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Prehistoric Art - n
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Stone age art provides clues about the most basic elements of human culture at the
very dawn of civilization.
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Upper or Late Paleolithic - n
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25,000 - 15,000 B.C.
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The Panaramitee Petroglypher - n
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43,000 B.C. Aboriginal abstractions from South Australia.
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The Venus of Willendorf carver - n
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30,000 - 25,000 B.C. 4.5 inch tall carved limestone figure, found in Austria. A
fertility figure.
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The Lascaux cave painter - n
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,15,000 - 10,000 B.C. Naturalistic pictures of bulls, horses, mammoths, lions and
other animals painted in deep underground caves on wet limestone walls with
powerderd mineral pigments.
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The Stonehenge builder - n
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2100-2000 B.C. Architecture consisting of huge blue stone megaliths from Wales to
Salisbury Plain in England. Considered the mysterious celestial calendar that mark
the summer and winter Solstice.
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The Ancient World - n
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Early civilizations developed an art of elegance and complexity.
Mesopotamia, 4000 B.C.
Egypt, 3000-330 B.C.
Greece, 1200-200 B.C.
Rome, 700 B.C. - A.D. 500
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Mesopotamia, 4000 B.C. - n
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God-kings, bearded bulls and ziggurats (giant stepped pyramids) in the cradle of
civilization between the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers.
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Egypt, 3000-330 B.C. - n
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Pharaohs, pyramids and pictograms. Costume jewelry around 1600 B.C. real gems
were replaced with paste and cast-glass imitation.
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Relief of Itwesh, 2475-2345 B.C. - n
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Egyptian. A small limestone relief only 16 inches high. Carved relief words are
juxtaposed with a surprisingly realistic profile of an Egyptian man, seeming to speak
these words as in a cartoon bubble.
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Egyptian Man - n
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Static, symmetrical figures painted in flat colors, with the head and legs in profile
and the torso that faces front.
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Greece, 1200-200 B.C. - n
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Samples, statues, paintings and pots by art's first Egoist, who set the standards of
excellence that are the basis of all Western art, not to mention bank facades
everywhere.
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Cyclades - Bronze Age 2500 B.C. - n
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Cyclades mean those in a circle is a Ring of Islands between the Greek Mainland
and Asia Minor.
These artisans used white marble to carve highly stylized statuettes of skinny nude
women with crossed arms.
Herring Bone design- 3000 B.C. - incised on Clay jars.
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Birthplace of Western Civilization - n
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