AP Art History Final Exam Study Guide

AP Art History Final Exam Study Guide

24. Last Judgement of Hu-Nefer: Date: 1275 BCE Period/Style: new kingdom Location: Hu-Nefer's tomb, Egypt Material: painted papyrus scroll Function: guide people to the afterlife and make journey from life to Context: - continuous narrative - Hu-Nefer being lead to final judgement - heart weighed on scale against Osiris (test to see if has a heavy heart) - Hu-Nefer is accepted into afterlife - from the Book of the Dead 25. Lamassu: Date: 720 BCE Period/Style: assyrian Artist: Location: citadel of Sargon II, Iraq Material: alabaster, limestone Function: support doorways of Assyrian palaces, intimidate those who e Context: - god-like figures - animal body, human head - 5 legs, intended to be seen from front and profile, dynamic & static - huge but dwarfed by the architecture - relief carvings - double horns indicate royalty - elaborate 26. Athenian Agora: Date: 600 BCE Period/Style: Location: Athens, Greece Material: building idk cial, civic, way other men, ), could Function: marketplace/meeting area, temple (pay tribute to Athena) Context: - government/democratic experiment - ostracism of citizens assuming too much political power - plaza at the base of the Acropolis in Athens that contained commer religious, and social buildings - setting for the panathenaic festival to honor Athena w panathenaic - bouleuterion, tholos, several stoas 27. Anavysos Kouros: Date: 530 BCE Period/Style: archaic Location: (ancient) Greece Material: marble with remnants of paint Function: grave marker Context: - archaic smile - Egyptian inspiration shown through the stance of one foot slightly in front of - not individualized - warrior - observing the human body - generic name because of mass production - rarely represent Appollo - this is a late kouros (less abstract than the earlier figures) 28. Peplos Kore from the Acropolis: Date: c. 530 BCE Period/Style: archaic Location: Greek Material: marble with paint remnants Function: in front of temples to "light the way", often offerings to Athena by could be a goddess Context: - archaic smile - patterned hair - women with arm out (supposed to hold out a oil lamp but hand broken off also have been a bow (Artemis) - votive figure - kore = young woman - might be a goddess because of unusual clothing (peplos) Athena or Artemis - boobies can be seen eceptions, a cotta scan gods and 29. Sarcophagus of the Spouses: Date: 520 BCE Period/Style: Etruscan Location: Banditaccia necropolis, Cerveteri, Italy Material: painted terracotta Function: funerary container to hold ashes not the body Context: - lifesize - archaic smile, patterned hair - extending arms - husband and wife reclining on a couch dining "dining in banquet for eternity" - four pieces put together 30. Audience hall (apadana): Date: 520 BCE Period/Style: Persian Artist: Darius and Xeres, destroyed by Alexander the Great Location: Persepolis, Iran Material: cut sandstone and mud brick Function: used to hold thousands of people (audience hall), king's r ascend upwards symbolic Context: - hypostyle hall - built in a hillside with big platform - 72 columns (3 portico made of 12 columns) - relief on the side pictures Darius and Xeres - stairs have central relief of king enthroned with attendants -related: Capital of a column, Susa 31. Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo: Date: 2nd century BCE Period/Style: Etruscan Artist: Vulcan sculpture Location: Veii, Italy Material: temple: wood, mud brick, tufa (volcanic rock), sculpture: terr Function: Estruscan temple made to be a place to worship the Estru goddesses, acroterians probably shows a mythic event Context: - animated and moving sculpture (estruscan) - Apollo apart of a narrative of Herakles, acroterion (roof sculpture) er offerings to - deep porch, 3 cella (entrance is emphasized) - archaic Greek smile 32. Tomb of the Triclinium: Date: c. 480 BCE Period/Style: Etruscan Location: Italy Material: tufa and fresco Function: keep record of domestic life, holds ashes (crematorium) and any oth the dead Context: - triclinium = ancient roman dining table - great detailed piers - color coding to show genders (not race) - banqueting couple recline, eating in the ancient manner - emotions of celebration - trees and shrubbery 33. Niobides Krater: Date: 460 BCE Period/Style: greek Location: Italy Material: clay Context: - calyx krater (type of painted pot) - stiffness in the figures contrast the other relaxed side of the vase - sense of depth perception - red figure technique with white highlight - one side: mortal woman named Niobe with 12 children would always brag to the goddess Leto that she had more children so Apollo and Artemis (Leto's children) take revenge for their mother by killing all 12 children - other side: Hercules (identified with club and lions skins) is actually a sculpture (contraposta) and Greek soldiers are offering tribute and prayer to protect them before going into battle 34. Doryphoros (spear bearer): Date: c. 450 Period/Style: Greek classical Artist: Polykleitos Location: Material: marble (roman) bronze (greek)