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Altimira 15,000-10,000 bce |
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Cave paintings were probably related to trance like states
Animals painted on wall were not what they were eating |
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First form of writing Cuneiform writing
Sumarias (sp?) developed by
Made shapes in the clay with a stylus
Ushers us into history (pre history had to writing) |
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Statues from the Abu temple, Tell Asmar, Iraq, ca. 2700-2500 bce |
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Ancient sumaria (current middle eastern)
Probably statues that were placed in front of other statues of gods
Votie - figure dedicated to a god or goddess |
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Stele of Naram-sin, ca 2270 bce |
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Part of a stella, big tombstone rock, showing battle
Naram-sin is the bigger and head higher than everyone else
Telling the story of a battle
It's told in a unified field (one space) opposite of the Egyptians |
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Code of Hammurabi, ca. 1760 bce |
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He was also a ruler
Cuneiform writing
First written code of law, probably very harsh law
Hammurabi is "receiving the laws" from one of the gods |
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| Lion Hunt relief from the reign of Ashurbanipal, ca. 654 bce |
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The idea of king ship and power was associated with the lion
Main reason the relief showed him hunting and winning and killing lion, shows he is the supreme ruler of the world
He is even more powerful than the lion |
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| Palette of King Narmer, 3150-3125 bce |
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King who unified upper and lower Egypt
That's what the whole palette is about
Front: he is vanishing his enemies
In the different "registers" - as opposed to one space
On back:
Divided into four registers
Again, about unification of Egypt |
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| Sculpture of Khafra from Giza, 2500 bce |
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Giza:
Pharaoh had to be represented as a perfect part and young
Either sitting on throne or standing up straight
Out of respect, they are sculpted as perfect |
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| Sculpture of Seated Scribe, 2400 bce |
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Note how he is seated on the ground
Little fat around the middle
This is because he is not the king
Conventions for the showing of royal and not royal |
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| Three great pyramids are at Giza |
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Egyptians had very specific ideas about death
AN individual lived on in the same social status doing the same sort of job they did when they were alive
You need a Ka figure to live your afterlife
An idea of a "spirit" to us
Entity in charge of living in the afterlife |
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One really weird Pharaoh
Did his own thing and ejected a lot of the old beliefs of such as sculpting the Pharaoh
Shows his little pot belly
Really long face
He wanted to be depicted the way he looked
Ejecting the established canon (the standard way of doing things)
After he died, they went to the old way of doing things |
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| Figure from the Cyclades, ca. 2500 |
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The Cyclades - tiny sprinkled islands
Nothing written about the figure
Found hundreds and hundreds of them
Some kind of religious thing that was buried with them |
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| Reconstruction of the Palace Complex, Knossos, Crete |
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Palace Complex
Myth of the minotaur
Bull associated with the Maynoas |
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| Bull Jumping fresco, Knossos, ca. 1550-1450 bce |
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Bull Jumping
From the palace
Some kind of religious significance (more than likely that) |
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| Mask of Agamemmon, from a shaft grave in Circle A, Mycenae, ca. 1600-1500 bce |
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Gold mask laid on top of dead person
Really famous warrior
They were most influenced by the Egyptians |
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| Greek Funerary Krater, ca. 800 bce |
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During the geometric period
The figures look geometric |
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Archaic period - literally means really old
Type of figure most associated is the Kourous
Was of a votive figure
Or maybe an example of a young man who had died in battle or been successful athlete
They all have weird little smile(archaic smile)
It is most probably connected to transceldant kind of state |
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Female figure
They had clothes on |
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Guy name Kritios made it
An original marble statue
First figure who shows bent leg, straight leg - contrapposto
Probably around 13 or 14, you can see the braid around his head
When boys went through coming of age, they would cut off that hair and give it to the gods, so his hairstyle is how we know he is young |
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| Discus Thrower, ca. 450 bce |
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Classic period
Starts to show motion and action
Work is showing "extreme" movement |
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Really bronze
He is standing contrapposto |
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| Polykleitos, Doryphorus (Spear Bearer), ca. 450 |
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Sculptor also wrote a book about proportion y art
Example of perfect numerical proportion
Proportion equal beauty, beauty lead to divine
Contrapposto |
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| Polykleitos, Diadoumenos, ca. 530 bce |
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| The next one, contrapposto |
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| The Parthenon, 448-423 bce |
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Temple dedicated to Athena
In Athens, on big hill Acropolis
Just a shadow it's form self
Architect. Post lintel - lintel is the horizontal
Could only build that way, cus they didn't have concrete, only marble
So only right angles |
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| Parthenon, Metope, Battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs |
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The story is the lapiths, one is getting married, and they didn't invite the centuars. So the centuars crash the party, throw food, rape the woman, so the Lapiths have to subdued them.
Must maintain Order over Chaos - that the Greeks are stronger than chaos
Metopes are perfect squares - squares were hard to work with: how to make dynamic composition in a square |
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In Greek arch. There are two orders - They gave "personalities" to the orders
Doric - strong warrior
Ionic - poet
The Parthenon is part doric y ionic
Ionic - the freeze
Doric - the square pillars
Addressing the greatness of the Athenian people |
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| Parthenon, View of Frieze |
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Very elgated rectangle
The theme is a parade: the parade is "the panathenaic precession."
It was a big party, big deal, every forth year
People would make a dress for the statue of Athena |
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| Horsemen from west side of Parthenon frieze |
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Front door faced east
They started on the west, bottom ground
The two horse and riders fit exactly in the block |
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| Horsemen from east side of Parthenon frieze |
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People seated are various gods
We know they're gods, they're still bigger than other people
If they stood up, they wouldn't fit
Preparation for a human sacrifice
The youngest daughter of three is about to be sacrificed |
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| Three Goddesses (Hestia, Dione and Aphrodite), East Pediment, 438-432 bce |
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Triangular pediment
Was most difficult to figure to work with
They figured they could have people siting and reclining
Represents three goddess
Their clothing - drapery - we see the sculptor was able to make these dresses appear almost see through
A way of using drapery to reveal the body as opposed to hiding it |
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| Phideas, Athena Parthenos, 438 bce |
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Statues 35 feet tall, made of gold and ivory
It was stolen quickly
So it's a reconstruction
Goddess of Athena being shown as a warrior
Battle scenes on her hat and shields
Pedestal and on top, represents victory =nike
All about the idea of the power of the Greeks
The platform is the story of Pandora
The Greeks still get control over this
Tho it would come with great difficulty
"Life is a struggle." |
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