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Colossal Head of Constantine (Roman, Late Empire, c. early 4th Century CE)
~ First Roman emperor to accept Christianity
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Church of San Vitale, Ravenna, (526-547CE) Byzantine
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Justinian and Attendants (c.547) Byzantine. Mosaic
~ gold/jewels equate to heaven
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France, Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France (Begun 1134 CE, rebuilt after 1194 CE) Gothic
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Cindy Sherman, Untitled # 138 (1984).
~ feminism
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Michelangelo, The Crossed-Legged Captive (1530-34)
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Picasso, Bull’s Head (1943) Bronze cast of bicycle parts.
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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, Great Salt lake, Utah (1970)
~ transitory
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Maya Lin (American, 1959-), Vietnam Memorial, Washington (1982)
- ~ transitory
- ~ minimalizism
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Louis Sullivan, Wainwright Building, Saint Louis (1890)
~ first modern skyscraper
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- Frank Lloyd Wright, Kaufmann House (“Fallingwater”), Bear Run, PA
- (1936)
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Faith Ringgold, Tar Beach (1988) Acrylic, quilt, canvas.
~ harlem
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Venus of Willendorf (Upper Paleolithic c. 25,000BCE)
- ~ fertility
- ~ identity - hairstyle
- ~ procreation
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Egypt, Narmer Palette (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.3200 BCE).
- ~ cosmetics
- ~ soldiers
- ~ farming
- ~ domestication animals
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Egypt, Great Pyramids, Giza. (Egyptian, Old Kingdom, c.2570-2500 BCE).
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The Three Goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon (c.438-431 BCE) Classical
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Pantheon, Rome (Early Empire, 117-125CE)
- ~ temple to the gods
- ~ high renaissance artist buried
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