The Art of Pre-History, China, India, Egypt, Greece, Rome, and Byzantium

Assigned Topics for Power Point, Lesson #2

You will create a power point presentation using examples of a specific assigned work of art.  You must show more than one view.  Also, show at least two similar or dissimilar works from that same period, style, or location to compare and contrast for a better sense of context .  Explain the ideas behind the work.  Details, maps, and other visual information will help give the class a more fulfilling experience.  There must be a detailed bibliography at the end and individual references must be listed on the page where the information was cited.  Cite at least two references beyond the Text book.  One reference may be Wikipedia. If an internet reference was used have an active link on the page where the image or information is used.  I will randomly check.

Charlie Blum: (pg. 3, pgs 205 and 211 to 213)  Bodyguard of the emperor Qin, terra-cotta warriors.

Lyndon Browne: (pg. 29  Bison, Tuc d’Audoubert cave,  Ariege, Dordogne , France

Alex Bucher: (pg. 56) Cylinder impression and seal from Uruk

Ted Schantz: (pg. 210) Chinese Philosophy   (pg. 210) Chinese Philosophy  

Robert Joseph: (pg. 65) Stele inscribed with the law code of Hammaurabi.  

Jared Knueven: (pg 69) Dying Lioness.  

Paul DiGiandomenico: (pg. 75)  Apadana (Audience Hall) of Darius and stairway, Persepolis .

Matt Zix: (pg. 54-55, 64) The Ziggurat of Ur and other Ziggurat.

Devin Williams: (pg. 71-72) Ishtar Gate 

Trey Maserang: (pg. 56) Cuneiform writing as evolved from pictographic writing. 

Ajit Dixit: Islamic Calligraphy and decorative arts.

Eric Frey: (pgs. 116 to 117) Cycladic Civilization

Buzz Wallace: (pg. 195) The Capitoline Wolf.

Jeremy Ritz: (pg. 105) Bust of Nefertiti.

Andrew Lucas: (pg. 243) Portrait of a young Flavian lady.

Bradlee Hollowell: (pg. 158) “Myron, Diskobolos” (Discus Thrower).

Tom Holmes: (pgs 138 – 139)  Delphi

Michael Patton: (pgs 142 – 145) Geometric and Orientalizing Style pottery

Ryan Peters:  (pgs. 358 – 360) Teotihuacán

Eric Quehl:  (pgs. 366 – 367) The Aztec Empire 

Joe Galvin: (Pgs.146-150) Archaic to Late Classical Style Greek Pottery

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1.  The Art of Prehistory

• The Stone Age in Western Europe

• Upper Paleolithic (c. 50,000/45,000-c.8000B.C.)

Window on the World One,  Rock Paintings of Australia (c. 75,000/50,000B.C. - The Present)

• Mesolithic (c. 8000-c.6000/4000B.C.)

• Neolithic (c.6000/4000-c.2000B.C.)

2.  The Ancient Near East

• The Neolithic Era

• Mesopotamia

• From Pictures to Words

• Sumer: Early Dynastic Period

• Akkad (c.2800-2100B.C.)

• Neo-Sumerian Culture (c.2100-1900/1800B.C.)

• Babylon (c.1900-539B.C.)

• Anatolia: The Hittites (c.1450-1200B.C.)

• The Neo-Babylonian Empire (621-539B.C.)

• The Scythians (8th-4th century B.C.)

• Iran (c.5000-331B.C.)

• Achaemenid Persia (539-331B.C.)

3.  Ancient Egypt

• The Gift of the Nile

• Religion

• The Pharaohs

• The Egyptian Concept of Kingship

• The Palette of Narmer

• The Egyptian View of Death and the Afterlife

• The Old Kingdom (c.2649-2150B.C.)

• The Middle Kingdom (c.1991-1700B.C.)

• The New Kingdom (c. 1550-1070B.C.)

• Tutankhamon's Tomb

• Egypt and Nubia

4.  The Aegean

• Cycladic Civilization (c. 3000-11th century B.C.)

• Minoan Civilization (c. 3000-c.1100B.C.)

• Recent Discoveries at Thera

• Mycenaean Civilization (c. 1600-1100B.C.)

5.  The Art of Ancient Greece

• Cultural Identity

• Government and Philosophy

• Literature and Drama

• "Man is the Measure of Things"

• Painting and Pottery

• Sculpture

• The Development of Greek Architecture and Architectural Sculpture

• Hellenistic Sculpture

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6.  The Art of the Etruscans

• Architecture

• Pottery and Sculpture

• Women in Etruscan Art

• Funerary Art

Window on the World Two,  China: Neolithic to First Empire (c. 5202-206B.C.)

• The tomb of Emperor Qin: I (late 3rd century B.C.)

• Precursors: Neolithic to the Bronze Age (c. 5000-221B.C.)

• The tomb of Emperor Qin: II (late 3rd century B.C.)

7.  Ancient Rome

• Architectural Types

• Sculptural Types

• Mural Paintings

• Cross Cultural Trends

Window on the World Three,  Developments in South Asia: The Indus Valley Civilization (to the 3rd century A.D.)

• The Indus Valley Civilization (c. 2700-1750B.C.)

• The Veldic Period (c.1759-322B.C.)

• Buddhist Architecture and Sculpture

8.  Early Christian and Byzantine Art

• A New Religion

• The Divergence of East and West

• Early Christian Art

• Centrally Planned Buildings

• Justinian and the Byzantine Style

• The development of the Codex

Window on the World Four, Developments in Buddhist Art (1st-7th centuries A.D.)

• Rock-Cut Architecture

• Gupta Sculpture

• The Ajanta Caves (late 5th century A.D.)

• Buddhist Expansion in China (2nd-7th centuries A.D.)

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