 118-128 CE, Rome, Italy (exterior)
6-46 Reconstruction Drawing of the Pantheon
6-48 Interior of the Pantheon
6-52 Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius, 176 CE, bronze, Rome, Italy
6-53 Commodus as Hercules, 191-192 CE, marble
6-54 Caracalla, Early 3rd century CE, marble
6-55 Baths of Caracalla, 211-217 CE, Rome, Italy
6-56 Plan of the Baths of Caracalla, 211-217 CE, Rome, Italy
6-63 Basilica of Maxentius and Constantine (Basilica Nova), 306-313 CE,
Rome, Italy
6-65 Reconstruction drawing of the Basilica Nova, 306-312 AD
6-66 Constantine the Great, 325-326 CE, Rome, Italy
Important terms and ideas from Chapter 6:
patricians
plebians
veristic/verism
amphitheater
atrium
peristyle garden
velarium
intuitive perspective
continuous narrative frieze
frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium
Chapter 7: Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
Figures:
7-6
7-9
7-13
7-14
7-15
7-16
7-17
7-18
7-19
7-20
7-21
7-22
7-23
7-24
7-25
The Good Shepherd, second half of the 3rd century, marble
Interior of Santa Sabina, 422-32, Rome, Italy
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, 359, marble, Rome, Italy
Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, 425-26, Ravenna, Italy
Interior of Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
Christ as the Good Shepherd, 425-26, mosaic from the Mausoleum of
Galla Placidia
Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus, Church of Hagia Sophia,
532-37, Istanbul, Turkey
plan and section of the Church of Hagia Sophia
Church of Hagia Sophia, Interior
Plan and Cutaway drawing, Church of San Vitale, 520-48, Ravenna, Italy
Church of San Vitale, Interior, 520-48
Christ Enthroned, Flanked by Angels, St. Vitalis and Bishop Ecclesius,
Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, Mosaic
Emperor Justinian and His Attendants, 547, mosaic, San Vitale
Empress Theodora and Her Attendants, 547, San Vitale
The Transfiguration of Christ with Sant’Appolinare, First Bishop of
Ravenna, 549, apse mosaic, Church of Sant’Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna, Italy
Important terms and ideas:
basilica
nave
narthex, vestibule
apse
transept
side aisles
ambulatory
central planned church
cruciform
mosaics
Byzantine, Byzantium
pendentives
hieratic scale
mandorla
iconoclasm
Chapter 14: Early Medieval Art in Europe
Figures:
14-5
Page with Man, Gospel Book of Durrow, Gospel of St. Matthew, second
half of the 7th century, ink and tempera on parchment, Iona, Scotland
14-18 Page with Matthew the Evangelist, Ebbo Gospels, Gospel of Matthew,
second quarter of the 9th century, ink, gold, and colors on vellum
14-19 Crucifixion with Angels and Mourning Figures, Lindau Gospels, outer
cover, 870-80, gold, pearls, sapphires, garnets, and emeralds
14-24 Doors of Bishop Bernward, 1015, Abbey Church of Saint Michael,
Hildesheim, Germany, 16’6”
Important terms and ideas:
biomorphic, organic, zoomorphic forms
manuscript illuminations
Chapter 15: Romanesque Art
Figures:
15-3 Interior, Church of Sant Vincenc, Cardona, 1020s-30s
15-11 Cathedral Complex, Pisa, Italy, cathedral begun 1063, baptistery begun
1153, campanile begun 1174
15-16 Interior, Speyer Cathedral, Germany, c. 1080-1106
15-17 Exterior, Speyer Cathedral, Germany, c. 1080-1106
15-18 Nave, Durham Cathedral, England, 1087-1133
p. 478 Giselbertus, Last Judgment, tympanum on west portal, Cathedral of SaintLazare, Autun, France, ca. 1120-30
p. 484 Bayeux Tapestry, embroidered wool on linen, 1066-82
Important terms and ideas:
feudalism
campanile
mandorla
wall elevation, façade elevation
tympanum, lunette
Chapter 16: Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Figures:
Introduction to Gothic architecture:
16-2 Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Plan
16-3 Interior, Abbey Church of Saint-Denis, Choir, France, 1140-44
Chartres Cathedral:
16-6 West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, France, begun 1134, rebuilt after 1194
16-7 Royal Portal, West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, 1145-55
16-8 Royal Portal, West Façade, Chartres Cathedral, Prophets and Ancestors of
Christ jamb statues, 1145-55
16-11 Nave, Chartres Cathedral, 1194-1220
16-13 Chartres Cathedral, North Transept, Rose window and Lancets, 1220
Reims Cathedral:
16-15 West façade, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Reims, France, ca. 1225-1290
16-16 West Façade, Central Portral, Visitation and Annunciation figures, Reims
Cathedral
16-17 Nave, Reims Cathedral, 1220
The Epitome of Gothic architecture:
P. 509 Upper Chapel, Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, France, 1243-48
Important terms and ideas:
gothic rib vault
sexpartite vault
rose window
triforium
flying buttresses
jamb figures, jamb sculpture