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3000 BCE
Palette of King Narmer
Egypt. Relief carvings depicting unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, and the glory of its pharaoh -
2000 BCE
Stonehendge
Wiltshire, England. Built when religion and science were a unified means of understanding natural forces -
1792 BCE
Hammurabi Stele
Susa (modern Shush, Iran). Shows the king standing before the sun god, Shamash -
520 BCE
Sarcophagus with Reclining Couple
Etruscan -
221 BCE
Tomb of Shi Huangdi
Shaanxi, China. Terra-cotta army to protect and serve the emperor after death -
200 BCE
Great Stupa
Sanchi, India. Buddhist architecture associated with the body of the Buddha -
118
Pantheon
Rome, Italy. Shrine to the chief deities of Roman empire -
220
Woodblock Printing
Originated from China in 220AD. Had the ability to reproduce books much quicker than by hand, but not as useful since many were illiterate. -
784
Great Mosque of Cordoba
Cordoba, Spain. -
900
Serpent Mound
Locust Grove, Ohio. 900-1300. A Native American Earthen sculpture -
1000
Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance
Naltunai Temple, Punjab, India. One of the avatars of Brahman -
1041
Clay Movable Type
Chinese inventor Bi Sheng during 1041-1048 created movable type with carved sticky clay. -
1377
Jikji
One of the first recorded documents made in Korea from a metal movable type. -
1420
Temple of Heaven
Round Hall, Beijing. Three tiered pagoda where emperor officiated religious and political ceremonies. Symbolized mountain form -
1440
Johannes Gutenburg's Printing Press
Produced books at a speed not seen before and resulted in an increase in literacy. -
1454
Gutenburg Bible
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1482
The Birth of Venus
By Sandro Botticelli -
1509
Madonna of Loreto
By Raphael. Depicts tender relationship between Mary and baby Jesus -
1510
The Isenheim Altarpiece
Matthias Grunewald. Germany. Oil on wood. -
1538
Venus of Urbino
By Titian. A "come hither" look, but not over-sexualized even though she's in the nude -
1547
Le Transi de Rene de Chalon
Created by Ligier Richier. -
1567
The Peasant Wedding
By Pieter Bruegel the Elder -
Pieta
By Michelangelo, showing tenderness between mother and child (Mary and Jesus) -
The Dissolute Household
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Palace of Versailles Completed
Extravagance developed by Louis XIV (The Sun King), who moved entire French court there to admire him and his way of living (illusion of grandeur). Baroque style, Rococo influence -
Breakfast Scene
By William Hogarth. From Marriage a la Mode series. Satirizes upper class living and the appearance of grandeur -
The Swing
By Jean-Honore Fragonard. Oil on canvas. Shows the upper class acting frivolously -
The Death of Marat
By Jacques Louis David. Painting of him after being murdered by woman on opposing side of revolution. Notice him depicted without skin disease -
La Grand Odalisque
By Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres. A prostitute, more shy. Notice the extra vertebrae -
The Raft of the Medusa
By Theodore Gericault. Starts a talk about current events depicted in artwork -
The View from the Window at Le Gras
Joseph Nicephore Niepce took the first known photograph using a process he referred to as "Heliography." -
Boulevard du Temple
Louis Daguerre creates the daguerreotype process of photography and takes one of the earliest known photographs, the Doulevard du Temple. -
Creation of Photo-Sensitive Paper
Henry Fox Talbot discovers the process of translucent imaging and creates photo-sensitive paper. -
Valley of the Shadow of Death
An image of the Crimean War taken by Roger Fenton. Known as the "First Iconic Photograph of War." There is controversy as to if Fenton fake the photograph by artificially placing the cannonballs to create a more stimulating image. -
Woman with a Parrot
By Gustave Courbet. Portrayal of a prostitute more messy, perhaps after the act? -
Creation of Camera Company Kodak
George Eastman creates Kodak, resulting in the birth of mass market photography. -
The Gross Clinic
By Thomas Eakins. Marks new excitement for scientific development -
L’Inconnue de la Seine
Body of girl found in Seine (river), one of workers in morgue found her face so pure and beautiful that he made a cast of her face. Many more casts were made to the point where it becomes a huge influence in Parisian pop culture. -
The Sick Husband
Vassily Maksimov -
La Grande Jatte
By George Seurat. Pixel painting technique, showing a leisurely middle-class -
He That Is Without Sin
Polenov -
Tote Mutter (Dead Mother)
By Egon Schiele, touches on mother's dying at childbirth -
Olowe of Isle
Palace sculpture, Yoruba, Ikere, Nigeria. Head wife stands behind king, showing her procreative power -
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Composition, 1913)
Wassily Kandinsky. Theory about spiritual aspects in art. -
Comical Repast (Banquet of the Starved)
By James Ensor -
0.10 Exhibition
Suprematist Exhibition -
Black Square
Kazimir Malevich. Oil on linen. -
Black Square
Kazimir Malevich. OIl on linen. -
0.10 Exhibition
Suprematist Exhibition -
Fountain
By Marcel Duchamp, Raises the question of "What is art?" -
Monument to the Third International
Tatlin's Tower- building design -
Marlene
By Hannah Hoch. Collage with images questioning gender bias, while seeing individual entities of women -
The Treachery of Images
By Rene Magritte. “This is not a pipe” -
Migrant Mother
By Dorothea Lange. Commissioned by government to symbolize Great Depression -
The Two Fridas
By Frida Kahlo. Mexican and European, painted after divorce from Diego Rivera -
Nighthawks
By Edward Hopper. Oil on Canvas -
Montien Boonma Collection
(1953-2000) -
Crucifixion (Corpus Hypercubus)
Salvador Dali -
Pantone
Creation of the color company Pantone, which is best known for the Pantone Matching System. -
Anthropometry of the Blue Period
By Yves Klein. Controversial, criticized the women were used as objects -
Interaction of Color
Josef Albers developed a book at Yale. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for students, instructors, and artists. -
One and Three Chairs
By Joseph Kosuth. Have the chair itself, next to a photo of chair, and dictionary definition of a chair -
Parangoles
Helio Oiticica. Wearable sculptures with a reference to both clothing and tribal-wear.. -
The Rothko Chapel
Non-denominal chapel located in Houston, Texas. Artist planned out lighting and design and structure. Created to evoke an emotional and spiritual response. -
The Holy Mountain
Alejandro Jodorowsky. -
SOS Starification Object Series
By Hannah Wilke. Sculptures of vaginas made from chewing gum on her body -
Interior Scroll
By Carolee Schneeman. Performance art, applies mud and paint on body and pulls scroll from vagina as she reads it -
TV Buddha
By Nam June Paik -
Guerrilla Girls Founded
Founded to expose gender and racial bias in art -
Performance Still
Mona Hatoum. -
Still from "A Fire in My Belly"
Narrative about a gay man's experience with aids and dealing with love and loss -
Immersion (Piss Christ)
By Andres Serrano. Photographed small figures of christ in different liquids (milk, urine, etc). Very controversial, but also brings up real point of crucifixion (vulnerability, no privacy) -
Bismullah
Artist Rasheed Araeen's work. Depicts photographs that are overlaid over a geometric structure. "Bismullah" meaning "in the name of Allah." Influenced by Islamic ideas. -
Ignorance = Fear, Silence = Death
By Keith Haring -
Untitled (Free/Still)
Rirkrit Tiravanija sets up lounge area with food, where people become the art; Similar to Duchamp, "What defines art?" -
Temple of All Religions
Located in Kazan, Russia. Combines different stylistic construction types from different religions. Has 16 towers that each represent a major religion. -
Mining the Museum
By Fred Wilson. Putting one object in the middle of other objects completely changes meaning. An institutional critique -
Spider
By Louise Bourgeois. Spider symbolizes her mother -
Faceless Women of Allah Series
By Shirin Neshat. Confronting the role of a women in the history of Iran. Splits image using a weapon, typically a gun (holding it passively or aggressively) -
Wigs
By Lorna Simpson. Collection of 21 lithographs on felt, with 17 lithographed felt text panels. Focuses on hair as a cultural symbol -
Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain. By Frank O. Gehry -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Without Their Heads
Yinka Shonibare. To show complexity of world trade and protest colonial history -
The Green Line
Francis Alys, walking while spilling green paint through Jerusalem -
CanoeKeneJaguarPataLampLight
Ernesto Neto -
Cotton Hoards in Southern Swamp
Kara Walker. combines silhouettes with a southern satirical narrative -
Shibboleth
By Doris Salcedo -
Momme Portrait Series (Shadow)
By LaToya Ruby Frazier. History of toxic waste and unhealthy environment in town, leading to many with disease. Cycle of life and death of women
