bab greece rome
TRANSCRIPT
Ancient Art
MesopotamiaGreeceRome
Mesopotamia• Sumerians• Akadian• Hittites• Babylon• Assyrians• Neo Babylon• Persians
Characteristics• Political influence• Religion• Mud• Divided in architecture
and figurative art
White Temple and ziggurat, Uruk (Modern Warka), Iraq, ca. 3200-3000 BCE
Home of Gilgamesh
Reconstruction Drawing
SUMERIANS believed gods reside above the world of humans= elevated structures toward sky
Sumerian Art: simple forms (cones and cylinders), oversized eyes and tiny hands are disproportionate, open-eyed stare symbolizes the eternal wakefulness necessary to fulfill their duty
Akkadian Art
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin(2254-2218 BCE)/commemorates Naram-Sin’s defeat of Lullubi people/king stands alone, hierarchy of scale, he is scaling the ladder to the heavens/horned helmet symbolizes divinity- first time king appears as a god in Mesopotamian art/composite view of figures/no registers/first landscape since Catal Hoyuk
Detail of Victory stele of Naram-Sin
Stele: A carved stone slab used to mark graves or to commemorate historical events.
Lion Gate, Boghazkoy, Turkey, ca. 1400 BCE. Limestone, lions approx. 7’ high
Hittite : built walls and towers around citadel for protection out of heavy stone, lions are guardian beasts located at the gateway to citadel.
Stele-Law Code of Hammurabi(1780 BCE)
Babylonian Art
Reconstruction drawing of the citadel of Sargon II, Dur Sharrukin, Iraq, ca. 720-05 BCE/ citadel was unfinished
Assyrian Art/Architecture
Babylon: city’s famous hanging gardens were counted among Seven Wonders of ancient world.
Enormous ziggurat= Tower of Babel/ mud-brick city
Persepolis (royal audience hall in background), Iran, ca. 521-465 BCE
Rounded forms/treatment of drapery folds= Greek influence
Persian Art/Architecture: Darius I and Xerxes
Greece• Many polis, many islands
• Language, culture, religion
• Perfection• Humanity.
Periods
• Minoic, Micenic• Alexander• Helenism
Acropolis.
Calicrates.
Atenea Nike, 427 – 424 a.C.
Ictino e Calícrates. Partenon. 447 A.C.
Evolution of kuroi
Fidias. Atenea Partenos
Zeus of Olimpia
Birth of Atena, Partenon.
Milos’ Venus
Louvre, París.
Rodas. Laoconte
Rome
• Heritage from greece• Pre Catolic – Catolic• Tecnology and science
Cannon Vault.
Forums (Agustus)
Pantheon.
Circus.
Porta triumphalisPodium
Cárceres
Meta segunda
Spina
Meta primera
Triumph Arcs (Titus and Constantine)
Ponte do Gard. Fins s. I. Vers, Francia.
Segovian aqueduct
S II
Octavio Augusto.
Marcus Aurelius.
Tiberius
Adrian
Fresco in Rome.
Ara Pacis. Between water and air
Traxan Column in detail.
Alexander in Issos