Study images for ap art history
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Study Images for AP Art History
Ancient and Classical Worlds
Stele of Naram-Sinc. 2254-2218 BCE
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.
Assyrian Art
Lamassu• Guardian figure protects
entrances into palaces• Combination man and animals• Winged, hoofed• Has five legs: two if you look from
the front, four as you look from the side
Audience Hall at Persepolis (c. 500 BCE)
Portion from the Egyptian Book of the Dead
Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir al-Bahrri c1490-1460 bce
“The Place of the Northern Monastery”
Karnak Temple Complex
Funerary Krater
Grave Stele of Hegeso
Nike Adjusting Her Sandal
Nike of Samothrace
The Temple of Athena Nike
447 B.C. – 438 B.C. Classical Period
Iktinos and Kallikrates – architectsPheidias - Sculptor
Hellenistic SculptureLaocoön and His Sons• Negative space• Many viewpoints, eyes wander
everywhere• Laocoön trying to tell the Trojans
that the Greek horse was booby-trapped
• Strangling of figures by snakes sent by the gods to silence them
• Deep cutting into stone to create shadows
• Extreme musculature• Agonizing expressions • Figure to the right added later
AraPacis c. 13 – 19 BCE
Ara Pacis, South Wall
Ara Pacis, 13 – 9 BCE, RomeFertility and Fecundity
Trier, Basilica of Constantine (audience hall)
Audience Hall of Constantine at Trier, early 4th century
Wall Paintings from Pompeii
Second Style – 1st century BCE
Pompeii,
60 – 50 BCE
Villa of the Mysteries
Villa of the Mysteries
Dionysiac Mystery Frieze•Fresco, Foreshortening•2nd Pompeian Style painting•Large figures in a frieze-like format•Initiation rites into the female cult of Dionysos•Figures act out mystery rites•Painted marble panels at bottom, from the First Pompeian style of painting•Bright Pompeian red background pushes figures forward•No linear perspective, but three dimensional illusionism•Figures interact with each other on adjacent wall spaces
Ixion Room•Fresco, linear perspective, atmospheric perspective•Foreshortening•Ixion murdered his father-in-law and planned to seduce Hera•Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt and ordered him to be tied to a wheel in hell•Scheme of red and white fields•On bottom painted to resemble marble slabs•On top, architectural vistas that do not align to a single viewpoint•Thin delicate motifs alternate with framed mythological scenes
Atrium, House of the Silver Wedding