1. Humanities 2210 Study Slides Test 1
This will be the first portion of your testYou will identify each image by the terms in GREEN
Film on Gilgamesh
Link to Annenberg Foundation film on Gilgamesh

2. Hall of Bulls, Lascaux. 15,000-10,000 B.C.E. Paleolithic

3. Paleolithic . Female Statues Long considered fertility statues
Unlikely that women would have gotten this plump in hunter-gatherer societies
Many similar statues found all over the world, though some are quite thin
Combination of naturalism and abstraction
Found shapes, sacred stones
Navel is a natural recess
Paleolithic
Female statuette from Willendorf, Austria, c. 25,000-21,000 .

4. Most famous cromlech: Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England. 2000 B. C
Most famous cromlech: Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England B.C.E.
Neolithic
Michael Parker Pearson Article skeletal remains Documentary Documentary 2

5. Ziggurat at Ur, Mesopotamia (Iraq), ca. 2100 B.C.E.smarthistory
Sumerian

6. Temple Votive Statues, Tell Asmar, Iraq, ca. 2900-2600 B. C. E
Temple Votive Statues, Tell Asmar, Iraq, ca B.C.E. Tallest figure ca. 30 in. Hierarchical scaling. Stand ins for worshipers.
Sumerian

7. Attention to composition, conforming to shape of stone
This victory stella commemorates the victory of Naram-Sin’s army over the Lullaby people
Hierarchical scaling
Attention to composition, conforming to shape of stone
Smarthistory
Sumero-Akkadian Victory stele of
Naram-Sin BC limestone
6 feet, 6 inches
Akkadian

8. 3100 BCE Egypt King Narner’s Palette Pre-dynastic – to 2700 BCE
Unification of Kingdoms under Menes, the king of Upper Egypt. Pre-dynastic Egypt

9. Old Kingdom Egypt Old Kingdom 2700-2181 BCE
King Menkure and His Chief Queen BCE Removed from tomb at Giza- burial chamber in Valley Temple Mortuary portrait avoiding any hint at human frailty
Static, timeless. Idealized portrait.
Purpose, to supplement the embalmed corpse.
Canon of proportions: rules for depicting the figure that were followed for thousands of years.
Role of Mathematics in determining visual representation
Magic!
Heilbrun Timeline
Witcombe Art History Resource
Harvard
Old Kingdom Egypt

10. Fowling scene; fragment of a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun at Thebes
Fowling scene; fragment of a fresco from the Tomb of Nebamun at Thebes B.C.E. british museum film New Kingdom Egypt

11. Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and the Royal Princesses: sunk relief fragment from Tell el-Amarna, ca B.C.
Major challenge to the orthodox canon of Egyptian art
Intimacy, domesticity, expressionism, emotion. New Kingdom Egypt

12. Dancing Girl, ca 2300-1750 BCE. 4 ½ in. bronze.
Indus River Civilization Mohenjo-Daro Ancient India

13. Bearded Man, thought to be a priest king, ca BCE, limestone, 7 in. Indus River Civilization Mohenjo-Daro
Ancient India