Art480.02 and Art480.03 Study List (text) for Quiz 1.

1. Horse Panel cave painting, pigment on limestone, Paleolithic.

France (Chauvet Cave)
Found in the site of the earliest-known prehistoric cave paintings,
discovered in 1994.
2. Venus of Willendorf, limestone with red ochre, Paleolithic. Austria
Dating from about 24,000 BCE. 43/8 tall.
by carving a woman with a well-nourished body, the artist may
be stressing her health and fertility, which would ensure the
ability to produce strong children, thus guaranteeing the survival
of the community.
3. Stonehenge, various stones, Neolithic, England (Salisbury Plain)
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4. Bison atlatl, ivory, Paleolithic. France. (Not in textbook object
found in Lascaux Cave)
5. Stele of Naram Sin, limestone, Ancient Near East (Akkadian)
6. Stele of Hammurabi, diorite, Ancient Near East (Babylonian)
7. Queens Bull Lyre, wood, gold, lapis lazuli, Ancient Near East
(Royal Ur cemetery)
8. Ziggurat of Ur, mud brick, Ancient Near East, Sumerian
9. Funerary mask of Tutankhamun (King Tut), gold, turquoise, lapis
lazuli, glass.Ancient Egypt.
10.
Pyramid of Khufu (the Great Pyramid) at Giza, limestone
and granite, Ancient Egypt
11.
Tutmose (sculptor), Bust of Queen Nefertiti, painted
limestone, Ancient Egypt (Amarna)
12.
Menkaure and wife, greywacke with paint traces, Ancient
Egypt. Now at Boston Museum of Fine Arts
13.
Terra Cotta Army of the Qin Emperor Shihuangdi, terra
cotta with lacquer paint plus metal and wood weapons, China,
Qin Dynasty
14.

Fang Ding, bronze, Chinese, Shang Dynasty

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Ashokan lion pillar, sandstone, Indian, Mauryan dynasty

16.
Ghandaran Buddha, schist, Kushan. Present-day
Afghanistan/Pakistan border
17.
Yakshi bracket figure (stone) from torana gate, Buddhist
stupa at Sanchi, India
18.
Inner Shrine at Ise, Japanese Shinto shrine, cypress logs
and thatch roof,
Mie Prefecture, Japan