• Syllabus

• Starter Kit
• Navajo and Anasazi 
• Syllabus, 
• Note taking Skills,
• I also suggest that you sign up for HIST 104A Western Civilization with a World Perspective.  A survey of civilization in the Mediterranean through the beginning of early modern history with a look at other world cultures.

Referencing David Hockney's best selling tome on how Renaissance artists used the projected image, Kenney Mencher shows the audience his secrets.  Primarily how he uses a computer, an overhead projector and transparencies to project and establish a drawing on canvas.

• Navajo 
• NW coast 
• NW coast 2
• NW coast 3
• Prehistory 
• Read Stokstad 
• Introduction and Starter Kit
• Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300
• Chapter 26 - Art of the Americas after 1300
• Chapter 1 — Prehistoric Art in Europe
• Chapter 2 - Art of the Ancient Near East
• Read Mencher Liaisons 1-5 (How to Use This Book) 7-12 (How Raven Stole the Sun)
• What is cheating?
• Read Online Starter Kit
• Read Key Concepts, Form, Iconography and Context
• Southwest Cultures of the Americas
• Northwest Cultures of the Americas
• Prehistoric Cultures

• Prehistory, The Neolithic Fertile Crescent 
• Historic Era Fertile Crescent: Mesopotamian Art
• Stratigraphy
• China Neolithic Era 5000-2000 BCE
• China c1700-221 BCE Shang and Zhou 
• China 221BCE-907CE The Qin 
• China 221BCE-907CE The Han 
• Work Sheet #1 Due Sept 17
• Chatal Huyuk and Mesopotamia 
• Ur
• Treasures from the ROYAL TOMBS of Ur
• http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/religion/arcproj/war/EssayFive.html
• Mencher Liaisons 9-11 (The Assyro-Babylonian FAQ)
• Read On-line Starter Kit
• Read The Raven and Archer Yi
• Mencher Liaisons 147-158 (The Treatise and Didactic Text in Chinese Culture)
• Neolithic China 
• Zhou and Shang 
• Shang Bronzes
• Qin 
• Han 
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 9 - Art of South and Southeast Asia before 1200
• Chapter 10 - Chinese and Korean Art before 1279 

A quick one to two hour demonstration of how to paint the human head.  Mencher will show you how to mix flesh tones and how to lay the paint down.

• Early Egypt 
• Akhenaten's Egypt 
• Tut's Egypt 
• Tut's Egypt 2 
• Parallels to Tut's Egypt in Benin Art 
• Egypt 
• Press Release on the reconstruction of Tut's features
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 3 - Art of Ancient Egypt
• Akhenaton 
• Tut

• Aegean 2800 1100BCE
• Stratigraphy
• Crete's Minoan Civilization c1500
• Mainland Greece, Tiryns c1500
• Mycenae c1500
• The Aegean to the Mainland Synthesis and Transition
• Orientalized and Archaic Greek Pottery
• The Cyclades
• Crete, Knossos, Minoan
• Early Mainland Greece 
• http://bruceowen.com/worldprehist/3250s13.htm
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 4  - Aegean Art
• Mencher Liaisons 24-46 (Irving Stone: The Greek Treasure Mycenae!)12-14 (The Blinding of Polythemus)
• Diagram of the entablature and orders of architecture 
• Geometric, Orientalizing, Archaic and Classic Greek Pottery

Geometric, Orientalizing, and Archaic Greek Sculpture and Architecture

• Intro to the Golden Age
• The Acropolis
• Acropolis II (Nike Temple)
• Acropolis III (Propylea)
• Acropolis IV (The Parthenon)
• Acropolis V (Erechtheion)
• Read The Allegory of the Cave (REALLY REALLY IMPORTANT)
• Mencher Liaisons 49, 87-90 (Thucydides: Perikles' Funeral Oration) 
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 5 - Art of Ancient Greece

• Discussion of the Bacchae
• Greek Sculpture, The Geometric, Oriental and Archaic Periods
• Sculpture Golden Age
• Sculpture Golden Age to Late Hellenism
• Take Home Quiz on Tragedy Due Oct 22
• "The Acropolis" The Panathenaic Concept and Victory
• "The Acropolis" The Parthenon and its Sculptures
• "The Acropolis" The Erectheion and its Caryatids
• Sculpture during the "Golden Age of Perikles" 
• Late Hellenistic Art 
• 49-86 (Ovid "Semele") and (Euripedes "The Bacchae") 
• additional sources to help:
• Notes on the Bacchae and the Components of Greek Tragedy
• Aristotle's Elements of Theatre
• An online encyclopedia of Greek mythology

• Roman Sculpture 
• Roman Architecture 
• Pompeii 
• Pompeii 2 (Houses) 
• Pompeii 3 (Decorations and Fresco) 
• Pompeii, The Gods and Theater 
• Roman Art and Architecture
• Roman Art in Pompeii
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 6 - Etruscan and Roman Art

• Jewish Art  
• Rome During the rise of Judeo Christian Period 
• Late Rome
• Early Christian Art in Rome
• Byzantine Constantinople, Hagia Sofia 
• Byzantine Italy, San Vitale, Ravenna Italy 
• Worksheet #2 Due Nov 10
• Jewish Art
• Early Christian Art
• Byzantine
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 7  - Jewish, Early Christian, and Byzantine Art
• Chapter 8 - Islamic Art
• Mencher Liaisons 15-21 (Selections from Genesis-Jacob and Esau)

Please note that some of the readings are several days in advance of the lectures.  This is so that you will be able to do the last worksheet on time.

• Read the following
• The Olmec
• Maya and the Acropolis of Teotihuacan
• A synopis of the Popol Vuh
• Re-Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 12 - Art of the Americas before 1300
• Mencher Liaisons 49-50 & 91-99 (The Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life)

Optional: The Entire Text of the Popol Vuh

Video on the Popol Vuh (second Half of Class)

Please note that some of the readings are several days in advance of the lectures.  This is so that you will be able to do the last worksheet on time.

• Mesoamerica The Olmec 
• Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 1 
• Mesoamerica Teotihuacan 2 
• Mesoamerica Mayan 
• Islamic Art
• The Romanesque to Gothic Period Architecture
• Mencher Liaisons 22 (Psalm 91) 101-107 (The Treatise and Didactic Texts, Thomas Aquinas' "Five Ways") 
• Read Stokstad 
• Chapter 15 — Romanesque Art
• Chapter 16 - Gothic Art of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Chapter 17 — Fourteenth-Century Art in Europe

• The Vienna Genesis a Byzantine Manuscript
• Islam, Muhammed, Calligraphy and Mosque Architecture 
• The Monastic System
• Romanesque Sculpture at Autun 
• Romanesque Architecture's basic schema 
• Pisa Cathedral 
• Gothic Manuscripts
• Work Sheet #3 Due Dec 3rd

• Gothic Architecture 
• Italian Gothic Sculpture
• Italian Gothic Painting
• Cimabue, Giotto and St. Francis at Assisi
• Giotto's Painting, The Arena Chapel
• Gothic to Renaissance, Annunciations and Iconography, Martini and Duccio and Lorenzetti
• Berlinghieri, Cimabue, and Giotto
• Duccio
• Giotto, San Francesco
• The psychology of Perspective
• An Interactive Site about Perspective
• Giotto Arena Chapel
• Dr. Farber's Lecture on the Arena Chapel
• Duccio and the Maesta Altar
• Study Guide for Final