15–15% of the AP exam. Key topics: Ancient Near East: Mesopotamia, Sumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria — ziggurats, votive figures, relief sculpture, Ancient Egypt: funerary art, canon of proportion, hierarchical scale, ka, pharaonic portraiture, Aegean civilizations: Minoan and Mycenaean art and architecture, Ancient Greek art: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic periods; kouros/kore, contrapposto, idealization, Etruscan art and its relationship to Greek and Roman traditions, Ancient Roman art: portraiture, historical relief, architecture (Pantheon, Colosseum), mosaic, Funerary function in Egyptian and Roman contexts, Development of naturalism from Archaic stiffness to Classical idealism to Hellenistic emotionalism.
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