Pre Historic Art Egyptian Roman and Greek Art

Pre. Historic Art: Egyptian, Roman, and Greek Art & Architecture

�Pre-Historic – art history begins �Mesopotamia – advent of bas-relief & pyramids �Egypt – tomb art/mummy art, immortality �Greece – ideal, beauty, technical perfection �Rome – ideal, busts, engineering BIG IDEAS:

Venus of Willendorf

Horses & Landscape

Bison and Landscape

Figures(hands)

Figures with weapons/tools

Bull & Landscape

Figures, tools, board, firepit

Clothed Figures

Egyptian – Tomb & Mummy Art

Limestone Motionless Impassive posses Front, “bisymmetrical” pose Intended to last forever (indicates permanence) *The size of mummy art indicated rank* Prince Rahotep and Wife Nofret

Black-headed dog – God of the underworld protecting spirits of the dead

Mummy Art

Perfect Science of Embalming -extract brains through nostrils with a hook -insides removed and preserved -body was stuffed/padded and swaddled in layers -placed into coffins or stone sarcophagus Head of Ramses II, Mummy

Ziggurat (reconstruction) -believed as dwellings for Gods, could be ornamented with King’s name Pyramids of Giza – Pharoh Khufu -pyramid for Pharoh, 3 wives, and nobles Mesopotamia - Pyramids

Louvre Pyramid How has this been ‘reinterpreted’ for current day? Who/what is being commemorated? Contemporary - Pyramids

Stonehenge – Almanac? Calendar?

Stonehenge 2950 BC VS Greek Architecture mid-400 s BC Early Post & Lintel System

�“Man in the measure of all things. ” ◦ Rational inquiry, intellectual, harmony, order, clarity, balance, geometry, perfection, folds/drapery, contrapposto GREEK ART & ARCHITECTURE

Greek Geometric

Greek Archaic

Greek Kouros

Greek Severe Style

Greek Classical

Greek Hellenistic

Greek Columns (Doric, Ionic) & Corinthian)

Greek Parthenon - Athena

�“Romans put their own spin on Greek art…” �The Romans were skilled in making: roads, bridges, sewers, aqueducts, baths (spa), busts, narrative relief sculpture, and arches ROMAN ART & ARCHITECTURE

Roman arches & vaulting

Political sculpture - Augustus

Gladiator Battles & Entertainment – Coloseum

Aqueducts

Entrance: Cave Canem Painting windows & landscape