This document provides an overview of the course Perspectives in World Art & Design. It outlines the material to be covered for the midterm exam, including prehistoric, ancient Near Eastern, ancient Egyptian, Aegean, ancient Greek, and ancient Roman works of art. Students are asked to choose one essay topic and identify 10 individual art objects through slide IDs. They will also complete two slide comparisons and define 10 art history terms with examples. The professor wishes students good luck and offers extra credit opportunities.

1. Perspectives in World Art & Design (part I) Professor Marianne Eggler-Gerozissis Parsons New School of Design School of Art & Design History & Theory WELCOME!

6. WELCOME to the FALL SEMESTER!

7. MATERIAL to review for MIDTERM: Introductory material Prehistoric Ancient Near East Ancient Egypt Aegean Ancient Greece Ancient Rome

8. PART I – ESSAY Choose ONE (1) essay from the list provided - work up your essay this week WORTH 25 pts max.!

9. PART I – SLIDE IDs (10 individual objects; ea. 4 pts. Max. = 40) Get 4 out of 5 right for full credit DATING : use “circa” and do your best – I have rounded off some dates 3x5” cards – very useful Friends/study-buddies in the class – priceless Try a study group meeting

10. Unknown, Spotted Horses & Human Hands, from Pech-Merle Cave, c. 25,000-15,000 B.C.E., paint on limestone, French Prehistoric Paleolithic

11. Unknown, Woman from Willendorf, c. 24,000 B.C.E., limestone, Austrian Prehistoric Paleolithic

12. Unknown, Stonehenge, England, c. 2,900-1,500 BCE, sandstone and bluestone, British prehistoric (Neolithic) period,

13. Unknown, Votive figures, limestone, alabaster & gypsum, c. 2900-2600 BCE, ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian

14. Unknown, Bull lyre, from the royal tombs of Ur (modern Iraq), c. 2500 B.C.E. wood with gold, silver lapis lazuli, bitumen, and shell, reassembled in a modern wood support. Ancient Near Eastern Sumerian

15. Unknown, Stele of Naramsin, limestone, c. 2200 BCE, ancient Near Eastern, Akkadian

16. Unknown, Ruins of the Anu Ziggurat & White Temple, Uruk, (modern Iran), c. 3,000 B.C.E., architecture, Ancient Near Eastern, Sumerian culture.

17. Unknown, Stele of Hammurabi, Susa (now Iran), c. 1,750 B.C.E., diorite, Ancient Near Eastern, Babylonian culture.

18. Unknown, Ishtar Gate & throne room wall, from Babylon (now modern Iraq), c. 575 B.C.E., glazed brick, Ancient Near Eastern, Neo-Babylonian culture.

19. Unknown, Palette of Narmer, c. 2900 BCE, green schist, Egypt Early dynastic period

20. Unknown, Great Pyramids at Giza, c. 2500 BCE, limestone & granite, Egypt Old Kingdom

21. Unknown, Menkaure and a Queen, c. 2490 BCE, graywacke w/paint traces, Egypt Old Kingdom

22. Unknown, Hypostyle Hall, Great Temple of Amun at Karnak, architecture, c. 1200 BCE, Egypt New Kingdom

23. Unknown, Tutankhamun’s coffin, from the tomb of Tut. in the Valley of the Kings, c. 1330 BCE, Gold inlaid with glass and semiprecious stones (innermost coffin), Egypt, New Kingdom

24. Unknown, Rosetta Stone, 196 BCE, stone, Egyptian Ptolmaic period

25. Unknown, “Palace” Complex at Knossos, island of Crete, architecture, c. 1900-1400 BCE, ancient Aegean Minoan

26. Unknown,Woman or goddess with Snakes, from Knossos, Crete, c. 1700-1500 BCE, Faience, ancient Aegean Minoan

27. Unknown, Pendant of gold bees, from Crete, ancient Greek (c. 1600 BCE) gold, ancient Aegean Minoan

28. Unknown, Citadel at Mycenae, architecture, c. 1600-12000 BCE, ancient Aegean Mycenaen

29. Unknown, Funerary krater, from the Dipylon Cemetery, Athens, c. 700 BCE, ceramic, ancient Greece, geometric period

30. Unknown, New York/Metropolitan Kouros, c. 600 BCE, marble, Greece Archaic period

31. Kallikrates and Iktinos and others, the Parthenon on the Acropolis, Athens, Greece, (c. 440 BCE), marble, ancient Greek Classical period

32. Pheidias or his workshop, three goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, Athens, Greece, (c. 440 BCE), marble, ancient Greek Classical period

33. Polykleitos, The Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), c. 450 BCE, ancient Roman marble copy of an ancient Greek bronze) original from the ancient Greece Classical period

34. Unknown, Reclining Couple of a Sarcophagus, from Cerveteri, Italy, c. 500 BCE, Italy Etruscan culture

35. Unknown, Pont du Gard, in Nimes, France, stone, ancient Roman

36. Unknown, Augustus of Primaporta , c. 20 CE, marble (originally colored), ancient Rome

37. Unknown, House of the Vettii, peristyle garden, in Pompeii, c. 70 CE, architecture, ancient Roman

38. Unknown, the Pantheon, Rome, c. 120 CE, marble, concrete and rubble, ancient Roman

39. Unknown, Triumphal Arch of Constantine, 315 CE, marble, ancient Rome

40. PART III – SLIDE COMPARISONS 2 pairs; for each pair you will answer one ID element (title, or date, or medium/media & ground, etc.) AND a thematic comparison question – some themes are posted as a word doc.) (2 pairs, each 10 pts. = 20).

41. PART III – TERM definitions and examples (terms are posted as a Word doc.) (10 terms, each 2-part (def. and example); definition – 1 pt.; title of an example - .5 – total 15 pts. Max.)

42. GOOD LUCK!!

43. extra credit….?