Theme: Sacrifice STYLE/PERIOD Function Symbols

Caravaggio, Entombment, 1603-04

BAROQUE

sense of immediacy and directness. Emotional

strong light and Dark CHIARASCUROTENEBRISM

portraiture is individualized pathos

Not

Couter-Reformation Motives

Revive Eucharist

Extension of Church Space

Extension of Altar

Decoration of Churches

Theatricality

Eucharist

Realism within church space

Sacrifice

Extension of Altar

Human emotion

Power of Church Authority

The Plaza of the Moon, Aztec Empire, 50-200 CE

Preclassic Mesoamerican style in Teotihuacan-temple for human sacrifice-built for Great Goddess of Teotihuacan, the goddess of water, fertility, the earth, and even creation itself.

-human sacrifices held at the top of the pyramid- image of blood flowing down the stairs down the “Avenue of the Dead”-serves as a “stage for human sacrifice- offering mound crammed with

heart-extraction liberates the “istl” and reunites it with the sunvictim’s transformed heart flies towards the sun on a trail of blood=pyramids climb sunward to reach the heavens

peak also symbolizes the gods’ daunting power

treasures, grains and sacrifices that were buried as gifts to the deities

Oath of Horatii, Jaque Louis David. 1784.

NEOCLASSICALThe Horatii brothers swear on their swords (held by their father) to win or die for Rome David using classical narratives -direct, stage-like setting, with dramatic lighting and framed by classical arcades= a rational, heroic setting for the narrative-statuesque, ancient figures-ancient narrative of heroism= transcendent ideals of sacrifice-enlightenment interest in perfection in science and humanity carries over in art

propaganda from the Jacobins’ revolutionary cause.

Themes of patriotism and sacrifice

model for moral and civic virtue.

Ideas of heroism in classical art

Arouse the public to Devotion/Patriotism

the democratization of knowledge.

The curvaceous lines of the women juxtaposed to the rigid rationality of the men= effeminate emotions are a sign of weakness spurned to the corner.

Enlightenment values the rational mind over the emotions