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Lightning Talk - Art and Technology
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| How does technology influence art? | |
| Historically signifiacant architecture and artworks influenced by technology: | |
| -Woman from Willendorf - From Austria. c. 24,000 BCE. Limestone | |
| -Wall Painting with Horses, Rhinoceroses, and Aurochs - Chauvet Cave. Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, Ardèche, France. c. 32,000-30,000 BCE | |
| -Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire, England. c. 2900-1500 | |
| -Funerary Mask of Tutankhamun - Eighteenth Dynasty (Tutankhamun, r. c. 1332-1322 BCE), c. 1327 | |
| -Great Sphinx, Funerary Complex of Khafre, Giza. Old Kingdom, c. 2520-2494 BCE | |
| -Colossal Head, San Lorenzo, Mexico. Olmec culture, c. 1200-900 BCE | |
| -North Acropolis, Tikal, Guatemala. Maya culture. 4th century BCE-5th century CE. | |
| -Mayan writing | |
| -Temple of Aphaia, Agena, 500 BCE | |
| -Archer / Reconstruction of Archer | |
| -Warrior - Found in the sea off Riace, Italy. c. 460-450 BCE. Bronze with bone and glass eyes, silver teeth, and copper lips and nipples. | |
| -Pont do Gard, Nimes, France. Late 1st century BCE | |
| -Flavian Amphitheater (Colosseum), Rome. 70-80 CE | |
| -Pantheon, Rome. c. 118-128 CE. | |
| -Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. 532-537 | |
| -Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain. Begun 785/786 | |
| -Elements of arches Islamic builders | |
| -Standing Buddha, Bamiyan, Sfghanistan. c. 5th century CE | |
| -Kandariya Mahadeva Temple, Khajuraho. c. 1000 CE | |
| -Crowned Head of a King - Ife, Yoruba. 12th-15th century CE | |
| -Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Paris. Begun 1163; choir chapels, 1270s; crossing spire, 19th-century. | |
| -Ribbed vaulting, flying buttresses | |
| -interior vaulting | |
| -Piazza Della Signoria with Palazzo Della Signoria (Town Hall), Florence. 1299-1310 | |
| -defensive mechanisms, improving mechanics in the outside world. | |
| -Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man. c. 1490 | |
| -Albrecht Dürer, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 1497-1498 | |
| -The French Ambassadors, Hans Holbein the Younger. 1533 | |
| -Rembrandt van Rijn, The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulip. 1632 | |
| -Taj Mahal, Agra, India. Mughal period, reign of Shah Jahan, c. 1631-1648 | |
| -irrigation | |
| -Japanese Woodblock Prints | |
| -Severn River Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England. 1779 | |
| -Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower, Paris. 1887-1889 |
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