History essay, compare different time period

Amenhotep III

British Museum

colossal size, granite

Parthenon, Athens (Pentelic marble)

Athenian red-figured kylix (drinking cup), clay

Crouching Aphrodite

British Museum

Room in House of the Vettii, Pompeii

Interior view, Pantheon, Rome

(Temple to All Gods, now a church)

Prehistoric Europe and the Near East

Woman from Willendorf

ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE

Head of a woman, Brassempouy, ca. 25,000-20,000 BCE

Human with feline head

ca. 40,000-35,000 BCE

Wooly mammoth ivory

Bison, cave in France (Le Tuc d’Audoubert), ca. 15,000 BCE clay on top of rock, fashioned into reliefs

Bison, Altamira Cave, Spain

ca. 13,000 BCE

Ice Age Europe (ca. 15,000 BCE), some glaciers still in place

note differences in coastlines—they are further out in sea

Lascaux cave, France: Hall of the Bulls, ca. 16,000 BCE

Lascaux, other chambers of cave

Detail, Lascaux: horse with signs (?)

Lascaux: well scene, with rhinoceros, human, and bison

Western Europe, Palaeolithic sites

Chauvet Cave, France

Discovered 1994, now considered the oldest cave with paintings (37,000-28,000)

Chauvet: bear prints, bear skull set up on rock

Plan of Chauvet Cave

Chauvet: bulls, horses

Chauvet: felines, rhinoceros

Chauvet: one of many hand stencils

Hand stencils

Peche-Merle Cave (France): hand stencils, spotted horses

Section, showing Cosquer Cave (access now underwater), found 1985, known to public since 1991

Cosquer: auks (or penquins)