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Art History I
History of Art Survey course covering from prehistoric art to the Italian
- Author
- Lumen Learning
- Publisher
- LibreTexts
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- LibreTexts
- Language
- EN
Contents· 204 sections
- 01: Introduction
- 1.01: Module 1 Overview
- 1.02: Key Learning Items
- 1.03: Common Questions about Dates
- 1.04: A Beginners Guide to the History of Western Culture
- 1.05: Why Look at Art
- 1.06: The Skill of Describing
- 1.07: Patronage and the Status of the Artist
- 1.08: Glossary of Art Terms
- 1.09: External Resource
- 02: The Birth of Art
- 2.01: Module 2 Overview
- 2.02: Key Learning Items
- 2.03: Prehistoric Art- Paleolithic Origins
- 2.04: Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
- 2.05: Paleolithic Art Explained
- 2.06: The Neolithic Revolution
- 2.07: Jericho
- 2.08: Catal Hoyuk
- 2.09: Stonehenge
- 2.10: External Resources
- 03: The Ancient Near East
- 3.01: Module 3 Overview
- 3.02: Key Learning Items
- 3.03: Ancient Near East
- 3.04: Sumerian Art
- 3.05: The Invention of Writing
- 3.06: The Standard of Ur
- 3.07: Ziggurat of Ur
- 3.08: Art of Akkad and Ur
- 3.09: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
- 3.10: Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
- 3.11: Law Code of Hammurabi
- 3.12: Assyrian Art
- 3.13: Lamassu
- 3.14: Neo-Babylonian Art
- 3.15: Art of the Persian Empire
- 3.16: External Resources
- 04: The Art of Ancient Egypt
- 4.01: Module 4 Overview
- 4.02: Key Learning Items
- 4.03: Ancient Egypt
- 4.04: Egyptian Art
- 4.05: Materials and Techniques
- 4.06: Seated Scribe
- 4.07: The Great Pyramids of Giza
- 4.08: Pyramid of Khufu
- 4.09: Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
- 4.10: Pyramid of Menkaure
- 4.11: House Altar (Amarna Period)
- 4.12: Portrait Head of Queen Tiye
- 4.13: Bust of Nefertiti
- 4.14: Ramesses II
- 4.15: External Resources
- 05: The Art of Ancient Greece I
- 5.01: Module 5 Overview
- 5.02: Key Learning Items
- 5.03: Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology
- 5.04: The Early Aegean (3000700 BCE)
- 5.05: Geometric Greek Krater
- 5.06: Black Figure Amphora
- 5.07: Niobid Painter Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater
- 5.08: New York Kouros
- 5.09: Spear Bearer
- 5.10: The Greek Temple
- 5.11: East and West Pediments Temple of Aphaia
- 5.12: Myron Discus Thrower
- 5.13: The Parthenon
- 5.14: Parthenons East Pediment
- 5.15: Parthenon Frieze
- 5.16: Parthenon Metopes
- 5.17: Erechtheion
- 5.18: External Resources
- 06: The Art of Ancient Greece II
- 6.01: Module 6 Overview
- 6.02: Key Learning Items
- 6.03: Lysippos- Farnese Herucles
- 6.04: After Praxiteles Venus
- 6.05: Barberini Faun
- 6.06: Dying Gaul
- 6.07: Nike of Samothrace
- 6.08: The Pergamon Altar
- 6.09: Boxer at Rest
- 6.10: Alexander Mosaic
- 6.11: Laocoon and his Sons
- 6.12: Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman
- 6.13: Petra- An Introduction
- 6.14: Petra- Rock Cut Facades
- 6.15: Petra- Urban Metropolis
- 6.16: External Resources
- 07: The Art of the Etruscans
- 7.01: Module 7 Overview
- 7.02: Key Learning Items
- 7.03: Etruscan Art
- 7.04: Sarcophagus of the Spouses
- 7.05: Etruscan Necropolises
- 7.06: Etruscan Art Explained by the Met
- 7.07: External Resources
- 08: The Art of Ancient Rome I
- 8.01: Module 8 Overview
- 8.02: Key Learning Items
- 8.03: Ancient Rome
- 8.04: Digging Through Time
- 8.05: Temple of Portunus
- 8.06: Veristic Male Portrait
- 8.07: The Pantheon
- 8.08: Augustus of Primaporta
- 8.09: Painted Garden
- 8.10: Head of Augustus
- 8.11: Ara Pacis
- 8.12: Villa of Mysteries
- 8.13: Colosseum
- 8.14: External Resources
- 09: The Art of Ancient Rome II
- 9.01: Module 9 Overview
- 9.02: Key Learning Items
- 9.03: Arch of Titus
- 9.04: Hadrians Villa
- 9.05: Maritime Theater Hadrians Villa
- 9.06: Pair of Centaurs
- 9.07: Column of Trajan
- 9.08: Medea Sarcophagus
- 9.09: Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
- 9.10: Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
- 9.11: Tetrarchs
- 9.12: Arch of Constantine
- 9.13: Colossus of Constantine
- 9.14: External Resources
- 10: Early Christian Art
- 10.01: Module 10 Overview
- 10.02: Key Learning Items
- 10.03: Introduction to Early Christianity
- 10.04: Early Christian Art
- 10.05: After Constantine
- 10.06: Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus
- 10.07: Santa Pudenziana
- 10.08: Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
- 10.09: Santa Sabina
- 10.10: Santa Maria Maggiore
- 10.11: Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
- 10.12: External Resources
- 11: Early Medieval Carolingian and Ottonian Art
- 11.01: Module 11 Overview
- 11.02: Key Learning Items
- 11.03: Early Medieval Art
- 11.04: Fibulae
- 11.05: Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
- 11.06: Medieval Manuscripts
- 11.07: The Bestiary
- 11.08: The Lindisfarne Gospels
- 11.09: Carolingian Art
- 11.10: Lindau Gospels Cover
- 11.11: St. Michaels Church
- 11.12: External Resources
- 12: Byzantine Art
- 12.01: Module 12 Overview
- 12.02: Key Learning Items
- 12.03: San Vitale
- 12.04: Iconoclasm
- 12.05: Hagia Sophia
- 12.06: Ivory Panel with Archangel
- 12.07: Icon of Saint George
- 12.08: Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
- 12.09: External Resources
- 13: The Arts of the Islamic World
- 13.01: Module 13 Overview
- 13.02: Key Learning Items
- 13.03: Introduction to Islamic Art
- 13.04: Mosque Architecture
- 13.05: The Early Period
- 13.06: Dome of the Rock
- 13.07: Great Mosque of Cordoba
- 13.08: Medieval Period
- 13.09: Pyxis of Al-Mughira
- 13.10: The Alhambra
- 13.11: Ilkhanid Mihrab
- 13.12: Later Period
- 13.13: Qaa- The Damascus Room
- 13.14: External Resources
- 14: Romanesque Art
- 14.01: Module 14 Overview
- 14.02: Key Learning Items
- 14.03: Introduction to Romanesque Art
- 14.04: Pilgrimage Routes
- 14.05: Church Architecture
- 14.06: Abbaye of Fontenay
- 14.07: Saint Trophime
- 14.08: Last Judgment Tympanum
- 14.09: Virgin from Ger
- 14.10: Historiated Capitals
- 14.11: Painting- Wise and Foolish Virgins
- 14.12: Bayeux Tapestry
- 14.13: Diagram of a Romanesque Portal
- 14.14: External Resources
- 15: Gothic Art
- 15.01: Module 15 Overview
- 15.02: Key Learning Items
- 15.03: St. Denis
- 15.04: Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
- 15.05: Gothic Architecture
- 15.06: Southwell Minister
- 15.07: Salisbury Cathedral
- 15.08: Blanche of Castile
- 15.09: External Resources