slide identification format

regular slide identifications -- I show you a slide and you have 3 minutes (more or less) to identify and comment briefly.

Give the fullest information you can about this object -- IN THIS FORMAT

 artist (if known) -- most artists we deal with in this course are anonymous.  the few known ones are especially important!
     title
     date
     culture of origin
     location -- only in the case of buildings do you need to give location, or in the case of sculpture attached to a building, give the building location, too!  Location is city and (modern) nation.

Then give some idea of its stylistic characteristics or significance to the history of art.

unknown slides identifications -- almost every group of identifications will end with an UNKNOWN -- a slide you have not seen before.

the way to answer an unknown is to BEGIN by comparing it to things you do know
THEN identify it at the bottom of the essay answer.  Your identification items can be based on things you do know --
    for example:  "the pose is like the statue of Pharaoh Khafre, so it is Old Kingdom Egypt"

when studying, always ask yourself:

"what about this object seems characteristic of its society?"

"is there a particular object to which the book or Professor Tinkler always compared this?"

"is this an early or a late example of its type -- is it the first known one?"

"why would he ask us this?"