A slideshow connected to a lecture of Aegean Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Naraelle Hohensee.
THE ANCIENT GREEK ART
THE ANCIENT GREEK ART
Most influential cultures in the world.
Rich collection of myth, music, drama, and art.
Greek art started 3000 years ago.
GOLDEN AGES
ARCHAIC PERIOD
= EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ART
CLASSICAL PERIOD
= IDEALISTIC ART, FULL PERFECTION BOTH SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE.
THE HELLENIC ART
= TIME WHEN ARCHITECTURE
DECLINE
Five forms where Ancient Greek Arts Excelled
POTTERY
POTTERY
Primary for pottery.
Declaration became more figurative ( animals, human figures, and zoomorphs ).
Pottery was introduced by the corinthians.
ARCHITECTURE
DORIC COLUMN
Sturdy and plain.
Used in mainland Greece.
Temple of Hera
SCULPTURE
Influence by Egyptians and Syrians techniques.
Figures sculpted were mainly “Kouros and Kore”
PAINTING
Temples, buildings and tombs are decorated with fresco.
Fresco is a technique that we use of egg and wet plaster.
Tempera= mixture of egg, paint and water.
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
POTTERY
Established Athens as the strongest city – state.
Popularity of ceramic and vases declined both in quality and artistic merit.
Used white-ground technique.
ARCHITECTURE
Doric and Ionic Columns remained during classical period.
Doric is described as more formal.
Ionic is more decorative and relaxed.
SCULPTURE
Anatomy became more accurate.
Statues became more realistic (human).
Bronze became the main medium.
Contrapposto was introduced.
FAMOUS SCULPTORS
MYRONDiscus Thrower
Greatest sculptor of his time.
First to achieve life-like representation in figurative sculpture.
Gods, heroes and Athletes.
POLYKLEITOSDoryphorus
Sometimes called Elder.
Greatest sculptors of Classical Antiquity.
Known for his bronze sculptures.
CALLIMACHUSMuses
Poet, Critic and Scholar at the Library of Alexandria=largest library in ancient world.
Muses the nine goddesses of art.
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
Secular patrons influence sculpture and mosaic.
Wide range of pottery was produced.
But not given much importance.
SCULPTURE
CHARACTERISTICS
Naturalism was continually used.
Animals and ordinary people were accepted as major subject.
Although production of sculptures was increased, workmanship and creativity greatly suffered.
Greater expression characterized the sculptures of this period.
Colossus of Rhodes
The Three Graces
Borghese Gladiator
Venus De Milo
ARCHITECTURE
Temple of immense size
Theaters of similarly colossal
Storied colonel (stoa)
Public monument
Monumental tomb (mausoleum)
Council building (bouleuterion)
Processional gateway (propylon)
Stadium
Public square
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Greek Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Alexis Culotta.
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Aegean Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Naraelle Hohensee.
THE ANCIENT GREEK ART
THE ANCIENT GREEK ART
Most influential cultures in the world.
Rich collection of myth, music, drama, and art.
Greek art started 3000 years ago.
GOLDEN AGES
ARCHAIC PERIOD
= EGYPTIAN INFLUENCE ART
CLASSICAL PERIOD
= IDEALISTIC ART, FULL PERFECTION BOTH SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE.
THE HELLENIC ART
= TIME WHEN ARCHITECTURE
DECLINE
Five forms where Ancient Greek Arts Excelled
POTTERY
POTTERY
Primary for pottery.
Declaration became more figurative ( animals, human figures, and zoomorphs ).
Pottery was introduced by the corinthians.
ARCHITECTURE
DORIC COLUMN
Sturdy and plain.
Used in mainland Greece.
Temple of Hera
SCULPTURE
Influence by Egyptians and Syrians techniques.
Figures sculpted were mainly “Kouros and Kore”
PAINTING
Temples, buildings and tombs are decorated with fresco.
Fresco is a technique that we use of egg and wet plaster.
Tempera= mixture of egg, paint and water.
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
POTTERY
Established Athens as the strongest city – state.
Popularity of ceramic and vases declined both in quality and artistic merit.
Used white-ground technique.
ARCHITECTURE
Doric and Ionic Columns remained during classical period.
Doric is described as more formal.
Ionic is more decorative and relaxed.
SCULPTURE
Anatomy became more accurate.
Statues became more realistic (human).
Bronze became the main medium.
Contrapposto was introduced.
FAMOUS SCULPTORS
MYRONDiscus Thrower
Greatest sculptor of his time.
First to achieve life-like representation in figurative sculpture.
Gods, heroes and Athletes.
POLYKLEITOSDoryphorus
Sometimes called Elder.
Greatest sculptors of Classical Antiquity.
Known for his bronze sculptures.
CALLIMACHUSMuses
Poet, Critic and Scholar at the Library of Alexandria=largest library in ancient world.
Muses the nine goddesses of art.
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
Secular patrons influence sculpture and mosaic.
Wide range of pottery was produced.
But not given much importance.
SCULPTURE
CHARACTERISTICS
Naturalism was continually used.
Animals and ordinary people were accepted as major subject.
Although production of sculptures was increased, workmanship and creativity greatly suffered.
Greater expression characterized the sculptures of this period.
Colossus of Rhodes
The Three Graces
Borghese Gladiator
Venus De Milo
ARCHITECTURE
Temple of immense size
Theaters of similarly colossal
Storied colonel (stoa)
Public monument
Monumental tomb (mausoleum)
Council building (bouleuterion)
Processional gateway (propylon)
Stadium
Public square
A slideshow connected to a lecture of Greek Art available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Alexis Culotta.
The portraits presented in this book are selected exclusively from works
executed between the late Middle Ages and the seventeenth century. There
are good reasons for limiting study to this period, for it was then that
portraiture came into its own. It was this era that witnessed the revival and
genuine renewal of the individualised, "au vif" depiction of privileged or
highly esteemed persons, a genre largely neglected since Classical antiquity.
This week we look at the vast range of things that have been made by humans in various times and places, considering them by the uses to which they have been put.
AHTR Art and Cultural Heritage Looting and DestructionAHTR
A slideshow connected to a lecture on Art and Cultural Heritage Looting and Destruction available at Art History Teaching Resources (http://arthistoryteachingresources.org/), written by Rhonda Reymond.
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