Art History Mid Term
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The lion manGermany
Complex thinking creative imagination
Woman from willendorf
Austria
Fertility statue
• Stonehenge • Most complex from time period• Likely ceremonial purposes, stones
transported to location
Spotted Horses and Human Hands
Pech-Merle Cave
Use of negative space
12 votive figures
Square temple, Iraq
Images depicted to be gods
Followed conventions of Sumerian art
Head of a man (Akkadian ruler)Ninua, Iraq
Earliest known hollow cast sculpture using the lost wax casting process
Ishtar Gate and Throne Room WallSymbolic of Babylonian powerCrenellations are notched walls
Notches are caled crenels, built as military defense
King Tut Funeral Mask
• Made of gold• Built to honor dead• Shows beard, symbol
of power
Map of Ancient Egypt
Lower end near top because of how the nile flows (north to south)
Seated Scribe
Sculptors of Old Kingdom featured everyday people as well as royals, scribes had high status in society
Ti Watching a Hippo Hunt2450-2350 B.C.
Saqqara, Egypt (Lower)Old Kingdom
from his mastabapainted limestone relief
success in a hunt meant triumph over evil, success in life
hierarchy of scale with Tirepresents bounty, wealth and leisure
Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut
Structure not intended to be tomb (ruler made to be put to rest in the valley of the kings), positioned against high cliffs and oriented
towards the Great temple of Amun at Karnak, a few miles away from the nile
Represents authority, union of nature and architecture, and antiquity
Judgement of Hunefer Before Osiris
Illustration from a Book of the Dead, 19th Dynasty
Book of Dead supposed to help those in afterlife, no 2 books the same, contains a variety of spells,
Young Girl Gathering Saffron Crocus
Flowers
Good eye for detail in color selection and
surface detail, shows a typical seen of a young
girl “becoming” a woman
Knossos Interior-with fresco walls (restored)- Minoan columns- reconstruction resembles 19th century feeling, architectural bias- past manipulated to function in the present
Bull’s Head Rhyton
Common subject of Minoan art, No proof that bull was worshipped as a God
Berlin Kore
1st Archaic korai, believed to be a priestess or attendant, holds
a symbol of Persephone
demonstrates this change in clothing style.
Due to the unique preservation of this kore (thought to have been wrapped in a sheet of
lead) traces of paint have been found on the stone.
Kritos Boy
• Relaxed pose• Lifelike• Contrappasto (weight
shifted)
Aphrodite of Melos
• Classical styles• Heavier set• Shows beauty• Intricate detail of
fabric
CharioteerClassical
bronze, idealized youthcommemorated a victory by a drive
in the Pythian Games
Old Woman
It probably represents an aged courtesan on her way to a festival of
Dionysos, the god of wine.
Veneration of Dionysos was widespreadduring the Hellenistic period, and
ancient literary descriptions give an idea of the extraordinary processions and
festivals held in his honor. The flattened composition of the figure is typical of sculpture created in the late second century B.C. The original work may
have been dedicated in a sanctuary of Dionysos. The Roman copy could have
decorated a garden.
Reclining Couple on a sarcophagus
Made of terra cotta, evolved from earlier terra cotta cinerary
Husband and wife featured
Features earthly comforts for the dead
Pont du Gard, France
Carried water, aquaduct
Used flow of gravity
Conveys balance, proportions, rhythmic harmony of great work
of art, fits in with landscape
Pantheon
Rome
Designed and constructed during reign of Hadrian, empty space gives the feeling that one could rise upward and escape the spherical
hollow of the building to commune with the gods
Sophisticated design
609 AD Pope dedicated it to Saint Mary of the Martyrs, keeping it alive in the middle ages
Garden Vista Villa• Fresco• Rome• Peace, calm• Shows environment
Wall with Torah Niche
House-synagoguge, Syria. 244-245 AD
1st Dura-Europus synagogue
men and women shared hall, contained residents rooms
Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus
Junius Bassus was a high-ranking Roman official, who served in the Roman senate and held the office of "Praefectus Urbi" for
Rome, more or less what we would consider as the office of the Mayor. As a politician from a prominent family, upon his death, he would have had a memorial bust displayed in a prominent
public place, like in the Forum or along the Appian Way. Instead, his elaborately sculpted sarcophagus was his memorial, with
scenes depicting stories from both the New and Old Testaments....
The Good Shepherd
Significant changes in content and design, conception of Jesus has changed
Young adult, halo, imperial robes
Stylized elements of landscape