2. OPEN MARKET PLACE AGORA FROM THE
GREEKS CAME THE THREE CLASSIC
ORDERS OF COLUMNS AND
ENTABLATURES
1.DORIC
2.IONIC
3.CORINTHIAN
3.
4. SCULPTURE
AMONG THE EARLIEST GREEK WORKS IN SCULPTURE
WERE INDIVIDUAL FIGURES, LIFE SIZE OR LARGER.
THEY WERE CARVED IN LIMESTONES OR MARBLE.
THE MOST POPULAR TYPE WAS A NUDE MALE
FIGURE, STANDING RIGIDLY ERECT WITH THE LEFT
FOOT ADVANCED.
6. FAMOUS LEADING GREEKS SCULPTORS,
AND THERE WORKS WERE:
1. MYRON OF ATHENS
2. PIDAS OF ATHENS
3. PRAXITELES
4. LYSIPPUS
7.
8. PICTORIAL ARTS
THE PICTORIAL ARTS OF THE GREEKS WERE
EXPRESSED IN VASE PAINTING, FRESCO AND
MOSAIC. MURALS ARE WALL PAINTINGS
WHICH ADORNED INTERIORS OF
BUILDINGS.
THE EARLY WORKS OF PAINTERS WERE
DECORATED WITH SIMPLE GEOMETRIC
DESIGNS.
10. PICTORIAL ARTS
• PAINTINGS, CERAMICS AND MINOR
ARTS. THE VASE AKING WAS WELL
DEVELOPED BY THE GREEKS.
• THE POLYCHROME CORINTHIAN VASE
7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C REFLECTED
ORIENTAL INFLUENCE.
12. ETRUSCAN ART
THE ETRUSCANS. THESE PEOPLE MIGRATED TO
CENTRAL ITALY.
WHAT IS KNOWN ABOUT THEIR ART IS BASED ON THE
STUDY OF THE CONTENTS OF THEIR BURIAL TOMBS.
THESE WERE MADE SEVERAL CHAMBERS LINKED
TOGETHER TO FORM SUBTERRANEAN APARTMENTS.
THE WALLS OF THE TOMBS WERE ADORNED WITH
FRESCOES DEPICTING GENRE SUBJECTS, ATHLETIC
EVENTS AND BANQUETING SCENE.
13.
14. WOOD AND TERRA COTTA
WERE THE PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED IN USED IN
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETRUSCAN TEMPLES. THE
PLANS WERE DERIVED FROM THE GREEK CELLS (THE
INNER) PART OF THE GREEK TEMPLE, WHICH HOUSE
THE DIETY
SCUPTURE WAS GENERALLY OF TWO TYPES:
1. TERRA COTA WORKS
2. BRONZE WORKS
16. ROMAN ART
ROMAN ART IS THE STYLE OF ARTISTIC
EXPRESSION THAT FLOURISHED IN ROME FROM
ABOUT 200 B.C
INTO THE 4TH CENTURY A.D ROMAN
ARCHITECTURE WAS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT
BECAUSE OF OF ITS BRILLANT CONTRIBUTION TO
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING AND DESIGN.
GREEK AND ETRUSCAN INFLUENCES WERE
EVIDENT IN THE ROMAN ART
17.
18. PAINTING
THOUSANDS OF FINE FRESCOES AND MOSAICS WERE
DISCOVERED IN THE ESCAVATION OF POMPEII AND
HERCULIMEUM, THE CITIES BURIED BY LAVA IN THE
ERUPTION OF MT. VERSUIVUS IN 79 A.D.
THESE ESCAVATIONS REVEALED TWO DIFFERENT MODES
OF REPRESENTATION
1. THE STYLE DERIVED FROM GREECE EMPHASIZES
MYTHOLOGICAL FIGURES.
2. THE OTHER STYLE CREATED ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE,
THE EFFECT OF VAST DEPTHS AND DISTANCE.
22. FRESCOES OF THIS TYPE PRODUCE THE
ILLUSION OF DISTANCE LANDSCAPE VISTAS
BY BLENDING LOW STONES. SOME
MASTERPIECE OF THE PERIOD WERE
1. THE ODYSSEY LANDDSCAPER, 50 B.C
2. A NAVAL BATTLE FIRST CENTURY A.D FROM
POMPEII
3. THREE GRACES AND THE ALDOBRANDI
MARRIAGE. THEY REFLECT THE CLASSICAL
TRADITION OF IDEAL FORMAL BEAUTY.
25. ARCHITECTURE
THE ROMAN IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE ARE:
1. ITS STRUCTURAL ENGENEERING PARTICULARLY IN
DEVELOPING CONCRETE REINFORCE BY EMBEDDED
BRICK ARCHES AND POWERFUL MATERIALS FOR
CREATING NEW VAULTS.
2. ENGINEERING DESIGN IN PLANNING CITIES IN
ORDERLY BLOCKS AND IN CREATING THE BALANCED
LAYOUT OF THE GREAT CIVIC CENTERS CALLED
FORUMS.
27. ROMAN ARCHITECTURE CHIEFLY CAME FROM
ETRUSCAN AND GREEK. ETRUSCAN
ARCHITECTURE CONTRIBUTED ITS USED OF
BOARD FLAT BRICKS AND COLORFUL TERRA
COTA ORNAMENT
THE ROMAN ADDED THE TRUSCAN ORDER OF
COLUMNS AND ENTABLATURES. THIS ORDER IS A
SIMPLIFIED VERSION OF THE DORIC AMD A
MORE ORNATE FORM OF THE CORINTHIAN.
28.
29. DURING THE FLAVIAN DYNASTY
(69-96 A.D), THE FAMOUS
COLOSSEUM WAS BUILT IN ROME.
IT SERVED AS A MODEL FOR LARGE
SPORTS ARENAS AS BULL RINGS
AND FOOTBALL BOWLS.
33. THEIR PORTRAITS REVEAL ETRUSCAN
INFLUENCE BECAUSE IT GREW PUT
ROMAN AMD ETRUSCAN ANCESTOR
WORSHIP. THERE WERE THE MOST
TYPICAL ROMAN ART. THEY REFLECT
REALISM, NATURALISM, AND
OSTENTATION OF ANCIENT LATIN.
34. THE FAMOUS ROSE OF COLUMNS IS AN
EXAMPLE OF A BEAUTIFULLY NATURALISTIC
RENDERING IN MARBLE OF DELICATE
BLOSSOMS, FRUITS AND TURING VINE.
