The document provides an overview of important works of art from various periods and cultures, including: - Assyrian reliefs from the 8th century BCE depicting human-headed winged bulls and King Ashurbanipal hunting lions. - The Narmer Palette and Stela of King Naram Sin from ancient Mesopotamia between 3200-2800 BCE and 2200 BCE respectively. - Hellenistic sculptures including the Nike of Samothrace commemorating a naval victory and the Augustus of Prima Porta statue from 1 CE. - Early Christian art like the mosaics of San Vitale and statues from the 4th-6th centuries CE.

1. 2013 AP Art History
Mid Term Study Slides

2. Lamasu. Human-headed
winged bull facing. Bas-relief
from King Sargon II's palace at
Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now
Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716
BCE.

3. Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions, Dying Lioness, Nimrud (c. 850
BCE)
• Relief sculpture
• Animals show emotion, humans none
• Ruthless rendering of lions
• Chaotic arrangement of lions
• Organized arrangement of humans
• Humans as stoic and severe

4. Palette of Narmer
Stela of King Naram Sin c. 3200 – 2800 BCE
(Iran c.2300-2200 BC)

5. Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir al-Bahrri c1490-1460 bce
“The Place of the Northern Monastery”

6. Monotheism with the sole god
Aten – a radical change in religious
worship and practice
Radical change in sculptural
representation
Also causes major economic
changes
Capital city moved from Thebes to
Armana

7. dipylon amphora

8. Grave Stele of Hegeso

9. Kritios Boy

10. Late Classical Art
4th Century BC
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos
• First nude woman in Greek art
• Very popular in its own time, people
came from far and wide to see it
• Placed in a round temple surrounded by
columns: effect of sneaking a peek at
her
• Not openly erotic
• Female sexual power suggested
• Genitals lacking
• Steps into a bath
• One side of her has an open form, the
other closed
• S curve
• Gentle dreamy quality

11. Hellenistic Sculpture
Nike of Samothrace
• Nike alighting on a boat
• Water cascading on boulders
• Commemorated a naval victory in 191
BC
• Twist of torso
• Drama
• Monumental
• Fountain creates the illusion of rushing
waves
• Missing right arm might have once
raised crown to naval victor
• Wet drapery flowing around legs and
sticking to the body
• To be seen from several angles

12. Augustus of prima Porta c. 15 AD

13. Constantine the Great
Reigned 306-312 CE

14. Nimes, France
15 –14 BCE

15. Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Portunas) Late 2nd BCE

17. San Vitale

18. S. Vitale, c. 525 -547

19. Statue of an old market
woman, Early
Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st
century A.D.
Roman

21. St. Peter’s Basilica
Reputed Burial Place of St. Peter
Built on the orders of Constantine c. 326

23. The Good Shepherd
Galla Placidia, Ravena
c. 425-26
•Contains shading to indicate depth & light source
•Hint of landscape and rocks
•Young, beardless adult with a halo – based on Apollo model
•Imperial gold and purple- assimilation of Imperial Status
•Long golden staff that ends with a cross – adaptation of Imperial Staff

24. Emperor Justinian and Attendants, Saint Vitale, Ravenna, c.547

25. Built during the city’s
rebuilding after riots of
532
“Purple makes a fine
shroud” – attributed to
Theodora

26. The Alhambra, 1338 - 1390

27. The Night Journey of Muhammad on His
Steed, Buraq; leaf from a copy of the
Bustan of Sacdi, dated 1514. From
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. In The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.

28. St. Matthew, the Coronation St. Matthewthe Ebbo Gospels, c. 816
Gospels, c. 800

29. Lindau Gospels
c. 870-880

30. Book of Kells c. 800 Lindisfarne Gospels c. 700

31. Early Medieval Art
Sutton Hoo Purse Lid
• Geometric interlace
designs
• Symmetry of forms
• Animals and humans
interact
• Repetition of patterns
• Used as a purse cover for
a disintegrated purse
found in a ship burial in
England
Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo ship
burial, c. 655

32. West Tympanum, Cathedral of Autun, France
Gislebertus, C 1130 AD

33. Pisa Cathedral

34. ambulatory choir of
St. Denis, c. 1140-1144,
France (Gothic).

35. exterior buttresses of St. Denis
right: plan of choir of St. Denis.

36. Rottgen Pieta Gero Crucifix

37. Virgin and Child
1324-39

38. Sienna Cathedral

39. Florence Cathedral

40. Cimabue c. 1280 Duccio. 1318 Giotto c.1310
12’7” 14’9” 10’6”

41. Digital
reproduction
of
original, fron
t

42. panel detail
The Temptation
of Christ

43. In the Room of Nine (Room of Peace)
“Where this holy virtue (Justice) rules, she induces the many souls of the citizens to unity, and
they…make common good their lord.”

45. The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna
Cenami; 1434 (130 Kb); Oil on wood, 81.8 x 59.7
cm (32 1/4 x 23 1/2 in); National Gallery, London

46. Robert Campin (1425-28)

47. Fra Angelico, Annunciation, c. 1440

49. Ghiberti Brunelleschi

50. Perugino

51. Masaccio, 1426-27

52. Alberti, Sant’Andrea, Mantua
1472
•Patron: Ludovico Gonzaga
•Original Church housed a
vial containing blood of
Christ
•Idea of an “Etruscan
Temple” with a basilica
model plan
•Façade derived from
Roman triumphal arches

54. Donatello, David
1425 - 30

55. Italian Quattrocento Sculpture
Donatello, Saint Mark
• Commissioned by the Guild of
Linen Weavers and
Peddlers, suggested by pillow
at base and ample drapery
• Although in a Gothic niche, the
statue is free standing
• Contrapposto based on Roman
art
• Drapery falls directly down
• Easy posture
• Face has piercing eyes
• Calculated how the sculpture
would look from street level

56. Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson, 1970

57. Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1976