Arts Appreciation

Saul King Joman Gonzales

Egyptian Art
 Egyptian Art (3100 BCE – 30 BCE)
• Characteristics
– Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb
paintings; massive monumental structures
• Popular Artists and Major Artworks
– Imhotep’s Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Temple
of Rameses, the Great Sphinx
• Significant Historical Events
– Narmer Unites upper/lower egypt; Rameses II
battles
 Egyptian (3100 BCE – 30 BCE)

• The Ancient Engineering

works at Giza were so great
and impressive that even
today’s scientist cannot be
certain exactly how the
pyramids were built.
 Abu Simbel Temple of Rameses II
• These temple were cut
from the side of a
mountain made of solid
rock. The location is the
ancient Wawat (or the
legendary Ybsambul)
near in Nubia, near the
borders of Sudan.
Rameses II’s reign may
have lasted for 67 years.
Great Sphinx of Giza
• This is the most
recognizable statue
associated with ancient
Egypt and among the
most famous in the
world.
Greek and Helenistic (850 BCE – 31 BCE)

• Characteristics
– Greek idealism:
– Balance, perfect proportions, architectural orders
– Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
• Popular Artists and Major Artworks
– Pantheon, Myron, Phidias, Plykeitos, Praxitelos
• Significant Historical Events
– Athens defeats Persia at Marathon (490 BCE)
Greek Doric
• The Doric Order was the
first style of
Classical Architecture,
which is the
sophisticated architectur
al styles of ancient
Greece and Rome that set
the standards for beauty,
harmony, and strength for
European architecture.
 Greek Ionic columns
• Ionic is one of
three column
styles builders used in
ancient Greece.
• More slender and more
ornate than the
earlier Doric style, an Ionic
column has scroll-shaped
ornaments on the capital,
at the top of the column
shaft (view illustration).
Corinthian
• The word "Corinthian" describes
an ornate column style
developed in ancient Greece and
classified as one of the Classical
Orders of Architecture.
• The Corinthian style is more
complex and elaborate than the
earlier Doric and Ionic Orders.
• The capital or top part of
a Corinthian style column has
lavish ornamentation carved to
resemble leaves and flowers.
 The Pantheon: The Temple of Athena
• The Parthenon is a
former temple on the
Athenian Acropolis,
Greece, dedicated to
the goddess Athena,
whom the people
of Athens considered
their patron.
 Roman (500 BCE – CE 476)
• Characteristics
– Roman realism
• Popular Artists
– Augustus of Primaporta
– Colosseum
• Significant Historical Events
– Julius Ceasar Assassinated (44 BCE)
Augustus of Primaporta
• Augustus of Prima
Porta is a full-length
portrait statue of
Augustus Caesar, the
first emperor of the
Roman Empire.
 Colesseum
• The Colosseum is the
largest amphitheatre
built during
the Roman Empire.
Inaugurated in 80 AD, it
offered gladiator fights,
executions and animal
hunts.
Venetian and Northern Renaissance (1430 –
1550)
• Characteristics
– The Renaissance spreads northward to France
– Low Countries, Poland, Germany, and England
• Popular Artists and Works
– Bellini, Giorgione, Jan Van Eyck
• Significant Historical Events
– Council of Trent
– Copernicus proves the earth revolves around the
earth
Portrait of a young man in Red
• Portrait of a Young
Man in Red' is a 1485-
1490 oil on panel
portrait by 
Giovanni Bellini, now in
the National Gallery of
Art in Washington.
 Through the Looking Glass
• Renaissance that the first
early-Netherlandish
painting didn’t enter the
National Gallery until 1842.
• That picture was Jan van
Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait of
1434, depicting Giovanni di
Nicolao Arnolfini, a
merchant from Lucca
resident in Bruges, and his
second wife.