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1. Chapter 1 Overview
2. Key Learning Items
3. Common Questions about Dates
4. A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture
5. Why Look at Art?
6. The Skill of Describing
7. Patronage and the Status of the Artist
8. Glossary of Art Terms
9. External Resource
10. Chapter 2 Overview
11. Key Learning Items
12. Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
13. Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)
14. Paleolithic Art Explained
15. The Neolithic Revolution
16. Jericho
17. Çatal Höyük
18. Stonehenge
19. External Resources
20. Chapter 3 Overview
21. Key Learning Items
22. Ancient Near East
23. Sumerian Art
24. The Invention of Writing
25. The Standard of Ur
26. Ziggurat of Ur
27. Art of Akkad and Ur
28. Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
29. Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
30. Law Code of Hammurabi
31. Assyrian Art
32. Lamassu
33. Neo-Babylonian Art
34. Art of the Persian Empire
35. External Resources
36. Chapter 4 Overview
37. Key Learning Items
38. Ancient Egypt
39. Egyptian Art
40. Materials & Techniques
41. Seated Scribe
42. The Great Pyramids of Giza
43. Pyramid of Khufu
44. Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx
45. Pyramid of Menkaure
46. House Altar (Amarna Period)
47. Portrait Head of Queen Tiye
48. Bust of Nefertiti
49. Ramesses II
50. External Resources
51. Chapter 5 Overview
52. Key Learning Items
53. Aegean Prehistoric Archaeology
54. The Early Aegean (3000–700 BCE)
55. Geometric Greek Krater
56. Black Figure Amphora
57. Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater
58. New York Kouros
59. Spear Bearer
60. The Greek Temple
61. East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia
62. Myron, Discus Thrower
63. The Parthenon
64. Parthenon's East Pediment
65. Parthenon Frieze
66. Parthenon Metopes
67. Erechtheion
68. External Resources
69. Chapter 6 Overview
70. Key Learning Items
71. Lysippos: Farnese Herucles
72. After Praxiteles, Venus
73. Barberini Faun
74. Dying Gaul
75. Nike of Samothrace
76. The Pergamon Altar
77. Boxer at Rest
78. Alexander Mosaic
79. Laocoön and his Sons
80. Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman
81. ** Petra: An Introduction
82. Petra: Rock Cut Facades
83. ** Petra: Urban Metropolis
84. External Resources
85. Chapter 7 Overview
86. Key Learning Items
87. Etruscan Art
88. Sarcophagus of the Spouses
89. Etruscan Necropolises
90. Etruscan Art Explained by the Met
91. External Resources
92. Chapter 8 Overview
93. Key Learning Items
94. Ancient Rome
95. Digging Through Time
96. Temple of Portunus
97. Veristic Male Portrait
98. The Pantheon
99. Augustus of Primaporta
100. Painted Garden
101. Head of Augustus
102. Ara Pacis
103. Villa of Mysteries
104. Colosseum
105. External Resources
106. Chapter 9 Overview
107. Key Learning Items
108. Arch of Titus
109. Hadrian's Villa
110. Maritime Theater, Hadrian's Villa
111. Pair of Centaurs
112. Column of Trajan
113. Medea Sarcophagus
114. Equestrian Sculpture of Marcus Aurelius
115. Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
116. Tetrarchs
117. Arch of Constantine
118. Colossus of Constantine
119. External Resources
120. Chapter 10 Overview
121. Key Learning Items
122. Introduction to Early Christianity
123. Early Christian Art
124. After Constantine
125. Santa Maria Antiqua Sarcophagus
126. Santa Pudenziana
127. Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
128. Santa Sabina
129. Santa Maria Maggiore
130. Mausoleum of Galla Placidia
131. External Resources
132. Chapter 11 Overview
133. Key Learning Items
134. Early Medieval Art
135. Fibulae
136. Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
137. Medieval Manuscripts
138. The Bestiary
139. The Lindisfarne Gospels
140. Carolingian Art
141. Lindau Gospels Cover
142. St. Michael's Church
143. External Resources
144. Chapter 12 Overview
145. Key Learning Items
146. San Vitale
147. Iconoclasm
148. Hagia Sophia
149. Ivory Panel with Archangel
150. Icon of Saint George
151. Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy
152. External Resources
153. Chapter 13 Overview
154. Key Learning Items
155. Introduction to Islamic Art
156. Mosque Architecture
157. The Early Period
158. Dome of the Rock
159. Great Mosque of Cordoba
160. Medieval Period
161. Pyxis of Al-Mughira
162. The Alhambra
163. Ilkhanid Mihrab
164. Later Period
165. Qa'a: The Damascus Room
166. External Resources
167. Chapter 14 Overview
168. Key Learning Items
169. Introduction to Romanesque Art
170. Pilgrimage Routes
171. Church Architecture
172. Abbaye of Fontenay
173. Saint Trophime
174. Last Judgment Tympanum
175. Virgin from Ger
176. Historiated Capitals
177. Painting: Wise and Foolish Virgins
178. Bayeux Tapestry
179. Diagram of a Romanesque Portal
180. External Resources
181. Chapter 15 Overview
182. Key Learning Items
183. St. Denis
184. Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres
185. Gothic Architecture
186. Southwell Minister
187. Salisbury Cathedral
188. Blanche of Castile
189. External Resources
190. Welcome to Art History I
191. Your First Steps
192. Course Overview
193. Attendance Policy
194. Grading_How I Evaluate Your Work in the Class
195. Discussion Grading Guideles
196. Successful Discussion Examples.
197. Less Successful Discussion Post
198. Footnotes_Proper Citation
199. Successful Writing Samples
200. Less Successful Writing Sample
201. Module 1 Overview Prehistoric Art
202. Module 1 Cave Art Mini-Lecture_Cave Paintings
203. Module 1 Cave Art Mini-Lecture_Venus of Willendorf
204. Module 1 Cave Art Class Discussion 2 Venus of Willendorf
205. Module 1 Youtube Videos_Origins of Art
206. Khan Academy_Introduction to Paleolithic Art
207. Module 2 Overview Egyptian and Mesopotamian Art
208. Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Mini Lecture Art of the Ancient Near East ( Mesopotamia )
209. Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Mini Lecture Egyptian Art
210. Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Class Discussion 1 Images of An afterlife
211. Module 2 Egypt and Mesopotamia Class Discussion 2 Isis and the History of Art
212. Sigmund Freud's Collection of Artifacts
213. ISIS Destroying Mesopotamian Antiquities
214. Jordanville Monastery
215. Khan Academy Videos_Egypt and Mesopotamian Art
216. OER Lecture
217. Module 3 Overview Greek Art
218. Module 3 Greek Art Class Discussion The Nude in Greek Art
219. Youtube Videos Greek Architecture
220. Youtube Videos Greek Sculpture
221. Greek Sculpture Images
222. Greek Art Lumen Learning Text
223. Later Greek Sculpture Khan Academy
224. Greek Pottery Khan Academy
225. Aegean Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy
226. Greek Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy
227. Chapter 3 Key Works Aegean Art Links
228. Chapter 3 Key Works Greek Art_Lumen Learning_Khan Academy
229. Module 4 Overview Roman Art and Architecture
230. Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Class Discussion 1 Roman Portraits
231. Module 4 Roman Art and Architecture Class Discussion 2 Summary
232. Module 5 Overview Early Medieval Art
233. Module 5 Early Medieval Art Class Discussion 1 Icons and Iconoclasm in the Byzantine Empire
234. Module 5 Early Medieval Art Class Discussion 2 Islamic Art and Icons
235. Module 6 Overview Non-Western Art
236. Module 6 Non Western Art Class Discussion
237. Module 6 Non Western Art Videos For Research
238. Module 7 Overview
239. Module 7 Discussion Cathedrals in the Middle Ages
240. Module 8 Late Gothic and Renaissance Class Discussion Michelangelo and Giacometti
This visual art glossary defines art categories, styles, and terms while giving examples of each term.
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