Course curriculum

    1. Chapter 1 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 1.1 Common Questions about Dates

    4. Quiz 1.1

    5. 1.2 A Beginner's Guide to the History of Western Culture

    6. Quiz 1.2

    7. Video: Why Look at Art?

    8. Video: The Skill of Describing

    9. 1.3 Patronage and the Status of the Artist

    10. Quiz 1.3

    11. Video: Glossary of Art Terms

    1. Chapter 2 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 2.1 Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins

    4. QUIZ 2.1

    5. Video: Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)

    6. 2.2 Paleolithic Art Explained

    7. QUIZ 2.2

    8. 2.3 The Neolithic Revolution

    9. QUIZ 2.3

    10. 2.4 Jericho

    11. QUIZ 2.4

    12. 2.5 Çatal Höyük

    13. QUIZ 2.5

    14. 2.6 Stonehenge

    15. Quiz 2.6

    1. Chapter 3 Overview

    2. 3.1 Ancient Near East

    3. Quiz 3.1

    4. 3.2 Sumerian Art

    5. Quiz 3.2

    6. 3.3 The Invention of Writing

    7. Quiz 3.3

    8. VIDEO: The Standard of Ur

    9. 3.4 Ziggurat of Ur

    10. QUIZ 3.4

    11. 3.5 Art of Akkad and Ur

    12. QUIZ 3.5

    13. VIDEO: Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

    14. 3.6 Theories on the Meaning of the Victory Stele of Naram-Sin

    15. QUIZ 3.6

    16. VIDEO: Assyrian Art

    17. VIDEO: Lamassu

    18. VIDEO: Neo-Babylonian Art

    19. 3.7: Art of the Persian Empire

    20. Quiz 3.7

    1. Chapter 4 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

    3. 4.1 Ancient Egypt

    4. Quiz 4.1

    5. 4.2 Egyptian Art

    6. QUIZ 4.2

    7. 4.3 Materials & Techniques

    8. QUIZ 4.3

    9. VIDEO: Seated Scribe

    10. 4.4 The Great Pyramids of Giza

    11. QUIZ 4.4

    12. 4.5 Pyramid of Khufu

    13. Quiz 4.5

    14. 4.6 Pyramid of Khafre and the Great Sphinx

    15. Quiz 4.6

    16. 4.7 Pyramid of Menkaure

    17. QUIZ 4.7

    18. VIDEO: House Altar (Amarna Period)

    19. VIDEO: Portrait Head of Queen Tiye

    20. VIDEO: Bust of Nefertiti

    21. VIDEO: Ramesses II

    1. Chapter 5 Overview

    2. Key Learning Items

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

    4. QUIZ 5.1

    5. VIDEO: Geometric Greek Krater

    6. VIDEO: Black Figure Amphora

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

    8. VIDEO: New York Kouros

    9. VIDEO: Spear Bearer

    10. VIDEO: The Greek Temple

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

    12. VIDEO: Myron, Discus Thrower

    13. VIDEO: The Parthenon

    14. VIDEO: Parthenon’s East Pediment

    15. VIDEO: Parthenon Frieze

    16. VIDEO: Parthenon Metopes

    17. 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. Quiz 6.1

    15. 6.2 Petra: Rock Cut Facades

    16. Quiz 6.2

    17. 6.3 ** Petra: Urban Metropolis

    18. Quiz 6.3

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