humanities art exam 1

Anavyssos Kouros

A carving (i.e., “sculpture”) that illustrates the Archaic style, which is an earlier mode of Greek art. Note the stiffness of the form, the lack of naturalism, and the archaic smile(corners of the mouth turned up). These attempts to animate the figure are not well integrated with the body as a whole. The leg is extended as the figure moves, but without any turn to the hips and shoulders, as occurs in true motion. The pose looks stiff.

Doryphoros

By Polykleitos of Argos

Classical Greek style

450-440

Laocoon and His Sons

Hellenistic style

By Agesandros, ploydoros, and athanadoros of Rhodes

2nd or 1st BC

Three Goddesses

Classical style

wet drapery

Pont du Gard Aqueduct

Roman solution to the architectural problems of the large scale of their empire

aqueducts

Augustus of Primaport

the attempt of Caesar Augustus (Octavian) to portray himself both as a ruler of the people and descended from the gods

propaganda tool

Colosseum

70 AD

Triumphal Arch of Titus

This piece shows representations of the sacking of Jerusalem

81 AD

Pantheon

it incorporates “all of the gods”

118-124 AD

Portrait Bust of a Roman Man

shows all imperfections

80BC

Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (4th century)

all the boxes are their own story

Adam and Eve, detail from the Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus (4th century

3. Ravenna, Church of San Vitale – interior view (6th century, Byzantine)

Greek-style cross (all sides same length)+

“Last Judgment”—tympanum from Church of St. Lazare (12th century)

Giselbertus

“Weighing of Souls”—tympanum from Church of St. Lazare (12th century

angles are trying to save a soul from the final judgement

. Abbey Church of St. Denis (exterior) (12th century)

When the Abbot Suger rebuilt the Church of St. Denis (originally a Romanesque structure), he reinvented the architecture of space and light

Abbey Church of St. Denis (interior) (12th century)

Diagram of basilica-style church