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Greece
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Greek Classical Art
- Artists exploring the contradictions
- Peak of Human Achievement
and Pit of Human Savagery
- Greek Statues were colored.
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Pergamon - Violence
- Artistic Creation appears
- Brought to Turkey by Alexander
- Rapid Development of Style
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Individual Sculpture and Democracy
- Active in Bronze and Clay
- 5th Century BC
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Acropolis
- Pericles rebuilds after the Persian War
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Parthenon
- Probably the greatest building ever built
- Athena's statue in the Parthenon was 40 feet tall
- The Parthenon Friezes were also brightly colored.
- The Pediments were realist
- The Pantheon is the real departure.
- Focus on interior
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Hallmark of Classical Sculpture
- No Emotion on the Face
- Zeus in Bronze
- Rational
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Hallmark of Alexanderian
- Great Emotion on the Face
- Agony at Pergamon
- Irrational
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Careful Historical Context
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Greek Classical Society
- Imperialists
- Women no rights
- Slavery
- Small, Independent, Communities.
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Kritias
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Naked Man
- Man is Measure of all Things
- Stands Strong
- No Back-Pillar
- Walk forward in three dimensional space
- Youthful Ideal
- Heroic
- Kouros
- 490 BC
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Female Emblems
- Clothed rather than Naked
- Demure rather than Heroic
- Kore
- These Statues of the same young person,
they were substitutes for human sacrifices
- Athens appeared
to the other city-states
domineering and
arrogant.
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The Root of the Western Tradition
- Classicalism
- Architecture
- Painting
- Drawing
- Writing
- Sculpture
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Roman Conquering
- 2nd Century AD
- But Forever in Greece's debt.
- The Romans take the Greek Visual Language
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Rome
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Influence
- Rome is one of the greatest influences on western influences
- Roman Law
- Roman Society
- Roman Statecraft
- Engineering
- Town Planning
- Christianity
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Trademark
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Augustan Temple to Peace
- Order
- Prosperity
- Ara Pacis
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Trajan's Dacian Column
- Force is the Roman deal
- Victory Column
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Ancient Architecture
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Post and Lintel
- Greek
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The Arch
- Rome
- Gradeur
- Nobilitiy
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New Building Material
- Concrete
- It existed before, but
Roman Concrete dries
slowly
- Revolution in Western Architecture
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Arch Effects on Interiors
- The Arch form in space creates a barrel vault
- Curving the arch, a ring vault
- Two barrel vaults at a cross create groin vault
- Rotate Vault, Dome
- Half Rotate, Asp
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The Colosseum
- Arena
- Latin for sand on the wood floor of the Colosseum
- Concrete, Stone, and Wood
- Technically the Flavian Ampitheater
- Huge Statue of Nero used to stand outside
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The Pantheon
- Not the basic instincts
- The gods of faith
- Archeologists found makers marks on bricks
- Hadrian built the real Pantheon
- Romans favored Corinthian
- Columns from single pieces of Egyptian Granite
- Worlds largest dome for 18 centuries
- Grand Interiors
- In the 5th century, the Barbarians were
shocked by it's beauty into not pillaging
it
- The Paradox of the Pantheon
- Space is defined by Architecture right?
- No, Architecture is defined by Space
- Perfect Form: Sphere
- No Beginning
- No End
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Late Roman Art
- Constatine's individuals are static
- The dynamicism of Old Art is gone.
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Christianity
- The God of the Sky holds up heaven
- Christ wears the robe of a Greek Philosopher
- Christ is depicted as Apolline
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Basilica
- Model of Christian Churches
- Rectangle with Asp
- Basillicas were just basic assembly halls
- Oldest Standing Basillica Julia built by Caesar
- Reason on Passion