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SmARThistoryPrehistoric Art: 15,000-25,000 BCE
The caves at Lascaux, France
http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml
Venus of Willendorf
ca 25,000 BCE
exaggerated proportionsfertility?/ good crops?
•freedom of expression
•vitality
•life like
•materials from earth- used cave surfaces
•purpose? rituals for hunting? document of hunting expeditions? fertility rituals?
Ancient Art
•Egyptian
•Greek Roman
•Byzantine
•Early Christian
Ancient Egypt
•pyramids
•tomb art
circa 3000 BC - 1500 BC
pyramids at Giza- 2500 BC
descriptive perspective stylization
Queen Nefertiti, 1360 BC
compare views of women
Egypt
•tomb art and architecture
•geographic isolation allowed for consistent culture for thousands of years
•belief in afterlife stimulated growth in art
•descriptive perspective
•stylization of body position and proportion
Ancient Greek
circa 1600 BC-AD 0
vases
statuary
Aphrodite of Milos
•humans at center: humanistic culture
•rational, proportion, balance, unity
•human body is beautiful- idealized
•art flourished in all forms- architecture also followed ideals
Ancient Greek Art
Roman portrait sculpture
how different from Greek?
•Christianity!
•Rome to Constantinople 337 AD
•glass and gold mosaics
•stiff, stylized figures
Byzantine Art
Hagia Sophia532-537 AD