World views Flashcards
(30 cards)
Identify the painters of the paintings the Annunciation, Monsieur Bertin, Madame Moitessier and both Belisarius
Annunciation = Verrochio and Da Vinci
Monsieur Bertin = Ingres
Madame Moitessier = Ingres
Belisarius = Jacques-Louis David
Prehistoric art:
Recognize parietal and portable art (and know their purpose)
Paretial art: Any prehistoric art found on cave walls, to commmunicate a message or just for fun
Portable art: prehistoric objects that were carved and created with various materials, art on objects by humans, could be rock, harpoons…
Prehistoric art:
Whats a Venus statuette
Has a shape of the body of a woman, usually symmetric
Egyptian art:
Differentiate different types a pyramids (+ know who built the step pyramid)
Step pyramid = Imhotep built it
Ramp pyramid
Around pyramids
Internal ramp
Egyptian art:
Recognize “mastaba” and pylon temples and know their function
Mastaba = had underground burial chambers, housed a statue of the deceased
Pylon temples = MArked the entrance of the tombs
Egyptian art:
Identify “relief” and “fresco” art
relief: Engraved, comes out of the stone
fresco: Mural paintings (no perspective)
egyptian art:
Recognize Nerfertiti and Akhenaton (and know why he is still known today)
Nefertiti: Its a head of a woman with high black hat (hair?)
Akhenaton; is a grey statue crossing his arms. he is important because he changed the egyptian religion to worshipping a single god named Aten.
Egyptian art: Recognize Tutankhamon (and know why he is famous)
He is a mask of gold and blue color. He was one of the only acient tombs to be found nearly intact.
Greek art:
Differentiate a Minoan palace from a Mycenaean one based on their plans
Minoan: huge, rectangles on top of each other, 1 big rectangle in the middle
Mycenaean: Kinda separated in different parts, not really symmetric
Greek art:
Know a black figure from a red-figure and explain the importance of the second
Black comes from after the burning, red-figure remained the color of the clay
Details such as draperies and musculature were more easily delineated on Red-figure pottery because the artist could use thin lines of black paint (relief lines) instead of incisions to make details
Greek art:
Recognize different order (doric, ionic and corinthian)
(see images)
Greek art:
Know the statuette of type “kouros” (and give 3 common traits)
Man standing, pharaneon hair =>
- Arms on the sides
- Frontal is perfect symmetry
- one leg is slightly advanced compared to the other one
Greek art:
Recognize the Parthenon and the Grand Altar of Pergamon
Parthenon = many columns, stairs… (see pictures)
Grand Altar of Pergamon = huge stairs, just batiments around (square) the stairs
Greek art:
Identify a Stoa and know its function
It’s really long, sometimes a red ceiling (toiture)
It was a modern shopping center
Greek art:
Recognize colossal statues, namely Hercules (and identify 2 attributes)
- Social realism and naturalism
- Old age
- Baroque realism
Roman art:
Recognize the Pantheon, a Triumphal Arch (and know the content of its relief), an Etruscan temple
Pantheon: high column, big dome behind, its relief: Portico, pediment, frieze, second pediment, intermediate block, domed rotunda
Triumphal Arch: images on its panels, like in the champs élysées
Etruscan temple: see drawing and pictures
Roman art:
Recognize the Colosseum, explain its purpose, know its creator
“Colisée”, has 4 levels, it was built to take away focus on the war, was for shows, like gladiatorial games
Creator: Emperor Vespasian
TITUS FINISHED IT, he made the top level
Roman art:
Recognize an equedestrian statue (and identify its rider)
On a horse, the rider is named Marcus Aurelius
Roman art:
Recognize a Roman Basilica and know its function and origin
Huge, big, usually split in 3 aisles, was a place for buisiness transactions
a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town’s forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East.
Roman art:
Recognize the different orders (Tuscan and Composite)
Doric => Tuscan, Four sided and Corinthian => Composite
Medieval art:
Differentiate between a Romanesque church and a Gothic one (either from the inside or the outside)
Romanesque: architecture = large, internal spaces, barrel vaults, thick walls, rounded arches, windows + doors
Gothic: bright, colourful, soaring, highness, flying buttresses, vertical lines
Medieval art:
Recognize a “mosaic” and “stained glass” windows (and to be able to identify the characters)
Mosaic = tiny little squares or triangles and shapes, put together to form an image
Stained glass: many pieces of glass stained
characters: good samaritain window, glorification of the virgin…
Medieval art:
Know why gothic artists turned to stained glass windows
To fill the interior with a mystical colored light = Holy Spirit
Medieval art:
Recognize a tympanum and know its iconography (meaning) and purpose
triangular surface, semi-circular area enclosed by the arch above the lintel of an arched entranceway. Just to stylize relief sculpture
