Introduction: Periods of Art History I
The Body, Nature, the Gods, and Death
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
adrien.palladino@phil.muni.cz
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“The precursors of Raphael and
Michelangelo, or the Birth of the
Arts of Drawing and Sculpture in
the Age of the Reindeer”
Émile Bayard, engraving, for Louis
Figuier, L’Homme Primitif, Paris
1870
Cuevas de la Manos (Cave of the Hands), 2 periods:
13,000–9,000 BCE and 7,000–3,300 BCE, Argentina,
province of Santa Cruz, Patagonia
Stone mask from the region of Hebron (Israel), c.
7,000 BCE / Jerusalem, The Israel Museum
2001
Image – Medium – Body
Fisherman fresco, from the Island of Thera
(Santorini), West House, Room 5, c. 1,600 BCE /
Athens, National Archeological Museum
Octopus amphora, from
Palaikastro (Crete), c. 1500 BCE,
27 cm high / Heraklion,
Archaeological Museum
Seated goddess with a child, Hittite Empire (Central
Anatolia), 1300–1200 BCE, gold, 4,3 x 1,7 x 1,9 cm /
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Wedjat Eye Amulet, c. 1,070–664 BCE, Egypt, faience and
aragonite, 6,5 cm large /Metropolitan Museum, New York
Marcus Aurelius sacrificing to the Gods, from
the Arch of Marcus Aurelius, c. 176 CE /
Rome, Musei Capitolini
Sarcophagus of the Spouses, c.
550–580 BCE, terracotta, with
traces of polychromy / Villa
Giulia, Museo Nazionale
Etrusco, Rome
Book of the Dead for the Chantress
of Amun, Nany
From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes,
Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of
Meritamun ca. 1050 B.C.
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Benjamin West, The Origin of
Painting, 1795 / Royal Academy
of Arts, London
Pliny the Elder, Natural History,
book XXXV, § 151 and 152
Jericho skull, humans skull decorated with plaster
and shells, found near Jericho (Palestine), c. 8,200–
7,500 BCE / British Museum, London