2. Lamasu. Human-headed
winged bull facing. Bas-relief
from King Sargon II's palace at
Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now
Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716
BCE.
3. Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions, Dying Lioness, Nimrud (c. 850
BCE)
• Relief sculpture
• Animals show emotion, humans none
• Ruthless rendering of lions
• Chaotic arrangement of lions
• Organized arrangement of humans
• Humans as stoic and severe
5. Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir al-Bahrri c1490-1460 bce
“The Place of the Northern Monastery”
6. Monotheism with the sole god
Aten – a radical change in religious
worship and practice
Radical change in sculptural
representation
Also causes major economic
changes
Capital city moved from Thebes to
Armana
10. Late Classical Art
4th Century BC
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos
• First nude woman in Greek art
• Very popular in its own time, people
came from far and wide to see it
• Placed in a round temple surrounded by
columns: effect of sneaking a peek at
her
• Not openly erotic
• Female sexual power suggested
• Genitals lacking
• Steps into a bath
• One side of her has an open form, the
other closed
• S curve
• Gentle dreamy quality
11. Hellenistic Sculpture
Nike of Samothrace
• Nike alighting on a boat
• Water cascading on boulders
• Commemorated a naval victory in 191
BC
• Twist of torso
• Drama
• Monumental
• Fountain creates the illusion of rushing
waves
• Missing right arm might have once
raised crown to naval victor
• Wet drapery flowing around legs and
sticking to the body
• To be seen from several angles
23. The Good Shepherd
Galla Placidia, Ravena
c. 425-26
•Contains shading to indicate depth & light source
•Hint of landscape and rocks
•Young, beardless adult with a halo – based on Apollo model
•Imperial gold and purple- assimilation of Imperial Status
•Long golden staff that ends with a cross – adaptation of Imperial Staff
27. The Night Journey of Muhammad on His
Steed, Buraq; leaf from a copy of the
Bustan of Sacdi, dated 1514. From
Bukhara, Uzbekistan. In The
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
28. St. Matthew, the Coronation St. Matthewthe Ebbo Gospels, c. 816
Gospels, c. 800
31. Early Medieval Art
Sutton Hoo Purse Lid
• Geometric interlace
designs
• Symmetry of forms
• Animals and humans
interact
• Repetition of patterns
• Used as a purse cover for
a disintegrated purse
found in a ship burial in
England
Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo ship
burial, c. 655
43. In the Room of Nine (Room of Peace)
“Where this holy virtue (Justice) rules, she induces the many souls of the citizens to unity, and
they…make common good their lord.”
44.
45. The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna
Cenami; 1434 (130 Kb); Oil on wood, 81.8 x 59.7
cm (32 1/4 x 23 1/2 in); National Gallery, London
52. Alberti, Sant’Andrea, Mantua
1472
•Patron: Ludovico Gonzaga
•Original Church housed a
vial containing blood of
Christ
•Idea of an “Etruscan
Temple” with a basilica
model plan
•Façade derived from
Roman triumphal arches
55. Italian Quattrocento Sculpture
Donatello, Saint Mark
• Commissioned by the Guild of
Linen Weavers and
Peddlers, suggested by pillow
at base and ample drapery
• Although in a Gothic niche, the
statue is free standing
• Contrapposto based on Roman
art
• Drapery falls directly down
• Easy posture
• Face has piercing eyes
• Calculated how the sculpture
would look from street level
