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1
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Ancient Greece Time Period:

A

1000-30 BCE

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5 pillars of faith

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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

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What are icons?

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Greek words for “images”

small image usually a painting that represents a sacred person

small=intimate

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3
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Describe a Basilica plan church?

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long (Latin cross design), holds a lot of people

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KOUROS

GREEK PERIOD

ARCHAIC STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • marble
  • natural
  • grave markers
  • long thick curly hair
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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
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4
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Contrapposto

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“counter-pose”

physical concept of weight shift

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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
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4
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Forum

A

large open rectangular space

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4
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Atrium

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open space with light at the top

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4
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Relic:

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body part or material that comes fom holy person or object

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semi-circular most sacred part of Christian church, holds alter in the east b/c Christ was crucificed in the East looking West

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Apse

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Fresco

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form of painting where pigment is applied into wet plaster; usually has vibrant colors

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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
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8
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Byzantine Dates:

A

527-1453

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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)
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10
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Aegean Art time period:

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3000-950 BCE

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11
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Greeks adopted columns from who?

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The Egyptians

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11
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What two cultures did Romans absorb?

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Greek & Utruscan

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11
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What plan church is this?

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Central-Plan Church

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FLYING BUTTRESSES/ CHARTRES CATHEDRAL,

FRANCE

GOTHIC PERIOD

1140-1400 CE

Characteristics:
• Butress carry most of the weight
• Decorative element to outside church

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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)
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12
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Side Aisels was used to:

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to accomadate more people

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13
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Nike was the goddess of–?

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Victory

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14
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Groin Vault

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Two intersecting barrel vaults

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15
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Sarcophagus meaning?

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Flesh eater

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NIKE OF SAMOTHRACE

GREEK PERIOD

HELLENISTIC STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Nike=victory
  • movement
  • winged arms
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16
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Two plans of Christian church:

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Basilica & Central

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16
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Emperor during Bynzantine empire:

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Justinian

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17
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Greeks used what material, while Romans used what?

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Marble; concrete

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18
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Style of Romanesque period:

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rounded arches

buttresses

stone ceilings

symmetry

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19
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What is an oligarthy?

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An area is ruled by a group

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20
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Monotheistic religion:

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Judiasm, Christianity, Islamic

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20
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Islamic Decorative Canon

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•Most valued art form

  • Calligraphy

• Geometric
• Arabesque
o Intertwined foliage
• Mysterious form

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21
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Hellenistic themes:

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move away from perfection

more exaggeration and naturalism

interest in facial & body expression

new subject matter–children, defeat, everyday life

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EMPEROR JUSTINIAN & HIS ATTENDENTS

CHURCH OF SAN VITALE, RAVENNA

BYZANTINE PERIOD

527-1453

Characteristics:

  • move away from realism
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23
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system of thought basd on interest & ideals of mankind

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Humanism

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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
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25
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Oligarhy:

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rule by a group

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26
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Best preserved church:

A

Church of San Vitale, Italy

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NAVE, BASILICA OF ST SERMIN

FRANCE

ROMANESQUE PERIOD

1050-1200

Characteristics:

  • True arch
  • Rounded tunnel vault
  • Stone material
  • Benefit of stone ceilings—acoustics, durable
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28
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Columns in the Aegean time period were:

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heavy at the top & thinner at the bottom

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29
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APOLLO

ETRUSCAN PERIOD

ARCHIAC STYLE

700-509 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Terracotta
  • hollow clays
  • stoic face
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29
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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
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30
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Circular theater was used for:

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Entertainment

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30
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What is the Torah?

A

The first 5 books of the Hebrew scripture

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30
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Gothic Period dates:

A

1140-1400

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32
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What was the guideline for human body proportion called?

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Canon of Proportion

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32
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Portal:

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entrance or doorway into church; separates spiritual from secular; enter into heaven on earth

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34
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What art structure emphasises golden ratio?

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Parthenon

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35
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Pythagerean was interested in patterns & ______.

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binary opposition

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35
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foyer, transition space, lobby

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Narthex

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36
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Archiad:

A

series of arches

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37
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Romanesque Period dates:

A

1050-1200 CE

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37
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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
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37
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East chuch (during Byzantine)

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Patrarchs (committee), noncelibte, East orthodox

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CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

ROMAN PERIOD

EMPIRICAL STYLE

509 BCE-395 CE

Characteristics:

  • huge collasal=strength
  • eyes too large
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39
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What is a Cathedral:

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  • 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
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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
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42
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Who used post & lintel? Greeks or Romans?

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Greeks

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44
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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
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45
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What does sarcophagus mean?

A

flesh eater

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45
Q

sacred scripture of Muslims, collection of revelations

A
  • Koran
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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

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46
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Roman Period theme:

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  • functional & secular
  • organization, administration
  • varism–extreme realism
  • subject matter–civic leader, military triumphs, polictics, pragmatic
  • many tyrant kings
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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)
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47
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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
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48
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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
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49
Q

Etruscan Art materials:

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Mudbrick & wood materials

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50
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SARCOPHAGUS

ETRUSCAN PERIOD

ARCHAIC STYLE

700-509 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Terracotta
  • Painted
  • Lounging
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51
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ROYAL PORTAL, CHARTRES CATHEDRAL,

FRANCE,

GOTHIC PERIOD

1140-1400

Characteristics:
• 3 pointed arch
• gateway to heaven
• Mary on the right holding Jesus

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52
Q

Clash why Christian faith was not accepted:

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monotheistic

polictical leader used to be deified

divide

53
Q

A row of columns

53
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PONT du GARD

ROMAN PERIOD

REPUBLICAN STYLE

509 BCE-395 CE

Characteristics:

  • Aqueduct
  • repetition of true arch
54
Q

Verism

A

Extreme realism

55
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Portal:

A

entrance or doorway into church; separates spiritual from secular; enter into heaven on earth

56
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Helenistic period time:

A

320-30 BCE

58
Q

Cycladic Style characteristics:

A

whimsical, small figurines, scattered

carved out of marble

thin, virginal women

modern, abstract, geometric

59
Q

Synagogue

A

large room where people congregate where the Tora is kept, stored, and read

59
Q

Main Elements of Mosque

A
  • Rectangular courtyard
  • Minaret
  • Roofed prayer hall
  • Qiblah wall
60
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Ancient Greece Characteristics:

A
  • City-States
  • disliked autocratic (king/pharoah)
  • direct democracy
  • urban environment
  • focused on intellectual, reason
  • formal
  • analytical
  • invention of geometry
  • humanism
  • order, reason, human mind
62
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Idealism of Greeks:

A

Absolute perfection

63
Q
A

Doric Order

64
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A

RELIQUARY STATUE OF SAINTE FOY

FRANCE

ROMANESQUE PERIOD

1050-1200 CE

Characteristics:

  • container
  • a girl refused to convert to Christian faith so she was burned to death
    *
65
Q

What plan church is this?

66
Q

Islamic Ideals:

A
  • Rejection of representing humans, animals, sacred beings
  • No images of the lord
  • Allah has no material form
  • Symmetry balance
67
Q

First temple seen:

A

Greek temple

67
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Lamb symbolizes:

68
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PANTHEON

ROMAN PERIOD

EMPIRICAL STYLE

509 BCE-395 CE

Characteristics:

  • no images on pediment
  • Pantheon means “all gods”
  • oculus (Latin for “eye”, rounded opening at the top)
  • Rotunda (circular shaped building topped with a dome)
70
Q

What is the golden ratio?

A

math figure often found in nature that embodies ideal beauty

71
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Iconophile:

A

lover of images

72
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NAVE, CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

FRANCE

GOTHIC

1140-1400 CE

Characteristics:

(Compare Nave of St Sermin to Nave of Chartres)

  • 100 feet tall
  • 45 feet wide
  • groin faults—two intersecting tunnel vaults
  • ribbed faults
74
Q

Foreshortening:

A

this is an optical illusion where objects & distances look shorter because of the angle to the viewer

74
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Gothic Art Style:

A

• End of the medevial period
• “Unclassical”, “ugly”, “barbarian”
• Feudalism
• Economic stability
• Growth of monarchy
• Multiples of 3 is important (Christian number)
Holy Trinity

76
Q

What king ruled during most of the Empirical style?

A

Augustus Ceasar (grand newphew of Julius Ceasar)

77
Q
A

Ionic Order

79
Q

Gothic period dates:

80
Q

Symbols:

Fish?

Dove?

Lamb?

Halo?

Key symbol?

A

Fish? water/baptism

Dove? peace/holy spirit

Lamb? sacrifice

Halo? Pagan authortiy emit light

Key symbol? light

81
Q

Another way for barrel vault:

A

Tunnel Vault

82
Q
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VIRGIN OF VLADIMIR

BYZANTINE PERIOD

527-1453

Characteristics:

  • wood panel, tempura
  • sacred icon
  • Russia protected from Mongols
84
Q

Basilica

A

any large roofed rectangularnhall; public hall used for assemblies

85
Q

Themes of Romanesque period:

A
  • more stable than centuries before
  • end of barbarians
  • converting to Christianity
  • Economic stability–feudalism
  • dominance of Catholic Church
  • Pilgrimages
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86
Q

Iconoclast:

A

destroyer of images because they thought certain images led to idolotry

87
Q
A

CHURCH OF HAGIA SOPHIA

ISTANBUL

BYZANTINE PERIOD

527-1453

Characteristics:

  • walls covered in glass mosaic
89
Q
A

FIGURINES

AEGEAN PERIOD

CYCLADIC STYLE

3000-950 BCE

Charactertistics:

  • good luck charms
  • help in rituals
  • abstract/minimalistic
  • thin & angular “boyish”
  • marble
90
Q

JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN TIME PERIODS:

A

100-500 CE

91
Q
A

BULL JUMPING

AEGEAN PERIOD

MINOAN STYLE

3000-950 BCE

Characteristics:

  • fresco
  • Male-dark
  • Female-light
  • theme of bull=male power
  • whimsical
  • entertainment/ritual
93
Q
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LAOCOON & HIS SONS

GREEK PERIOD

HELLENISTIC STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • exaggerated muscles
  • intense facial expression
  • greater detail
  • contortion
  • strong angles
  • diamonism
  • tension
  • narrative
  • unstable
  • hierarchy of scale
  • greatly influenced by Micheoangelo
94
Q

synecritism:

A

taking traditional symbols and giving them new meanings

example:

grape=party and celebration in Roman period

grape=wine = blood of Christ

96
Q

Minoan style was centered around what area?

A

Island of Crete

98
Q

What does “terracotta” mean?

A

baked clay

100
Q

Island of Crete Characteristics:

A
  • mountainous in center
  • levels off near shore
  • vulnerable to earthuakes
  • playful arhietecture
  • palace complexes
  • frescos
102
Q

math figure often found in nature that embodies ideal beauty

A

Golden ratio

103
Q

West church (during Byzantine)

A

Catholic, Popes, clergy (celibate men)

105
Q

Apollo is the god of –?

A

Sun & Music

107
Q
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METOPE PANEL FROM PARTHENON

GREEK PERIOD

CLASSICAL STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Charactertistics:

  • battle between Greeks & Centuar
  • deep relief & emotion
  • Greeks are civilized conquering the uncivilized
108
Q

Etruscan Art Period:

A

700-509 BCE

109
Q

Had supports to hold up the statues that cannot stand alone

A

Roman copies

110
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CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

FRANCE

GOTHIC PERIOD

1140-1400 CE

Characteristics:

  • Rebuilt after a fire and building continued
  • Contains the widest nave in France
  • Bay—unit of measurement used to exemplify space between columns
  • Most stain glass used in world (all original)—symbolism to Jesus, intangible, warm, light
  • Complex labyrinth (ancient symbol for journey)
112
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SEATED HARP PLAYER

AEGEAN PERIOD

CYCLADIC STYLE

3000-950 BCE

Charactertistics:

  • marble
  • music important
  • ritual (maybe)
  • rhythm is used
  • negative space, curtouts
  • engraves
113
Q
A

SPEAR BEARER

by POLYKLEITOS

GREEK PERIOD

CLASSICAL STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Contrapostto
  • beauty, truth, & goodness through math proportions
  • Canon
115
Q

3 different orders:

A
  • Doric
  • Ionic
  • Corinthian
116
Q

Jewish place of worship:

117
Q

JEWISH & EARLY CHRISTIAN DATES:

117
Q
A

BAYEUX TAPESTRY

NORMANDY

ROMANESQUE PERIOD

1050-1200 CE

Characteristics:

  • Textiles, fabric art
  • Embroidery, linen
  • Harold decides to be be king, William disputes him before he is the first cousin (battle subject matter)
  • Men point up to Hayley’s comet (sign of doom)
  • Battle scenes)
  • Normands conquer Anglo-Saxons (1066)
  • Unifies Normany and England
117
Q
A

TREE OF JESSE

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL

GOTHIC PERIOD

1140-1400

Characteristics:
• Uses glass to teach things (bible, family history)
• Shows Christ heritage/lineage
• Goes all the way back to the old testament

118
Q

5 Pillars of Faith:

A
  • 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
119
Q
A

CATACOMB PAINTINGS

ROME

JEWISH AND EARLY CHRISTIAN PERIOD

100-500

Characteristics:

  • human body moves away from naturalism/realism
  • human soul matters, not physical
  • place to worship
121
Q
A

SHE-WOLF

ETRUSCAN PERIOD

ARCHAIC STYLE

700-509 BCE

Characteristics:

  • natualistic
  • alert mouth open
  • Remus & Romulus
  • ears up indicate danger
  • Bronze material
  • Lost-Wax
123
Q

Another word for the holy land?

A

promised land

125
Q

A city on a mountain

126
Q

Pilgrimage:

A

taking a journey to a sacred site, efforts to spread Christian faith

127
Q

Hebrews live in a land of ________.

128
Q

Byzantine Period time:

A

527-1453 CE

130
Q
A

EAST PEDIMENT OF THE PARTHENON

GREEK PERIOD

CLASSICAL STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Birth of Athena here
  • Zeus is her father
  • she literally came out his head full grown & armoured
131
Q
A

THE UNSWEPT FLOOR

ROMAN PERIOD

EMPIRICAL STYLE

509 BCE-395 CE

Characteristics:

  • mosaic preserved by volcanic ash
  • Trompe l’oeil–trick the eye
132
Q

Terracotta

A

Baked clay

133
Q

Most famous pilgrimage site:

134
Q

1st Christian Basilica:

A

Old Saint Peters

135
Q

Romanesque period dates:

136
Q

Describe a central-plan church:

A

tholos (rounded church or square) (greek cross design)

burial, baptist

137
Q

Islamic Period:

138
Q

Who was Muhammad?

A

• prophet/messenger who Allah spoke to & began Islamic faith
• born in Mecca
• Angel Gabriel spoke to him, one true god is Allah
• Fled to Madina—city of the prophet & where the word was written down
• Islam
o “to surrender to Allah”
• Jesus Christ is not the son of God

140
Q

Mosque

A

Muslim place of worship

141
Q
A

Corinthian Order

143
Q
A

LION GATE

CITADEL @ MYCENAE

AEGEAN PERIOD

MYCENAEAN STYLE

3000-950 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Inverted column
  • post & lintel
  • corbeled arch (progressively stacked, tapered in for triangular opening)
144
Q

Who is Parthenon?

A

Athena in virgin form

145
Q

Tempura

A

egg yolk binder whiich drys quickly, lasts long, permanent

147
Q

Greek materials vs Roman materials:

A

Greeks–Marble

Romans–Concrete

148
Q
A

THE FOUR TETRARCHS

ROMAN PERIOD

EMPIRICAL STYLE

509BCE- 395 CE

Characteristics:

  • Tetrarchs (4 sections division from empire)
  • remove from realism (no contrapossto)
  • unidentifyable (clone like)
  • no interest in depicting human body
  • symbolic back to Archaic style
149
Q

Corbeled Arch:

A

progressively stacked, tapered in for triangular opening

150
Q

What art work first used contraposstto?

A

KRITIAN BOY

GREEK PERIOD

CLASSICAL STYLE

1000-30 BCE

151
Q
A

TREASURY OF ATREUS

AEGEAN PERIOD

MYCENAEAN STYLE

3000-950 BCE

Characteristics:

  • post & lintel
  • Tholos– rounded conical building
  • beehive tomb
  • defensive
  • protect from dead
  • largest interior space until the Pantheon
153
Q

New subject matter of Helenistic period:

A

children, defeat, everyday life

154
Q

Where is Etruria?

A

Northen italy

155
Q

elevated (4-5 stories) narthex to east ~west flow

156
Q

Where did people secretly practice faith:

A

Homes & catacombs

157
Q
A

MOSIAC MIHRAB

ISLAMIC PERIOD

600-1600

Characteristics:

  • Made up of tiles
  • Repeating geometric foliage
  • Endless eternity mystery
  • United in prayer
  • Symmetry & balance
158
Q

Match the scripture with the religion:

A

Judaism(Hebrew)

Christianity (Bible)

Islam (Koran)

159
Q

Roman period dates:

A

509 BCE-395 CE

160
Q

Monotheistic religions:

A

Judaism

Islamic

Christianity

162
Q

Who were the first Greek speaking people?

163
Q

Proportion represented what in Ancient Greece?

A

mental intellectual & physical beauty

164
Q

Catacombs:

A

seires of underground tunnerls/chambers/vaults

used for burial; escpae

165
Q

Barrow Vault:

A

series of true arches in a row

166
Q

Trompe l’oeil

A

to trick the eye (used in The Unswept Floor)

167
Q

3 different order styles:

A

Doric

Ionic

Corinthian

168
Q

Islamic period dates:

170
Q
A

KRITIAN BOY

GREEK PERIOD

CLASSICAL STYLE

1000-30 BCE

Characteristics:

  • Uses contrapposto (weight shift)
170
Q
A

BASILICA OF MAXENTIUS AND CONSTANTINE

ROMAN PERIOD

EMPIRICAL STYLE

509 BCE- 395 CE

Characteristics:

  • Maxentius & Constantine fight in battle
  • Constantine wins, and he rules and rids of the tetrarch system
  • 1st ruler to become Christian, not Pagan
  • true arch, concrete
171
Q
A

SANCTUARY OF FORTUNA PRIMIGENIA

ROMAN PERIOD

ROMANTIC STYLE

509 BCE-395 CE

Characteristics:

  • building techniques: cement, “true arch”
  • archiads
  • cement is mixed with mortar and ash
173
Q

Qiblah wall does what?

A

o Directs one in the direction of Mecca

174
Q

Intuitive perspective & what piece uses it?

A

illusion of 3d space, no single vanishing point; City Scape, Pompeii, Roman Period, Empirical Style 509 bce-395 ce

175
Q

Church style characteristics:

A

plain on outside, decorative on inside

metaphorical: body plain, spirit inside

177
Q

2 theaters face each other creating oval shape

A

Amphitheater

178
Q

Muslim place of worship:

179
Q

Amphora Shape:

A

Greek storage vessel

180
Q
A

DOME OF THE ROCK

JERUSALEM

ISLAMIC PERIOD

600-1600

Characteristics:

  • Central planned Mosque, octagonal
  • Site for Pilgrimage
  • Not a traditional Mosque
  • Center is a rock , meant to distract Christians & Jews from own faith

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