Chapter One

Chapters

1 - Africa, Europe, and the Near East in the Stone Age
3 - Ancient Egypt
4 - Prehistoric Aegean
5 - Ancient Greece
9 - Etruscans
10 - Ancient Rome
11 - Early Christian
12 - Byzantium
16 - Early Medieval
17 - Romanesque
18 and 19 - Gothic
20 - Fifteenth Century Northern Europe and Spain
21 - Fifteenth Century Italy
22-High Renaissance
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Book #1-9

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Artist: Unknown
Title: Wounded Bison
Location: Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain
Date: 12,000-11,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. A wall painting silhouette made from red ocher mixed with saliva.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Head of Bison
Location: Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain
Date: 12,000-11,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. Contour painting made with charcoal

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Large Doe
Location: Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain
Date: 12,000-11,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. Silhouette painting. Horns are depicted.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Wounded Bison
Location: Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain
Date: 12,000-11,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic painting.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Horse
Location: Altamira Cave, Santander, Spain
Date: 12,000-11,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic painting made with red ocher.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Hall of the Bulls: Entrance
Location: Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Date: 15,000-13,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. Painted on top of rock wall. No common ground or perspective are used. Silhouettes of galloping animals. Movement is depicted. Tested with carbon dating on pigment.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Hall of the Bulls: Horses and Groups of Deer
Location: Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Date: 15,000-13,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. Twisted perspective

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Hall of the Bulls: Horses and Bull
Location: Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Date: 15,000-13,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic painting.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Black Bull
Location: Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Date: 15,000-13,000 BC
Description: Paleolithic. Symbolizes masculine potency; maleness.

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Book #1-4

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Venus of Willendorf
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Date: 28,000-25,000 BC
Description: Limestone carving (chiseled stone) , approx. 4.25 inches high. Fertility figure. Curly hair/cap on head. No face. Stomach and breasts are emphasized. Figure is bulbous.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Venus of Willendorf
Location: Willendorf, Austria
Date: 28,000-25,000 BC
Description: Limestone carving (chiseled stone) , approx. 4.25 inches high. Fertility figure. Curly hair/cap on head. No face. Stomach and breasts are emphasized. Figure is bulbous.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Neolithic Hunter
Location: Level III, Catal Huyuck, Turkey
Date: 5,750 BC
Description: Neolithic. From Deer Hunt wall painting in a shrine. Painting includes deer and people in hunting positions.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Stonehenge
Location: Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England
Date:2,550 - 1,600 BC
Description: Neolithic. Circle is 97 ft. in diameter. Trilithons are approx. 24 ft. high. Constructed over a long period of time. Used as an astronomical observatory.

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Artist:Olmec Indians
Title: Seated Figure
Location: Central Mexico
Date: 1,000 BC
Description: Neolithic. Ceramic. Olmec was the mother culture of Mesoamerica and their work influenced other art.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Standing Figure of Hornblower
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: 1,550-1,680
Description: Primitive. Bronze. Used to glorify the ruler and his court. Made using lost-wax casting

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Head
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: 1,550-1,680
Description:Primitive. Bronze.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Leopard
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date:1,750
Description: Primitive. Bronze. Stylized and a symbol of the king.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Rooster
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: 18th century
Description: Primitive. Bronze.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Benin King with Attendants
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: 17th century
Description: Primitive. Stylized. King is bigger and shapes are simplified.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Head
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: ?
Description: Primitive. Bronze.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Portrait Head of an Ife King
Location: Court of Benin, Nigeria, Africa
Date: 12th-14th century
Description: Primitive. Lines in face are either scars or traditional headdress.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Double Face Bask
Location: Ivory Coast, Africa
Date: 19th Century
Description: Primitive.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Ancestor Figures
Location: Dogon Tribe, Africa
Date: ?
Description: Primitive. Wood. Stylized - exaggerated body parts.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Chief's Seat
Location: Bouli Tribe, Africa
Date: ?
Description: Primitive.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Burial Mask
Location: Southeast Nigeria, Africa
Date:?
Description: Primitive.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Antelope Figure
Location: Mali, Africa
Date:?
Description: Primitive. Bronze

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Leopard
Location: Benin, Africa
Date:?
Description: Primitive.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Ceremonial Mask, Fish Effigy
Location:Alaska
Date: 1,940
Description: Eskimo. Wood.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: War Helmet
Location: Tlingit, Alaska
Date: 1,850
Description: Wood. A type of hat.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Jar, Human Head Effigy
Location: Fortune Mound, Alabama
Date: 1,200-1,600
Description: Mounds built for ceremonies

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Artist:Unknown
Title:Whirlwind Mask
Location: Cayuga, New York
Date: 1,900
Description: Basewood. Red and black paint.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Human Effigy Pipe
Location: Spiro Mound, Oklahoma
Date: 1,200 -1,600
Description: Stone. A pipe used for ceremonies.

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Artist:Unknown
Title:"Old Broken Nose" Bask
Location: New York
Date: 1,937
Description: From Onaondaga Tribe. Wood and horse hair.

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Artist:Unknown
Title: Mother and Child
Location: Americas
Date: Late 19th century
Description: From Haida Tribe. Cedarwood. Mother holding her baby.