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Art History Exam 1
Intro to Western Art & Architecture
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Undergraduate 4
09/24/2015

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Stonehenge

Period: Prehistoric (2600 BCE)

Location: Salisbury Plains, England

Artist: N/A

Materials: Stone (Sarsens and Bluestones)

 

neolithic revolution

for religious perposes only

religion turn towards the sky

**post and lintel structure

- worship Gaia (female god)

- moved large stones from 24 mi away

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Post and Lintel

- Simple method

- 8 feet is about the greatest length it can span

- stone: great compression, poor tension

- ex: stonehenge

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Mycenae

Period: prehistoric (1600 BCE-1100 BCE; height at 1250 BCE)

Artist: N/A

Location: city near Athens 

* Defensive city, capital, walled city on the mound

* walls have 20 ton stones

 

The Lion Gate 

* Corbel arch over post and lintel at gateway

Doorways: divide between life and death

* in defensive architecture, the weakest part

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Parthenon

Location: On the Acropolis in Athens

Period: Classical Greek

Artist: Phidias

-for Athena, goddess of wisdom

*oversees commerce and arts

-extremely sophisticated

- on the Acropolis, oversees agora & theater

Materials: Pentele Marble

*14 ft x 147 architrave blocks

*48 capitals 528 drum blocks = 723 blocks, 9 years for exterior

Order: combines ionic and doric elements

-inside: ionic frieze

-outside: doric columns 8x17 column footprint, close to the golden proportion

Curvature:

-columns lean in, entablature leans out, stylobate curved

-concern columns are thicker

-intercolumniation is not regular: closer near corners

- 1:5,000

Why?

1. Utility: Greece is an earthquake zone

2. Optical: look same distance away

3. Aesthetic: gives life & movement

-Had statue of Athena inside the cella (Chryselephantine)

-phideas sculpture on the east pediment

-Frieze: relief sculpture

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Propylaea

Period: Classical Greek

Artist: Mnesikles

Location: Gateway to the Acropolis, in Athens

Release --> Compression --> Release

Light --> dark --> light

Rough stone --> light stone

 

Connections: "gateways" such as the Lion's Gate in Mycenae

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Mask of Nefartiti

Period: 1345 BCE (18th dynasty)

Artist: Thutmose

Location: Egypt

Material: limestone

 

 

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Lasceaux cave

Period: prehistoric (25000 ~ 15000 BCE)

Artist: N/A

Location: France

Materials: Mineral Pigments on cave walls


cave paintings of animals

very end of cave: only representaion of human

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venus of willendorf
Period: Prehistoric (c. 25,000 BCE)

Material: Limestone

Location: Willendorf, Austria

Artist: N/A

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Temple of Athena Nike

Period: Classical Greek

Material: marble

Location: on the Acropolis, in Athens

Artist: Kallikrates 

Order: Ionic

 

*Parapet relief sculpture of Athena Nike taking off her sandals

*genre: when gods portrayed as doing everyday thigns

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Grave Stele of Hegesos

Period: Classical Greek

Material: Pentelic marble, relief sculpture

Artist: N/A

Location: Kerameikos, graveyard outside of Athens

 

-ceramic was the most common material for graves Hegesos is with her servant, going through a box of jewels in a very ordinary moment

- she's in the doorway between life and death 3/4 view of bodies, profile of head and chair

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Kouros male figure

Period: Archaic Greek

Material: typically marble

Artist: N/A

Location: across Greece

 

*Free standing, male, youth, nude

*some were temple watchers, or grave watchers, or for victory/ athletics

* block --> body

* 1:6 proportion

* iliac crest, shins, knee caps,face, fair, feet were problems

600-525 BCE: four sided body

 

Connection: 

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Kritios Boy

Period: 480 BCE - Late Archaic or Early Classical Greek

Artist: Krito

Material: Marble

Location: found on the Acropolis, in Athens

 

* first known to use Contrapposto

* More realistic rib cage, smile, balance of weight

Connection: Kouros, 

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Doryphoros

Period: Classical Greek

Artist: Polyclites

Location: many copies have been found, including in Pompeii

Material: Marble

 

*Captures youth on the verge of manhood

*Standing, yet moving

* was probably holding a spear

* Contrapposto 

 

Connection: Kouros, Kritios boy

 

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Riace bronzes

Period: Classical Greek

Material: bronze - great tensile strength

Location: found off coast of Riace

Artist: N/A

 

* Warriors or gods

* Contraposto

* One was probably wearing a helmet

 

Connection: Kouros, Kritios Boy, Doryphoros 

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Portunus

Period: 1st century BCE (Republican Rome)

Roman temple

Location: Rome, Forum Boarium

Artist: N/A

Order: Ionic

 

*portunus: god of the port

* located near primary market at the port of the river, very prominent

 

Comparison to Greek architecture:

*Not peripteral; columns engaged

* higher podium

* Approached from only one direction

*Within a closed precinct wall, unlike Greek temples that interacted with their environment

* Much less decorated; no sculpture in the frieze

* deep Pronaos

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colosseum

Period: 80 CE (Imperial Rome)

Location: Rome

Materials: Concrete and Stone

Artist: N/A

Column order: Doric bottom, ionic middle, corinthian top

 

* Oval amphitheater for public entertainment

* 37 degree angle for viewing

* sat 50,000 people

* you could go all day long and see games

* used to have statues under the arches (about 80)

* gola: ticketing area

* vomitorium: where poeple walk in/out of theater

fornix: arch in colusseum

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Pantheon


Period: 117-125 CE (Imperial Rome)

Location: Rome

Materials: granite columns, concrete dome, 

Column order: Corrinthian 

 

* Temple to all the gods

* centrally located

* single orientation and entrance

* 50 ft single shaft columns (18 total) from Egypt

* Geometry: like a child's drawing of a house

* perfect sphere inside (142 ft diameter)

* hole in the ceiling

* coffered dome

* Arch: 80 ft max span much larger than the parthenon

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Forum of Trajan

Period: 106-113 CE (Imperial Rome)

Location: Rome

Artist: Apollodorus 

 

*Contains: temple of the divine trajan, basilica ulpia, statue of trajan

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Augustus Prima Porta

Material: Marble

Period: Imperial Rome

Location: Prima Porta, in Villa Livia

Artist: N/A

 

*THE image that Augustus prefered

* kind of like Doryphoros - Contrapposto

* boy yet a man, movement, demanding attention

* wearing armor; special, emperor --> like Phidian drapery, but armor

* he's a citizen, barefoot--> simple but divine associations

* held up by cupid and a dolphin

* in Rome, hands were important for rhetoric

 

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Ara Pacis (Altar of Augustan Peace)

Period: 27bce-14 CE (Imperial Rome)

Material: Marble

Location: Rome

 

*Alter dedicated to Pax, Roman goddess of peace

*outdoor room without a roof

*alter inside the room where sacrifices took place

* relief sculpture on the outside

* Augustus is head of the priesthood

* great depth: 3-4 inch deep carving

* "genre-like": gestures from everyday life

* the entourage/ family, with children

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Arch of Titus

Period: 81 CE (imperial Rome)

Location: Rome

Material: Concrete; marble facade

Artist: N/A

 

* Built in triumph

* Awarded by the Roman senate

* Titus sacked Jerusalem and the temple

* arch with post and lintel references

* 2 reliefs of armies marching, carrying the spoils form the temple

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marcus aurelius on horse

Period: 180 CE (Imperial Rome)

Material: bronze (Great tensile strength)

Location: Rome

 

* preserved by christians because they thought that it was a statue of Constantine

* only emperors are shown on horses

* in the toga of a citizen

 

Connection: Similar to Augustus Prima Porta gestures

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Villa of Mysteries

Period: 79 CE (Imperial Rome)

Material: Fresco

Location: Near Pompeii

Artist: N/A

 

* has large wall paintings

* a priestly or religious place for rites

* corners are "activated" by figures interacting with characters on other walls

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Villa Livia

Location: Prima Porta (near Rome)

Material: House

Period: 79 CE? (Imperial Rome)

Artist: N/A

 

* Fresco of a garden

* Statue of Augustus found inside

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Basilica of St. Denis

 

Period: Gothic

Location: Paris, France

Artist: Abbot Suger

Materials: Stone, glass, 

 

*First Gothic Church

* Rib Vaulting

* Lines of thrust, brick infilling

* Columns do most of the structural support; walls have windows

* allows them to be built very high

 

Significance and Basic Concepts The choir of Abbot Suger was the first fully gothic structure. For Suger light functioned as a sign or bridge to the divine.
Patron Saint Saint-Denis, patron saint of the monarchy
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Notre Dame

Material: Ashlar, stained glass
Period: Gothic


has a lightness; stone like lace
* buttresses for from wall lets in light
* building turned inside out: very open, uninterrupted space inside and structure outside
* foundation of building is critical; buttresses begin underground

Significance and Basic Concepts Just as the kings appropriated visual symbols of the church, the church invoked symbols of kingship. The west facade incorporates sculptures of kings, referencing Old Testament kings and French kings.

The physical evidence suggests that the twelfth century builders used flying buttresses for both the nave and choir. If this is indeed so, then Notre-Dame demonstrates a leap in building technology.

Patron Saint: The Virgin Mary
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Chartres South Portal

Period: Gothic
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Chartres West Facade

Period: Gothic
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La Belle Veriere, Chartres

Period: Gothic
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Rose Window, Chartres

Period; Gothic
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myron discobolus

 

Period: Classical Greek

Material: Bronze, marble

Artist: Myron

Location: throughout Greece/rome 

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hermes and the infant dionysus

Period: late classical

Material: Marble

Artist: Praxiteles

Location: found in the temple of Hera, at Olympia

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aphrodite of knidos

Artist: Praxiteles

Location: Athens

Period: late classical

Material: Marble

 

*First female nude

*Contrapossto 

 

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mausoleum at halicarnassus


Location: Turkey

Period: Classical Greek

Material: Marble

Artist: N/A

 

monument / tomb for Mausolos's wife and sister

 

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Theater at Asklepios

Location: Epidaurus

Material: Limestone seats

Period: Classical greek

come here to talk to epidaurus (God of healing)

interact with nature

acoustaticly brilliant

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Pyramids

Material: Limestone
Period: 2500 BCE - 4th dynasty
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Acropolis

On the Acropolis:
the Parthenon, the Propylaia, the Erechtheion and the temple of Athena Nike
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East Pediment of the Parthenon

* 438-432 BCE

* c

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Zeus/ poseidon (Artemision Bronze)

???? from the sea
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Segovia Aqueduct

Roman Aqueducts: gravity flow of 1"/750' (1:9,000)
Rome: 11 aqueducts
longest: 56 miles
270 total miles

Arches: each side incapable of standing without the other: need keystone
*needs buttressing
*arches in sequence = multiple barrel vaults
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Assisi Fresco in Basillica of San Francisco

Assisi

Italian Early Renaissance

walls tells story of his life

naturalisitic

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Arena Chapel

Giotto (painted fresco)

Italian Early Renaissance

life of vergin mary

spectator inclusion

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Merode Alterpiece

Artist: Robert Campin

Period: Northern Early Renaissance

Location: Netherlands

Format: triptych (bc trinity)

Material: oil painting on panel (New medium in the north)

*Middle: virgin Mary being told she's going to have a baby

* takes place in Flemish house. painted in the vernacular

* visible symbolism

* candle snuffed out

* baby christ w the cross

* lily in the vase mary is a garden 1 pt perspective mouse trap is the devil

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jan van Eyck self portrait

period: Northern early resaissance

Material: Oil on panel

Location: Netherlands

Artist: self portrait

* self portrait with specificity, looking directly out

* similar to Roman republican busts

* says: I am a great artist

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arnolfini wedding

Artist: Jan ban Eyck
Period: Northern Early Renaissance
Location: Netherlands
Materials: Oil on Panel

*Wedding or betrothal
* important language of gesture
* dog = fidelity
* shoes off = holy place
* bed in background = reproduction
* 3 + 1 oranges = jesus trinity and god
mirror with 10 signs of passion
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Abbot suger chalice
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Parthenon Frieze 


* celebrates pan-athenaic procession (every 4 years)

* starts west and moves around both sides

* youths lead, adults and sacrifices follow

* relief sculpture

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Athena Nike adjusting Sandal (from parapet on temple of Athena Nike)

 

Period: Classical Greek

genrae: taken from everyday life

Artist: Kallikrates

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Kore from Chios

 

Period: Archaic Greek (C. 520 BCE)

Material: Marble

Artist: N/A

Location: Chios

 

*drapery, movement

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Arringatore (the Orator)

 

Material: Bronze

Period: Republican Rome / Hellenistic

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Apollo Belvedere 


Classical Greek / Helenisitic?

Contrapposto

Marble

 

greek statue made in Rome

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Lasceaux cave

Period: prehistoric (25000 ~ 15000 BCE)


cave paintings of animals

very end of cave: only representaion of human

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East Pediment of Parthenon

middle part blown up

story: birth of Athena from Zues's head

naturalistic representation of movement & action

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Relief Sculpture examples
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1) parthenon freize

2) Nike temple balastry

3) Stele of Hegesos

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Kore

female figure

Period: archaic greek

material: marble

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Trajan Column

Material: marble

Period: Imperial Rome

extended visual narrative of Trajan conquest of Daicians

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South facade of Chartres

side facing the city

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