SmARThistory Prehistoric Art: 15,000-25,000 BCE
The caves at Lascaux, France http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml
exaggerated proportions Venus of Willendorf ca 25,000 BCE exaggerated proportions fertility?/ good crops?
freedom of expression vitality life like materials from earth- used cave surfaces purpose? rituals for hunting? document of hunting expeditions? fertility rituals?
Ancient Art Egyptian Greek Roman Byzantine Early Christian
Ancient Egypt pyramids tomb art pyramids at Giza- 2500 BC circa 3000 BC - 1500 BC
descriptive perspective stylization
Queen Nefertiti, 1360 BC
compare views of women
Egypt tomb art and architecture geographic isolation allowed for consistent culture for thousands of years belief in afterlife stimulated growth in art descriptive perspective stylization of body position and proportion
Ancient Greek circa 1600 BC-AD 0
vases
statuary
Aphrodite of Milos
Ancient Greek Art humans at center: humanistic culture rational, proportion, balance, unity human body is beautiful- idealized art flourished in all forms- architecture also followed ideals
Roman portrait sculpture how different from Greek?
Byzantine Art Christianity! Rome to Constantinople 337 AD glass and gold mosaics stiff, stylized figures
Hagia Sophia 532-537 AD