AP Art History Timeline

28000 BC - 25000 BC

Woman of Willendorf

Artist: unk Orig Loc: Willendorf, Austria -portable fertility charm -carved limestone

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Apollo 11 Stones

Artist: Unk Orig loc: Namibia (S. Africa) Style: silhouette (tiny details), 4 legged animal (possibly a cane), skinny legs

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25000 BC

Paleolithic Era

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15000 BC - 13000 BC

Great Hall of the Bulls

Artist: unk Orig Loc: Lascaux, France -story of a hunt, contour lines (outlined, not filled), animal hair brushes, twisted perspective & profile -scaffolding

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6000 BC - 4000 BC

Running Horned Woman

Orig Loc: Tassili n' Ajjer, Algeria ( N. Africa) -mystical godess, twisted perspective, power of women

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Sumerian Era

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Votive Figures

Orig Loc: Sq. temple @ Eshnunna ( modern Tell Asmar), statues of 2 worshippers, surrogates = stand-ins for actual worshippers, wide eyes = always awake and alive

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2600 BC

Standard of Ur

Orig loc: Tomb 779, Royal Cemetery, Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar) Iraq, twisted perspective (show more detail), tells a story ( lower class on one side, soldiers on the other, lapis lazuli = rare and expensive blue stone

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Great Pyramids

Orig Loc: Gizeh, Egypt, tomb = to keep mummy alive in the afterlife, immortality = IMPORTANT, casing stones- large outer stones, funerary archit.

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Stonehenge

Orig Loc: Wilshire, UK -unk of function (burial site, aligns w/ solstices), post and lintel system = trilithon, megalith = large stone

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2500 BC

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Stele w/ code of Hammurabi

Orig Loc- Susa, Iran, 1st set of codified laws, shows God enthroned giving Ham code (establishing his right to rule)

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1500 BC

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1350 BC

Akhenaten, Nefertiti,& 3 of their daughters

different ideals of beauty, shows domestic life, elongated bodies and necks, hands of the sun (new god created by Akhen) breathing life into them (messengers of the gods)

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1323 BC

King Tut's Death Mask

Orig Loc: Valley of the Kings, Upp. Egypt (Thebes, Egypt), Akhenaton's son, changed it back to monotheism, immortality

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Orientalizing Period

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Etruscan Period

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Persian Era

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0530 BC

Kroisos (Anavayos Kourous)

Orig Loc: Anavysos, Greece, encaustic-everything painted w/ pigmented wax, naked=normal/ accepted/ natural, naturalistic like the Eqyptians stance

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0520 BC

Sarcophagus w/ reclining couple

Orig Loc: Cerveteri, Italy (tumuli necropolis), "Life in Death" - couple at banquet/ celebrating even if they are dead, awkward proportions, archaic smile

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0509 BC - 0027

Roman Republic

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0480 BC

Severe Period

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Kritios Boy

Orig Loc- Acropolis, Athens, Greece, CONTRAPPOSTO = relaxed, natural stance ( shift of weight ) = 1st time seen

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0450 BC

Classical Period

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0447 BC - 0438 BC

Parthenon

Orig Loc: Acropolis, Athens, Greece, Patron: Pericles, to honor gods, doric (inside), ionic (outside)

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0350 BC

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0250 BC

Roman Republic

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0250 BC

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Pantheon

Orig Loc: Rome, Italy, Patron: Hadrian, Has oculus (hole) = path to heaven, composite arcit. coffers - dome goes from thick to thin to lighten weight, rotunda - round space

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0081

Arch of Titus

Orig Loc: Rome, Italy, celebrates Titus ' successes, Spoils of Jerusalem & Triumph of Titus = relief panels showing his conquest and triumphs

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0112

Column of Trajan

Orig Loc: Rome, Italy, Continous Narrative, preparing wars against Dacians (20% battle scenes, 80% actual preparation) (shows success)

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0192 - 0337

Late Roman Empire

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0250

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0250

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0422 - 0432

Santa Sabina

Orig Loc: Rome, Italy, Bascilica Plan, decorated inside not outside,

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0550

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Lintel 25/st. 23

Orig Loc- Chiapus, Mexico -Lady Xoc tking halluc. & sees 2-headed snake w/ Tlalco (war god) out of mouth on end & a warrior on the other

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1100 - 1600

Moai on platform

Orig Loc: Easter Island no clue , ~900 statues, faced inland (ancestors watching over inhabitants) -monoliths

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1450 - 1540

Machu Picchu

Orig Loc - Machu Picchu, Peru, 3D arcit. for worship (resort for the elite), terraces to drain rain water

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1469

Coyolxauhqui

Orig Loc- Templo Mayor ( @ base of Huitzilopochli side of temple), 3D stone disk, dismembered deity, pinwheel composition

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1700

Ahu'ula

Orig Loc: Hawaii feather capes of rare birds, show social status, power & authority

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1890

Tamati Waka Nene

Artist- Godfrey Lindauer, Orig Loc: Polynesia, tattoo designs (moko) = status, colonization

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