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Available
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Collections
Publication
Great Courses (1999), 18 hours, 36 lectures, 265 pages
Description
"This course will take you around the world to look at and examine in depth some of the greatest masterpieces of ancient art. We will explore spectacular artworks from diverse places and times, starting with cave paintings that were made at the dawn of human creativity in the Paleolithic age to the contents of tombs and buildings, remarkable stone sculptures, and wrought gold and textiles that were made as recently as 600 years ago. Each of the selected masterpieces is the creation of a time and culture that make it unique, and each is among the finest examples of art from its culture"--p.1.
Language
Original language
English
Local notes
[01] Where do we come from? [02] Ancient cave art, Chauvet, France [03] The Uruk vase, vision of an ordered world [04] The standard of Ur, role of the king [05] "Ram caught in a thicket" [06] Great Ziggurat at Ur, ancient architecture [07] Victory Stela of Naram-Sin of Akkad [08] Neo-Assyrian palace reliefs [09] "Queen of the night", Babylonian goddess [10] Ishtar gate and processional way [11] The ancient city of Persepolis [12] Palette of Narmer, the conquering king [13] Statue of Khafre, rebirth of a king [14] Tutankhamen's mask [15] Tomb painting of Nefertari [16] Kritios boy, idealized athletic youth [17] Discobolus, motion in sculpture [18] Parthenon marbles, metopes and frieze [19] Greek vase painting, "Death of Sarpedon" [20] Aphrodite of Knidos [21] Laocoön, three-dimensional narrative [22] Column of Trajan [23] Bronzes of ancient China [24] Great Stupa at Sanchi [25] Borobudur, ancient Buddhist Stupa [26] Colossal Olmec heads [27] Sarcophagus cover of Pakal at Palenque [28] Carved stone lintels of Yaxchilán [29] Teotihuacán, temple of the feathered serpent [30] Colossal stone statue of coatlicue [31] Aztec calendar stone [32] Moche earspools, miniature masterpieces [33] Ancient Andean ceramics [34] Ancient Andean textiles [35] What can we learn from ancient art? [36] How ancient art reverberates