Analyzing Art by Historical Period Classical Art Forms
Analyzing Art by Historical Period
Classical Art • Forms of Art: sculpture, painted pottery, murals, and mosaics • Purpose: To show off important leaders and goddess
Characteristics of Classical Art • Figures looked idealized (perfect) • Bodies look active and are often nude or draped in togas • Faces are calm, without emotion • Little background or sense of perspective
Classical Marble Sculpture Bathing Venus Roman artist
Classical Grave Stele of Hegeso A Marble Sculpture 400 B. C. E.
Medieval Art • Forms of Art: stained glass windows, sculptures, illustrated manuscripts, paintings, or tapestries • Purpose: to teach religion to people who cannot read or write
Characteristics of Medieval Art • Subjects mostly religious • Figures look flat with little real-looking movement • Important figures are larger than others • Fully-clothed, wearing stiff-looking clothes • Faces are solemn, with little emotion • Backgrounds a single color, often golden
Medieval Cimabue Madonna and Child in Majesty 1280 C. E.
Renaissance Art • Forms of Art: Sculpture, murals, drawings, and paintings • Purpose: To show the importance of people and nature, not just religion
Characteristics of Renaissance Art • • Both religious and nonreligious scenes Figures look idealized and perfect Bodies look active and moving Bodies may be nude or fully clothed Real people doing real tasks in daily life Faces express emotions Colors respond to the light Deep backgrounds with perspective
Renaissance Filippo Lippi’s Madonna and Child with Two Angels 1406 C. E.
Renaissance Titian Venus and Adonis 1550 C. E.
Sandro Botticelli
Medieval Period Bayeux Tapestry 1082 C. E.
Renaissance Michelangelo Pieta 1475 C. E.
The School at Athens by Raphael
The School at Athens, with lines to show perspective
Names of Last Supper (from left to right) • 1 Bartholomaeus 2 Jacobus II 3 Andreas Bartholomew James II (meaning: James son of Alphaeus) Andrew • 4 Judas 5 Petrus 6 Joannes Judas (meaning Judas Iscariot) Peter John • Jesus Christus • 7 Thomas 8 Jacobus I 9 Philipus Thomas James I (meaning: James son of Zebedee) Philip • 10 Matthaeus 11 Thaddaeus Matthew Thaddeus (a. k. a. , Judas not Iscariot or Judas the son of James) Simon (a. k. a. , Simon the Zealot, the Zealots being a political movement) 12 Simon Jesus Christ
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