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• Art History

  also known as Art Historiography, historical study or visual arts
• Art History

  concerned with identifying, classifying, evaluating, interpreting and understanding the art products and historic developments
• Primitive

  derives form the Latin meaning "The First or Earliest" of its kind
• Primitive

  Beginning of the 19th century, the influx of tribal arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native Americans into Europe offered artists a new vocabulary to explore in many ways
• Prehistoric Art

  comes from three epochs of Prehistory, paleolithic, mesolithic, and neolithic
• Prehistoric Arts

  Earliest recorded art is engraving found in rock shelter (auditorium cave) in central India. This comprises a miniature obese figurine - The "Venus of Willendorf"
• Venus of Willendorf

  11.1 centimeter tall
• Venus of Willendorf

  Figurine was estimated to have made around 25,000 years ago
• Venus of Willendorf

  found on August 7, 1908 by Johann Veran during excavations in Paleolithic Age
• Venus of Willendorf

  carved form a soft stone known as Oolithic Limestone
• Venus of Willendorf

  Found by an Archeologist name Josef
• Venus of Willendorf

  szombathy at a site near Willendorf, a village in Austria. According to Christopher Witcombe, "Women in Prehistory" the "Venus of Willendorf" was an ironic identification of these figurines as "Venus" pleasantly satisfied certain assumptions at the time about the primitive, about women and about taste. Venus, was the classical goddess of sexual love and beauty
• Venus the roman goddess of beauty
• Venus represents the mother goddess
• Ancient Egypt

  first civilization to establish a recognizable artistic style
• Ancient Egypt

  easily recognizable due to the fact that human figures were drawn consistently
• Ancient Egypt

  most famous artwork of the ancient times is Sphinx. This is a massive sculpture of a lion, with human face and is carved from the center of a limestone. It is believed to be the guardian of the Pyramids of Giza. The Largest being that of Pharaoh Khafre, the second largest being that of Pharaoh Khufu, Khafre's son
• The Great Giza Pyramids

  largest pyramid
• The Sphinx of Ancient Egypt

  Sphinx believed to be the guardian of Pyramids
• Mangling

  • no hands sculpture
  • cut bodies to attain perfection and beauty of the figurine
• Ancient Greece

  • ancient Greek in works of art is characterize by heroism
  • emphasis was to create figures with unusual beauty of figures that were deemed to perfect in the eyes of ancient Greece
  • particular with beauty
  • Famous work: Venus de Milo
• Venus de Milo

  • who's artist idolizes Aphrodite
  • Used Mangling
  • Medium used is limestone
• Aphrodite

  • Goddess of Love and Beauty
• Ancient Greece

  • nude figures
  • nudity of male because they believe body male is beautiful
  • subject of arts was on heroism
  • in events, artists are playing without clothes
• Running without clothes but has mask


  Taugama
• Movements/Styles

  • Byzantine
  • Gothic
• Stained Glasses


  Byzantine
• Pointed Towers, arches, doors


  Gothic
• Ancient Rome

  • enemy of ancient Greece but Greece is more skilled
  • good in leadership for invading territories
  • marching music
  • empire fall because of the people because they don't like the practices
  • they don't have god, only Cesar
• Middle Ages / Medieval Ages

  • dominated by religiosity and faith, spirituality
  • most people are Catholics, many Priests and Bishops
  • start of Catholicism
  • who cause the fall of Roman Empire
  • arts improve
  • most song sang in Acapella
• • music in Middle Ages
  • irregular rhythm
  • in Latin


  Gregorian Chant
• • No instrument used
  • only voice


  Acapella
• • priest who rebelled because he wants to have wife
  • Protestantism 


  Martin Luther
• Byzantine Art

  • attributed to the Byzantine Empire
  • The Roman emperor, Constantine moved the Roman empire to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 323
  • art was created for the Eastern Orthodox Church which is developed in the Byzantine empire while the Roman Catholic Church developed in Western Roman empire in Rome
  • comprises the body of artistic Christian Greek products of the East Roman empire
• Gothic

  • proliferated during the 12th century and continued well until the 16th century
  • termed by the artist Giorgio Vasari to describe a cultures that was nude and barbaric
  • Ancient Greek and Roman art also influenced Gothic