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Cupule and meander petroglyph on
a boulder at the Auditorium Cave,
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A controversial piece as some believe this figure could just be the cause of natural erosion.
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This piece is believed to be the first representation of the human body.
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This piece is the earliest sign of cave art and the crosshatch pattern.
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The true beginning of Cave Art. The handprints symbolize a signature
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Ivory carvings such as this one were not uncommon during this time period. Some believe the animal carvings symbolized good luck in hunting or past hunting experience.
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Megalithic art is the fourth staple in prehistorical art, and a major part of the neolithic stage. This type of art was well known as being seen on tombs and memorials.
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Relief sculptures started to gain popularity in cave art. Using this method created a new type of masterpiece.
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The engraving depicts a victorious Egyptian king unifying the land under his rule.
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The first stone pyramid built in ancient Egypt was the 'Step Pyramid'.
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This piece is showing a black figure style design.
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Archaic Greek Art was influenced by Egyptian art, as you can see in this piece.
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Archaic Greek Architecture
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Moving away from the red and black figure style of design, the white ground technique became popular by painting on a white clay background.
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The Parthenon is one of the most well known structures designed by the ancient Greeks.
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The pharaoh Nectanebo II is shown in this piece in between the legs of the falcon god of kingship, Horus
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The major cultural achievement of Qin Dynasty Art
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"Hellenistic Greek sculpture continued the Classical trend towards ever greater naturalism." It is at this point that both animals and people became acceptable subjects for sculpture. These types of sculptures were usually made for the wealthy.
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Part of Han Dynasty Art
Western Han Dynasty -
Villa of the Mysteries found in Pompeii
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Mythology was of great importance to the Greeks and therefore played a big part in their Art.
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The greatest relief sculpture of Ancient Rome, Trajan's Column is a Doric-style monument, designed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus.
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Seen in the Piazza Colonna, Rome.
Depicts the "rain miracle of Quadi". -
Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
Roman relief sculpture in marble. -
Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
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This piece shows Judas Iscariot
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The great Egyptian god Ptah was a deity known for being a creator and for listening to individuals’ prayers.
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Gothic sculpture
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Ramesses II was a pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt. He was notorious for putting up statues of himself around Egypt.
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"Virgin and Child" a sculpture carved from Ivory
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By Lorenzo Ghiberti, one of
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by Masaccio. A seminal image
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One of the greatest Flemish altarpieces of the Northern Renaissance.
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By Leonardo da Vinci. Known to be one of the Greatest Paintings ever
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Birth Of Venus by Botticelli
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By Michelangelo. A masterpiece of
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Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
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By Raphael. This painting is famous for its use of perspective
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By Michelangelo's. Located on
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By Caravaggio. This piece contained a lot of tenebrism.
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During this time period art needed to have three very important characteristics due to the protestant reformation...
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This time period has been known to show wealthy and materialistic situations in pieces of art.
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By Jean Antoine Watteau
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This art reflected classical art from ancient Greece and Rome.
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Painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. A fun painting with the message of adultery.
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Art meant to evoke emotion.
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A time period characterized by an emergence of science, intelligence, and technology.
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Subject matter during this time included genre scenes of rural and urban working class life, scenes of street-life, cafes and night clubs, and nudity.
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An oil painting o by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault.
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and introduced the daguerreotype worldwide.The Daguerreotype process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used.
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Horace Vernet
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By the French painter Gustave Courbet. This painting depicts two peasants, a young man and an old man, breaking rocks.
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French movement characterized by rapid, spontaneous and loose brushstrokes in paintings.
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Eadweard Muybridge
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By John William Waterhouse.
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By Pablo Picasso.
The first Cubist picture and one of
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Cotton Mill Worker in North Carolina This photograph depicting a young girl at work in a North Carolina cotton mill was taken by the American photographer Lewis W. Hine.
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An "avant-garde" movement
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By Georges Braque.
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By Giorgio de Chirico, a key
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By Juan Gris.
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By Pablo Picasso.
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By Fernand Leger.
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By Salvador Dali
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By Rene Magritte.
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By Josef Albers.
