Week 1:
Prehistory,
Ancient Mesopotamia,
& Ancient Egypt
ARTS 1303 6W, Art History
Prehistoric Art
Chauvet Cave Paintings
Adrèche, France
c. 34,000-32,000 BCE
Chauvet Cave Paintings
Adrèche, France
c. 34,000-32,000 BCE
Chauvet Cave Paintings
Adrèche, France
c. 34,000-32,000 BCE
Woman Figurine (a.k.a. Venus of Willendorf)
Austria
c. 25,000-20,000 BCE
Lion Man of Ulm
Germany
c. 38,000 BCE
Çatal Höyük
Central Anatolia (modern-day Turkey)
c. 6,000 BCE
Interior Reconstruction
Çatal Höyük, Agriculture, & Religion
Stonehenge
Salsbury, England
c. 2,000 BCE
Stonehenge & Astronomy
The physical development of the Stonehenge site.
Stonehenge alignment
Stonehenge alignment
Stonehenge
Cursus
Woodhenge
Durrington Walls
Durrington Walls
Salsbury, England
c. 2,600 BCE
Full Stonehenge site and proposed function.
Ancient Mesopotamia
Intro to Mesopotamia
Ancient Mesopotamian Cities & Temples
Sites & Spread of Various Agricultural Revolutions
9000 BCE
7000 BCE
3k-2k BCE
3k-2k BCE
2k-1k BCE
3k-2k BCE
7k-4k BCE
Cuneiform sample
Cuneiform being written in clay
What It's Like to Write in Cuneiform
White Temple
Uruk, Southeastern Iraq
Sumerian
c. 3200-3000 BCE
Digital Reconstruction of the White Temple Complex
Digital Reconstruction of the White Temple
Digital Reconstruction of the White Temple Interior
Ziggurat of Ur
Ur, Southeastern Iraq
Neo-Sumerian
c. 1900 BCE
Artist's Rendering of the Ziggurat
Law Code of Hammurabi
(aka Stele of Hammurabi)
Babylonian
1760 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Egyptology 101
Palette of King Narmer
Predynastic Egypt
c. 3000-2920 BCE
Fourth Dynasty Pyramids
From the Left:
Pyramid of Menkaure, c. 2490–2472 BCE
Pyramid of Khafre, c. 2520–2494 BCE
Great Pyramid of Khufu, c. 2551–2528 BCE.
- Ka - the life force
- Ba - the personality
- Sheut - the shadow
- Ren - the name
- Ib - the heart
The Five Parts of the Egyptian Soul
The Mummification Process
Artist's Reconstruction of Original Pyramid Site
How the Pyramids were Developed
Menkaure and Khamerernebty
4th Dynasty Egypt
c. 2490-2472 BCE
Palette of King Narmer
4th Dynasty Egypt
c. 2520-2494 BCE
Example of 'Proportional Design' of the Human Body
Akhenaton and Nefertiti with their three daughters
18th Dynasty Egypt
c. 1353-1335 BCE
Akhenaton (colossal statue from the temple of Aton)
18th Dynasty Egypt
c. 1353-1335 BCE
Bust of Nefertiti
18th Dynasty Egypt
c. 1353-1335 BCE
Recent 'Reconstruction' of Queen Nefertiti's Face
