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Survey of Art History Part I: From Prehistoric times to the end of the Middle Ages Focus on the Western Tradition, Religion, and Gender Ideology ARTH115 FALL 2012 SCHEDULE REQUIREMENTS ART HISTORY GUIDE Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe SCHEDULE Jacqueline Burke Sarah Cooper Caitlin Daniel Donna Dodd Moriah Donaldson Hailey Floyd Kari Hamlet Morgan Harris Darby McClellan Laurel Melton Eve Mergenthaler Victoria Mills Lizzie Newhart Allie Raifsnider Camille Reding Kaitlyn Ressin Nina Rezai Margaret Simpson Natalie Smith Epiphany Soward Kasey Stewart Loralei Whittaker Pamela Wood August 30 Thursday Introduction Requirements Art and Art History Representation Gender Ideology Religion READ: Stokstad: Introduction BROWSE: Art History Resources PREHISTORIC EUROPE September 4 Tuesday September 6 Thursday Art Before History Paleolithic and Neolithic Venus Figurines Cave Paintings READ: Stokstad: Chapter 1 READ: Venus of Willendorf READ: Stonehenge WATCH: Venus of Willendorf BROWSE: Prehistoric Art ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA September 11 Tuesday September 13 Thursday Ancient Near East Mesopotamian Art and Culture Ur’s Ziggurats and Death Pits Babylon READ: Stokstad: Chapter 2 WATCH: The Victory Stele of Naram-Sin WATCH: The Great Lyre from Ur WATCH: Neo-Assyrian Lamassu WATCH: The Ishtar Gate, Babylon WATCH: The Stele of Hammurabi BROWSE: Art of the Ancient Near East ANCIENT EGYPT September 18 Tuesday September 20 Thursday Ancient Egypt 1 The Art of Life and Death Mastabas and Pyramids Queens and Pharaohs READ: Stokstad: Chapter 3 READ: Menkaure and his Queen WATCH: Seated Scribe WATCH: Rosetta Stone BROWSE: Egyptian Art Entry A: Due by midnight, Sunday, September 23 September 25 Tuesday September 27 Thursday Ancient Egypt 2 Temples Tombs Tutankhamon READ: Stokstad: Chapter 3 WATCH: The Great Hypostyle, Karnak WATCH: Digital Karnak WATCH: Balloon Ride over Thebes WATCH: Bust of Nefertiti WATCH: Akhenaten, Nefertiti & Daughters BROWSE: Egyptian Art Entry B: Due by midnight, Sunday, September 30 October 2 Tuesday REVIEW October 4 Thursday READING DAY Trip to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond October 9 Tuesday FIRST TEST ANCIENT GREECE October 11 Thursday Aegean Art Excavating Legends Minoan Art Snake Goddess READ: Stokstad: Chapter 4 READ: Minoan Snake Goddess WATCH: Knossos WATCH: Mycenae BROWSE: Greek Art October 16 Tuesday October 18 Thursday Ancient Greece 1 The Triumph of the (Male) Body The Acropolis of Athens Vase Painting READ: Stokstad: Chapter 5 WATCH: Geometric Funerary Krater WATCH: New York Kouros WATCH: Polyclitus Doryphoros WATCH: Greek Statues WATCH: Exekias Amphora WATCH: Secrets of the Parthenon WATCH: East Pediment Sculpture WATCH: Parthenon Frieze WATCH: Parthenon Metopes WATCH: Parthenon Metope reconstructed BROWSE: Greek Art Entry C: Due by midnight, Sunday, October 21 October 23 Tuesday October 25 Thursday Ancient Greece 2 Mind and Body Alexander the Great The Hellenistic World READ: Stokstad: Chapter 5 WATCH: Pergamum Altar WATCH: Nike of Samothrace WATCH: Hellenistic Art at the Met WATCH: Dying Gaul BROWSE: Greek Art Entry D: Due by midnight, Sunday, October 28 ANCIENT ITALY October 30 Tuesday November 1 Thursday Ancient Italy 1 Etruria Roman Republic Art and Engineering READ: Stokstad: Chapter 6 BROWSE: Etruscan Art – Roman Art Entry E: Due by midnight, Sunday, November 4 November 6 Tuesday November 8 Thursday Ancient Italy 2 Pompeii Imperial Rome Byzantium READ: Stokstad: Chapters 6, 7 BROWSE: Roman Art – Early Christian Art – Byzantine Art Entry F: Due by midnight, Sunday, November 11 November 13 Tuesday REVIEW November 15 Thursday SECOND TEST THANKSGIVING BREAK EARLY EUROPE November 27 Tuesday November 29 Thursday Early Europe 1 Anglo–Saxons Merovingians Carolingians READ: Stokstad: Chapters 8, 14, 15 BROWSE: Art in Early Europe – Islamic Art Entry G: Due by midnight, Sunday, December 2 December 4 Tuesday December 6 Thursday Early Europe 2 Pilgrims & relics Romanesque Gothic READ: Stokstad: Chapters 16 BROWSE: Early Medieval Art – Gothic Art Entry H: Due by midnight, Sunday, December 9 December 11 Tuesday REVIEW December 13 Thursday THIRD TEST