Here is a comparison of two sculptures from different eras:
Name of Sculpture 1: The Discobulus
Period/Era: Classical Greek
Materials used: Marble
Name of Sculpture 2: The Portonacio Sarcophagus
Period/Era: Roman
Materials used: Marble
The Discobulus uses curved, organic lines to depict the athlete's muscular form twisting into a throw. The lines create a sense of tension and movement. The sculpture's shapes are rounded and asymmetrical, following the contours of the human body. Texture is implied through realistic anatomical details. It has a distinctive naturalistic style characteristic of classical Greek sculpture in capturing a moment in time.
Western Classical art traditions
had different styles, different characteristics and functions of the
arts occurred but all of those contributed in the development and establishing
the importance of arts in our lives today.
Paintings from Ancient Egypt
Paintings from Classical Greek Era
Paintings from the Roman Era
Byzantine Paintings
Romanesque Paintings
Paintings from the Gothic Era
Western Classical art traditions
had different styles, different characteristics and functions of the
arts occurred but all of those contributed in the development and establishing
the importance of arts in our lives today.
Paintings from Ancient Egypt
Paintings from Classical Greek Era
Paintings from the Roman Era
Byzantine Paintings
Romanesque Paintings
Paintings from the Gothic Era
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2. PREHISTORIC ERA
Pre-historic includes all human
existence before the emergence of
writing. Their art is of interest not
only to the art historians but also
to archeologist and
anthropologist, for whom the art is
only one clue- along with fossils,
pollens and other finds to an
understanding of early human life
and culture.
5. CAVE OF LASCAUX, 15000-
10000 B.C. – STONE AGE
The dominant features in the painting
were large animals native in the region. It was
discovered on 12 September 1940 and given
statutory historic monument protection. The
painting has nearly 2,000 figures composed
mainly of animals, human figures and abstract
design. Some sections have been identified
inside the cave such as: The Great Hall of the
Bulls, The Lateral Passage, The Shaft of the
Dead man, The Chamber of Engravings, The
Painted Gallery, and the Chamber of Felines
7. O The purpose of Egyptian paintings is to make
the deceased afterlife place pleasant. With this
in mind, themes include journey to the
underworld introducing the deceased to the
gods of the under world by their protective
deities.
O It emphasizes the importance of life after
death and the preservation of the knowledge of
the past.
O Most paintings were highly stylize, symbolic,
and shows profile view of an animal or a
person. The main colors used were red, black,
blue , gold and green taken derived from
mineral pigments that can withstand strong
sunlight without fading.
8. Paintings from Sarcophagus
of Tutankhamen
XVIII dynasty, 1362 A.D.- 1253 BC (Images from
Treasures of the World, 1961 CCP Library
9. OThe paintings of the walls on the tomb shows
events of the life of the king while he was still
on earth and the scenes he expects to
encounter in the underworld after his death.
11. Paintings during
were
classical era
commonly found
tomb.
the
most
in vases,
It depicts
panels and
natural figures dynamic
compositions. of the
subjects were
with
Most
battle
mythological figures,
scenes,
and
everyday scenes. It reveals a
grasp of linear perspective and
naturalist representation.
12. MOST COMMON METHODS
OF GREEK PAINTING
OFresco- method of painting water-based
pigments on a freshly applied plaster usually
on a wall surfaces. Colors are made with
grind powder pigments in pure water, dry and
set with a plaster to become a permanent
part of the wall. Ideal for murals, durable and
has a matte style.
OEncaustic– developed to use by Greek ship
builders, who used the hot wax to fill the
cracks of the ship. Soon pigments (colors)
was added and used to paint a wax hull.
14. Kerch Style also referred to as Kerch
Vases are red-figured pottery named after
the place where it was found.
Shapes commonly found are:
1. pelike (wine container)
2. lekanis (a low bowl with two horizontal
handles and a low broad foot)
3. lebes gamikos (with high handles and
lid use to carry bridal bath)
4. krater (bowl use for mixing wine and
water)
15. Most common motifs were
mostly scenes from the life of
women (often exaggeratedly
idyllic), mythological beings that
were popular among the people of
the black sea, or a scene form
mythical story or event. It used a
technique called polychromy,
combination of different colors
specially the brilliant one in an
artistic manner.
18. TOMB / WALL PAINTING
Tomb or wall painting was
very popular during the classical
period. It uses the method frescos
either tempera (water-base) or
encaustic (wax). It has a sharp,
flatly outlined style of painting and
it uses water-based
very few samples
because
materials,
survived.
19. The image was painted using a true fresco
technique with a limestone mortar. It depicts a
symposium scene on the wall.
20. In tomb paintings, artists rely
on the shade and hues of paint
to create depth and life-like
feeling.
21. PAINTINGS FROM THE
ROMANTIC ERA
O Most of the paintings in this era were copied or
imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco
technique was used in brightly colored backgrounds;
division of the wall into a multiple rectangular areas
(tic-tac-toe design); multipoint perspective; and a
tropme-l’-oeil effect.
O Roman paintings have a wide variety of subjects,
animals, everyday life, still life, mythological
subjects, portraits and landscapes.
O The development of landscape painting is the main
innovation of Roman painting from Greek painting.
22. MOSAIC
OIt is an art process where an
image is created
assemblage of small
using an
pieces of
colored glass, stones, or other
materials.
OThis technique use for decorative
art or interior decorations.
23. O The full image is a Roman
floor mosaic in the House of
Fun Pompeii, dated 100
B.C.The whole mosaic
depicts the battle between
the armies of Alexander the
Great and Darius III of
Persia.
24. O This fresco painting
was believed to depict
ceremonial rites, either
marriage or an initiation
of a woman in a
mystery cult.
27. OThe lively styles of paintings which had
been invented in Greek and Rome lived
on in Byzantium but this time for Christian
subjects.
OBy the 11th century, the Greek and
Oriental styles seem to blend together in
magnificent, imposing images, which
adorned the churches in large and small
forms.
Byzantine Painting
28.
29. Theodora was an
Asian Queen with
dark eyes and hair
with fierce
expression;
(Images from
Treasures of the
World, 1961 CCP
Library)
31. O These are largely placed mosaics on the
walls of the churches that follows a strict
frontal pose.
O It has a remarkable variety of artistic
traditions such as modeling and treatment of
faces and draperies that follow Byzantine
convention while the refreshingly decorative
feeling comes from southern French styles.
It also shows traces of Mozarabic influence
(Arabize influence) through elongated oval
faces, large staring eyes and long noses,
figures against flat colored bands and heavy
outlining.
33. OChrist wears a greyish, white robe with a
blue mantle. Underneath the Mandorla
(Italian word for Almond, in painting, it is
used to described an enclosure surrounding
holy figures) is a black band with white
writing. Each side of the center window are
three arches resting on columns of capitals
in green, red and black in between of
figures of Virgin Mary and five saints are
columns with wavy line patterns going
vertically. This mural painting has been
moved to Barcelona and replaced by a
replica.
35. OPaintings have been confined in the
illumination of manuscript pages and
the painting of frescoes on the walls of
churches in cosmopolitan style,
elegant, mannered and sophisticated
36.
37. OSubjects usually depicts popular
legends and love stories, patterns like
“mille fleur” or thousand flowers show
influence which may have been due to
the Crusade
38. Rose window
from the North
transcept, about
1230
Image from
Treasures of the
World, 1961 CCP
Library
39. OStained glass windows were
created to transform the vast
stone interiors with warm and
glowing color and at the same
time to instruct Christians in
their faith.
40. The Shepherd
David, 13th
century, Gothic
manuscript
illustration
Image from
Treasures of the
World, 1961 CCP
Library
The paintings
show some
realistic details
and shows
naïve
naturalism.
47. OSymbolic elements were widely
used such as forms, hieroglyphics,
relative size, location, materials,
color, actions and gestures. Their
tombs required the most extensive
used of sculpture.
OThe most common materials used
for sculptures are wood, ivory and
stones.
48. OSymbolisms were heavily used to represent
the gods. They were represented as
composite creature with animal heads on
human bodies
O Relief compositions were arranged in
horizontal lines to record an event or
represent an action.
OMost of the time the gods were shown larger
than humans, the kings larger than their
followers, the dead larger than the living.
OEmpty space were filled with figures or
hieroglyphics
OAll individual components were all brought to
the plane of representation and laid out like
writing
Characteristics of the sculptures:
49.
50. The Pharoah
Menkaure and his
Queen, stone 4th
Dynasty, 2548 - 2530
B.C.E
An example of
portraits presented
in rigid postures ,
and were simple and
powerful with very
little show of private
emotion
52. GREEK
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and stiff,
their bodies were hidden within enfolding
robes.After three centuries of experiments,
Greek sculptures had finally evolved and
showed all the points of human anatomy and
proportion.
OOne of the most popular styles of the greek
sculptures was the Hellenistic style.
Hellenistic denotes a preference in sculpture
for more elaborated patterns, mannered
arrangement of figures and groups, and an
emphasis on the representation of movement
for dramatic effects.
53. OMyron; The
Discobulus, 450 BC
Image from Treasures
of the World, 1961
CCP Library
OShows an attitude of
maximum tension, full
of compressed
energy, and about to
explode an action.
54. OMost Roman sculptures are made of
monumental terra-cotta. They did
not attempt to compete with the free
standing Greek works of history or
mythology but rather they produced
reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal
columns with continuous narrative
reliefs around.
Roman
Sculptures
55. The Portonacio
Sarcophagus
between 180-190
BCE Museum
Nationale Romano
Image from
Treasures of the
World, 1961 CCP
- Used for the burial of Roman GenerL
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in
ra
vr
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y
lved in the
campaign of Marcus Aurellius
- - The best known and most elaborate of all
“sarcophagus”(It is a boxliked funeral receptacle for a dead
body. Comes from a Greek word “sarx” meaning flesh and
“phagein” meaning “to eat”)
- - It depicts battle scenes between Romans and Germans
- - Carved in marble
56.
57. o The dominant themes in Byzantine
sculptures are religious, everyday life
scenes, and motifs from nature.
o Animals were used as symbols (dove, deer,
peafowl) while some had acrostic signs
(form of writing in which taking the first
letter; syllable or word of different lines and
putting them together it can be read a
message) that contained a great theological
significance.
BYZANTINE
SCULPTURES
58.
59. o Some of the famous sculptural pieces are
reliquaries, altar frontals, crucifixes, and
devotional images. Small individual works of
art were generally made of costly materials
for royal and aristocratic patrons. These
lightweight devotional images were usually
carried in the processions both inside and
outside the churches.
ROMANESQUE
SCULPTURES
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Name of Sculpture
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Materials used
The use of elements of arts in
the sculpture (lines, shape, color,
texture)
The distinctive characteristic of
the sculpture.