History of Western Art Exam I

Art History Identification Slide

118 cards   |   Total Attempts: 184
  

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Question 1
Identification
Title : Woman of Willendorf
Date : 22,000 - 21,000 BCE
Medium : Limestone
Culture : Paleolithic
Significance : Women were frequent subjects in prehistoric art. Possibly a fertility statue. Or worship of women.
Question 2
Identification
Title : Woman from Brassempouy
Date : ca. 22,000 BCE
Medium : Ivory
Culture : Paleolithic
Significance: Possibly a fertility statue.
Question 3
Identification
Title : Bison Horn
Date : 15,000 - 10,000 BCE
Medium : reindeer antler
Culture: Paleolithic
Significance: A fragmentary spear thrower
Question 4
Identification
Title : Bird Headed Shaman
Date : 15,000 - 12,000 BCE
Medium : Paint Limestone
Culture : Paleolithic
Significance : Earliest Human depicted visually.
Question 5
Identification
Title : Chinese Horse
Date : 15,000 - 12,000 BCE
Medium : Cave Wall
Culture : Paleolithic
Significance : Displays the painters acute power of observation. The act of painting the image might have served some ritual or religious purpose. Sympathetic magic
Question 6
Identification
Title : Plastered Skull
Date : ca. 7000 BCE
Medium : Plaster over human bone
Culture : Neolithic
Significance : Found in Jericho. Heads of the deceased were displayed in the homes. A funerary practice suggesting respect for ancestors and the dead.
Question 7
Identification
Title : Seated Goddess
Date: ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE
Medium :
Culture : Neolithic
Significance :
Question 8
Identification
Title : Female Figure
Date: ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE
Medium : baked clay
Culture : Neolithic
Significance :
Question 9
Identification
Title : Bull Hunt
Date : ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE
Medium : Wall painting
Culture : Neolithic
Significance : transition from animals alone to humans dominating animals (paleolithic to neolithic)
Question 10
Identification
Title : Dancing Hunter
Date : ca. 6500 - 5500 BCE
Medium : Wall painting
Culture : Neolithic
Significance :
Question 11
Identification
Title : Stonehenge
Date : 2750 - 1500 BCE
Medium : Stone Megaliths
Culture : Neolithic
Significance : Possibly a calendar. Represents tremendous manpower, organization, and engineering skill.
Question 12
Identification
Title : Wall Painting Showing Boats
Date : ca. 3500 - 3400 BCE
Medium : Tomb Painting
Culture : Predynastic Egpyt
Significance : Funerary Art
Question 13
Identification
Title : Palette of Narmer
Date : ca. 3150 - 3125 BCE
Medium : Slate
Culture : Early Dynastic Egypt
Significance : Ritual palette used for cosmetics.
Tells the story of the unification of upper and lower Egypt by King Narmer.
Question 14
Identification
Title : Step Pyramid of King Djoser
Date : 2681 - 2662 BCE
Medium : Limestone
Culture : Old Kingdom Egypt
Significance : III Dynasty First known major funerary complex
Question 15
Identification
Title : Great Pyramids of Giza
Date : 2601 - 2515 BCE
Medium : Granite and Limestone, covered in gold
Culture : Old Kingdom Egypt
Significance : Created to commemorate King Sneferu's sons Khufu, Khafra, and Menkaure. IV dynasty Pyramids reach upwards toward the sky easing the transition to the Gods