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Now if you can't understand what a picture is unless you've seen one before. How on earth do you come up with the idea of creating one in the first place? So how did our ancient ancestors come to real
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They are made up of dots and lines or abstract shapes and patterns. Nothing in the natural world of the prehistoric artist would have looked like this, or this. And, very often, these patterns are rep
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What if we go back 2,000 years? This is the image of a horse from classical antiquity. It was made to decorate a Roman household, about one hundred years before Christ. And clearly the artists here ha
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So what happened? How did imagery come to be used as a political tool? Well it's a process that happens at different times in various parts of the world. But in one of those parts, Britain, archeologi
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As they examined these more closely, they realized they were in fact ornaments, probably hair clasp s, and both beautifully crafted. They may not look very much now, tiny with just a very simple patte
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What this individual had discovered was something that we today take for granted. Art, as personal adornment, enhances your status, it lifts you above your peers and our king was the first leader in B
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Now, an ambitious new idea began to take hold in Lewis Williams' mind because he was aware that there were other rock paintings which were very similar to those painted by the San. These were many tho
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Here, for the first time, we've got a theory, which seems to solve many of the puzzles that've mystified experts in the past. It's a theory based not just on an investigation of the cave art itself, b
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Then around ten years ago, German archeologists began excavating here. What they found astonished them, because under their feet were colossal structures-- stone circles built from huge T-shaped megal
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On one side of the hill, archeologists discovered an area that had been used as a quarry . This is where the huge pillars that dominated Gobekli Tepe were cut from the limestone bedrock . Here's a pil
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Augustus had used images to manipulate people into believing one thing when in fact the very opposite was true. So he discovered how to use art to tell a political lie. It was a technique that would b
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The images are of Augustus accepting the surrender of Rome's sworn enemy, the Parthian s. It was his greatest triumph and the gods are shown looking on with approval. The message is clear: Augustus wa
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This is the Vatican City, not only the center of the Catholic Church, but also home to one of the greatest collections of Roman art anywhere in the world. And within that collection, one piece is outs
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These two groups were locked in a struggle for the control of ancient Rome. Neither side was prepared to compromise. It looked like the two tribes would be forever divided. That was until a new conten
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It's the power to persuade us to think what they want us to think and to see things the way they do, and even to deceive us. So how did art go from being a tool of political promotion, to being an ins
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So effective was his discovery that throughout his rule he continued to refine it. Hundreds of statues were made of his heroic physical presence. Alexander may have had the perfect image, but it was u
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But the most significant aspect of this little ivory head was when it was made, it was placed in this tomb. That means that it was made before Philip died and before Alexander became king. In other wo
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He was surrounded by incredible riches, the riches of a king. They showed he was a man of exquisite taste, these are really the most beautiful objects of their kind we have ever discovered. These were
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But how, as a foreign invader, would he ever win the hearts and minds of his new subjects? Alexander understood the power of the visual techniques used by Darius, but he had to come up with an image a
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BBC Learning English People and Places Taking art to the streets of London Amber:Hello, Im Amber and youre listening to bbclearningenglish.com In People and Places today, we meet the director of the National Gallery in London. The gallery is home to
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