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intr to visual arts
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Art/Design
Undergraduate 2
10/01/2008

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Funerary vase

Geometic period

Layering for dimension, abstract body

            Grave marker

            Geometric?

 

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centaur and man

geometric period

cast bronze

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Kouros

Archaic period

Arciac style

            Grave marker (Kouros)

            Learn to carve sculpture from Egyptians

Light and energetic

 

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Peplos Kore

Archaic Period

peplos kore is the name of the dress

            Archaic smile, fake smile

 

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Doric Order

 Ionic Order: more elegant and thin, scrolls on top

 Corinthian order: longer and thinner, no scroll, has leaves

 

Archaic Period

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 Originally thought it was by Kritios

                   Less archaic, less of a smile and more realistic

              The goal is to be more and more realistic

Classical Period

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He was supposed to be the ideal, the perfect figure, became abstracted

Two identical ones

Classical Period

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Hollow cast bronze

No archaic grin, stance is natural

                      Made with a lost wax method, hollow cast

Classical Period

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Exaggerated muscles
Spear bearer (Doryphoros) by Polykleitos 450 B.C.E.
Done by Polykeitos! He was Greek
Roman copy after the original bronze
The Christians then took over and destroyed all ‘pagan’ art in middle ages
Also called the canon, it’s the ideal body
Contrapposto: against pose
Leaf means Vatican collection
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Spear Bearer

Classical Period

Done by Polykeitos! He was Greek

Roman copy after the original bronze

The Christians then took over and destroyed all ‘pagan’ art in middle ages

Also called the canon, it’s the ideal body

 Contrapposto: against pose

Leaf means Vatican collection

 

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Roman copy after the original

The repair in the baby’s arm is controversial because it’s restoration

Classical Period

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by  Phidias

Phidias: phidian style revived in the renaissance

Classical Period

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late Classical Period

Winged victory

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Parthenon 

Classical period

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Athena Parthenos  in the Parthenon

Phidias (flowly soft robes, the marble look different)

Classical period

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Leningrad Painter vase

Classical period

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Nike of Samothrace

winged victory

Hellenistic Period

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Hellenistic Period

Venus for Romans

more of a sexualization

 

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Hellenistic period

Dianisos follower

Never would be seen in sculpture, but possibly in pottery as a warning for morals

 

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Greeks had boxing matches

Never would have seen a sculpture like this in classical art, there would have been no weakness or vulnerability in art, classical was the ideal

Hellenistic

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Hellenistic Period

Laocoon: Trojan priest, tried to warn the citizens of troy that the Greeks were invading.

Roman

Implied motion art will have diagonal lines

The first century before Christ

When put back together, not accurate

 

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early ampitheater

hellenistic period

Built into a hillside

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Etruscan

Apollo 

 Etruscans carried on the Greek religion

 Made from mud and pottery material

Archaic Smile!

Greeks would never have shown him with clothing

Theorized to be on an Etruscan temple

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Sarcophagus  etruscan

Sarcophagus: made out of clay for the Etruscans

Archaic smile

Associated with their wives?

Abstraction of the figure

Gesturing of the figures

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etruscan
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Bronze (dancing) Warrior (a.k.a. Mars of Todi)   etruscan

Demonstrated movement

Hollow cast bronze, life size

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etruscan

necropolis

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etruscans

burial chamber

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Temple to Portunus    (Fortuna Virilis)     

Practical, no as concerned with tradition

No sculptures on it, more about enclosing space, rather then aesthetic

Engaged columns that are built into the wall

republican Roman

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temple of vesta

quick and cheap

Roman: Republic/an Period

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Roman: Republic/an Period

Head of a Roman 

The head of the family had a sculpture made exactly the same as they look

Lineage is important

Sin sara, sincere, without wax

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Portrait of a Roman General

Roman: Republic/an Period

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Roman: Early Empire

Built around a room a pool, open roof

Greeks styled columns

 

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Built under Augustus
Aqueducts
Bridge also still in use
Early empire Rome
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Builder Hadrian
Religious building
Coffering- ribbing the gets thinner???
Even when conquered it wasn’t destroyed because of it’s magnificence
early empire
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Waterproof concrete
early empire
romans like sports
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Roman: Early Empire

Frescos on walls of Homes (Pompeii)

Greek influenced, assumed

Typically garden scenes

Uses linear perspective

References Epic mythological stories, Portraits, Still life

Architecture: linear perspective again, illusionary space

 

 

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Roman: Early Empire

Frescos on walls of Homes (Pompeii)Greek influenced, assumed

Typically garden scenes

Uses linear perspective

References Epic mythological stories, Portraits, Still life

Architecture: linear perspective again, illusionary space

 
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Roman: Early Empire 

Frescos on walls of Homes (Pompeii)

Greek influenced, assumed

Typically garden scenes

Uses linear perspective

References Epic mythological stories

Portraits

Still life

Architecture: linear perspective again, illusionary space

 
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Roman: Early Empire

Augustus of Primaporta

During when Rome was trying to become an empire

Instrumentalist piece it was propaganda to let people know who was bringing them everything by being conquered by Rome

Always represented as if he was 20

They also had stone supports, reference to Eros, claim he was descendent of Aphrodite

 

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Roman: Early Empire

Ara Pacis

naturalistic tradition continued

propaganda/memorial

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Roman: Early Empire

Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius

One of the few bronzes that survive

powerful, no armor like egyptians

Actual pieceInaccurate proportions

 

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The style became the standard?

Roman: late empire

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Constantines arch 

Roman: late empire 

Taking tradition and making it bigger

(how were the figures different?) 

Not very realistic anymore, not 3

dimensional, flattened out and shortened

Interested in what it explained, not what it looked like

Using an iconic style?

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Late Rome 

Slightly abstracted, no wrinkles

He built everything to emphasize the power of the roman

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Christians believed in burying the body

References to Jewish traditions

Beginning to use symbols, how they communicated

Early Christen
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Jesus Representing a SheppardTaking symbols and imagery and putting new meaning to them
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To Romans, this was the God of the Sun, not Jesus

His head back halo represented a holy figure

Many overlaps of Romans and Christians

Early Christian
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central

San vitale

Middle ages Byzantine

 

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Central plan

An important aspect to architecture was light

Istanbul

Middle ages: Byzantine

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Symbolic compromise for Justinian and head of church

Used to identify Justinian as in power

Represents the tradition of Eucharist

early byzantine

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A powerful and influential woman

Simultaneous view, symbolic POV versus naturalistic

Middle Ages:  early Byzantine

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Interior of San Marco, venice

Was built as a church

Byzantine churches are more ornate on the inside

Built on the central plan

late byzatine

 

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Late Byzatine

horses came form “the Charioteer” (Greek)

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saint mary, Jesus, christian warrior saints

warriar saints represent triumpof of the church over paganism

Icon

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Oldest Islamic building

Central plan, dome makes it similar to Byzantine, except ornate outside

Shrine, not a gathering place

Islamic

Dome of the Rock : Moosque

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Calligraphy and arabesque design

Formalistic symbolistic

Islamic

Mihrab in Mosque

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Islamic
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Islamic
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Using symbols from other parts of the worldFibula has a picture of a fishNo open spaces, endless patterns

Value of the material it’s made of

Western early medvialFrankish
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Cloisonné- little strips of metal soldered onto a surface with glass and jewels in between

western early medieval
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Found at burial site of a wealthy person with various other objects

Complex and woven surface

Abstracted images of humans and animals

Similar to Mesopotamia’s bull lyre

western early medieval
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Cover page, first letter of a page of manuscript

Illuminated: paint made from semiprecious gems and gold

Same style of the metal work

The text were copied from scrolls

western early mediavel

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St Matthew of Charlemagne (c. 810 AD)
Charlemagne gathered all the original writing about the bible and created a standard for making the letters, so the was a standard so the books would have a precise way to copy
More realistic interpretation, shading
Reflection to roman and Greek 3 dimensional classical style
Western early medieval
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St Matthew of Reims France
early medival western
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Crucifixion with Angels
western early medieval
Use cloisonné and repousse
Book cover
The books were interpretation as each monastery copied them
western early medieval
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Cathedral of St. James, Santiago de Compostela Romanesque
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Saint etienne
local pilgrimage site
romanesque
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(full doors)
romanesque
Portal of Last Judgement St. Lazare (Autun, France) Gislebertus
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Romanesque
relicquary statue of saint faith
relics: bodies, parts of bodies and things owned by saints
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Bayeux Tapestry
romanesque
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Vision by Hildegarde of Bingen
Romanesque
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Liber Scivias by Hildegarde of Bingen

 romanesque

out of the style because it was a vision

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Gothic

choir at Saint Denis

 started competition to make bigger chruches

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Notre Dame Cathedral

Gothic

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Annunciation & Visitation Jam Figures from west portals of Reims

Gothic

Going back to Phidias style

Going from stiff to realistic, the fabric looks real

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Gothic

Saint denis

The idea that there should be beautiful things, emphasis on beautyNaturalistic

 

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Rose Windows & other stained glass

gothic

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The two pointed towers

Jamb statues, west portal       

     3 dimensional, but the fabric is not as believable       

     The faces are humanistic without expressionistic

The floating appearance

chartres cathedral

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