Instructions: Below are
the art works, terms and styles you need to study for the first art recognition
test. All of the images can be found online. Go to a search engine, such as
Google.com and feed in several of the key words. Links have been porvided for
some things needed. For the test you will need to recognize the image by name.
You must also create a chronology of the art works and recognize them by their
country of origin. You will not need to know about the artists at this point.
Art Works
- Abu Simbel (XIX Dynasty)
[Temple of Ramses II]
- Acropolis [Athens]
- Sphinx of Amenhotep III
(ca. 1391–1353 BCE, Dynasty XVIII), faience [Metropolitan Museum]
- Cyrus the Great bas-relief
(580-529 BCE)
- The Discus Thrower or
the Lancellotti Discobalus by Myron (c450 BCE)
- Winged Assyrian bull
from Palace of Sargon of Assyria (721-705 BC), gypseous alabaster [Louvre]
- "Lady of Auxerre"
Female statue (Crete, c630 BCE), limestone
- The Laocoon (or Lookoon)
Group by Hagesandros, Polydoros & Athanadoros of Rhodes (Late 2nd Century
BCE)
- Menkure and his Queen
(later IV Dynasty), also called Mycerinus & Khyamer-nebty
- Bust of Nefertiti, also
called Nofretete (XVIII Dynasty), limestone and plaster [Egyptian Museum,
Berlin]
- Parthenon (c447-432 BC)
[Athens]
- The Great Pyramid of
Cheops [Giza]
- Smenkhkare and Meritaten
(XVIII Dynasty), painted limestone [Egyptian Museum, Berlin]
- Snake Goddess from Knossos,
Crete (c1600 BCE), faience
- The Sphinx (IV Dynasty)
[Giza]
- Stonehenge [England]
- Sumerian Statuette (c2900-2600
BCE), gypsum (?) inlaid with shell and black limestone(?) [Oriental Institute]
- The Gold Mask of Tutankhamon
(XVIII Dynasty), obsidian, gold, turquoise, glass, carnelian, lapis lazuli
[Cairo Museum]
- Venus de Milo (2nd century
BCE copy)
- Venus of Willendorf (c24,000-22,000
BCE), Oolitic limestone
- The Winged Victory of
Samothrace (c200-190 BCE)
- Ur-Nammu
ziggurat (c2113-2096)
Terms
Styles (be able to recognize
settings or art in the following styles):
History and Thought
of Western Man
