lesson 7

• art involves experience

  actual doing of something
• earliest artifacts found in

  paleolithic era or the old stone age
• prehistoric art


  relied on the use of natural pigments and stone carvings
• goal of prehistoric art


  create representations of objects or rituals governing a civilization's existence
• example of prehistoric art

  Lascaux Cave Paintings in France
• egyptian art


  create for religious and magical purposes
• beliefs of egyptian art


  promise of an afterlife
• symbolism of statues in egyptian art

  placed in tombs and temples as physical repositories for spirit and offerings
• human form in egyptian art

  shown in rigid frontal poses
• example of egyptian art

  menna and his family fishing and fowling
• greeks have been described as?

  idealistic, imaginative, and spiritual
• Greeks produced the Olympics such as ?

  Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode on a Grecian Urn


  John Keats
• Beauty is truth, truth beauty, “that is all/ Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

  Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
• when did greece reached its zenith

  Golden Age of Athens
• hellenistic arts


  imitated life realistically, especially in sculpture and literature.
• greek artwork


  altar of zeus from pergamon
• 2 periods of roman art

  art of the Republic and art of the Roman Empire
• roman is associated with what?

  overthrow of etruscan kings and establishment of the Republic
• hallmarks of roman art

  stylistic eclecticism and practical application
• minor forms of roman art

  luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass
• roman art

  Discobolus by Myron
• middle ages or dark ages


  marked a period of economic and cultural deterioration
• this period was also responsible for the emergence of the illuminated manuscript and Gothic architecture style.

  medieval art
• Lindisfarne Gospels

  one of the best-known examples of the illuminated

  manuscript
• Notre Dame

  a Parisian cathedral and prominent example of Gothic architecture
• art produced during this time centered around church

  medieval art
• roman art


  icon with the Triumph of Orthodoxy.
• renaissance


  reached height in florence, italy
• humanism


  emphasis on human realm
• filippino brunelleschi and donatello

  innovators during renaissance
• renaissance

  realism and used linear perspective
• bronzino

  most important mannerist painter
• graceful and exaggerated details

  mannerism
• baroque

  over-the-top visual arts and grandeur
• characterized by drama

  baroque painting
• Caravaggio and Rembrandt


  famous painters during baroque
• chiaroscuro


  intense contrast between light and dark
• rococo


  originated in paris
• characterized by lightness and elegance

  rococo