FAH206H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chryselephantine Sculpture, Palekastro, Flattening
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Studied because there are texts (description/history of art) to go along with it. Understood through 3 mediums; sculpture, painting and architecture. Ancient can include cultures that aren"t literate; have no text. (pre-historic) Lion man (40 kya), venus figurine (20 kya) portable figurines. Art from blombos cave (70 kya) beads. Can"t be studied in the same way like the antiquity of greece; cause there"s no text to go with it. Gobekli tepe temple site with t shaped pillars. Sculptural reliefs = vultures juggling human heads; crane; wild boar; foxes; wild cattle; snakes; leopards; wild sheep; gazelle. Has paintings of geometric shapes and depictions of animals on its walls. Ceramic vessel (pot) combining human and cattle head like voldemort. Late bronze age 1600 bc --- has more resolution. Know more about how it"s divided up due to mass amount of texts. Recent discovery; bronze art known for more than a century. Found it fun to dress his wife up with his findings.
