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CLASSICAL ART
TRADITIONS
Timeline
Western and
Classical Art
Tradition
No Written
Language
Sharp
Flint
Points
Ancient Art
Statue of Rameses II
Egyptian Art
Phidias
Polyclitus
Praxiteles
Lysippus
ARCHITECTURE
■ Architectures showed temples consisting of a
central shrine or room in an aisle surrounded by
rows and columns. These buildings were
designed in one of three architectural style or
orders; Doric, Ionic and Corinthian.
• THE GREATEST
MONUMENT OF GOLDEN
AGE (ATHENS, GREECE)
Architecture
Temple of Poseidon
Parthenon
(Paestum, Italy)
ROMAN ART
Painting
■ Fresco technique was used
in brightly colored
backgrounds.
■ animals, everyday life, still
life, mythological subjects,
portraits and landscapes
(main innovation of
Roman painting from
Greek painting).
Painting
■ Portray rituals, myths,
landscapes, still-life, and
scenes of daily activities.
■ Creates illusion “Aerial
perspective”
■ Ex. The grand hunt
– Antelope being
attacked
Sculpture
■ made of monumental terra-
cotta.
■ did not attempt to compete
with the free-standing Greek
works of history and
mythology
■ reliefs in the Great Roman
triumphal columns with
continuous narrative reliefs
around.
Sculpture
■ Realistic representation
of Images and figures.
■ Ex. The Capitoline Wolf
– Etruscan sculpture
associated with Roman
art.
– Romulus and Remus
Architecture
■ Maison Caree
– Romans modified The
Greek Temple form.
– Expanded the interior
chamber so that it
reached the outer
columns, and raised the
temple on a podium.
BYZANTINE ART
Characteristics
■ Patterned within rigid
tradition
■ Less individual expression
■ Style is sophisticated
■ Strong expression of
religiosity
Painting
■ styles which had been
invented in Greek and Rome
but this time for Christian
subjects.
■ By the 11th century, imposing
images which ornamented the
churches in large and small
forms.
Mosaic
■ Mosaics are implemented to
decorate it in the walls and
domes of churches.
Sculptures
■ Sculptures were religious,
everyday life scenes and
motifs from nature.
■ Animals were used as
symbols such as doves, deer,
and peafowl while some had
acrostic signs that contained
THE BARBERINI a great theological intent or
DIPTYCH significance.
Architecture
■ Byzantine’s
advancement in
developing the dome
created a new style in
global architecture.
HAGIA SOPHIA
(ISTANBUL)
■ Oculus
– The highest point in the
dome
Pantheon
Interior, Rome
■ A temple to all Gods in
128 A.D.
ROMANESQUE ART
Paintings
■traditions where
largely placed
mosaics on the walls
of the churches that
follow a strict
frontal pose
■ Christ in Majesty
Sculptures
■ pieces of reliquaries, altar
frontals, crucifixes and
devotional images.
■ Lightweight devotional
images were usually carried
during processions both
inside and outside the
churches.
Architecture
■ showed doorways of Romanesque
churches that were often grand
sculpted portals or door openings.
■ Wood or metal doors were
surrounded by elaborate stone
sculptures arranged in zones to fit
architectural elements.
■ Many castles were built during this
period but were greatly outnumbered
by the churches.
■ Groin-Vaulted Crypt of Worcester Cathedral
GOTHIC ART
paintings
■ illumination of
manuscript pages and
the paintings of
frescoes on the walls
■ in elegant and
Lady and the Unicorn sophisticated manner.
Tapestry
Paintings
■ depict popular legends
and love stories with
patterns l
■ Stained glass windows
were created to
transform the vast stone
Rose Window from the interiors with warm
North Trancsept colors to instruct
Sculptures
■ no longer lay closely against
the wall but begun to project
outward.
■ Figures were given their
own particular attitudes
instead of being set into
particular patterns but were
Resurrection of livelier and more realistic at
the same time.
Architecture
■ pointed arch which
enabled builders to
construct much higher
ceiling vaults and stone
vaulting hauled on a
network of stone ribs
which were supported by
piers and clustered
pillars.