Art History

Romanesque Architecture and Sculptural Programs key ideas: Latin cross plan coherence of design: unity and symmetry heavy, thick walls and small windows the use of a Roman vault?inherently limited; the barrel vault creates tremendous thrust at the springing point creates a wonderful ?stage? for the miracle of the Eucharist?the presence of God?God made incarnate again large, ordered space which contrasted strongly with the chaos and uncertainty outside the church walls use of sculptural programs to educate and engage the viewer Roman barrel vault in order to support a heavy roof?one that is very wide--the walls of the nave would have to be very, very thick floor plan Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Spain 1075-1211 floor plan Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy early 12th century

Art of Ancient Greece What you must memorize. Terms and Stuff city-state -- a polis an autonomous region having a city as its political, cultural, religious, and economic center for example: Athens, Sparta, Corinth or Thebes?remember Antigone a stoa ?colonnaded pavilion, open on three sides the importance of the procession stadium sanctuaries Mount Olympos Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi (the oracle of Delphi) Temples a Mycenaen megaron?the source of the Greek Temple a columned entrance porch an anteroom with a central doorway a living space with a central hearth and four columns supporting the roof around the opening The Ionic order has a frieze and a base as well as a different capital. The proportions of the Ionic order are more elongated.

Art of Ancient Greece 1 2 Major Periods Geometric Period 900-700 BCE Orientalizing Period 700-600 BCE Archaic Period 600-480 BCE Athens has a representative government; every community (deme) had its own assembly and magistrates 3 4. Classical Period framed by the defeat of the Persians (479 BCE) and the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) Early Classical 480-450 BCE destruction of the Persian fleet in the Straits of Salamis, 479 BCE 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE Pericles rebuilds the Acropolis, he dies in 429 BCE Sparta dominated the Peloponnese and much of the rest of mainland Greece; 4 5th Century Classical 450-400 BCE (continued?) Athens dominated the Aegean and became a wealthy and influential center of a maritime empire

maniera: intellectually intricate subjects highly skilled techniques art concerned with beauty for its own sake extraordinary virtuosity (the artist is obviously extremely skilled at his craft) Characteristics: sophisticated, elegant compositions fearless manipulations or distortions of accepted formal conventions irrational spatial effects figures that have elongated proportions exaggerated poses enigmatic gestures and expressions Mannerism began in Rome and Florence. Grace was elevated and became the ideal?not rationality or naturalism. Mannerism Jacopo da Pontormo Halberdier 1530s oil on canvas, 92 x 72 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Jacopo da Pontormo Entombment (The Deposition) 1525-1528 oil on wood Cappella Capponi, Santa Felicit?, Florence

?Angel from the Visitation Group 1211-25Cathedral, Reims 1 Pages with Betrayal and Arrest of Christ and Annunciation from The Book of Hours of Jeanne d?Evreux c. 1325-1328 2 Virgin and ChildAbbey Church of St. Denisc. 1339 3 Christus Patiens -- CrucifixCoppo di Marcovaldo 1250-1300
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