2. Focuses more on the IDEAL form
Skilled painters
Vase painting
Invented the nude in art
3. Vase paintings told
stories about
Gods, heroes and wars.
The earliest vase art was
referred to as
GEOMETRIC style
because of it’s uses of
geometric shape.
Black-figure olpe (wine vessel) by the Amasis
Painter, depiciting Herakles and Athena, circa
540 BC, Louvre.
4. Late Geometric pyxis, British Interior (tondo) of a red figure
Museum. kylix, depicting Herakles and
Athena, by Phoinix (potter) and
Douris (painter), circa 480-470
BC, Antikensammlungen Munich.
5. • Ideal form
• Focus on athletic and intellectual
strength
• No longer stiff or static
• Male nudes were more common
Discobolos (The Discus Thrower) by
Myron in the Museo Nazionale
Romano, Rome
7. Known primarily for temples and open air
theatres
Usually built on higher elevations
Division of style into three defined
orders, DORIC ORDER, IONIC
ORDER, and CORINTHIAN ORDER.
12. Had a high regard for Greek art, many
times the Romans would copy their work
or take original Greek pieces with them as
the conquered other areas.
Roman became less idealized &
intellectual and more secular & functional
This practical and innovative work
produced bridges, sewers, roads &
aqueducts.
13. Strong sense of
political presence.
Cuirass
Statue of
Marcus
Aurelius, L
ouvre
14. Columns and arches
50,000 capacity
144 ft tall, 4 stories
76 entrances plus 4
private entrances
15.
16. Luxury resort community buried under 18 ft
of ash from Mt Vesuvius
Simple items such as a loaf of bread were
found as well as complete villas.
Paintings & mosaics discovered
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/roman
s/pompeii_art_gallery.shtml
Discovered 1863, head and arms never found but hand/fingers were in 1950, commissioned for a naval victory
The oldest, simplest, and most massive of the three Greek orders is the Doric, which was applied to temples beginning in the 7th century B.C. As shown in Figure 2, columns are placed close together and are often without bases. Their shafts are sculpted with concave curves called flutes. The capitals are plain with a rounded section at the bottom, known as the echinus, and a square at the top, called the abacus. The entablature has a distinctive frieze decorated with vertical channels, or triglyphs. In between the triglyphs are spaces, called metopes, which were commonly sculpted with figures and ornamentation. The frieze is separated from the architrave by a narrow band called the regula. Together, these elements formed a rectangular structure surrounded by a double row of columns that conveyed a bold unity. The Doric order reached its pinnacle of perfection in the Parthenon. Temple to Athena
The next order to be developed by the Greeks was the Ionic (see Figure 3). It is called Ionic because it developed in the Ionian islands in the 6th century B.C. Roman historian Vitruvius compared this delicate order to a female form, in contrast to the stockier "male" Doric order.The Ionic was used for smaller buildings and interiors. It's easy to recognize because of the two scrolls, called volutes, on its capital. The volutes may have been based on nautilus shells or animal horns.Between the volutes is a curved section that is often carved with oval decorations known as egg and dart. Above the capital, the entablature is narrower than the Doric, with a frieze containing a continuous band of sculpture. One of the earliest and most striking examples of the Ionic order is the tiny Temple to Athena Nike at the entrance to the Athens Acropolis. It was designed and built by Callicrates from about 448-421 B.C.
The third order is the Corinthian, which wasn't used much by the Greeks. It is named after the city of Corinth, where sculptor Callimachus supposedly invented it by at the end of the 5th century B.C. after he spotted a goblet surrounded by leaves. As shown in Figure 4, the Corinthian is similar to the Ionic order in its base, column, and entablature, but its capital is far more ornate, carved with two tiers of curly acanthus leaves. The oldest known Corinthian column stands inside the 5th-century temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.
They would wear their art, and display art in their homes
Marcus Aurelius (April 26, 121 - March 17, 180) was the last of the five "good" emperors of Rome and a major Stoic philosopher.Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus (born Marcus AnniusVerus) reigned from from A.D. 161-180. As Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius followed Emperor Antoninus Pius (the husband of a paternal aunt of Marcus Aurelius) who had adopted Aurelius as heir. In 145, Marcus Aurelius married his cousin Faustina, the daughter of Antoninus Pius. Marcus Aurelius originally co-ruled with Lucius Aurelius Verus who commanded the eastern campaigns and died suddenly in 169.
Tarps that shielded fans from the elements, special coverings so people couldn’t fall