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1. Cave Art: • Paleolithic Age, • Mesolithic age, • Neolithic age 2. Mesopotamian Civilization: its architecture, painting, sculpture and other minor crafts. • Akkadian • Sumerian • Babylonian • Assyrian • Neo-Babylonian • Persian 3. Indus valley civilization: its architecture, painting, sculptures and minor crafts. 4. Ancient Egyptian civilization: its architecture, painting, sculptures and minor crafts. 5. Greek civilization: its architecture, painting, sculptures and minor crafts. 6. Roman civilization: its architecture, painting, sculptures and minor crafts. 7. Buddhist Art: its architecture, painting, sculpture and minor crafts. • Early Buddhist art • Gandhara Art • Ajanta Art 8. Hindu art (An overview)

Course Synopsis

• In the middle of the session, they will be assessed by examination on the pattern of final examination. • They will be assessed and groomed by group presentation, quizzes and class test on different topics related to their subject

Course Learning Outcomes

This course aims at bringing an awareness of the importance of art history for the students of art in the light of ancient civilizations. Students will learn to observe various art forms of Pre-historic and ancient civilizations.


Roman Civilization

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Pillars of Ashoka

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The Stupa

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Beliefs made visible

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Ajanta Caves

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The caves of Ajanta

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Hindu Art

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Hinduism

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Roman Architecture

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Great Pyramids of Gizah

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The seated scribe

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Roman Architecture

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The Classical Orders

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Greek Vases

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Parthenon (Acropolis)

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Winged Nike (Greek Sculpture)

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Book Title : Gardner's Art Through The Ages (A Global History)
Author : Fred S. Kleiner
Edition : Enhanced Thirteen Edition
Publisher : Clark Baxter
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Book Title : A History of Roman Art
Author : Fred S. Kleiner
Edition : Enhanced Edition
Publisher : Clark Baxter
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Book Title : A World History of Art
Author : Hugh Honour & John Fleming
Edition : Seventh Edition
Publisher : Laurence King Publisher
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Book Title : The Art of Gandhara in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Author : Kurt A. Behrendt
Edition : First Edition
Publisher : The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Book Title : How to read Buddhist Art
Author : Kurt A. Behrendt
Edition : First Edition
Publisher : https://books.google.com.pk/books?id=sDzADwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=buddhist+art&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjT6Z3WpKLpAhV3AWMBHTreBq0Q6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=buddhist%20art&f=false



Book Title : The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple
Author : Jean M. Evans
Edition : First Published 2012
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
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Book Title : Archaeology of Early Buddhism
Author : Lars Fogelin
Edition : First Edition
Publisher : Altamira Press
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Book Title : Ornament in Indian Architecture
Author : Margaret Prosser Allen
Edition : First Edition
Publisher : Newark: University of Delware Press
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Book Title : Gardner's Art through the Ages: Non-Western Perspectives
Author : Fred S. Kleiner
Edition : Thirteen Edition
Publisher : Clark Baxter
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Book Title : Voyages in World History, Volume 1
Author : Valerie Hansen, Kenneth Curtis
Edition : First Edition
Publisher : Wadsworth Cengage Learning
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Title : Egyptian (Pyramid, Temple)
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Title : Indus Valley Civilization (Town Planning)
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Title : Roman Architecture
Type : Presentation

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Title : Greek Sculpture
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Title : Indus Valley (Sculpture, Pottery)
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Title : Egyptian Pottery
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Title : Mesopotamian Civilization (Sculpture, Cuneiform, Victory Stele ...)
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Title : Greek Architecture (Temple, Theater, Agora..)
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Title : Greek Pottery
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