1. THE IBERIAN & ROMAN ART
IN SPAIN

2. THE IBERIAN ART

3. When
 “Second Iron Age”
 From V to III Century BC

4. • Different cultures…
CELT
S
NS
IBERIA GREEKS
PHOENICIANS
CARTAGINIANS

5. Funerary Monuments
(Pozo Moro en M.A.N.)

6. SCULPTURE
 Religious - funerary sculpture
 Sanctuaries

7. CARACHTERISTICS
 Polichrome sandstone
 From S.V to Roman conquest
 Mainly seated or standing females (Goddess? Priestess?)
 Familiar groups
 Males: heads or busts, warriors
 Bulls, lions & griffins

8. CARACHTERISTICS
Bulls, lions & griffins
For protection

9. CARACHTERISTICS
Bulls, lions & griffins

10. LADY OF CERRO DE LOS SANTOS
 II Century BC
 Priestess?
 Geometrical clothes
 Hieratism

11. LADY OF BAZA
 Policrome grey stone
 A hole for ashes at the right
side
 Small bird in one hand
(life after death?)

12.  Coiffure or hat with pearls
 Huge earings
 Various necklaces
 Greek influence
 IV Century BC

13. LADY OF ELCHE
 Polichrome sandstone
 IV Century BC
 Complex headdress
 Funerary statue? (has an
apperture in the rear for ashes)
 Strong Greek influence

14.  Maybe part of a seated statue?

15.  Maybe part of a seated statue?
56 cm

17. ROMAN ART

18. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
•Functionalism and Pragmatism
•Systematic use of arch and vault
•Monumental proportions
•Decorative art is associated to architecture
•Stone, brick or mortar of concrete

19. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
•Functionalism and Pragmatism
•Systematic use of arch and vault

20. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Functionalism and Pragmatism
Stone, brick or mortar of concrete

21. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
•Monumental proportions:
they express Greatness of Rome

22. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Decorative art is associated to architecture:
mosaics and frescoes

23. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Use of Greek orders -Ionic, Doric and
Corinthian
plus two new orders: Tuscan and Composed
Tuscan Doric Ionic Composed Corinthian

24. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
•Religious architecture
•Tombs
•Urban architecture
•Works of engineering
•Buildings for public spectacles
•Commemorative buildings

25. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
•Religious architecture

26. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Tombs

27. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Works of engineering
Acueduct of Segovia II c BC
the most artistic and
monumental engineering work
from Roman History.

28. •More than 15 kilometers
from Fuenfría Springs
•It’s 29 meters high

29. Granite stone- roughly carved and placed in a dry way (without mortar)

30. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Works of engineering

31. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE
Buildings for public spectacles

32. ROMAN SCULPTURE
•Marble and Bronze
•Realistic
•Portraits
•Reliefs decorating buildings

33. ROMAN SCULPTURE
•Marble
•Realistic
•Portrait

34. ROMAN SCULPTURE
•Marble
•Realistic
•Portraits

35. ROMAN MOSAICS
In their domestic architecture and in the places of worship.

36. ROMAN MOSAICS
2 main styles:
Opus tesselatum. Small cubes (1 cm) of different colors

37. ROMAN MOSAICS
2 main styles:
Opus vermiculatum. Smaller pieces (1-5 mm) to imitate the work of painters.