ART 9ANCIENT ART

Ancient Art - refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of

writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt, Greece and Rome.

In the history of art, prehistoric art is all art produced in preliterate, prehistorical cultures beginning somewhere in

very late geological history, and generally continuing until that culture either develops writing or other methods of record-keeping, or makes significant contact with another culture that has, and that makes some record of major historical

events.

New Stone AgeCave Wall Art

Rock carving of an Elephant, in Tadrart Acacus region of Libya dated from 12,000 BC

The Venus of Hohle Fels is an Upper Paleolithic Venus

figurine hewn from ivory of a mammoth tusk. It is dated to between 35,000 and 40,000

years ago,

Venus of Dolní Věstonicea ceramic statuette of a nude

female figure dated to 29,000–25,000 BCE. The

oldest known ceramic article in the world.

The Venus of Willendorf, high statuette of a female figure estimated to have

been made between about 28,000 and 25,000 BCE.

LION MAN OF THE HOHLENSTEIN STADEL

A lion-headed figure, first called the lion man is an ivory sculpture that is both the oldest known zoomorphic

(animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, and the oldest known

uncontested example of figurative art yet discovered. The figurine was determined to be about 40,000

years.

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