Course curriculum

    1. Chapter 1 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 1.1 Common Questions about Dates

    4. 1.2 A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture

    5. Video: Why Look at Art?

    6. Video: The Skill of Describing

    7. 1.3 Patronage and the Status of the Artist

    8. Video: Glossary of Art Terms

    1. Chapter 2 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 2.1 Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins

    4. Video: Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)

    5. 2.2 Paleolithic Art Explained

    6. 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution

    7. 2.4 Jericho

    8. 2.5 Çatal Höyük

    9. 2.6 Stonehenge

    1. Chapter 3 Overview

    2. 3.1 Ancient Near East

    3. 3.2 Sumerian Art

    4. 3.3 The Invention of Writing

    5. VIDEO: The Standard of Ur

    6. 3.4 Ziggurat of Ur

    7. 3.5 Art of Akkad and Ur

    8. VIDEO: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

    9. 3.6 Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

    10. VIDEO: Assyrian Art

    11. VIDEO: Lamassu

    12. VIDEO: Neo-Babylonian Art

    13. 3.7: Art of the Persian Empire

    1. Chapter 4 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 4.1 Ancient Egypt

    4. 4.2 Egyptian Art

    5. 4.3 Materials & Techniques

    6. VIDEO: Seated Scribe

    7. 4.4 The Great Pyramids of Giza

    8. 4.5 Pyramid of Khufu

    9. 4.6 Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx

    10. 4.7 Pyramid of Menkaure

    11. VIDEO: House Altar (Amarna Period)

    12. VIDEO: Portrait Head of Queen Tiye

    13. VIDEO: Bust of Nefertiti

    14. VIDEO: Ramesses II

    1. Chapter 5 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 5.1 The Early Aegean (3000–700 BCE)

    4. VIDEO: Geometric Greek Krater

    5. VIDEO: Black Figure Amphora

    6. VIDEO: Niobid Painter, Attic Red Figure Calyx-Krater

    7. VIDEO: New York Kouros

    8. VIDEO: Spear Bearer

    9. VIDEO: The Greek Temple

    10. VIDEO: East and West Pediments, Temple of Aphaia

    11. VIDEO: Myron, Discus Thrower

    12. VIDEO: The Parthenon

    13. VIDEO: Parthenon’s East Pediment

    14. VIDEO: Parthenon Frieze

    15. VIDEO: Parthenon Metopes

    16. VIDEO: Erechtheion

    1. Chapter 6 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. VIDEO: Lysippos: Farnese Herucles

    4. VIDEO: After Praxiteles, Venus

    5. VIDEO: Barberini Faun

    6. VIDEO: Dying Gaul

    7. VIDEO: Nike of Samothrace

    8. VIDEO: The Pergamon Altar

    9. VIDEO: Boxer at Rest

    10. VIDEO: Alexander Mosaic

    11. VIDEO: Laocoön and his Sons

    12. VIDEO: Eros Sleeping and an Old Market Woman

    13. 6.1 ** Petra: An Introduction

    14. 6.2 Petra: Rock Cut Facades

    15. 6.3 ** Petra: Urban Metropolis

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