MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN ART HISTORY MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN ART
MESOPOTAMIA
THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART MESOPOTAMIA’S GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHITECTURE: THE ARCH AND THE VAULT ALLOWED ARCHITECTS TO CONSTRUCT HIGH BUILDINGS. THE ARCH IS ABLE TO SUPPORT A LOT OF WEIGHT DISTRIBUTING THIS ALONG THE WHOLE BUILDING. ZIGGURAT: MESOPOTAMIAN BUILDING MADE OF ADOBE. THEY WERE PYRAMID-SHAPED TEMPLES WITH A SANCTUARY ON THE TOP.
THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHITECTURE: THE ISHTAR GATE, IN BABYLON. GLAZED CERAMICS DECORATED BUILDINGS. THEY SHOWED FLORAL AND ANIMAL MOTIVES, GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND SCENES OF WAR.
HISTORY 2. EGYPTIAN ART
EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE LINTEL EGYPTIAN ART USED LINTELS AND WAS BASED ON MONUMENTALISM (HUGE MONUMENTS). HORIZONTAL STONE SUPPORTED BY TWO PILLARS. EGYPTIAN TEMPLES SHOW HOW THEY WERE USED IN ARCHITECTURE
THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE TEMPLES HAD DIFFERENT PARTS. ONLY THE PHARAOHS AND THE PRIESTS COULD ENTER THE SANCTUARY AVENUE OF SPHINXES
EGYPTIAN TOMBS ALL THE TUMBS SHOWED PAINTINGS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE AND THE JUDGEMENT OF OSIRIS
EGYPTIAN TOMBS: paintings THIS PAINTING SHOWS THE GOD ANUBIS, GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD, MUMMIFYING A BODY. EGYPTIANS PRACTICED MUMMUFICATION TO PRESERVE THE BODIES FOR THEIR JOURNEY TO THE AFTERLIFE
GREEK ART MOTIF GREEK SCUPTURE PERIOD ARCHAIC PERIOD CLASSICAL PERIOD NAKED YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN (KORAI-KUROI) INESCRUTABLE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS CLASSICAL PERIOD (5th and 4th C. BC) STATUES OF SPORTMEN, GODS AND GODDESSES AGILITY AND MOVEMENT SERENE FACIAL EXPRESSION HELLENISTIC PERIOD MYTHOLOGICAL SCENES TWISTED AND EXAGGERATED MOVEMENT OF THE BODIES PERIOD MOTIF CHARACTERISTICS
GREEK ART 1. SCULPTURE The DORYPHOROS BY THE SCULPTOR Polykleitos shows the Greek CANON (Perfect body proportions): seven times the height of the head
GREEK ART 2. ARCHITECTURE THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE THREE ORDERS FOCUS ON THE COLUMN AND CAPITAL
ROMAN ART ARCHITECTURE ROMAN ARCHITECTURE USED BOTH THE ARCH AND THE VAULT / LINTELS AND COLUMNS
FORUM, the public square in cities. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AQUEDUCT, WHICH TRANSPORTED WATER TO CITIES FORUM, the public square in cities. PUBLIC BATHS (THERMAE)