Western Art History (Theory)

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VHA 123
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This paper of Western art is the art of European Countries, and works created in the high art forms accepted by those countries. The art of Ancient Egypt represented the dominant high culture in the Mediterranean and exerted a strong influence on Minoan art. Egypt was a civilization with very strong traditions of architecture and sculpture (both originally painted in bright colours) also had many mural paintings in temples and buildings, and painted illustrations on papyrus manuscripts. Egyptian wall painting and decorative painting is often graphic, sometimes more symbolic than realistic. Around 1100 B.C., tribes from the north of Greece conquered Greece and the Greek art took a new direction. Ancient Greece had great painters, great sculptors, and great architects. Roman art was influenced by Greece and can in part be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek painting and sculpture, but was also strongly influenced by the more local Etruscan art of Italy. The other major influence upon Western art has been Christianity, the commissions of the Church, architectural, painterly and sculptural, providing the major source of work for artists. 

 

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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

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

Archaic Period: Black figure and red figure vases

Sculptures (Kouros and Kore)

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

Classical Period Sculpture Kritios Boy and Sculptor Policlitus

Classical Painting

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Hellenistic Period: Sculptors Prexitilis, Scopas, Lyssipus

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

 
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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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