Flash Cards for Final Exam
20 of the following 36 images
will be on the exam!
FINAL EXAM!!!!!
As the Final, you should not only be able to identify the art,
civilization, and style, but also consider HOW any particular
work of art/architecture COMPARES WITH any other work
of art/architecture in terms of what it tells us about the
civilization that built it.
Name/Title: Ziggurat of Ur (Temple of Nanna)
(WH p.15)
Era/Civilization/Style: Sumerian (2100 BCE)
Artist/Architect: Unknown
http://haydenarthistory.blogspot.com/2010/09/work-of-arte-nana-ziggurat.html
Name/Title: Pyramid of Djoser (Step Pyramid) in
Sakkareh (Saqqara) Necropolis. (WH p. 20)
Era/Civilization/Style: Egyptian, Old Kingdom
(~2680 BCE)
Artist/Architect: Imhotep (?) Djoser’s Visier
Remarks: Imhotep is the first accredited architect
known in this tradition. Note the differences between
this Pyramid, the Ziggurat of Ur and the later Giza
Pyramids.
Name/Title: Pyramids of Giza (Menkure, Khafre,
and Khufu) (WH p. 17)
Era/Civilization/Style: Egyptian, Old Kingdom
(2525-2580 BCE)
Artist/Architect: Unknown
Name/Title: Pharaoh Akhenaten, Queen Nefertiti
and Daughters (WH p. 24)
Era/Civilization/Style: Egyptian, New Kindgom
(1350 BCE)
Artist/Architect: unknown
http://www.girlmuseum.org/exhibitions/DefiningOurTerms/DefiningOurTermsDaughter.html
Name/Title: King Menkure and his Chief Queen
(WH p. 23)
Era/Civilization/Style: Egyptian, Old Kingdom (2525
BCE)
Artist/Architect: unknown
Remarks: keep this in mind when viewing the Korous
and Kore.
http://quistlink.com/WK%202/egyptian_sculpture_king_menkaure.htm
Name/Title: Earth Goddess with Snakes (WH p.
36)
Era/Civilization/Style: Minoan (1600-1500 BCE)
Artist/Architect: unknown
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snake_Goddess_-_Heraklion_Achaeological_Museum_retouched.jpg
Remember matriarchal thesis about Minoan
civilization!!!
Name/Title: Temple of Aphaia (WH p. 52)
Era/Civilization/Style: Archaic Greek, Doric style
(510 BCE)
Artist/Architect: unknown
http://greecetravel.com/photos/sixties/greek-islands/PhotoAlbum1/Aegina-080_jpg_view.htm
• Be able to comment on DORIC style, and
contrast with OTHER TEMPLES!!!
Name/Title: Anavysos Kouros (WH p. 53)
Era/Civilization/Style: Archaic Greek, 540-520 BCE
Artist/Architect: unknown
Remarks: notice the difference between the New
York Kouros and the Anavyso Kouros—the
development of this style.
National Archaeological Museum (Athens)
http://www.art-prints-on-demand.com/a/greek/anavysos-kouros-funerary.html
Name/Title: Auxerra Kore (WH p. 54)
Era/Civilization/Style: Archaic Greek, 675-600
BCE.
Artist/Architect: Unknown
http://worldexclusiveart.marketbella.com/Auxterre.html
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Title of Work: Kritios Boy
Civilization/Period: Hellenic
Style of Work: Hellenic—Severe Style
Architect/Artist: N/A
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Title of Work: Doryphoros
Civilization/Period: Hellenic Greek
Style of Work: Hellenic—High Classical Style
Architect/Artist: Polykleitos
• Title of Work: Hermes with the Infant
Dionysus
• Civilization/Period: Hellenic
• Style of Work: Hellenic—4th Century Style
• Architect/Artist: Praxiteles
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Title of Work: Parthenon
Civilization/Period: Hellenic Greece
Style of Work: Doric with Ionic
Architect/Artist: Ictinus and Callicrates
• Title of Work: Temple of Athena Nike
Civilization/Period: Hellenic Greek
• Style of Work: Ionic
• Architect/Artist: Callicrates
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Title of Work: Erechtheum
Civilization/Period: Hellenic
Style of Work: Ionic
Architect/Artist: Mnesicles
• Title of Work: Olympieum
• Civilization/Period: Hellenistic Greek
• Style of Work: Corinthian
• Architect/Artist: Unknown
• Title of Work: Dying Gaul
• Civilization/Period: Hellenistic
• Title of Work: Laocӧon Group
• Civilization/Period: Hellenistic Greece
• Title of Work: Aphrodite of Melos (Venus de
Milo)
• Civilization/Period: Hellenistic Greece
• Arch of Constantine (Roman Period)
• Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheatre) (Roman
Period)
• Maison Carree, Roman Period
• Pantheon, Roman Period
• Pont du Gard, Roman Period
• Aqueduct
Dome of the Rock
Islamic, Jerusalem, 687-692
Interior, Great Mosque, Córdoba,
Spain
eighth to tenth centuries
Icon of Virgin and Child
Byzantine, Constantinople, 1100
Hagia Sophia
Byzantine, Isidore of
Miletus/Anthemius of Tralles,
architects
Christ Icon
Byzantine, 6th Century
Oratory, Germigny-des-Prés
France (Western Europe, Carolingian
Period). Architect: Theodulf
San Vitale, Ravenna Italy
Byzantine/Western European style,
Justinian
Great Mosque, Isfahan, Iran,
eleventh to seventeenth centuries
• Santa Cruz de la Seros, 1075, Romanesque
Notre Dame, Paris, Gothic
• Notre Dame, Amiens, Gothic
• Speyer Cathedral, 1030-1150, Romanesque