Art 6H Study Guide – Exam 1
Be sure to know each item thoroughly –
know the image(s), history, meaning, etc.
Prehistory
Lascaux, France
Altamira, Spain
Catal Hayak, Turkey
Stonehenge, Salisbury, England
Venus of Willendorf
Human with Feline Head
Twisted perspective
Composite view
Lintel
Megalith
Ancient Near East
Naram-Sin
Hammurabi
Ashurnasirpal II
Standard of Ur
Stele of Naram-Sin
Lamassu, citadel of Sargon II
Assyrian archers pursuing enemies, relief from
the Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Ashurbanipal hunting lions, relief from the
North Palace of Ashurbanipal
Ishtar Gate
Hierarchy of scale
Cuneiform
Persepolis, Iran
Egypt:
Rosetta Stone
Palette of Narmer
Old Kingdom Pyramids
- Sphinx
Mortuary temple of Hatshepsut
- know her story/background
Temple of Ramesses II
Akhenaton and the Amarna Period
Book of the Dead
Prehistoric Aegean:
Cycladic Art
- Figurine of a woman
- Male lyre player
Minoan Civilization
- Palace at Knossos
- Snake Goddess
- Bull Leaping
Mycenaean
- Lion Gate
- Heraldic composition
- Treasury of Atreus
- Gold Mask, Grace Circle A
Ancient Greece:
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos
Lysippos, Scraper
Lysippos, Weary Herakles
Epigonos, Gallic Chieftain killing himself and his
wife
Epigonos, Dying Gaul
Alexandros of Antioch-on the-Meander, Venus
de Milo
Athanadoros, Hagesandros & Polydoros of
Rhodes, Laocoon
Acropolis
- Parthenon
- Erechtheum
Romans:
Roman Wall Painting
- First, Second, Third, Fourth Styles :
know characteristics of each one
Portrait of Augustus as general
Colosseum
Portrait of a Flavian Woman
Arch of Titus
Column of Trajan
Portrait bust of Hadrian
Pantheon
Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius
Portraits of the four tetrarchs
Arch of Constantine