Western Art History (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24VHA123
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to develop an understanding of the historical origins of Western art history and analyze, interpret and evaluate the form and content of works of Western artists.

Course Outcomes: 

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24VHA123

 

 

Western Art History (Theory)

 

 

CO13: Explain different periods and styles of Egyptian Art, considering reliefs, pyramids, The Great Sphinx of Giza, and Pyramids, Tombs, Temple and Portraitures.

CO14: Specify archaic period of Greek Art and determine its development from the Geometric and Proto Geometric periods, Black figure and red figure vases Kouros and Kore sculptures.

CO15:  Discuss and appraise the distinctive features of classical Greek architecture, painting, sculpture Kritios Boy and Sculptor Policlitus.

CO16: Develop comprehensive understanding of Hellenistic sculptors and sculptures.

CO17:  Summarise and appraise Roman architecture, sculpture, painting and dicsuss early Christian Art mosaics, Illustration, sculptures. catacombs.

CO18: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration of writing and visualizing.

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving writing tasks.

Continuous Assessment Test, Semester end examination, Quiz, Solving Problems in Tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual And Group Projects      

 

COURSE CONTENT:

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.

15.00
Unit I: 
Egyptian Art

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

15.00
Unit II: 
Greek Art: Archaic Period

Greek Art: Ancient Greek pottery: Geometric and Proto Geometric pottery              Archaic Period: Black figure and red figure vases                                                            Sculptures (Kouros and Kore)

15.00
Unit III: 
Greek Art: Classical Period

Greek Art: Classical Period Architecture (Orders- Doric, Ionic and Corinthian)        Classical Period Sculpture Kritios Boy and Sculptor Policlitus, Classical Painting    

15.00
Unit IV: 
Greek Art: Hellenistic Period

Hellenistic Period: Sculptors Prexitilis, Scopas, Lyssipus                                    Sculptures Dying Gaul, Barberine Faun, Alter at Pergamum, Nike of Samothrace, Laocoon

15.00
Unit V: 
Roman Art and Early Christian Art

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

Essential Readings: 
  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

Suggested Reading:

  1. TrewinCopplestone, Pompeian Frescoes, Batchworth Press, 1961
  2. Rene Huyghe, Larousse Encyclopaedia of Byzantine and Medieval art, Paul Hamlyn, 1968 reprint
  3. Jean Lassus, The Early Christian and Byzantine world, Paul Hamlyn, 1966
  4. Art: A World History: Elke Linda Buchholz, Susanne Kaeppele
  5. Janson’s History of Art: The Penelope J.E. Davies, Walter B. Denny Western Tradition.
  6. The Story of Art: Gombrich, E.H
References: 

E-Resources:

  1. https://archive.org/details/the-history-of-art-janson/page/70/mode/2up
  2. https://www.theartstory.org/
  3. https://www.khanacademy.org/
  4. https://www.jstor.org/
  5. https://archive.org/details/history-of-art-janson/page/n5/mode/2up
  6. https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/early-christian-art/beginners-guide-early-christian-art/a/early-christian-art

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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