Stylistic Analysis Esssay

Question 1

Answer 1

• dedicated gods and planetary deities of Rome
• Preference for the arch
• Exploitation of concrete
• Homage to the Greeks - temple facade
• 8 Corinthian columns in front
• Coffered dome
• Oculus symbolized eye of Jupiter - only light

Question 2

Answer 2

• Polykleitos
• Exemplifies Polykleitos’ canon of proportions
• Visual expression of the Greeks’ belief that man is the measure of all things
• Greeks’ search for beauty and harmony
• Harmony governed the laws of nature and the universe
• Perfect proportion and harmony among the parts of the body
• idealized and perfected from nature
• natural contrapposto stance, yet balanced

Question 3

The Palette of King Narmer

Answer 3

• Arrnged in registers containing stories or narratives
• Two cow heads flank a serekh
• Cartouche, an oval-shaped figure containing a person’s name
• Bovine heads = Goddess Hathor
• The bull-like strength pharaoh

Question 4

Bull-Leaping Toreador

Answer 4

• Minoan art has a preference for bull themes.
• painting of colored pigments on wet lime plaster
• depicts the before, during, and after of the bull-leaping event
• a scene from everyday life
• contrasts Egyptian culture - stiff and formal in style
• Subject/Ritual: Theseus’s massacre of the Minotaur
• memorialized the people who witnessed or performed the ritual

Question 5

The Portrait of the Four Tetrarchs

Answer 5

• Late Imperial Period
• Naturalism of the republican era & idealized sculptures from the time of Augustus gone
• Military valor and might
• eagle-headed sword that each tetrarch holds - a symbol of Roma (eagle)
• symbolic, not actual representation of its subjects
• Tout, blocky, stiff and rigid
• Reminiscent of Egyptian statuary and the early kouros figures