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ESSAY Augustus from Primaporta 20 bce Roman Venus -propoganda to make augustus ceaser look good -contraposto and bare feet- adopted from greeks - gestures like the Aule Metele and standing liek doryphorous - eros on foot= god of love (cupid) and implies his godliness/divine kingship - his face is individualistic but he is portrayed almost as a never aging god - in armor to show his power as a general - realistic drapery/proportions - marble copy of a bronze statue - was most likely painted BREAST PLATE 1) upper left- sphinx 2)sun god sol 3) top center- Caelus= god of sky 4) Moon goddess luna 5) Parthians 6) Roman's accepting standard in victory over parthains 7) Apollo with eagle 8) diana 9) mother earth 10) cornucopia the whole breastplate suggests that he is divine and roman peace comes frmo them conquering others |
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Mother Earth 13-9 BCE Roman altar of peace |
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ESSAY Battle of Issos 1st century CE Roman Alexander and Darius -Based on a greek painting -Mosaic on floor - intense moment of battle - tree in background suggests landscape - made from naturally colored marble - patron was a rich person with a villa - youthful alexander on horse with no helmet - darius on chariot alexander is stabing someone -in medias res - defeat in darius's eyes -climactic moment - andropocentric (emphasis on humans) - pliny wrote in greek history |
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Column of Trajan 112 CE Roman Dacian Wars |
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ESSAY Pantheon 118CE Roman Oculus - pan= everything -theon = place where gods meet -colonnade; 8 corinthian columns in front under a pediment - build on site of a previous structure - pediment from greek world - not original level, steps have been buried - 4 rows of columns - deep porch -podium - some aspects are taken from palace from etruscans - planetary god statues -jupiter in niche directly opposite front door - 1 entrance - front and back - dome placed on drum - forms a perfect sphere inside -love of proportion - hole in top= oculus to see stars - monocrhome exterior polychrome interior - originally an atrium out front - coffered ceilings - natural light through front door and oculus -architect unknown - a form of concrete - originally a large courtyard surrounded by a colonnade - on the site of an older building - |
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Arch of Constantine 315 CE Roman Christianity |
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ESSAY Story of Jonah 4th Century CE Early Christian catacombs - on a vault ceiling - center medalion is christ as a shepard carrying lamb with sheep - the center is most likely jesus - lenette: 4 scenes of jonah - in between them are figures that are praying - 4 corners are personifications of the four seasons - whale is composite creature of dog and dragon - funerary context= chapel tomb - painted on - jonah is thrown from his ship - jonah is swallowed by a whale and then escapes - jonah contemplates his salvation - relate it to christ as a teacher and christ as a good shepard |
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ESSAY Sarcophagus of Junis Bassus 359 CE christian pontius pilate -container made of marble - located in old st peters basillica - junis bassus hired the artist - converted to christianity - registers - enscription - subtle hierarchy (some figures larger than others) - center ones are most important - adam and eve at the time of their fall - jesus entry into jerusalem on donkey - arrest of peter and paul - jesus in heaven center top - jesus on earth center bottom - daniel in lions den - job on dung heap - jesus on donkey next to adam and eve - very deep relief pontius washes hands -jesus the teacher with scroll -mantle of heaven represented by guy with cloth over head in center panel |
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ESSAY Hagia Sophia 530 CE Byzantine Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorus of Miletus - Dome on pendentives (the pressure goes onto the four corners, not the walls) - double clerestory (two rows of windows - perforated windows - 4 exedra (indentations like apse but smaller) - gallery - inner and outer narthex (narthex is like a porch) - atrium (room/are with no roof) - half dome - large apse across from entrance - women would stand on gallery - follows a basilica plan AND central plan - monochrome/polychrome - |
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ESSAY Emperor Justinian and his Attendants byzantine 547CE Chi Rho - located in st. vitale's in the apse - byzantine stare - 6 soldiers - bishop maximus is to justinian's left, and his name is there. he is responsible for the completion of the church -the shield has the chi-ro monogram of christ on it - shows how justinian is in control of both church and state -halo suggesting he is holy - 3 statesmen - three priests - golden sky - almost floating - glass tesserae - mosaic |
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ESSAY Harbaville Triptych Byzantine 950 CE Deesis - small -ivory - heirarchy- hesus in throne - audience of one -frontality - hinged on either side - tall skinny proportions portable shrine. - five apostles on the and some on the sides jesus on top with john the baptist and theotokos - expensive wealthy patron -deesis: a representation of christ as a king with john the baptist and mary beside him -christ in limbo between entombment and resurrection - mandorla |
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David Composing the Psalms byzantine 950CE personification |
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ESSAY Dome of the Rock 691 CE Islamic Jerusalem -located on temple mount -poly chrome outside - large golden dome - eight sides - rotunda - double ambulatory, arcade, clerestory, and the holy rock - round arcade supporting drum - wooden dome - octagonal arcade - porcelain tiles - 30 ft high - mosaics -marble - arabic enscriptions from koran - muslims believe the rock is where muhammad ascended to heaven - outer and inner ambulatory (ambulatory is like aisles that go all the way around |
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ESSAY Purse cover from sutton hoo 7th century CE medieval ship burial - interlace -backwards domptng motif -large birds attacking gentle small birds -worn on special occasions - realitively small - gold, stones, bone or ivory -part of purse -polygons, circles - imprinted in earth - ship described in beowulf - enough coins to pay the rowers and two extra expensive ones to pay the oarsmen |
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St. Michael's of Hildesheim 1000 CE medieval crypt |
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god accusing adam and eve 1015 CE medieval doors of bernward |
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saint sernin 1100 CE romanesque pilgrimage |
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ESSAY Last Judgement from the autun cathedral 1130 CE Romanesque Gislebertus - in france -christ in center and largest inside a MANDORLA - angels around him - to his right (our left) there are blessed people in heaven with mary on top - on his left there are people in hell -tall slender proportions - st. michael weighing souls and demon tipping scales -inscriptions -bottom is people waiting to be judged - shoving sinners into boiling oil - mouth of hell - angel weighing of the souls -tempation of eve - suicide of judas |
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ESSAY Bayeux Tapestry 1070 CE romanesque battle of hastings - events leading up to the norman conquest of england - funeral of king edward - portion of battle - 3 historical bands - 1st band is either metaphorical, or decorative, or spilling over main band -skinny proportions - text identifies people - halley's commet, seen as a bad omen - 230 feet long - commissioned by a Norman, or possibly bishop - meant for others to see - it is embroidery - some missing parts of it - lower band pictures some of aesops fables, namely the FOX AND THE CROW - the fox and the crow represent david and william struggling and fighting each other for the thrown -continuous narrative - |
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ESSAY Chartes Cathedral 1145-1220 CE gothic radial symmtry -France -much in common with romanesque facades -royal portal = the large doors -large windows on front - the statues above the doorways are from left to right: christ's accension, the second comming , and christ in the lap of the virgin mary - christ accension is surrounded by zodiac signs - the second coming is surrounded by elders and apostles - in the third doorway, there are scenes from christ's childhood - the capitals around the doors have scenes from the lives of the virgin and christ - there are gothic jamb statues that line columns on the entrance to the church -mary was a popularized figure and featured many times -these statues are attached to the column, not part of it like caryatids - they are royal figures from the bible -labrinyth inside where u walk through the round thing - ambulatory around apse - apse has three little indents that are chapel areas - narthex in the middle - cruciform plan - one entrance in west - narthex after entrance - large rectangular nave - TRANSEPT in the middle cross part - in the middle is the crossing - inbetween crossing and apse is the choir |
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ESSAY Betrayal of Christ and Annunciation 1325 CE Gothic Jean Pucelle - codex - illumination - kiss of judas ( after last super, he kisses jesus) - book of hours - patron is queen of france - small scale - audience of one - donor figure - drolleries = light hearted amusing, but unimportant drawings - folio in a codex - made on vellum |
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ESSAY Nicola Pisano 1260 CE annunciation, nativity, shepherds and first bath of jesus Proto-renaissance - located on the pulpit - densely packed, similar to sarcophagus -continuous narrative of the life of jesus -fairly high relief - annunciation= gabriel and mary - batism in a chalace - marble -mary's head down like roman matron - slight heirarchy - good and bad mid wife |
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ESSAY Giotto 1305 CE proto-renaissance last judgment -jesus returns to earth as judge - dead rise from grave, regain flesh, - blessed in heaven -damned in hell - donor figure on bottom presenting a model of the church to the virgin mary - immoral people in hell with money crimes - judas suicide hanging from tree - second coming - jesus gestures toward blessed on right, left hand is turned down over damned - apostles shown -michael and raphael are in the middle looking down - christ with rainbow mandorla |
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Duccio Entry into jerusalem 1308 CE proto-renaissance |
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ESSAY Great Stupa 3rd century BCE east indian axis mundi - axis mundi is like the line through the earth that the universe revolves around -houses the buddha's relics - 50ft high - four gates at cardinal points - sourrounded by fence - walkway around base of dome - elphants and scenes from life of buddha - people often circle the dome when they make a pilgrimage here - circumambulation - commissioned by emperor - brick and sandstone - monocrhome - the gateways have reliefs from the life of buddha - carved inscriptions of donor's names - |
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Yakshi bracket figure 110 BCE east indian Torana |
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ESSAY Shiva as Lord of the dance 11th century hindu cycle of death and rebirth - ring of fire - dwarf represents ignorance - hand gives signal of peace - raising leg= desire to escape - cast in bronze - small - shiva holds a small drum and flame, and creates the universe to the beat of the drum - the small fire represents destruction - hair comes loose and spreads like wings - raised foot offering a place of protection - hand extending and telling people to come forward without fear - it is usually adorned with jewels and flowers and power and food is offered to it. - fire represents the continuous circle of life and death -fire in left hand is for destruction - this is shiva as the destructor |
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Temple of Borobudur 800 CE indonesian buddhist |
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Angkor Wat temple in moat 12th century CE cambodian |
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soldiers from qin mausoleum 210 BCE chinese first emperor of china |
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Lady Fend and the bear 4th century CE chinese Gu Kaizhi |
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Auspicious Cranes 1112CE chinese Huizong |
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Tale of Genji 12th century CE Japanese heian period |
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Priest Kuya Preaching 13th century CE japanese Kosho |
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ESSAY Avenue of the Dead 100-650 BCE Teotihuacan obsidian - center for commerce - 125,000 people at its peak - flat top terraces - stairs for ascent - ciudadela - suken plaza - 7 levels - stone cut monument - worshipped 2 gods - storm god = fertility for crops etc - feathered serpent - alternate wet and dry seasons - lots of artifacts made of obsidian -pyramid of the sun - pyramid of the moon - buried their dead in or around the temples - practiced human sacrifice - |
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Temple of the feathered serpent 200 CE teotihuacan ciudadela |
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Hummingbird 500 CE Nazca culture geoglyph |
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Tubular Pipe 500-1BCE Adena Mound builders |
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DRAWING Cahokia 1000-1300 CE mississippian culture woodhenge |
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Great Serpent mound 1070 CE mississippian culture archeo astronomy/ egg, eye, head |
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Pueblo Bonito 1000 CE ancestral puebloan culture chaco canyon |
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Great Enclosure 14th century zimbabwe Shona |
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ESSAY Waist pendant of a queen mother 1520 CE benin culture nigeria -commissioned by kings -ivory - worn on the belt of king -inlaid bronze piece - mother of king - miniture heads -aggrandize his realm -mudfish on her crown - references to their relation with the portugese - small - realistic -piercing stare - shows idia the mother of Esigie who was a great ruler - the mother helped in combat and built a new palace for her son - she is not idealized, but her crown and thing around her neck suggest her royalty and the mudfish offer a kind of divine kingship to her, since they are associated with holiness |