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PreHistoric Art: Egyptian, Roman, and Greek Art & Architecture 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: Venus of Willendorf Horses & Landscape Bison and Landscape Figures(hands) Figures with weapons/tools Bull & Landscape Figures, tools, board, firepit Clothed Figures Egyptian – Tomb & Mummy Art 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 Black-headed dog – God of the underworld protecting spirits of the dead Mummy Art 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 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 Louvre Pyramid How has this been ‘reinterpreted’ for current day? Who/what is being commemorated? Contemporary - Pyramids Stonehenge – Almanac? Calendar? Stonehenge 2950 BC VS Greek Architecture mid-400s BC Early Post & Lintel System “Man in the measure of all things.” ◦ Rational inquiry, intellectual, harmony, order, clarity, balance, geometry, perfection, folds/drapery, contrapposto GREEK ART & ARCHITECTURE Greek Geometric Greek Archaic Greek Kouros Greek Severe Style Greek Classical Greek Hellenistic Greek Columns (Doric, Ionic) & Corinthian) Greek Parthenon - Athena “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 Roman arches & vaulting Political sculpture - Augustus Gladiator Battles & Entertainment – Coloseum Aqueducts Entrance: Cave Canem Painting windows & landscape
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