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1 Egyptian, Roman, and Greek Art & Architecture
PreHistoric Art: Egyptian, Roman, and Greek Art & Architecture

2 BIG IDEAS: 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:

3 Venus of Willendorf

4 Horses & Landscape

5 Bison and Landscape

6 Figures(hands)

7 Figures with weapons/tools

8 Bull & Landscape

9 Figures, tools, board, firepit

10 Clothed Figures

11 Egyptian – Tomb & Mummy Art

12 Prince Rahotep and Wife Nofret
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

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

14 Mummy Art

15 Head of Ramses II, Mummy 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

16 Mesopotamia - Pyramids
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

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

18 Stonehenge – Almanac? Calendar?

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

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

21 Greek Geometric

22 Greek Archaic

23 Greek Kouros

24 Greek Severe Style

25 Greek Classical

26 Greek Hellenistic

27 Greek Columns (Doric, Ionic) & Corinthian)

28 Greek Parthenon - Athena

29 ROMAN ART & ARCHITECTURE
“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

30 Roman arches & vaulting

31 Political sculpture - Augustus

32 Gladiator Battles & Entertainment – Coloseum

33 Aqueducts

34 Painting windows & landscape
Entrance: Cave Canem  Painting windows & landscape

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