Class Thursday:Amer Kobaslija: One Hundred Views of KessenumaSchmucker Art Gallery- open 10-4 weekdays

Homework: View exhibition and write a response to the work based on the reading in Aiken. How did you see these paintings “aethetically?”

Turn this in when you get on the van for field trip Sunday at 10:20 am (by Chapel)

Today: Sign sheet for lunch, fill in ID#.

“Alison Lapper Pregnant” by Mark Quinn In Trafalgar Square, London

Ancient Gods

Roman copy of Apollo from 350 BC

Anubis, Egyptian 600 BC

Parthenon, Elgin MarblesThe Parthenon in Athens was built nearly 2,500 years ago as a temple dedicated to the Greek goddess Athena.

Artemis- a popular goddess in 100 AD

Her temple at Ephesus was one of “seven wonders of the world”

Christian Catacombs, Rome- 3rd c AD

Constantine I – Roman emperor from 306 to 337 AD

Early Islamic Art

See Wiki page for non-religious examples of early Islamic art

Medieval Christian Art

Byzantine mosaic, 6th C

French glass, 1170

Ravenna, Italy Mosaics from 4th C AD

Ravenna

Medieval scholarly emphasis on study of classics, glorification of God

Book of Kells circa 800 AD

On Vellum, contains the four gospels of new testament

Chartres CathedralFrance- built 1193-

1250

349 ft Spire in 1140s

176 stained glass windows

Elements of Christian Art

600 AD

Byzantine empire, c. 330-1450Eastern part of Roman Empire- Greek speaking

Cambrei Madonna, c. 1340 (Metropolitan)

Berlinghiero (Italian, Lucchese; act. by 1228; d. by 1236),ca. 1230

Tempera on wood, with gold ground31 5/8 x 21 1/8 in.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y

Madonna and Child, ca. 1326

Simone Martini (Italian [Siena], ca. 1284–1344)

GiottoMadonna and Childc. 1320Tempera on panel33 5/8 x 24 3/8 in

National Gallery of Art, Washington

One of the first painters to break with Byzantine style

Some Key Events between Medieval and Renaissance Periods

• Black Death of 1348 -Plague killed one-third of European population

• Fall of Constantinople (capital of Byzantine empire, 330-1453)

Ottaman Turks captured the Byzantine capital of Constantinople

Painted 1499

Consequence of Fall

• Many Greeks fled Constantinople for the Latin West, bringing documents from the Greco-Roman tradition.

• Some scholars think this accelerated the European Renaissance in art and science

• "The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and co-operation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life."

February 1, 1933 Adolph Hitler

• Aug. 11, 1921 a Methodist minister, the Rev. Edwin R. Stephenson -- brought a loaded gun to the porch of Father James E. Coyle’s home and shot him dead in front of a street full of witnesses.

• About an hour earlier, the priest had married Stephenson's 18-year-old daughter to a practicing Catholic.