Perspectives in World Art & Design (part I)

Professor Marianne Eggler-Gerozissis

Parsons New School of DesignSchool of Art & Design History & Theory

WELCOME!

WELCOME to the FALL SEMESTER!

MATERIAL to review for MIDTERM:

Introductory materialPrehistoricAncient Near EastAncient EgyptAegean Ancient GreeceAncient Rome

PART I – ESSAY

Choose ONE (1) essay from the list provided- work up your essay this week

WORTH 25 pts max.!

PART I – SLIDE IDs(10 individual objects; ea. 4 pts. Max. = 40)

Get 4 out of 5 right for full credit

DATING: use “circa” and do your best – I have rounded off some dates

3x5” cards – very usefulFriends/study-buddies in the class – pricelessTry a study group meeting

Unknown, Spotted Horses & Human Hands, from Pech-Merle Cave, c. 25,000-15,000 B.C.E., paint on limestone, French Prehistoric Paleolithic

Unknown, Woman from Willendorf, c. 24,000 B.C.E., limestone, Austrian Prehistoric Paleolithic

Unknown, Stonehenge, England, c. 2,900-1,500 BCE, sandstone and bluestone, British prehistoric (Neolithic) period,

Unknown, Votive figures, limestone, alabaster & gypsum, c. 2900-2600 BCE, ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian

Unknown, Bull lyre, from the royal tombs of Ur (modern Iraq), c. 2500 B.C.E. wood with gold, silver lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in a modern wood support. Ancient Near Eastern Sumerian

Unknown, Stele of Naramsin, limestone, c. 2200 BCE, ancient Near Eastern, Akkadian

Unknown, Ruins of the Anu Ziggurat & White Temple, Uruk, (modern Iran), c. 3,000 B.C.E., architecture, Ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian culture.

Unknown, Stele of Hammurabi, Susa (now Iran), c. 1,750 B.C.E., diorite, Ancient Near Eastern, Babylonian culture.

Unknown, Ishtar Gate & throne room wall, from Babylon (now modern Iraq), c. 575 B.C.E., glazed brick, Ancient Near Eastern, Neo-Babylonian culture.

Unknown, Palette of Narmer, c. 2900 BCE, green schist, Egypt Early dynastic period

Unknown, Great Pyramids at Giza, c. 2500 BCE, limestone & granite, Egypt Old Kingdom

Unknown, Menkaure and a Queen, c. 2490 BCE, graywacke w/paint traces, Egypt Old Kingdom

Unknown, Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, architecture, c. 1200 BCE, Egypt New Kingdom

Unknown, Tutankhamun’s coffin, from the tomb of Tut. in the Valley of the Kings, c. 1330 BCE, Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones (innermost coffin), Egypt, New Kingdom

Unknown, Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE, stone, Egyptian Ptolmaic period

Unknown, “Palace” Complex at Knossos, island of Crete, architecture, c. 1900-1400 BCE, ancient Aegean Minoan

Unknown,Woman or goddess withSnakes, from Knossos, Crete, c. 1700-1500 BCE,Faience, ancient Aegean Minoan

Unknown, Pendant of gold bees, from Crete, ancient Greek (c. 1600 BCE) gold, ancient Aegean Minoan

Unknown, Citadel at Mycenae, architecture, c. 1600-12000 BCE, ancient Aegean Mycenaen

Unknown, Funerary krater, from the Dipylon Cemetery,Athens, c. 700 BCE,ceramic, ancient Greece, geometric period

Unknown, New York/Metropolitan Kouros, c. 600 BCE, marble, Greece Archaic period

Kallikrates and Iktinos and others, the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, (c. 440 BCE), marble, ancient Greek Classical period

Pheidias or his workshop, three goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece, (c. 440 BCE), marble, ancient Greek Classical period

Polykleitos, The Doryphoros(Spear Bearer), c. 450 BCE, ancient Roman marble copy of an ancient Greek bronze)original from the ancient GreeceClassical period

Unknown, Reclining Couple of a Sarcophagus, from Cerveteri, Italy, c. 500 BCE, Italy Etruscan culture

Unknown, Pont du Gard, in Nimes, France, stone, ancient Roman

Unknown, Augustus of Primaporta, c. 20 CE, marble (originally colored), ancient Rome

Unknown, House of the Vettii, peristyle garden, in Pompeii, c. 70 CE, architecture, ancient Roman

Unknown, the Pantheon, Rome, c. 120 CE, marble, concrete and rubble, ancient Roman

Unknown, Triumphal Arch of Constantine, 315 CE, marble, ancient Rome

PART III – SLIDE COMPARISONS

2 pairs; for each pair you will answer one ID element (title, or date, or medium/media & ground, etc.) AND a thematic comparison question – some themes are posted as a word doc.)(2 pairs, each 10 pts. = 20).

PART III – TERM definitions and examples (terms are posted as a Word doc.)

(10 terms, each 2-part (def. and example); definition – 1 pt.; title of an example - .5 – total 15 pts. Max.)

GOOD LUCK!!

extra credit….?