Woman of Willendorf

 25,000-20,000 BCE

• Paleolithic era
• Earliest known work of religious art
• Exaggerated features
  

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

 2500-2650 BCE

• part of ancient Egypt
• burial vaults for Pharaohs
• architectural and sculptural feats for this time

Doryphorus

Polykleitos (Roman copy)

after bronze original

c. 450 BCE 

• example of Greek classicism
• human body is a set of divinely inspired ratios
• used a contrapposto pose
  

Laocoon Group

(Roman copy)

c. 1st CE

• Hellenistic period
• expressed a lot of emotion and anguish
  

The Pantheon

126 CE

• Greek architecture
• a major temple dedicated to all the gods
• huge dome, circular walls, and extremely thick walls
  

Head of Constantine

313 CE

• symbolizes Paegan to Christian empire
• emphasis on eyes - windows to the soul

Empress Theodora and her Retinue

San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

6th century

• Byzantine period
• eyes are emphasized, halo, crown
• importance of women in salvation

Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Origin: Suffolk, England

Pre-7th century

• Europeon middle ages, Byzantine
• ancient symbol of power

Chartes Cathedral

12th-13th century

• Gothic architecture
• reach up to heaven, proportions work in harmony, & a lot of light
• flying buttresses & stained glass
  

Lamentation

Giotto De Bondone

Padua, Italy

ca. 14th century

•  Renaissance
  
• shows a story line of the birth of Christ
• human emotion
  

Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

ca. 15th century

• Italian Renaissance
• mythological
• not fully 3d, no illusion of deep space
  

David

Donatello

late 15th century

• Italian Renaissance
• on the decapitated head of Goliath
  

David

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy

16th century

• High Renaissance
• symbol of freedom from tyranny

Philosophy (School of Athens)
Raphael

Vatican Palace Rome, Italy

16th century

• High Renaissance
• 4 themes: philosophy, theology, poetry, and law
• identifies many famous intellects of the day and the past
  

Hunters in the Snow (Winter)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Seasons of the Year Cycle, whole view
16th century

• High Renaissance
  
• more detailed in the foreground, Alps in the background
• symbolized the harsh winter of 1565
  

The Conversion of Paul

Carvaggio

1600

• Baroque
  
• heightened light and dark imagery
• very naturalistic
  

David

Gianlorenzo Bernini

17th century

• Baroque
• conservative view of art because he's covered up
• more in motion
  

Great Stupa

Sanchi, India
10 BCE-15 CE

• Indian Art, traditional
• a pilgrimage to and around the house is a ritual
• at all four gates there were images of the symbols of fertility and animals
  

The Approach of Krishna

17th century

• Indian Art
• color, pattern
  
• erotic spiritual desire to be in a union with the divine
  

Travelers among Mountains and Streams

Fan Juan

11th century

• Chinese art
• painted on a large hanging scroll
• lack of color, brushwork, massive centrality of the design
  

Main Shrine

Ise, Japan

7th century

• Japanese art
• Rebuilt every 20 years b/c no need for long-standing structures
• used natural materials to construct it
  

Reflected Beauty

Kitagawa Utamaro

18th century

• Japanese art
• absense of shading
  
• Geisha theme was present
  

Great Mosque

Kairouan, Tunisia

begun 836

• Islamic architecture
• include high-standing minarets and mirhabs
• showed political stability
  

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings

Bichitr

17th century

• Islamic art
• had a lot of symbols with realistic representations
• the painter included himself in the image, which was bold
  

Taj Mahal

Agra, India

17th century

• Islamic architecture
• the architect built this for his wife who died giving birth to their 14th child
• illusion that the building is floating
  

Oath of Horatii

Jacques-Louis David

18th century

• Neoclassic - emulation of classical Greek and Roman art
• conveys political ideas during the time of the revolution
• democracy - sacrifice yourself for your nation
  

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix

19th century

• Romanticism - imagination and emotion are more valuable than reason
• nostalgia about the past
• depicts Lord Byron facing defeat & destroying everything he knows
  

The Stone Breakers

Gustave Courbet

19th century

• Realism
• interested in the condition of the poor
• draws up close, emphasizes paint on canvas, flattens the space
  

Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

Manet

19th century

• Realism
• a scandal of its time because it depicted a naked woman
• did not depict any historical or mythological significance
  

Impression: Sunrise

Claude Monet

19th century

• Impressionism - capturing observation in everyday life
  
• light and presence of minimal warm coloring is important
• visual perception - looked different up close than it did far away
  

Monte-Sainte Victoire from Les Lauves

Paul Cezanne

20th century

• Post-Impressionism - showed different interpretations of impressionist art
• geometric and logical order
• flattened space by using the same color intensity but threw in wrong colors
  

Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

Henri Matisse

20th century

• Post-Impressionism
• bold colors, patterns
• Fauvism - "wild beast" style of painting characterized by contrasting color and simplified shapes
  

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

20th century

• Cubism
• influenced by African sculptured masks
• no male figures, shows prostitutes the way he thinks of them, not as he sees them
  

The Portuguese

Georges Braque

20th century

• Cubism - analytic (expressive intuition, pure analysis)
  
• painted from memory, shows a man playing a guitar in a cafe
• opened up geometric interpretation by seeing things from all sides (2D vs 3D)
  

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni

20th century

• Futurism - reflects the exciting period of change with innovation in transportation and cinema
• fragmented muscular figure in geometric forms to suggest motion and speed
  

Airplane Flying

Kazimir Malevich

20th century

• High abstraction cubism - suggests constant change
• shapes and colors in a painting always communicate the subject of the work

Composition No. 2

Piet Mondrain

20th century

• High abstraction
• completely freehanded
• nonrepresentational work, form and rhythm paralleled nature
  

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

20th century

•  Dada - "anti-art"
• used readymade items to make art
  

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

20th century

•  Surrealism - depicts a dreamlike state
• allegory of the literal mind
• melting watches - symbol of life, death, and time
• terrain of memory
  

Painting

Joan Miro

20th century

• Surrealism
• genesis of a new world
  
• suggestions of humans and animals
  

No. 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)

Jackson Pollock

20th century

• Abstract Expressionism - influenced by all types of movements
• pure painting - pure color, pure line
• drip paint
  

No. 16

Mark Rothko

20th century

• Abstract Expressionism
• chromatic abstraction
  

Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol

20th century

• Pop Art
• shows variation, a different but similar image in every square
• suggests passing of time
  

Untitled Film Still #48

Cindy Sherman

20th century

• Feminism
• subject of cinema, mass production of identity
• gender is a socially constructed idea
  

Pink Panther

Jeff Koons

20th century

• Neo-Pop
• consumerism, mass production
• absurdity of celeb romance, beastiality