History of Art and Design I Image List
Art, design, and civilization before Classicism
*denotes supplemental images not contained in Art Through the Ages
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Example of a postand-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
Sketch/photo
Notes
*Great Mother
figure
Çatal Höyük
Neolithic
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
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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
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“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
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*“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
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*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)
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*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
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*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
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*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
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“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)
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*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)
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