AP® Art History: Thematic and Cross-cultural Approaches
Theme-based Images:
Christian Romanesque: St. Sernin in Toulouse, France
http://www.myeport.com/published/u/hs/uhse002/slideshow/31/index5.shtml
http://www.gotik-romanik.de/Toulouse-St-SerninThumbnails/Thumbnails.html
The Mosque at Cordoba, Spain
http://classes.colgate.edu/osafi/images/andalusian_images.htm
http://faculty.cua.edu/pennington/ChurchHistory220/Lecture%20Four/CordobaGreatMosque.
htm
Hindu: Vishvanatha Temple at Khajuraho, India
http://vinodkhare.blogspot.com/2007/07/temple-architecture-at-khajuraho.html
http://instructional1.calstatela.edu/bevans/Art101/Art101B-0-India/WebPage-Full.00073.html
Shinto: Ise Shrine, Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan
http://www.isejingu.or.jp/english/naigu/naigu.htm
http://www.japan-i.jp/explorejapan/kinki/mie/ise-shima/d8jk7l0000002be7img/d8jk7l0000002beq.jpg
http://www.gorden.us/images/Ise1.gif
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Conflict:
Hindu: Durga Slaying the Buffalo Demon
(or Durga Defeating Mahisha, Mamallapuram)
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/search_object_image.aspx?o
bjectId=225966&partId=1&searchText=durga+mahisha&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&orig=/research/sea
rch_the_collection_database.aspx&images=on&numPages=10&currentPage=1&asset_id=511453
http://www.tn.gov.in/dtp/dtpphoto1/kan13.jpg
Japanese: Night Attack on the Sanjo Palace
(Japanese, Kamakura period, second half of the 13th century, Object place: Japan, Handscroll: ink and color on
paper 41.3 X 699.7 cm (16 1/4 X 275 1/2 in.)
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~ktravers/projects/heijiscroll/intro.html
Chinese: Shang Xi, Guan Yu Captures General Pang De
Ming dynasty, ca. 1430, Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk, 6' 5" x 7' 7", Palace Museum, Beijing
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Shang_Xi,_Guan_Yu_Captures_General
_Pang_De2.JPG
Goya, Third of May, 1808
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~nigro20e/classweb/thirdofmaycopy1.jpg
Family:
Dogon Seated Couple
16th–19th century, Mali; Dogon peoples, Wood, metal, H. 28 3/4 in. (73 cm), Metropolitan Museum, New York
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_XD32NJXAjeg/Rx42h7RmD-I/AAAAAAAAAbw/MZ6aEPUD0Os/afr16dogon.jpg
http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/arts_of_africa_oceania_and_the_am
ericas/figure_seated_couple/objectview.aspx?collID=5&OID=50002904
Chardin, Grace at Table
http://bauermeister.ch/chroniques/images/jolieschoses/chardin-benedicite.PV__.jpg
Indian: Shiva and Family in Cremation Ground
http://www.muktigupteshwar.org/pic/shiva_family_large.jpg
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Human Beings and Nature:
Japan: Hokusai, The Great Wave
http://randomknowledge.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/the_great_wave_off_kanagawa.jpg
China: Fan Kuan. Travelers among Mountains and Streams
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/chinese_painting/fan_kuan_travelers_str
eams_mts.jpg
Indian: The Birth of the Buddha, Gandhara
http://www.asia.si.edu/exhibitions/online/buddhism/india1a.htm
European:
Friedrich - Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Caspar_David_Friedrich_032.jpg
Spiritual Beings:
Shiva Nataraja (Musée Guimee in Paris):
http://www.arssummum.net/details.php?image_id=2714&sessionid=442d049394b671ddf103c
e3b9678f383&sessionid=442d049394b671ddf103ce3b9678f383#
Aztec: Coatlicue (Lady of the Skirt of Serpents)
http://de.academic.ru/dic.nsf/dewiki/271179
Vairocana Buddha, disciples, and bodhisattvas, Fengxian Temple, Longmen
Caves, Luoyang, China
http://www.gaams.org/english/NewsInfo.aspx?id=88
European: Gislebertus, Tympanum of Last Judgment, Autun
http://www.arssummum.net/details.php?image_id=2937&sessionid=20034f16f65a0cb638405
ba1a12b8d26&sessionid=20034f16f65a0cb638405ba1a12b8d26
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