Contents

  1. I. Introduction

    1. Introduction: Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Common Questions about Dates

    4. A Beginner’s Guide to the History of Western Culture

    5. Why Look at Art?

    6. The Skill of Describing

    7. Patronage and the Status of the Artist

    8. Glossary of Art Terms

    9. External Resources

  2. II. Chapter 1: The Birth of Art

    1. Chapter 1 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Prehistoric (Stone Age) Art

    4. Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins

    5. Paleolithic Cave Paintings

    6. Lascaux

    7. Paleolithic Artifacts and Sculpture

    8. Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)

    9. Mesolithic Art

    10. Star Carr Pendant

    11. The Neolithic Revolution

    12. Jericho

    13. Çatal Höyük

    14. Stonehenge

    15. External Resources

  3. III. Chapter 2: The Ancient Near East

    1. Chapter 2 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Ancient Near East

    4. Sumerian Art

    5. The Invention of Writing

    6. Art of Akkad and Ur

    7. The Standard of Ur

    8. Ziggurat of Ur

    9. Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

    10. Assyrian Art

    11. Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions

    12. Lamassu

    13. Babylonian and Neo-Babylonian Art

    14. Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi

    15. Ishtar Gate and Processional Way

    16. Art of the Persian Empire

    17. Capital of a Column from the Audience Hall of the Palace of Darius I, Susa

    18. External Resources

  4. IV. Chapter 3: The Art of Ancient Egypt

    1. Chapter 3 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Ancient Egypt

    4. Egyptian Art

    5. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Art

    6. Palette of Narmer

    7. Old Kingdom Art

    8. Seated Scribe

    9. The Great Pyramids of Giza

    10. Pyramid of Khufu

    11. Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx

    12. Pyramid of Menkaure

    13. Middle Kingdom Art: Sculpture

    14. Hippopotamus

    15. Architecture of the Middle Kingdom

    16. New Kingdom Art: Temples and Tombs

    17. House Altar (Amarna Period)

    18. Sculpture and Painting of the New Kingdom

    19. Portrait Head of Queen Tiye

    20. Bust of Nefertiti

    21. Ramesses II

    22. Late Period Art

    23. The Rosetta Stone

    24. External Resources

  5. V. Chapter 4: The Art of the Ancient Aegean

    1. Chapter 4 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. An introduction to the Ancient Aegean

    4. Introduction to Cycladic Art

    5. Cycladic Sculpture

    6. Cycladic Frescoes

    7. Introduction to Minoan Art

    8. Minoan Architecture

    9. Minoan Painting

    10. Minoan Sculpture

    11. Introduction to Mycenaean Art

    12. Mycenaean Architecture: The "Palace" and Grave Circle A

    13. The Lion Gate

    14. The Treasury of Atreus

    15. Mycenaean Metallurgy: The Mask of Agamemnon

    16. Mycenaean Ceramics

    17. External Resources

  6. VI. Chapter 5: The Art of Ancient Greece

    1. Chapter 5 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction to Greek Art

    4. Geometric Period

    5. Geometric Greek Krater

    6. Archaic Period

    7. New York Kouros

    8. Black Figure Amphora

    9. Early Classical Period

    10. Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater

    11. Classical Period

    12. Spear Bearer

    13. Myron, Discus Thrower

    14. The Greek Temple

    15. East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia

    16. The Parthenon

    17. Parthenon’s East Pediment

    18. Parthenon Frieze

    19. Parthenon Metopes

    20. Erechtheion

    21. Late Classical Period

    22. Lysippos: Farnese Herucles

    23. Capitoline Venus

    24. External Resources

  7. VII. Chapter 6: Hellenistic Art

    1. Chapter 6 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction into Hellenistic Art and Culture

    4. After Praxiteles, Venus

    5. Barberini Faun

    6. Dying Gaul

    7. Nike of Samothrace

    8. The Pergamon Altar

    9. Boxer at Rest

    10. Alexander Mosaic

    11. Laocoön and his Sons

    12. Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman

    13. Petra: An Introduction

    14. Petra: Rock Cut Facades

    15. Petra: Urban Metropolis

    16. External Resources

  8. VIII. Chapter 7: The Art of the Etruscans

    1. Chapter 7 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction to Etruscan Art

    4. Early Etruscan Art

    5. Etruscan Ceramics

    6. Etruscan Sculpture

    7. Etruscan Temples and Tombs

    8. Apulu (Apollo of Veii)

    9. Etruscan Necropolises of Cerveteri and Tarquinia

    10. Sarcophagus of the Spouses

    11. Late Etruscan Art

    12. External Resources

  9. IX. Chapter 8: The Art of Ancient Rome - Part I

    1. Chapter 8 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction to Ancient Roman Culture

    4. A Virtual Tour of Ancient Rome

    5. Introduction to Art During the Roman Republic

    6. Roman Republic Architecture

    7. Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (Rome)

    8. Temple of Portunus

    9. Veristic Male Portrait

    10. Augustus and Art of the Early Empire

    11. Ara Pacis

    12. Portraiture in the Augustan Age

    13. Head of Augustus

    14. Augustus of Primaporta

    15. Painting in the Early Roman Empire

    16. Villa of Mysteries

    17. Painted Garden

    18. Colosseum

    19. Arch of Titus

    20. External Resources

  10. X. Chapter 9: The Art of Ancient Rome - Part II

    1. Chapter 9 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction to Art of the Middle Empire: Trajan and Hadrian

    4. The Arch of Trajan

    5. The Column of Trajan

    6. Hadrian’s Villa

    7. Maritime Theater, Hadrian’s Villa

    8. Pair of Centaurs Fighting Cats of Prey from Hadrian's Villa

    9. The Pantheon

    10. Medea Sarcophagus

    11. Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius

    12. Introduction to Late Empire Art

    13. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus

    14. Diocletian Art

    15. Portraits of the Four Tetrarchs

    16. Constantinian Art: The Arch of Constantine

    17. Basilica Nova and the Colossus of Constantine

    18. External Resources

  11. XI. Chapter 10: Early Jewish and Christian Art

    1. Chapter 10 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Early Jewish Art

    4. Dura-Europos

    5. Introduction to Early Christianity

    6. The Christianization of the Roman Empire

    7. Introduction to Early Christian Art

    8. Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus

    9. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus

    10. Santa Pudenziana

    11. Santa Sabina

    12. Santa Maria Maggiore

    13. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia

    14. External Resources

  12. XII. Module 11: Early Medieval, Carolingian and Ottonian Art

    1. Chapter 11 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Early Medieval Art

    4. Fibulae

    5. Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

    6. Medieval Manuscripts

    7. The Bestiary

    8. The Lindisfarne Gospels

    9. Carolingian Art

    10. Lindau Gospels Cover

    11. Palatine Chapel, Aachen

    12. Ottonian Art

    13. Bronze Doors of Saint Michael's

    14. Gospel Book of Otto III

    15. External Resources

  13. XIII. Module 12: Byzantine Art

    1. Chapter 12 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. The Byzantine Empire

    4. Early Byzantine Art

    5. Iconoclasm

    6. San Vitale

    7. Ivory Panel with Archangel

    8. Middle Byzantine Art (c. 843–1204)

    9. The Harbaville Triptych

    10. Hagia Sophia

    11. Theotokos Mosaic, Apse, Hagia Sophia

    12. Late Byzantine (c. 1261–1453)

    13. Icon of Saint George

    14. Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy

    15. External Resources

  14. XIV. Chapter 13: Romanesque Art

    1. Chapter 13 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. Introduction to Romanesque Art

    4. Pilgrimage Routes

    5. Church Architecture

    6. Abbaye of Fontenay

    7. Saint Trophime

    8. Last Judgment Tympanum

    9. Virgin from Ger

    10. Historiated Capitals

    11. Painting: Wise and Foolish Virgins

    12. Bayeux Tapestry

    13. External Resources

  15. XV. Chapter 14: Gothic Art

    1. Chapter 14 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. St. Denis

    4. Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres

    5. Gothic Architecture

    6. Southwell Minister

    7. Salisbury Cathedral

    8. Blanche of Castile

    9. External Resources