ART 1/PREHISTORIC THROUGH GOTHIC ART Chapter 1: The Birth of Art 1-5 Nude Woman (The Venus of Willendorf)‚ 28‚000-25‚000 B.C. 1-6 Woman Holding a Bison Horn‚ from Laussel 25‚000-20‚000 B.C. 1-7 Two Bison‚ 15‚000-10‚000 B.C. 1-9 Bison‚ detail of cave at Altamira‚ 12‚000-1‚000 B.C. 1-10 Spotted Horses and Negative Hand Prints‚ cave at Pech-Merle‚ 22‚000 B.C. 1-11 Hall of Bulls‚ Left wall‚ 15‚000-13‚000 B.C. 1-14 Stone Tower‚ Jericho‚ 8‚000-7‚000 B.C.
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Explain the rise of civilization in one of the following locations: Ancient Egypt‚ Indus River Valley‚ or Mesopotamia. Egypt‚ otherwise known as the “Gift of the Nile”‚ started as small villages along the great Nile River‚ and slowly became greater to the point of city-states‚ and eventually a great empire. The small villages evolved into the thriving civilization by three major doings; commercial trade along the river influencing and ultimately boosting their economy‚ architecture that has lasted
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Giza‚ where the sphinx is majestically perched and three great pyramids adorn the horizon‚ is well known through the realm of Egyptian history and in people’s mind in a general sense. When students and researchers are shown one picture of these great monuments‚ it sparks a response saying “Hey‚ that’s Egypt!”. However‚ there is more to Giza than the sphinx and the pyramids. People lived there and built the entire thing. They are normally the forgotten ones. Fortunately‚ there are two men named Mark
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The yearly Nile flood happened due to heavy summer rains far away to the south in the highlands that typically occurred around September. Rivers from these areasflowed into the Nile. Each year‚ the floodwaters deposited new fertile silt into natural basins. Farmers did not have to add fertilizer to the soil. After the water soaked into the earth in the late fall‚ farmers cast seeds onto the rich soil and turned it over with wooden plows pulled by oxen. Nature did the rest until it was time to harvest
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Statues are erected to reflect and / or represent an event or character that it depicts. The St. Catherines City Hall statue‚ erected in 1886‚ represents a militia member from the Winnipeg 90th division named Private Alexander Watson. The statue of Private Alexander Watson should be taken down as it does not represent what was once intended. Also‚ there are other concerns that support the removal of the statue‚ with the restoration price being one of them. As well‚ modern thinking about Louis Riel
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every line in it. We used to take the Statue of Liberty for granted‚ not even really caring about it‚ until “The New Colossus” and immigrants really showed everyone what the statue truly meant. Before the poem became well known‚ nobody understood the true meaning behind the Statue of Liberty. When the statue was first built in 1886‚ Americans did not care much for the statue‚ they didn’t realize what it stood for and represented. They viewed the statue as just a gift from France‚ they weren’t
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and contrasting the sculptures being assigned. In this scenario we have two statues one is named Memi‚ Sabu‚ and the other statue is named the seated Statue of Judea. The statue of Memi and Sabu has its origin from ancient Egypt probably Giza It seems to be the case that this statue is dated back to the Old kingdom‚ Dynasty‚ 4‚ ca 2575-2465. B.C. In the other hand we have our next statue which is the seated Statue of Judea‚ and which origins seems to be from southern Mesopotamia in this scenario
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scheme of the poem is not the traditional Italian Petrarchan form but it is similar‚ using the form ABACADEDFEGHGH. The name of the poem is symbolic of a famous pharaoh by the name of Ramses who was known as Ozymandias to the Greeks‚ in which the statue in the poem is representative of. The poem starts in the first person‚ “I” but then immediately switches focus to recalling a story from the “traveller from an antique land.” The traveler then becomes the subject of the rest of the poem. We are
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located on the Giza Plateau. The Great Pyramid was also the first pyramid to be built starting in around 2550 BC. This pyramid was built for the pharaoh Khufu‚ who ruled Egypt from about 2547-2524 BC. Along with the Khufu’s Great Pyramid his son‚ Khafre had one built on the Giza Plateau that at a first glance seems larger than his fathers‚ and Menkaure‚ Khufu’s grandson‚ also had one built on the Giza Plateau. The first question asked when looking at these ancient works of art is what purpose was
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two works of ancient art‚ the statue of Zeus and the statue of the Good Shepherd. Both statues are beautiful examples of the ideal image of their times. The first piece of art that I analyzed is the statue of Zeus. The larger than life bronze statue was created around 460BC that depicts the early religious beliefs in Gods. The statue of bronze differed from ones that came before it because it was not made of the normal marble that was used on most statues. The statue of Zeus couldn’t be made out
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