History of Western Art: Ancient art history

1. Introduction to Art History/Prehistoric Art
Course Teacher: Prof. Erick
2018/05/31
History of Western Art: Ancient
to Medieval

2. WHAT IS ART ?

14. 1. THE HUMAN FORM

15. 1. THE HUMAN FORM

16. 1. THE HUMAN FORM
Portrait of a Boy, Roman period,
2nd century

17. 1. THE HUMAN FORM
outer coffin of henettawy,
1040-991 B.C

18. 1. THE HUMAN FORM
bowman and deer,
10,000-9,000 B.C

19. 2. THE NATURAL WORLD

20. 2. THE NATURAL WORLD

21. 2. THE NATURAL WORLD

22. 2. THE NATURAL WORLD

23. 2. THE NATURAL WORLD

24. 3. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

25. 3. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

26. 3. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

27. 3. THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

28. Stonehenge

29. Notre-Dame de Paris

30. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

31. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

32. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
a. Physical Evidence: material used for a statue or painting—bronze,
plastic, or oil-based pigment.

33. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
a. Physical Evidence: material used for a statue or painting—bronze,
plastic, or oil-based pigment.
b. Documentary Evidence: can help pinpoint the date of an object or
building when a dated written document mentions the work.

34. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
a. Physical Evidence: material used for a statue or painting—bronze,
plastic, or oil-based pigment.
b. Documentary Evidence: can help pinpoint the date of an object or
building when a dated written document mentions the work.
c. Internal Evidence can play a significant role in dating an art-work. A
painter might have depicted an identifiable person or a kind of
hairstyle, clothing, or furniture fashionable only at a certain.

35. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
a. Physical Evidence: material used for a statue or painting—bronze,
plastic, or oil-based pigment.
b. Documentary Evidence: can help pinpoint the date of an object or
building when a dated written document mentions the work.
c. Internal Evidence can play a significant role in dating an art-work. A
painter might have depicted an identifiable person or a kind of
hairstyle, clothing, or furniture fashionable only at a certain.
d. Stylistic Evidence is also very important. The analysis of style—an
artist’s distinctive manner of producing an object. Unfortunately,
because it is a subjective assessment, stylistic evidence is by far the
most unreliable chronological criterion.

36. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

37. The Questions Art Historians Ask
2. What is its style?
a. Period Style refers to the characteristic artistic manner of a specific
time, usually within a distinct culture, such as “Archaic Greek” or
“Late Byzantine.”

38. The Questions Art Historians Ask
2. What is its style?
a. Period Style refers to the characteristic artistic manner of a specific
time, usually within a distinct culture, such as “Archaic Greek” or
“Late Byzantine.”
b. Regional Style is the term art historians use to describe variations in
style tied to geography. Like an object’s date, its provenance, or place
of origin, can significantly determine its character.

39. The Questions Art Historians Ask
2. What is its style?
a. Period Style refers to the characteristic artistic manner of a specific
time, usually within a distinct culture, such as “Archaic Greek” or
“Late Byzantine.”
b. Regional Style is the term art historians use to describe variations in
style tied to geography. Like an object’s date, its provenance, or place
of origin, can significantly determine its character.

40. The Questions Art Historians Ask
2. What is its style?
a. Period Style refers to the characteristic artistic manner of a specific
time, usually within a distinct culture, such as “Archaic Greek” or
“Late Byzantine.”
b. Regional Style is the term art historians use to describe variations in
style tied to geography. Like an object’s date, its provenance, or place
of origin, can significantly determine its character.
c. Personal Style the distinctive manner of individual artists or
architects, often decisively explains stylistic discrepancies among
monuments of the same time and place.

41. The Questions Art Historians Ask
2. What is its style?

42. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

43. The Questions Art Historians Ask
3. What is its subject?
Religious, historical, mythological, genre (daily life), landscape (a depiction
of a place), still life (an arrangement of inanimate objects),

44. The Questions Art Historians Ask
3. What is its subject?
Religious, historical, mythological, genre (daily life), landscape (a depiction
of a place), still life (an arrangement of inanimate objects),
Iconography—literally, the “writing of images”—refers both to the
content, or subject of an artwork, and to the study of content in art.
Throughout the history of art, artists have used personifications—
abstract ideas codified in human form.

45. The Questions Art Historians Ask
3. What is its subject?
Religious, historical, mythological, genre (daily life), landscape (a depiction
of a place), still life (an arrangement of inanimate objects),
Iconography—literally, the “writing of images”—refers both to the
content, or subject of an artwork, and to the study of content in art.
Throughout the history of art, artists have used personifications—
abstract ideas codified in human form.

46. The Questions Art Historians Ask
3. What is its subject?
Religious, historical, mythological, genre (daily life), landscape (a depiction
of a place), still life (an arrangement of inanimate objects),
Iconography—literally, the “writing of images”—refers both to the
content, or subject of an artwork, and to the study of content in art.
Throughout the history of art, artists have used personifications—
abstract ideas codified in human form.

47. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

48. The Questions Art Historians Ask
4. Who made it ?
Today, in the history of art countless works exist whose artists remain
unknown. Because personal style can play a large role in determining the
character of an artwork, art historians often try to attribute anonymous
works to known artists.

49. The Questions Art Historians Ask
1. How old is it?
2. What is its style?
3. What is its subject?
4. Who made it ?
5. Who paid for it ?

50. The Questions Art Historians Ask
4. Who paid for it ?
Many Egyptian pharaohs and some Roman emperors, for example,
insisted that artists depict them with unlined faces and perfect youthful
bodies no matter how old they were when portrayed. In these cases, the
state employed the sculptors and painters, and the artists had no choice
but to depict their patrons in the officially approved manner.

51. The Questions Art Historians Ask
Augustus demanded
that artists always
represent him as a
young, godlike head of
state.
4. Who paid for it ?

52. Questions & Discussions
1. Describe the four disciplines of art in your own words
as discussed today.
2. Which picture attracts you the most? Describe your
views about it.

53. THANK YOU
ENJOY WESTERN art
HISTORY 