ARTH 1440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Passage Grave, Dolmen, Coregency
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Relief sculpture high relief, low relief, sunken relief. Pyramid (also understand the differences between a ziggurat and a pyramid) Conventions for representing the human body in art. Prehistoric art: prehistoric: art before written record, european dates for the paleolithic period, paleolithic (40,000-8,00 bce, neolithic (6,500-1,200 bce, bronze age (2,300-800 bce) d) Iron age (100 bce: periods of the stone age, paleolithic (greek for old and stone) a. i) lower (older) a. ii) middle a. iii) Upper (newer: bce and ce b. i) before the common era and the common era b. ii) bce time is counted down b. iii) Lion-human germany: c. 30,000-26,000 bce, mammoth ivory c) Electron spin resonance techniques: woman from brassempouy, france, c. 30,000 bce b) 1 : woman from ostrava petrkovice, czech republic, c. 23,000 bce, hematite c) 1 : woman from willendorf (venus of willendorf, willendorf, austria, c. 28,000-25,000 bce c) Fertility symbols: representation of actual women, expressions of ideal beauty, erotic images f)
