Course curriculum

    1. Syllabus

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    1. 1.1 What Is Art: Form, Content, and Context Working Together

    2. Quiz 1.1

    3. 1.1 Interactive Lab: Form, Content, or Context?

    4. 1.2 Formal Analysis: Design Elements and Principles

    5. Quiz 1.2

    6. 1.2 Interactive Lab: Find the Element or Principle

    7. 1.3 Iconography: Reading Symbols, Subjects, and Narratives

    8. Quiz 1.3

    9. 1.4 Materials and Techniques: How Artistic Decisions Shape a Work

    10. Quiz 1.4

    11. 1.4 Interactive Lab: Lost-Wax Steps and Stated Effects

    12. 1.5 Attribution: Matching Unknown Works to Artists, Cultures, and Styles

    13. Quiz 1.5

    14. 1.5 Interactive Lab: Attribute an Unknown Painting

    1. 2.1 Art Before Writing: Cultural Influences on Prehistoric Art

    2. Quiz 2.1

    3. 2.1 Interactive Lab: Setting, Practice and Evidence in Early Art

    4. 2.2 Clay, Jade, and Pigment: Prehistoric Materials and Techniques

    5. Quiz 2.2

    6. 2.3 Reading a Silent Record: Stonehenge, Stelae, and the Ambum Stone

    7. Quiz 2.3

    8. 2.3 Interactive Lab: Observation, Dating Evidence, or Hypothesis

    1. 3.1 Sumer: The White Temple, Votive Figures, and the Standard of Ur

    2. Quiz 3.1

    3. 3.1 Interactive Lab: Reading the Standard of Ur

    4. 3.2 Law and Empire: Hammurabi, the Lamassu, and Persepolis

    5. Quiz 3.2

    6. 3.3 Egyptian Conventions: Narmer, the Seated Scribe, and Menkaura

    7. Quiz 3.3

    8. 3.3 Interactive Lab: Reading the Narmer Conventions

    9. 3.4 Monuments for Eternity: Giza, Karnak, and Hatshepsut

    10. Quiz 3.4

    11. 3.5 Amarna and the Afterlife: Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, and Hunefer

    12. Quiz 3.5

    13. 3.5 Interactive Lab: Break, Return, Continuation: Three New Kingdom Works

    1. 4.1 Archaic Greece: The Agora, the Kouros, and the Kore

    2. Quiz 4.1

    3. 4.1 Interactive Lab: Kouros and King: What Stayed, What Changed

    4. 4.2 The Etruscans: Terra Cotta, Temples, and Painted Tombs

    5. Quiz 4.2

    6. 4.3 Classical Greece: The Krater, the Canon, the Acropolis, and the Stele

    7. Quiz 4.3

    8. 4.3 Interactive Lab: Dating the Works and Walking the Acropolis

    9. 4.4 Hellenistic Drama: Victory, Pergamon, and the Seated Boxer

    10. Quiz 4.4

    11. 4.5 Roman Homes and Portraits: The Vettii, the Alexander Mosaic, the Patrician, and Augustus

    12. Quiz 4.5

    13. 4.5 Interactive Lab: Plan a Q6-Shape Answer: Augustus of Prima Porta

    14. 4.6 Imperial Rome Builds: Colosseum, Forum of Trajan, Pantheon, and the Ludovisi Sarcophagus

    15. Quiz 4.6

    16. 4.6 Interactive Lab: Look Up: Inside the Pantheon

    1. 5.1 Late Antique Beginnings: The Catacomb, Santa Sabina, and the Vienna Genesis

    2. Quiz 5.1

    3. 5.2 Byzantium: San Vitale, Hagia Sophia, and the Sinai Icon

    4. Quiz 5.2

    5. 5.2 Interactive Lab: Space and Figures: San Vitale and the Sinai Icon

    6. 5.3 Early Medieval Treasure: Merovingian Fibulae and the Lindisfarne Gospels

    7. Quiz 5.3

    8. 5.4 Three Faiths in Spain: Córdoba, al-Mughira, the Golden Haggadah, and the Alhambra

    9. Quiz 5.4

    10. 5.4 Interactive Lab: Plan a Comparison Across Three Faiths

    11. 5.5 Romanesque Pilgrims and Conquest: Sainte-Foy and the Bayeux Tapestry

    12. Quiz 5.5

    13. 5.5 Interactive Lab: Order the Story of the Conquest

    14. 5.6 Gothic Light and Devotion: Chartres, a Royal Bible, and the Röttgen Pietà

    15. Quiz 5.6

    16. 5.6 Interactive Lab: Name the Gothic Parts of Chartres

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