1. SmARThistory
Prehistoric Art: 15,000-25,000 BCE

2. The caves at Lascaux, France

3. exaggerated proportions
Venus of Willendorf
ca 25,000 BCE
exaggerated proportions
fertility?/ good crops?

4. freedom of expression
vitality
life like
materials from earth- used cave surfaces
purpose? rituals for hunting? document of hunting expeditions? fertility rituals?

5. Ancient Art
Egyptian
Greek Roman
Byzantine
Early Christian

6. Ancient Egypt pyramids tomb art pyramids at Giza- 2500 BC
circa 3000 BC BC

7. descriptive perspective
stylization

9. Queen Nefertiti, 1360 BC

10. compare views of women

11. 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

12. Ancient Greek
circa 1600 BC-AD 0

13. vases

14. statuary

15. Aphrodite of Milos

16. 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

17. Roman portrait sculpture
how different from Greek?

18. Byzantine Art
Christianity!
Rome to Constantinople 337 AD
glass and gold mosaics
stiff, stylized figures

19. Hagia Sophia AD