Western Art History

Paper Code: 
VHA 123
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
12.00
Unit I: 

Egyptian Art: Introduction (Old, Middle And New)

Relief- Hierakonpolis, Pallate of king Narmer

The Great Pyramids, the Great Sphinx of Giza, and the smaller pyramids and tombs of Ancient Egypt, Temple of Hatshipsut

Portraitures

12.00
Unit II: 

Greek Art: Ancient Greek pottery: Geometric and Proto Geometric pottery

Archaic Period: Black figure and red figure vases

Sculptures (Kouros and Kore)

10.00
Unit III: 

Greek Art: Classical Period Architecture (Orders- Doric, Ionic and Corinthian)

Classical Period Sculpture Kritios Boy and Sculptor Policlitus

Classical Painting

10.00
Unit IV: 

Hellenistic Period: Sculptors Prexitilis, Scopas, Lyssipus

Sculptures Dying Gaul, Barberine Faun, Alter at Pergamum, Nike of Samothrace, Laocoon

16.00
Unit V: 

Roman Art: Architecture: (Temple of Fortuna Virilis, Temple of Sibyl, Sanctury of Fortuna

Primigenia, Colloseum)

Sculpture: (Portraits, Narrative Relief- Ara Pacis, Arch of Titus, Column of Trajan, Arch of Constantine

Painting

Early Christian Art: Mosaics and there contrast with Greco- Roman Painting (Good Shepherd mosaic, The parting of lot and Abraham mosaic),

Catacombs (Catacomb of SS. Pietro e Marcellino),  

Sculptures (Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus)

Illustration

References: 

Books:

 

  1. H.W. Janson, History of Art, Thames & Hudson, 1991 Revised reprint
  2. Werner Keller, The Etruscans, Albert L. Knopf, Inc., 1974
  3. Mario Moretti & Guglielmo Maetzke, The art of the Etruscans, Harry N. Abrams & Thames & Hudson, 1970
  4. Francesco Abbate (Ed.), Roman art, Octopus books, 1972
  5. Heinz Kahler, Rome & her Empire, Methuen Books, 1963
  6. Moses Haddas, Imperial Rome, Time-Life International, 1966
  7. Michael Vickers, The Roman world, Elsevier-Phaidon, 1977
  8. Trewin Copplestone, Pompeian Frescoes, Batchworth Press, 1961
  9. Rene Huyghe, Larousse Encyclopaedia of Byzantine and Medieval art, Paul Hamlyn, 1968 reprint Jean Lassus, The Early Christian and Byzantine world, Paul Hamlyn, 1966
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