Art History I

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 : Introduction

• • Chapter 1 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Common Questions about Dates
  • A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture
  • Why Look at Art?
  • The Skill of Describing
  • Patronage and the Status of the Artist
  • Glossary of Art Terms
  • External Resource

• Chapter 2: The Birth of Art

• • Chapter 2 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
  • Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
  • Paleolithic Art Explained
  • The Neolithic Revolution
  • Jericho
  • Çatal Höyük
  • Stonehenge
  • External Resources

• Chapter 3: The Ancient Near East

• • Chapter 3 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Ancient Near East
  • Sumerian Art
  • The Invention of Writing
  • The Standard of Ur
  • Ziggurat of Ur
  • Art of Akkad and Ur
  • Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
  • Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
  • Law Code of Hammurabi
  • Assyrian Art
  • Lamassu
  • Neo-Babylonian Art
  • Art of the Persian Empire
  • External Resources

• Chapter 4: The Art of Ancient Egypt

• • Chapter 4 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Ancient Egypt
  • Egyptian Art
  • Materials & Techniques
  • Seated Scribe
  • The Great Pyramids of Giza
  • Pyramid of Khufu
  • Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
  • Pyramid of Menkaure
  • House Altar (Amarna Period)
  • Portrait Head of Queen Tiye
  • Bust of Nefertiti
  • Ramesses II
  • External Resources

• Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece—Part I

• • Chapter 5 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology
  • The Early Aegean (3000–700 BCE)
  • Geometric Greek Krater
  • Black Figure Amphora
  • Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater
  • New York Kouros
  • Spear Bearer
  • The Greek Temple
  • East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia
  • Myron, Discus Thrower
  • The Parthenon
  • Parthenon's East Pediment
  • Parthenon Frieze
  • Parthenon Metopes
  • Erechtheion
  • External Resources

• Chapter 6: The Art of Ancient Greece—Part II

• • Chapter 6 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Lysippos: Farnese Herucles
  • After Praxiteles, Venus
  • Barberini Faun
  • Dying Gaul
  • Nike of Samothrace
  • The Pergamon Altar
  • Boxer at Rest
  • Alexander Mosaic
  • Laocoön and his Sons
  • Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman
  • ** Petra: An Introduction
  • Petra: Rock Cut Facades
  • ** Petra: Urban Metropolis
  • External Resources

• Chapter 7: The Art of the Etruscans

• • Chapter 7 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Etruscan Art
  • Sarcophagus of the Spouses
  • Etruscan Necropolises
  • Etruscan Art Explained by the Met
  • External Resources

• Chapter 8: The Art of Ancient Rome—Part I

• • Chapter 8 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Ancient Rome
  • Digging Through Time
  • Temple of Portunus
  • Veristic Male Portrait
  • The Pantheon
  • Augustus of Primaporta
  • Painted Garden
  • Head of Augustus
  • Ara Pacis
  • Villa of Mysteries
  • Colosseum
  • External Resources

• Chapter 9: The Art of Ancient Rome—Part II

• • Chapter 9 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Arch of Titus
  • Hadrian's Villa
  • Maritime Theater, Hadrian's Villa
  • Pair of Centaurs
  • Column of Trajan
  • Medea Sarcophagus
  • Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
  • Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
  • Tetrarchs
  • Arch of Constantine
  • Colossus of Constantine
  • External Resources

• Chapter 10: Early Christian Art

• • Chapter 10 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Introduction to Early Christianity
  • Early Christian Art
  • After Constantine
  • Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus
  • Santa Pudenziana
  • Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
  • Santa Sabina
  • Santa Maria Maggiore
  • Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
  • External Resources

• Chapter 11: Early Medieval, Carolingian and Ottonian Art

• • Chapter 11 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Early Medieval Art
  • Fibulae
  • Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
  • Medieval Manuscripts
  • The Bestiary
  • The Lindisfarne Gospels
  • Carolingian Art
  • Lindau Gospels Cover
  • St. Michael's Church
  • External Resources

• Chapter 12: Byzantine Art

• • Chapter 12 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • San Vitale
  • Iconoclasm
  • Hagia Sophia
  • Ivory Panel with Archangel
  • Icon of Saint George
  • Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
  • External Resources

• Chapter 13: The Arts of the Islamic World

• • Chapter 13 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Introduction to Islamic Art
  • Mosque Architecture
  • The Early Period
  • Dome of the Rock
  • Great Mosque of Cordoba
  • Medieval Period
  • Pyxis of Al-Mughira
  • The Alhambra
  • Ilkhanid Mihrab
  • Later Period
  • Qa'a: The Damascus Room
  • External Resources

• Chapter 14: Romanesque Art

• • Chapter 14 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • Introduction to Romanesque Art
  • Pilgrimage Routes
  • Church Architecture
  • Abbaye of Fontenay
  • Saint Trophime
  • Last Judgment Tympanum
  • Virgin from Ger
  • Historiated Capitals
  • Painting: Wise and Foolish Virgins
  • Bayeux Tapestry
  • Diagram of a Romanesque Portal
  • External Resources

• Chapter 15: Gothic Art

• • Chapter 15 Overview
  • Key Learning Items
  • St. Denis
  • Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
  • Gothic Architecture
  • Southwell Minister
  • Salisbury Cathedral
  • Blanche of Castile
  • External Resources

• Course Information

• • Welcome to Art History I
  • Your First Steps
  • Course Overview
  • Attendance Policy
  • Contact Information
  • Grading_How I Evaluate Your Work in the Class
  • Discussion Grading Guideles
  • Successful Discussion Examples.
  • Less Successful Discussion Post
  • Footnotes_Proper Citation
  • Successful Writing Samples
  • Less Successful Writing Sample

• Textbook Online

• Meet the Class

• Bulletin Board

• Icebreaker

• Museum Assignment

• Module 1 Prehistoric Art

• • Module 1 Overview Prehistoric Art
  • Module 1 Cave Art Mini-Lecture_Cave Paintings
  • Module 1 Cave Art Mini-Lecture_Venus of Willendorf
  • Module 1 Cave Art Birth of Art Chapter Test
  • Module 1 Cave Art Venus of Willendorf Written Assignment
  • Module 1 Cave Art Class Discussion 1 Cave Paintings
  • Module 1 Cave Art Class Discussion 2 Venus of Willendorf
  • Module 1 Youtube Videos_Origins of Art
  • Khan Academy_Introduction to Paleolithic Art

• Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia

• • Module 2 Overview Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Mini Lecture Art of the Ancient Near East ( Mesopotamia )
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Mini Lecture Egyptian Art
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamian Art Written Assignment Art and An Afterlife
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Class Discussion 1 Images of An afterlife
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Class Discussion 2 Isis and the History of Art
  • Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Chapter Test
  • Sigmund Freud's Collection of Artifacts
  • ISIS Destroying Mesopotamian Antiquities
  • Jordanville Monastery
  • Khan Academy Videos_Egypt and Mesopotamian Art
  • OER Lecture

• Module 3 Greek Art

• • Module 3 Overview Greek Art
  • Module 3 Greek Art Chapter Test
  • Module 3 Greek Art Written Assignment
  • Module 3 Greek Art Class Discussion The Nude in Greek Art
  • Youtube Videos Greek Architecture
  • Youtube Videos Greek Sculpture
  • Greek Sculpture Images
  • Greek Art Lumen Learning Text
  • Later Greek Sculpture Khan Academy
  • Greek Pottery Khan Academy
  • Aegean Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy
  • Greek Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy
  • Chapter 3 Key Works Aegean Art Links
  • Chapter 3 Key Works Greek Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy

• Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture

• • Module 4 Overview Roman Art and Architecture
  • Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Chapter Test
  • Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Written Assignment
  • Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Class Discussion 1 Roman Portraits
  • Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Class Discussion 2 Summary

• Module 5 Early Medieval Art ( Early Christian, Byzantine; and Jewish Art )

• • Module 5 Overview Early Medieval Art
  • Module 5 Early Medieval Art Chapter Test
  • Module 5 Early Medieval Art Class Discussion 1 Icons and Iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire
  • Module 5 Early Medieval Art Class Discussion 2 Islamic Art and Icons

• Module 6 Non-Western Art

• • Module 6 Overview Non-Western Art
  • Module 6 Non Western Art Written Assignment
  • Module 6 Non Western Art Class Discussion
  • Module 6 Non Western Art Videos For Research

• Module 7 Cathedrals in the Middle Ages

• • Module 7 Overview
  • Module 7 Discussion Cathedrals in the Middle Ages
  • Module 7 Written Assignment

• Module 8 Late Gothic and Renaissance Art

• • Module 8 Late Gothic and Renaissance Art Chapter Test
  • Module 8 Late Gothic and Renaissance Art Written Assignment
  • Module 8 Late Gothic and Renaissance Class Discussion Michelangelo and Giacometti