3. Lamasu. Human-headed
winged bull facing. Bas-relief
from King Sargon II's palace at
Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now
Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716
BCE.
4. Assyrian Art
Lamassu
• Guardian figure protects
entrances into palaces
• Combination man and animals
• Winged, hoofed
• Has five legs: two if you look from
the front, four as you look from
the side
14. 447 B.C. – 438 B.C. Classical Period
Iktinos and Kallikrates – architects
Pheidias - Sculptor
15. Hellenistic Sculpture
Laocoön and His Sons
• Negative space
• Many viewpoints, eyes wander
everywhere
• Laocoön trying to tell the Trojans
that the Greek horse was booby-
trapped
• Strangling of figures by snakes
sent by the gods to silence them
• Deep cutting into stone to create
shadows
• Extreme musculature
• Agonizing expressions
• Figure to the right added later
26. Dionysiac Mystery Frieze
•Fresco, Foreshortening
•2nd Pompeian Style painting
•Large figures in a frieze-like format
•Initiation rites into the female cult of
Dionysos
•Figures act out mystery rites
•Painted marble panels at bottom, from the
First Pompeian style of painting
•Bright Pompeian red background pushes
figures forward
•No linear perspective, but three dimensional
illusionism
•Figures interact with each other on adjacent
wall spaces
Villa of the Mysteries
27.
28. Ixion Room
•Fresco, linear perspective, atmospheric
perspective
•Foreshortening
•Ixion murdered his father-in-law and planned
to seduce Hera
•Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt and
ordered him to be tied to a wheel in hell
•Scheme of red and white fields
•On bottom painted to resemble marble slabs
•On top, architectural vistas that do not align
to a single viewpoint
•Thin delicate motifs alternate with framed
mythological scenes
