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- Royal Portal, West Facade
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chartres, France
- Proclaim majesty and power of Christ
- Left to right: Ascension, second coming, and Jesus in the lap of Virgin Mary
- Gothic Europe
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- Old Testament Kings and Queen
- right side of the central doorway of the royal portal
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chartres, France
- (Gothic) signs of new nationalism
- Gothic Europe
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- Interior of Chartres Cathedral
- High Gothic Model
- nave arcade, triforlum, and clerestory with stained glass windows
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- Stonemasons and Sculptors
- stain glass window in northernmost radiating chapel in the ambulatory
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chartres, France
- Gothic Europe
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- Virgin and Child and Angels
- (Notre dame da la Belle Verriere)
- window in the choir of Chartres Cathedral
- Chartres, France
- survived the fire
- Gothic Europe
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- Rose Window & Lancets
- North transept
- Chartres Cathedral
- Chartres, France
- Stained glass
- filled almost entire wall of high Gothic north transept of the Cathedral
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- Saint Theodore
- Jamb statue
- porch of the martyrs
- south transept
- Chartres Cathedral
- High Gothic
- Contrapposto Stance, Classical Statuary
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- Interior of Amiens Cathedral
- Robert Do Luzarches
- Amiens, France
- Self-sustaining skeletal architecture
- 4 part vaults
- 144 ft above nave floor
- Gothic Europe
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- Interior of Upper Chapel
- Saint Chapelle, Paris, France
- Gothic Europe
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- Cologne Cathedral
- Cologne, Germany
- Largest Church in Northern Europe
- > 600 years to build
- Gothic/Gothic Revival Structure
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- Aerial View of Maya City
- Chicen Itza, Mexico
- centered on the Castillo
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- Colossal head
- La Venta, Mexico
- Basalt
- 9'4" high
- Identities of the Olmec = uncertain
- Individualized features and distinctive headgear suggests these heads portray rulers rather than deities
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- Ceremonial Ax (Jaguar)
- From la Venta, Mexico
- Olmec
- Olmec celts often represent composite human-animal figures
- Jadeite
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- Aerial view of Teotihuacan, Mexico
- Pyramid of Moon (foreground)
- pyramid of Sun (top left)
- Citadel (background)
- All connected by ave of the dead
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- Chacmool
- From the platform of the eagles
- Chicen Itza, Mexico
- Maya
- Reps fallen warriors
- Stone
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- Pendant, Bat-faced man
- Northeastern Colombia, Tairona
- Served as an amulet
- gold
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- Raimondi Stele
- from the main temple
- Chavin de Huantar, Peru
- ability of gods to transform themselves is a core aspect of Andean religion
- Green diorite
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- Embroidered funerary mantle
- southern coast of Peru
- 1st century CE
- Plain weave caelid fiber with stem-stitch embroidery of camelid wool
- wrap around bodies of the dead
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- Hummingbird
- Nasca Plain, Peru
- Dark layers of pebbled scraped aside to reveal lighter clay and calcite beneath
- may have marked pilgrimage routes
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- Vessel in the shape of a portrait head
- northern coast of peru
- 5th-6th century
- painted clay
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- Serpent mound
- ohio mississipian
- May represent the path of Halley's Comet in 1066
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- Altar to the hand
- from benin, nigeria
- brass
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- Running woman
- rock painting
- from tassel n'Ajjer, Algeria
- Woman in a ritual context
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- Nok head
- from Rafin Kura, Nigeria
- Terracotta
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- Head
- From Lyndenburg, South Africa
- Terracotta
- Resembles inverted Terracotta but applied thin clay fillets
- Scarification marks are signs of beauty
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- Equestrian Figure on Fly Whisk
- Igbo Ukwu, Nigeria
- 9th-10th century
- copper-alloy bronze
- oldest preserved African lost-wax cast bronze
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- King
- From Ita Yemoo (Ife), Nigeria
- 11th-12th century
- Zinc Brass
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- Seated Man
- From Tada, Nigeria
- 13th-14th century
- copper
- related to naturalistic style of Ife Ife
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- Archer
- From Djenne, Mali
- 13th-15th century
- Terracotta
- striking contrast to Ife Ife
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- Aerial view of great mosque
- Djenne, Mali
- begun in 13th century, rebuilt
- made of adobe and wood
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- Beta Giorghis (Church of St. George)
- Lalibela, Ethiopia
- Christian King Lalibela
- Rock cut church
- Completely cut out of volcanic rock
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- Walls and Tower (Great Enclosure)
- Zimbabwe
- 14th century
- 30ft tall
- Not held together by mortar or anything
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