2013 AP Art History

Mid Term Study Slides

Lamasu. Human-headed winged bull facing. Bas-relief from King Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716 BCE.

 Ashurbanipal Hunting Lions, Dying Lioness, Nimrud (c. 850 BCE)

• Relief sculpture• Animals show emotion, humans none• Ruthless rendering of lions• Chaotic arrangement of lions• Organized arrangement of humans• Humans as stoic and severe

 

Palette of Narmerc. 3200 – 2800 BCEStela of King Naram Sin

(Iran c.2300-2200 BC)

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir al-Bahrri c1490-1460 bce

“The Place of the Northern Monastery”

Monotheism with the sole god Aten – a radical change in religious worship and practice

Radical change in sculptural representation

Also causes major economic changes

Capital city moved from Thebes to Armana

dipylon amphora

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Kritios Boy

Late Classical Art

4th Century BC

Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos• First nude woman in Greek art• Very popular in its own time,

people came from far and wide to see it

• Placed in a round temple surrounded by columns: effect of sneaking a peek at her

• Not openly erotic• Female sexual power suggested • Genitals lacking• Steps into a bath• One side of her has an open

form, the other closed• S curve• Gentle dreamy quality

Hellenistic Sculpture Nike of Samothrace• Nike alighting on a boat• Water cascading on boulders• Commemorated a naval victory

in 191 BC• Twist of torso• Drama• Monumental• Fountain creates the illusion of

rushing waves• Missing right arm might have

once raised crown to naval victor• Wet drapery flowing around legs

and sticking to the body• To be seen from several angles

Augustus of prima Porta c. 15 AD

Constantine the GreatReigned 306-312 CE

Nimes, France

15 –14 BCE

Temple of Fortuna Virilis (Portunas) Late 2nd BCE

San Vitale

S. Vitale, c. 525 -547

Statue of an old market woman, Early Imperial, Julio-Claudian, 1st century A.D.Roman

St. Peter’s Basilica

Reputed Burial Place of St. Peter

Built on the orders of Constantine c. 326

•Contains shading to indicate depth & light source

•Hint of landscape and rocks

•Young, beardless adult with a halo – based on Apollo model

•Imperial gold and purple- assimilation of Imperial Status

•Long golden staff that ends with a cross – adaptation of Imperial Staff

The Good Shepherd

Galla Placidia, Ravena

c. 425-26

Emperor Justinian and Attendants, Saint Vitale, Ravenna, c.547

Built during the city’s rebuilding after riots of 532

“Purple makes a fine shroud” – attributed to Theodora

The Alhambra, 1338 - 1390

The Night Journey of Muhammad on His Steed, Buraq; leaf from a copy of the Bustan of Sacdi, dated 1514. From Bukhara, Uzbekistan. In The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

St. Matthew, the Coronation Gospels, c. 800

St. Matthewthe Ebbo Gospels, c. 816

Lindau Gospelsc. 870-880

Book of Kells c. 800 Lindisfarne Gospels c. 700

Early Medieval Art

Sutton Hoo Purse Lid• Geometric interlace

designs• Symmetry of forms• Animals and humans

interact• Repetition of patterns• Used as a purse cover for

a disintegrated purse found in a ship burial in England

Purse Cover, Sutton Hoo ship burial, c. 655

West Tympanum, Cathedral of Autun, France

Gislebertus, C 1130 AD

Pisa Cathedral

ambulatory choir of St. Denis, c. 1140-1144, France (Gothic).

exterior buttresses of St. Denis

right: plan of choir of St. Denis.

Rottgen Pieta Gero Crucifix

Virgin and Child1324-39

Sienna Cathedral

Florence Cathedral

Cimabue c. 1280 Duccio. 1318 Giotto c.131012’7” 14’9” 10’6”

Digital reproduction of original, front

panel detail

The Temptation of Christ

In the Room of Nine (Room of Peace)“Where this holy virtue (Justice) rules, she induces the many souls of the citizens to unity, and they…make common good their lord.”

The Marriage of Giovanni Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami; 1434 (130 Kb); Oil on wood, 81.8 x 59.7 cm (32 1/4 x 23 1/2 in); National Gallery, London

Robert Campin (1425-28)

Fra Angelico, Annunciation, c. 1440

Ghiberti Brunelleschi

Perugino

Masaccio, 1426-27

Alberti, Sant’Andrea, Mantua 1472

•Patron: Ludovico Gonzaga

•Original Church housed a vial containing blood of Christ

•Idea of an “Etruscan Temple” with a basilica model plan

•Façade derived from Roman triumphal arches

Donatello, David1425 - 30

Italian Quattrocento Sculpture

Donatello, Saint Mark• Commissioned by the Guild of

Linen Weavers and Peddlers, suggested by pillow at base and ample drapery

• Although in a Gothic niche, the statue is free standing

• Contrapposto based on Roman art

• Drapery falls directly down• Easy posture• Face has piercing eyes• Calculated how the sculpture

would look from street level

Spiral Jetty, Robert Smithson, 1970

Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels, 1976