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4.1.1: Supporting Images for What is Cultural Heritage?

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    Introduction to Fine Arts - Visual

     

    Supporting Images for What is Cultural Heritage?

    In this section, students are invited to explore the featured artwork from What is Cultural Heritage. It aims to enhance understanding through guiding questions that promote deeper reflection and critique of the piece's significance and meaning.

    The highlighted artwork from the text is paired with a supplemental image that offers an alternative perspective, showing how similar elements can be applied differently to create distinct moods or interpretations. By comparing the two works, students can see how choices in color temperature, compositional balance, or use of contrast alter the emotional impact and narrative of the piece, reinforcing the idea that artistic decisions are deliberate tools for communication rather than mere decoration.

    Each highlighted artwork is listed below with a supplemental image for comparison. Clicking on the image title will take you to the appendix to learn more about the piece and explore additional details. You can also navigate directly from the table of contents.

    Mona Lisa

    Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503–05, oil on panel, 30-1/4 x 21 inches (Musée du Louvre) via SmartHistory

    Nampeyo, polychrome jar

    Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa), polychrome jar
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Nampeyo (Hopi-Tewa), polychrome jar, c. 1930s, clay and pigment, 13 x 21 cm (National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution) via SmartHistory

    Hileq and Bileq Haggadah

    Hileq and Bileq Haggadah
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Jewish family celebrating the Passover seder, Hileq and Bileq Haggadah, fol. 20v, Abraham ben Moshe Landau, 15th century, southern Germany (Bibliotheque nationale de France) via SmartHistory

    Medallion Carpet, The Ardabil Carpet

    Medallion Carpet, The Ardabil Carpet
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Medallion Carpet, The Ardabil Carpet, Unknown artist (Maqsud Kashani is named on the carpet’s inscription), Persian: Safavid Dynasty, silk warps and wefts with wool pile (25 million knots, 340 per square inch), 1539–40 C.E., Tabriz, Kashan, Isfahan or Kirman, Iran (Victoria and Albert Museum) via SmartHistory

    Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ahmed Baba

    Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ahmed Baba
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Abdoulaye Ndoye, Ahmed Baba, 2013, ink and henna on paper, 16 1/8 x 11 x 1 ¾ (dimensions when folded closed), lives and works in Dakar, Senegal (The Newark Museum of Art, © Abdoulaye Ndoye) via SmartHistory

    Djingareyber Mosque

    Djingareyber Mosque
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Djingareyber Mosque, built 1327, Timbuktu, Mali. Two tombs at this mosque were attacked by Islamic extremists in 2012. (photo: Johannes Zielcke(opens in new window), CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

    Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian

    Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Amrita Sher-Gil, Self-Portrait as a Tahitian, 1934, 90 x 56 cm (Kiran Nadar Museum of Art, New Delhi)via SmartHistory

    Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre

    Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Faith Ringgold, Dancing at the Louvre, 1991, acrylic on canvas, tie-dyed, pieced fabric border, 73.5 x 80″, from the series, The French Collection, part 1; #1 (Gund Gallery, Kenyon College) via SmartHistory

    Lysippos of Sikyon, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)

    Lysippos of Sikyon, Apoxyomenos (Scraper)
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Lysippos of Sikyon, Apoxyomenos (Scraper), c. 50 A.D., Hellenistic or Roman copy after Greek original, c. 390–306 B.C.E., 207.3 cm / 6 feet 9 inches high (Vatican Museums) via SmartHistory

    Plate with King Hunting Rams

    Plate with king hunting rams
    Figure \(\PageIndex{1}\): Plate with King Hunting Rams, Sasanian, ca. mid-5t-6th century CE, The Met Collection, Public Domain

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