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Ancient Greece Time Period:
1000-30 BCE
5 pillars of faith
Pillar 1–
o Affirmation of 1 god–Allah & his messenger Muhammad
Pillar 2–
o Ritual of prayer in direction of Mecca 5 times a day
Pillar 3–
o Omsgiving–giving money to poor , charitable
Pillar 4–
o Fasting & abstinence during the Ramadan (sacred month of year)
Pillar 5–
o Hadj–annual pilgrimage to Mecca
What are icons?
Greek words for “images”
small image usually a painting that represents a sacred person
small=intimate
Describe a Basilica plan church?
long (Latin cross design), holds a lot of people
KOUROS
GREEK PERIOD
ARCHAIC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- marble
- natural
- grave markers
- long thick curly hair
DEATH OF SARPEDON
by EUPHRONIOS (painter) & EUXITHEOS (potter)
GREEK PERIOD
ARCHIAC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- Vase (pottery)
- Uses foreshortening
- this is an optical illusion where objects & distances look shorter because of the angle to the viewer
Contrapposto
“counter-pose”
physical concept of weight shift
AUGUSTUS OF PRIMAPORTA
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE - 395 CE
Characteristics:
- orator qualities (arm is up)
- shows administration
- barefoot represents divine act
- military, political, propaganda
- mix of mythological with realism similar to Greek “Spearbearer”
- contrapossto
Forum
large open rectangular space
Atrium
open space with light at the top
Relic:
body part or material that comes fom holy person or object
semi-circular most sacred part of Christian church, holds alter in the east b/c Christ was crucificed in the East looking West
Apse
Fresco
form of painting where pigment is applied into wet plaster; usually has vibrant colors
THE ARCH OF TITUS
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE-395 CE
Characteristics:
- Commermerate and celebrate Titus’s victory
- created by his predecessor
- arch has decorations
Byzantine Dates:
527-1453
FUNERARY VASE
GREEK PERIOD
PRE-ARCHAIC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- Found in cemetary
- registers
- top register–deceased, prep cremation
- second register–soldiers holding shield
- pour wine to pour into dead body
- Amphora shape (Greek storage vessel)
Aegean Art time period:
3000-950 BCE
Greeks adopted columns from who?
The Egyptians
What two cultures did Romans absorb?
Greek & Utruscan
What plan church is this?
Central-Plan Church
FLYING BUTTRESSES/ CHARTRES CATHEDRAL,
FRANCE
GOTHIC PERIOD
1140-1400 CE
Characteristics:
• Butress carry most of the weight
• Decorative element to outside church
CITY SCAPE, POMPEII
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE-395 CE
Characteristics:
- wall painting
- illusion of 3d
- intuitive perspective (illusion of 3d space, no single vanishing point)
Side Aisels was used to:
to accomadate more people
Nike was the goddess of–?
Victory
Groin Vault
Two intersecting barrel vaults
Sarcophagus meaning?
Flesh eater
NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE
GREEK PERIOD
HELLENISTIC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- Nike=victory
- movement
- winged arms
Two plans of Christian church:
Basilica & Central
Emperor during Bynzantine empire:
Justinian
Greeks used what material, while Romans used what?
Marble; concrete
Style of Romanesque period:
rounded arches
buttresses
stone ceilings
symmetry
What is an oligarthy?
An area is ruled by a group
Monotheistic religion:
Judiasm, Christianity, Islamic
Islamic Decorative Canon
•Most valued art form
- Calligraphy
• Geometric
• Arabesque
o Intertwined foliage
• Mysterious form
Hellenistic themes:
move away from perfection
more exaggeration and naturalism
interest in facial & body expression
new subject matter–children, defeat, everyday life
EMPEROR JUSTINIAN & HIS ATTENDENTS
CHURCH OF SAN VITALE, RAVENNA
BYZANTINE PERIOD
527-1453
Characteristics:
- move away from realism
system of thought basd on interest & ideals of mankind
Humanism
GALLIC CHIEFTAIN KILLING HIS WIFE AND HIMSELF
GREEK PERIOD
HELLENISTIC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- shows enemy
- Gauls are defeated, leader decides to kill himself
- open composition
- dramatic effects
- elicit emotion
Oligarhy:
rule by a group
Best preserved church:
Church of San Vitale, Italy
NAVE, BASILICA OF ST SERMIN
FRANCE
ROMANESQUE PERIOD
1050-1200
Characteristics:
- True arch
- Rounded tunnel vault
- Stone material
- Benefit of stone ceilings—acoustics, durable
Columns in the Aegean time period were:
heavy at the top & thinner at the bottom
APOLLO
ETRUSCAN PERIOD
ARCHIAC STYLE
700-509 BCE
Characteristics:
- Terracotta
- hollow clays
- stoic face
HOUSE SYNAGOGUE @ DURA-EUROPAS
SYRIA
JEWISH & EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD
100-500
Characteristics:
- synagogue
- tempera on plaster
- emphasized religious learning (didatic)
- cut away where the Tora is kept
- art is used to illustrate & teach
Circular theater was used for:
Entertainment
What is the Torah?
The first 5 books of the Hebrew scripture
Gothic Period dates:
1140-1400
What was the guideline for human body proportion called?
Canon of Proportion
Portal:
entrance or doorway into church; separates spiritual from secular; enter into heaven on earth
What art structure emphasises golden ratio?
Parthenon
Pythagerean was interested in patterns & ______.
binary opposition
foyer, transition space, lobby
Narthex
Archiad:
series of arches
Romanesque Period dates:
1050-1200 CE
LAST JUDGEMENT, CATHEDRAL OF SAINT-LAZARE
GISLEBERTUS, FRANCE,
ROMANESQUE PERIOD
1050-1200 CE
Characteristics:
- Christ is shown as a judge
- Christ brought St. Lazarus back to life
- Tympanum structure
- Scare tactics—when you die, eternal life in heaven, or damnation
- Angels
- Broken into register, the people lined up
East chuch (during Byzantine)
Patrarchs (committee), noncelibte, East orthodox
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE-395 CE
Characteristics:
- huge collasal=strength
- eyes too large
What is a Cathedral:
- o Comes from Cathedra (the seat the Bishop sits)
- o Most are in France
- o Symbolically center of the town
- o Organic, doesn’t need to be symmetrical
- o Took centuries to build
EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF MARCUS AURELIUS
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE-395 CE
Characteristics:
- lost wax technique
- bronze
- celebrating precession, great victory
- thick beard, curly hair
- horse expression (personality)
- horse one foot up=sustained injury and died later
Who used post & lintel? Greeks or Romans?
Greeks
SNAKE GODDESS
AEGEAN PERIOD
MINOAN STYLE
3000-950 BCE
Characteristics:
- Uses faience– glass plate; glazed ceremic ware
- snake and cat represent miraculous power and help with healing
- wide hips=fertility
- female deity–priestess
What does sarcophagus mean?
flesh eater
sacred scripture of Muslims, collection of revelations
- Koran
THE GREAT MOSQUE
TUNISIA
ISLAMIC PERIOD
600-1600
Characteristics:
Traditional style of Mosque
Arches & columns repeated over & over again
Gives a sense of eternity & mystery
Mirab—niches used as prayer stations
Usually cut into the wall
Roman Period theme:
- functional & secular
- organization, administration
- varism–extreme realism
- subject matter–civic leader, military triumphs, polictics, pragmatic
- many tyrant kings
COLLESSEUM
ROMAN PERIOD
EMPIRICAL STYLE
509 BCE-395 CE
Characteristics:
- Arches & Concrete
- used for entertainment and to distract poor
- amphitheater
- arcade (row of arches
- largest structure of sheer mass in world (concrete)
THE SUICIDE FROM AJAX
by EXEKIAS
GREEK PERIOD
ARCHAIC STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- Black figure style
- black-slip–watered down
- fired vessel & turn reddish
- profile viewpoint
PARTHENON
by KALIKKRATES & IKTNUS
GREEK PERIOD
CLASSICAL STYLE
1000-30 BCE
Characteristics:
- uses classical doric architecture
- light, graceful, elegant, airy
- platform & architecture are curved
- curved becasue our eyes manipulate so our eyes perceives it as straight
Etruscan Art materials:
Mudbrick & wood materials
SARCOPHAGUS
ETRUSCAN PERIOD
ARCHAIC STYLE
700-509 BCE
Characteristics:
- Terracotta
- Painted
- Lounging
ROYAL PORTAL, CHARTRES CATHEDRAL,
FRANCE,
GOTHIC PERIOD
1140-1400
Characteristics:
• 3 pointed arch
• gateway to heaven
• Mary on the right holding Jesus