FAS 201 Comparison Suggestion List Ancient Near East 1. Theme: Legitimization of Authority

FAS 201 Comparison Suggestion List Ancient Near East 1. Theme: Legitimization of Authority  Stele with Law Code of Hammurabi  Code of Hammurabi (written text) o http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/mesopotamian/hammurabi.html o http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp o http://musee.louvre.fr/oal/code/indexEN.html  For contemporary connection, try looking at U.S. and other judicial systems 2. Theme: Quest for Immortality  Statuettes of worshippers, from the Square Temple at Eshnunna  Epic of Gilgamesh o http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/eog/ o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/edys/hd_edys.htm  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern medicine/religion Ancient Egypt 1. Theme: Quest for Immortality/Creation of Legacy  Great Pyramids at Giza  The autobiography of Amenemhab o http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/amenemhab.htm o http://giza3d.3ds.com/#discover  For contemporary connection, try looking at charity work, career choices, or raising children 2. Theme: Akhenaten’s Worship of/Devotion to Aten  Statue of Akhenaten or Akhenaten with Nefertiti and Their Children  The Great Hymn to the Aten o http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/amarna/belief.html o http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/akhenaten_01.shtml  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern religion Ancient Greece 1. Theme: Representation of the Trojan War  Andokides Painter’s Archaic amphora, Ajax and Achilles Playing a Dice a Game (or other Greek vase)  Homer, Iliad o http://www.greekmythology.com/Myths/The_Myths/Trojan_War/trojan_war.html o http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vase/hd_vase.htm o http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/two-handled-jar-amphora-with-achillesand-ajax-153408 o http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/representing-troy-in-ancient-greece-and-medievaleurope/  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern film/cinema 2. Theme: Math/Ratio/Proportion  Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear Bearer), Roman marble copy of Greek bronze, ca. 450 BCE  Homer, Iliad (sample of opening lines of Book I with optional link to full text, translated into English hexameters by Edwin Simcox) o http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.arts.20110101.01.html (especially Section 5) o http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/Doryphoros.htm o https://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/ARTH209/Doyphoros.html o https://ba278b9d8106536501a2- 57da1f3fe93ccf3a9828e6ce67c3d52c.ssl.cf5.rackcdn.com/06_mccague.pdf o http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/homer/simcoxiliad.htm o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAm525BJYh4  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern engineering/architectural design Ancient Rome Theme: Establishing Divine Lineage With Regard to Identity  Portrait of Augustus as General (Augustus as Primaporta)  Virgil, Aeneid o http://classics.mit.edu/Virgil/aeneid.html o https://wuhstry.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/the-aeneid-as-a-commentary-onaugustus/  For contemporary connection, try looking at genealogy, family portraiture, or modern royalty Byzantine Theme: The Representation of Byzantine Empirical Power/Authority  Mosaic of Justinian and his attendants, San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy, ca. 547  Chronicle of John Malalas o http://en.calameo.com/books/000675905f2f4bf509d49 (pages 245–248) o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/byzantine1/veniceravenna/a/justinian-mosaic-san-vitale  For contemporary connection, try looking at presidential/world leader portraiture Islamic Theme: Beauty  Mihrab (prayer niche), ca. 1350, Iran, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  Any surah of the Qur’an o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/39.20 o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/orna/hd_orna.htm o http://patterninislamicart.com/background-notes/the-evolution-of-style o http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vege/hd_vege.htm o http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/calligraphy-in-islamic-art/ o http://www.wright-house.com/religions/islam/Quran.html  For contemporary connection, try looking at formal invitations (wedding, gala, etc.) Early Medieval Theme: Text/Book Cover as Relic/Reliquary  Book cover of the Lindau Gospels, from Saint Gall, Switzerland, ca. 870  Any segment of one of the four gospels o http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/luke-asv.html o http://www.themorgan.org/collection/lindau-gospels/front-cover o https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/latin-westerneurope/carolingian1/v/lindau-gospels-cover  For contemporary connection, try looking at bibliophilia, rare book industry/collecting Italian Renaissance 1. Theme: Humanism/Beauty  Botticelli, Birth of Venus, ca. 1484–1486  Poliziano’s poem “Stanze per la Giostra” o https://www.oneonta.edu/faculty/farberas/arth/arth213/botticelli_poliziano_birth _venus.htm o http://www.uffizi.org/artworks/the-birth-of-venus-by-sandro-botticelli/  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern beauty standards (various mediums/genres) 2. Theme: Sprezzatura  Raphael, Portrait of Baldassare Castiglione, ca. 1515  Baldassare Castiglione, Book of the Courtier (I.26), published 1528 o https://archive.org/stream/cu31924029052962#page/n33/mode/2up (pages 34– 37) o http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/sprezzatura.htm o http://courses.washington.edu/hsteu401/Courtier%20sprezzatura.htm  For contemporary connection, try looking at professional performance art (dance, music, etc.). 3. Theme: Anatomy  Leonardo da Vinci, any of his anatomical sketches/studies of the human body  Leonardo da Vinci, notes on anatomy (from his published notebooks) o http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/drawing/disegno.htm o http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/dvs016.htm (introduction through Section 815) o http://www.leonardoda-vinci.org/ o https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/exhibitions/leonardo-da-vinci-anatomist  For contemporary connection, try looking at modern medicine, formal artistic training

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