2. Sculpture The oldest surviving art objects are sculptures made from bone, ivory, stone or antlers. They are engraved, carved in relief or three-dimensional

3. Venus of Willendorf

4. Easter Island Monoliths

5. The Dying Lioness

6. Cave Painting Most commonly images of bison, deer, horses, cattle and boars that are pierced with arrows Located in far recesses of caves, away from the sunlit entrances

7. Cave Painting at Lascaux, France

10. Egypt Sculpture and paintings followed a rigid formula for representing the human figure

11. Egypt Sculpture: Standing or seated with few projecting breakable parts Pose is always frontal & bisymmetrical with arms close to the torso

12. Egyptian Carving

13. Egyptian Carving (notice the size)

14. Egyptian Statues

15. Menkeur Triad

16. Egypt Paintings Rigid figures often with one leg advanced Size indicated rank

17. Tomb of Rameses

18. Book of the Dead

19. Greece Greek artists achieves a breakthrough in realistic trompe l’oeil effects. Their paintings were so lifelike that birds would peck at the murals of painted fruit.

20. Still Life with Glass Bowl of Fruit and Vase

21. Greece Vase Painting Earliest style was red clay with black forms Later style was a black base with a red form

22. Dionysus in a Sailboat

23. Dionysus in a Sailboat- Detail

24. Medias Name Vase

25. Medias Name Vase-Detail

26. Hercules Attacking a Centaur

27. Greece- Sculpture Contrapposto The weight of the body rested on one leg with rest of the body realigned accordingly Illusion of the figure in arrested motion

28. Contrapposto

29. Doryphoros by Polyskeitos

30. Discus Thrower

31. Aphrodite of Knidos

32. Greece- Architecture Greek Temples became the standard for much of our modern architecture Think of all the banks, museums and buildings that look like Greek temples

33. Parthenon

34. Temple of Poseidon

35. Greece- Architecture Column Types: Doric: less embellished Ionic: scroll-work top Corinthian: stylized leaves on top

36. Greek Column Types