History of Art and Design I Image List
Art, design, and civilization before Classicism *denotes supplemental images not contained in Art Through the Ages Title Sketch/photo Notes Example of a post‐
and‐lintel structure Example of a structure using a corbelled arch *Circle of Stelae Gobekli Tepe, Turkey ca. 10,000‐9,000 BCE *Lion Stela Gobekli Tepe, Turkey ca. 10,000‐9,000 BCE Deer Hunt wall mural Çatal Höyük Neolithic *Steatopygous female figure Cyclades (Greece) ca. 4500–4000 BCE Neolithic *Painted pot from Dimini Dimini (Thessaly, Greece) ca. 4000‐3000 BCE Neolithic *Great Mother figure Çatal Höyük Neolithic 2
Funerary painting from Hierakonpolis Predynastic Egypt 3500‐3200 BCE (Bronze Age) Palette of Narmer Hierakonpolis, Egypt Early Dynastic (Bronze Age) Ziggurat of Ur Mesopotamia c. 2100 BCE Bronze Age Statuettes of two worshippers Mesopotamia (Sumeria) c. 2700 BCE Bronze Age 3
“Standard of Ur” Mesopotamia c. 2550‐2400 BCE Bronze Age *Rearing Goat with a Flowering Plant (“Ram in a thicket”) Ur, Mesopotamia c. 2550‐2400 BCE Bronze Age *Great Lyre with Bull’s Head and inlaid panel Ur, Mesopotamia 2550‐2400 BCE Bronze Age Stepped pyramid of Djoser (Zoser) Saqqara Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty Bronze Age 4
*“Bent” Pyramid of Snefru Memphis, Egypt Old Kingdom, 3rd Dynasty Great pyramids of Menkhaure, Kafre, and Khufu Giza, Egypt Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty Bronze Age Mortuary complex of Hatshepsut Western Thebes, Egypt New Kingdom Bronze Age Menkaure and his Wife, Queen Khamerernebty. Giza, Egypt Old Kingdom, 4th Dynasty Bronze Age 5
*Wooden funerary models from Egypt (scribes, brewers) Middle Kingdom Bronze Age (Most of those I showed are from the tomb of Meketre) *Faience Statuette of a Hippopotamus Meir, Middle Egypt 12th Dynasty Middle Kingdom Bronze Age Akhenaten (Amenophis IV) Amarna New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Bronze Age (Amarna period) Bust of Queen Nefertiti New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Bronze Age (Amarna period) 6
*Queen Tiy New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Bronze Age (Amarna period) *Fresco of Akhenaten’s Daughters Amarna New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty Bronze Age (Amarna period) Gold mask of Tutankhamen Valley of the Kings, Egypt New Kingdom Bronze Age Cycladic Female Figure Cyclades, Greece c. 2600‐2400 BCE Bronze Age 7
*Musicians (aulos player, lyre player) Cyclades, Greece c. 2600‐2500 BCE Bronze Age *Throne Room (Palace of Minos, Knossos) Crete, Greece ca. 1900‐1450 BCE Minoan Bronze Age Bull‐leapers fresco Palace of Minos Knossos, Crete c. 1550 BCE Minoan Bronze Age *Sarcophagus from Hagia Triada Crete ca. 1400 BCE Minoan Bronze Age 8
*Dolphin fresco from the Queen’s Megaron, Palace of Knossos Crete Minoan Bronze Age Octopus Vase or Flask (Marine Ware) Crete ca.1580‐1100 BCE Minoan Bronze Age *Kamares Ware jug Crete ca.1900‐1700 BCE Minoan Bronze Age *Jug of the Reeds, (Floral Ware) Crete 16th c. BCE Minoan Bronze Age 9
“Snake Goddess” Knossos, Crete c. 1600‐1580 BCE Minoan Bronze Age Two examples (faience) Lion Gate Mycenae (mainland Greece) Greek Bronze Age (Mycenaean) “Treasury of Atreus” Beehive (Tholos) tomb in Minoan style, near the citadel of Mycenae Greek Bronze Age (Mycenaean) Warrior Vase (krater) Mycenae ca. 1200 BCE Greek Bronze Age (Mycenaean) 10
*Fresco of a Woman Tiryns, Mainland Greece 13th c. BCE Greek Bronze Age (Mycenaean) “Death Mask of Agamemnon” Mycenae Greek Bronze Age (early Mycenaean) *Vapheio Cups Vapheio, Mainland Greece Greek Bronze Age (but probably made by Minoans) Inlaid dagger blade Mycenae, Greece ca. 1600‐1500 BCE (Greek Bronze Age) 11