Prehistoric
 Classical
 Medieval
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Painting
 Sculpture
 Architechture
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Prehistoric period
Prehistoric period produced art works became
known after their discoveries. The anthropological
and archeological values of these works that were
showed of the lifestyle of primitive man. The highest
point of Greek culture particularly in Athens was
attained in this period. Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
were the great sources of thought of Western
civilization as science and philosophy started. It is the
Greek assertion and general Pericles that led Athens
to its most deluxe historical note in this period. The
wars between Athens and Spartans were never a
hindrance to make Athens a center of learning and
great civilization, where it marks scholarly identified its
legacy on all of us today.
 Prehistoric
period
An ancient Greek vase-painter and
potter who was active in Athens
between roughly 545 BC and 530 BC was
Exekias. He worked mainly in the blackfigure technique, which involved the
painting of scenes using a clay slip that
fired to black, with details created
through incision
 Prehistoric
period
The Book of the Dead regulate Egypt preoccupation with
death and immortality. It is a funerary text which described
the concept of ancient Egypt of the after life that direct
the dead about how-to pass- through complication in
death
The book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead
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Classical Period
The most famous of the Athenian temples dedicated to the goddess
Athena were the ones constructed by Iktinos, Kallikrates, and Phidias
the Parthenon, they symbolized the Athenian imperial power.
Having a single row of pillars on all sides and Doric columns
expanding around the perimeter of the entire structure.
The Parthenon
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Classical Period
The fifth-century B.C. there were two famous painters depicting
reality in ancient Greece, Zeuxis and Parrhasius. Each was at the
pinnacle of his abilities, no one knew how to choose between them.
They, however, decided to resolve the issue for once and for all, with
a “painting duel” held under strictly controlled conditions, so the
story goes. Zeuxis painted grapes so life-like that birds flew down to
peck at them.
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Classical Period
Parrhasius painted a curtain that is so real. But even such an artist as
Zeuxis was fooled by his rival Parrhasius: When Zeuxis tried to push
aside the cloth covering one of Parrhasius’s paintings the trompel’oeil fabric turned out to be the painting itself.
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Classical Period
In sculpture, the most prominent works of Praxiteles and Lysippos
had elongated shape to urge appearance with animated motion.
Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos depict an athlete wiping his body all over
with oil after a game. A striking S-curve frame on the Statue of
Hermes with the infant Dionysus of Prixiteles was remarkable, the
statue emoted human expressions as Hermes compelling an adoring
look at Dionysus
Hermes with
little Bacchus,
c. 350 B.C by
Praxiteles
Apoxyomenos,
Lysippos
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Classical Period
The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called
the Laocoön Group, has been one of the most
famous ancient sculptures, 50 B.C. by the
sculptors Agesandros, Athanadoras et Polydore.
Trajan’s column designed by Apollodorus in113
A.D. It honors the Roman emperor Trajan. Rising
100 feet and famous for its spiral bas relief which
narrates of Trajan’s victory in the Dacian wars.
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Medieval Period
The creators of many of the creation during
the Medieval Period remain unknown. It is in
the
Medieval
period
where
religion
dominated the artworks and creative
expression of civilization the context of the
subject, form and style were about
Christianity, the narrow-mindedness of the
church and the other ideologies as well as
Islam, which administered artistic output
grant Medieval art its illuminating quality.
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Medieval Period
The height of the literary achievements during
this period was illustrated by Dante Alighieri’s
Divina Commedia (“Divine Comedy”) which
depicted the journey of Dante through hell
and purgatory, next to heaven where he
joined his loved ones, the saints, and God.
Enclosed in this gigantic work is its parabolic
reference to diverse mythical and historical
individual and the values that the work
comments on.
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Medieval Period
Maurice de Sully initiated the construction of the Notre Dame
Cathedral. He is a bishop of Paris, who conceived the idea of
converting into a single building, on a larger scale, the ruins of
the two earlier basilicas.
Gothic Cathedral in Paris:
The Notre Dame
“In
linking Art to an era, we work with our
framework of logical thinking that
connects man-made progress with the
economics of his place and time. To
experience history is to encounter art.”
Before we begin, I want you to search from the internet pictures
of various artists in different periods and name their famous
works.
I’ll give you three minutes for this activity.
To understand how art developed correspondingly with
the times and places, we associate the artwork that was
produced at certain times and places.
Art history is the study of objects of art considered within
their time, and art historians analyze the meaning of
visual arts (painting, sculpture, architecture) at the time
they were created.
Art history doesn’t consist of simply listing all the art
movements and placing them on a timeline. Also, art
history’s mission is to establish authorial origins of
artworks, i.e. discovering who created a particular
artwork, when, and for what reason.
The development of nations from small
communities’ progresses through a series
of economic order. Art thus becomes the
illustration of traditions and history of
certain times and places.
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