PERIODS I SEMINAR
3/3
Amálie Suchánková, 525961@mail.muni.cz
PERIODS I. EXAM
• Exam is 20 minutes in total:
• 10 minutes presentation on your chosen artifact
• 10 minutes speaking about ancient artifacts chosen by Mr. Palladino: 2-5
pictures
• It‘s important to recognize the culture of the artifact and what the object
represents in the given culture- characteristic traits such as:
• Material (e.g. Faience- typical for Egypt..)
• Iconography specific to the culture (Medusa- Greek/ Roman, Eye idols-
Mesopotamia..)
• Function- funerary, ritual, apotropaic..
• The more you speak about these individual things, the less pictures you getit‘s
good to know general timeframe of cultures and general information
about each culture (useful to recognize writing of cultures- cuneiform,
hieroglyphs…)
• If you don‘t recognize the culture- compare it to something you know based
on similarity (symbols, plants, ornaments, features of the face- beard,
headdress..)
USEFUL REFERENCES
• www.metmuseum.org/art/the-collection
• https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection
• www.artsy.net/gene/ancient-art
• https://artsandculture.google.com/search?q=ancient%20art
• Youtube videos: Prof. Neal's Art Appreciation & Art History: Art
History Survey Part 1
Nakladatelství ARTIA, edice Umění světa
OXFORD HISTORY OF ART, IN HANS BELTING LIBRARY:
Book of the Dead for the Chantress of Amun Nauny,
ca. 1050 BC, papyrus and paint
Mesopotamian
boundary stone
(kudurru) of
Gula- Eresh,
1125-1100 BC
Earring with Inlays,
Achaemenid, late 400s-early
300s BC, gold enamel with
turquoise, lapis lazuli, and
cornelian.
Apollo of Veii, Etruscan terracotta statue,
510-500 BC, part of a scene of Apollo
and Heracles contending over the Ceryneian
Hind, placed 12 metres above the ground on
beams on the acroterion of the Sanctuary of
Minerva
Achaemenid panel with
two androcephalic lions
under the winged disc of
the god Ahura Mazda,
around 539-330 BC, glazed
brick
Frescoes from the Room 5 in Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, 1st
century BC, frescos in Room 5, interpreted as showing the
initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult
Chest with a boat decorated with
two heads of ibex and two
figures, one of them thought to
be Princess Mutnedjmet, from
the tomb of Tutankhamun,
probably a perfume holder or
cosmetic container, 1323 BC,
alabaster
1. 2. 3. 4.
Egyptian statuette of the Goddess Isis and her
Son Horus, 332–30 BC, faience
Hittite seated goddess with a child,
14th–13th century BC, gold
Venus of Brassempouy, around 25 000
BC, ivory fragment
Mesopotamian relief of The Queen of
the Night (also the `Burney Relief'),
1800-1750 BC, terracotta
Caryatid from Erechteion, Classical Greek
sculpture, 421-407 BC, marble
Achaemenid bull impost of the columns from the
palace in Susa (c. 522 BC), stone
Detail of the Saffron Gatherer fresco, discovered at
Akrotiri, Thera, Minoan culture, 17th century BC
A frieze of horses and rhinos from the Megaloceros
gallery in Chauvet cave, France, around
32 000 BC, charcoal
Libation Dish, depicting Ka-Arms presenting an
Ankh-Sign
ca. 3100–2900 BC, greywacke stone Pillar 43, with vultures, scorpio and mysterious
bag symbols, Göbekli Tepe, 9600-8200 BC
Mesopotamian standing male worshiper
ca. 2900–2600 BC, gypsum alabaster,
shell, black limestone, bitumen
Minoan octopus vase from Palaikastro,
1500 BC
Lycurgus cup, Roman cage cup made of glass with
nanoparticles of gold and silver- changes color
when lit from behind, around 4th century AD
Seal of Tarkasnawa, King
of Mira, circa 1220 BC, silver
Egyptian statue of Haremhab as a Scribe of the
King, ca. 1336–1323 BC, Granodiorite
Mesopotamian ivory plaque of a
lioness devouring a boy, from the
palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Nimrud,
9th-8th century BC,
Two-Headed Statue from Ain Ghazal,
around 7500 BC, lime plaster, reed,
bitumen
Horus killing a crocodile, Coptic
Egypt, around 275 BC-400 AD,
limestone
Moschophoros, archaic
Greek sculpture of the calfbearer
(a man carrying
sacrificial animal), ca. 560
BC, marble and limestone
Achaemenid Hittite
Mesopotamian
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