This document provides a review for Exam #1 in an Art History course covering ancient to medieval art. It includes 3 sections: 1) a list of images students are responsible for knowing from slide lectures, 2) a table organizing works of art by period/civilization, and 3) vocabulary terms and important gods/goddesses. The review is intended to help students study for a test on works of art, styles, and terminology from the Paleolithic era through the New Kingdom period of ancient Egypt.

1. Exam
#1
Review
Art
108:
Ancient
to
Medieval
Westchester
Community
College
Fall
2012

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3. Study
Skills
Period/Civiliza4on
Works
Periods:
create
“families”
of
objects
Paleolithic
Neolithic
Sumerian
Akkadian
Neo-­‐Sumerian
Babylonian
Assyrian
Persian
EgypLan
–
Old
Kingdom
EgypLan
New
Kingdom

4. Period/Civiliza4on
Works
Venus
of
Willendorf,
Venus
of
Hohe
Paleolithic
Fels,
Lascaux
cave
Study
Skills
Neolithic
Human
Figure
from
Ain
Ghazal.
Deer
Hunt
mural,
Çatal
Höyük,
Stonehenge
Periods:
create
“families”
of
objects
Warka
Vase,
VoLve
Statues,
White
Sumerian
Temple
(Ziggurat),
Royal
Standard
of
Ur
Head
of
an
Akkadian
Ruler,
Stele
of
Akkadian
Naram-­‐Sin
Seated
Statue
of
Gudea,
Ziggurat
of
Neo-­‐Sumerian
Ur
Stele
with
Law
Code
of
Hammurabi
Babylonian
Citadel
of
Sargon
II,
Lamassu,
Assyrian
Assurnarsirpal
HunLng
Lions
Persepolis,
Apadana
Relief
(Persian
Persian
Emperor
Receiving
Tribute)
Palece
of
Narmer,
Funerary
Complex
EgypLan
–
Old
Kingdom
of
King
Djoser,
Great
Pyramids
at
Giza,
Great
Sphinx,
Khafre,
Menkaure,
Book
of
the
Dead,
Offering
Scenes,
Ti
Hippopotamus
HunLng,
Ka
Statues
of
Non-­‐Royals
Hatshepsut,
EgypLan
Pylon
Temple,
EgypLan
New
Kingdom
Abu
Simbel,
Akhenaten,
King
Tut

5. Period/Civiliza4on
Works
Animals
and
women;
small
and
Paleolithic
portable;
profile
view
and
twisted-­‐
Study
Skills
perspecLve;
silhouece
and
contour;
SympatheLc
Magic
Create
“families”
of
characterisLcs
Large-­‐scale
sculpture/architecture;
Neolithic
HunLng
scenes
now
includes
men
and
tells
story;
Post
and
Lintel
architecture
Religion
is
dominant;
Ziggurats
reflect
Sumerian
hierarchy;
VoLve
statues
pray
perpetually
to
gods;
beginning
of
narraLve
art
(register
format);
cartoon-­‐like
figures;
First
divine
kingship;
art
becomes
Akkadian
more
naturalisLc,
focused
on
the
king;
idealism
–
divine
glamour
Gudea
–
return
to
humble
servant
of
Neo-­‐Sumerian
gods;
short,
squat,
humble
Hammurabi
–
first
law
code;
law
Babylonian
comes
from
god
MilitarisLc;
palaces
decorated
to
Assyrian
inLmidate;
Lamassu
=
guard
dogs;
reliefs
depict
king
kicking
buc
Largest
empire;
huge
palace;
endless
Persian
scenes
of
dignitaries
paying
tribute
to
king

6. Period/Civiliza4on
Works
All
art
focused
on
akerlife;
“Lme
Study
Skills
EgypLan
–
Old
Kingdom
stands
sLll”;
hard
stone;
EgypLan
canon
of
proporLons:
geometric
Create
“families”
of
characterisLcs
quality;
Statues
are
rigidly
frontal;
reliefs
are
2D
–
composite
pose
and
verLcal
perspecLve;
Pharaohs
are
“forever
young;”
Non-­‐royals
more
realisLc;
Pharaohs
buried
in
pyramids;
non-­‐royals
buried
in
mastabas;
False
door
leads
to
serdab
with
Ka
statues;
imagery
depicts
offerings
for
the
deceased
of
food
and
drink
Royal
burials
now
hidden;
shik
from
EgypLan
New
Kingdom
building
of
tombs
to
building
of
Temples;
EgypLan
Pylon
Temple
–
axial
design;
gets
smaller
(hierarchical);
Hypostyle
Hall;
colossal
scale
(Ramses).
Amarna
period
–
Akhenaten
and
Monotheism;
art
style
changes
–
more
fluid,
with
movement;
naturalisLc
and
relaxed,
though
strange
distorLons;
everyday
life
of
royal
family;
King
Tut
–
only
royal
tomb
intact;
tomb
objects
in
Amarna
style
(successor
of
Akhenaten)

7. Study
Skills
Pay
acenLon
to
vocabulary
terms!
Vocabulary
Register
format
Single
groundline
Composite
pose
Overlapping
Hierarchic
scale
Abstract
Naturalism
Idealism
Proskynesis
Cuneiform
Hieroglyph
EgypLan
Canon
of
ProporLons
Mastaba
Ka
False
door
Horus
Osiris
EgypLan
Axial
design
Mortuary
Temple
acributes
of
Kingship
Pylon
Hypostyle
Hall
Amarna
Heresy
Monotheism

8. Study
Skills
Know
important
gods
and
goddesses,
Important
People
and
their
acributes
Inanna
FerLlity
goddess;
Anubis
God
of
dead;
horned
crown
Jackal
Shamash
Horned
crown;
Amun
New
kingdom
flames,
seated
on
god;
ram’s
head
mountain
and
plumes
Horus
Falcon;
god
of
sky
Aten
Sun
disc
Osiris
Crook
and
Flair;
Pharaoh
of
the
underworld
Hathor
Moon
goddess;
cow

9. Study
Skills
Know
people
of
importance
Important
People
Sargon
I
Naram-­‐Sin
Gudea
Hammurabi
Narmer
Imhotep
Hatshepsut
Senmut
Ramses
II
Akhenaten
NeferLL