mediterranean, greek, classical, helenistic, sculpture, ancient, egyptian, art, art appreciation, art history

1. Chapter Fourteen Ancient Mediterranean Worlds Major characteristics & Context: Egypt Greece Rome Vocabulary: Earliest art Ziggurat Kouros Sunken Relief Classical Hellenistic

2. How vs. Why Place and Time - CONTEXT

7. Thomas Cole's series "The Course of Empire" from 1834-36

8. The Savage State

9. Pastoral State

10. The Consummation of Empire

11. The Destruction of Empire

12. Desolation, 1836 Oil on canvas

13. The world's oldest example of abstract art, dating back more than 70,000 years, has been found in a cave in South Africa.

15. Cave painting, Lascaux, France, c. 13,000 BCE

17. 36,000 years old - discovered in May 2009

18. Nude woman (Venus of Willendorf), from Willendorf, Austria, ca. 28,000–25,000 BCE. Limestone, approx. 4 1/4” high. Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.

19. Lucian Freud's 1995 painting Benefits Supervisor Sleeping

21. Figure 1-19 Aerial view of Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain,Wiltshire, England, ca. 2550–1600 BCE. Circle is 97' in diameter; trilithons approx. 24' high.

23. National Lampoon’s European Vacation Rock Garden, Fort Collins, Colorado

27. The Ancient Near East

32. Female head (Inanna?), from Uruk (modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3200–3000 BCE. Marble, approx. 8” high. Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

33. Statuettes of two worshipers, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar), Iraq, ca. 2700 BCE. Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone, tallest figure approx. 2’ 6” high. Iraq Museum, Baghdad. Based on cones and cylinders rather than the grids/cubes in Egypt Acted as eternal worshippers

36. Ziggurat (northeastern facade with restored stairs), Ur (modern Tell Muqayyar), Iraq, ca. 2100 BCE.

39. BILL AMUNDSON’s NEW BABEL 2009 Pencil on paper 50" by 40"

41. Mayan Pyramid – ca. 1000 BCE

46. Head of an Akkadian ruler, from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik), Iraq, ca. 2250–2200 BCE. Copper, 1’ 2 3/8” high. Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

49. Lamassu (winged, human-headed bull), from the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin (modern Khorsabad), Iraq, ca. 720–705 BCE. Limestone, approx. 13’ 10” high. Louvre, Paris.

51. Processional frieze (detail) on the terrace of the royal audience hall (apadana), Persepolis, Iran, ca. 521–465 BCE.

52. Ishtar Gate (restored), Babylon, Iraq, ca. 575 BCE. Glazed brick. Staatliche Museen, Berlin.