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The Art of Beauty
Prehistoric and Ancient Man
Venus of Willendorf, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
Cycladic statuette, ca. 2500-2300 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Seated statue of KhafreHatshepsut asPharaoh
Akhenaton, from the Temple of Aton, Karnak,Egypt, ca. 1353-1335BCE. Sandstone, approx.13’ high
Nefertiti, from Tell el-Amarna,Egypt, ca. 1353-1335 BCE.Painted limestone, approx.1’ 8” high.
King Menkaure and a QueenFourth Dynasty, reign of Menkaure.Graywacke with faint remains of paint.Old Kingdom.
BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE
Kouros, ca. 600 BCE
Kritios Boy, ca. 480 BCE
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, after a bronze of ca. 450-440BCE
LET’S DO THAT WITH THE FEMALE FORM
Peplos Kore, ca. 530 BCE
Three goddesses, from the east pedimentof the Parthenon, ca. 438-432 BCE
Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos, copyafter original of ca. 350-340 BCE
In Honor of Chanukah . . .
Art from the Hellenistic Period: What Was So Appealing?
Hellenism: From the Death of Alexander the Great, 323,to 31 BCE
Let’s See That Again With Women
And with the female nude . . .
Real or Too Real:Roman Verism
Relief portrait head of a man, c. 1st Century BCE, marble,
9 5/8" height
Portrait of the Emperor Antonius Pius, c.138-
161 CE, shown with the style of beard made popular by Hadrian.
Marble, 15 7/8" height.
Augustus Caesar and wife Livia
The Human Body in the Middle Ages
Good Shepherd Mosaic, 5th century CE
Christ During the Middle Ages
Rottgen Pieta, from the Rhineland (Germany), c. 1300-1325, painted wood
* Increased tragic (lugubrious) tone brought to religious art
• “Humanizing” sacred personages• Expressive reaching out from a
freestanding statue
The Last Judgment
1120-35 Tympanum of west portal
Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun, France
Psychostasy: weighing of souls
The Renaissance, 1400-1600
Michelangelo’s God Creating Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, ca. 1511
The Pieta was finished in 1499, when Michelangelo was only 24 years old
Left: The Cowper Madonna, 1504Right: Madonna of the Chair, 1518 Raffaello Sanzio, known as
Raphael, lived from 1483-1520
Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485
The sculpture is symbolic of three major themes of its day:
1. Good conquers Evil 2. Florence (the defeat of France) 3. Man (can accomplish anything
he sets his mind to)
Michelangelo’s David, 1501-1504
Here he is . . .
David,1501-1504
Gianlorenzo Bernini, David1623-24White marble170 cmGalleria Borghese, Rome
The Elevation of the Cross, c. 1610-11
The Judgment of Paris, c. 1600
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640
The Rococo StyleJean-Honore Fragonard,
The Swing, 1766
Jean–Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814
The excess and frivolity of the French nobility led to regime change and Romanticism, the promotion of the individual
Theodore Gericault, Portraitof an Insane Woman, 1822
Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
Pablo Picasso,Girl Before a Mirror, ca. 1932
Henri Matisse, Woman Wearing aHat, 1905
Albert Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947
Kiki Smith, Untitled Barbara Kruger, Untitled