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The Art of Beauty
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Prehistoric and Ancient Man
Venus of Willendorf, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE
Cycladic statuette, ca. 2500-2300 BCE
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Ancient Egypt
Seated statue of KhafreHatshepsut asPharaoh
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Akhenaton, from the Temple of Aton, Karnak,Egypt, ca. 1353-1335BCE. Sandstone, approx.13’ high
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Nefertiti, from Tell el-Amarna,Egypt, ca. 1353-1335 BCE.Painted limestone, approx.1’ 8” high.
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King Menkaure and a QueenFourth Dynasty, reign of Menkaure.Graywacke with faint remains of paint.Old Kingdom.
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BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE
Kouros, ca. 600 BCE
Kritios Boy, ca. 480 BCE
Polykleitos, Doryphoros, after a bronze of ca. 450-440BCE
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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
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In Honor of Chanukah . . .
Art from the Hellenistic Period: What Was So Appealing?
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Hellenism: From the Death of Alexander the Great, 323,to 31 BCE
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Let’s See That Again With Women
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And with the female nude . . .
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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.
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Augustus Caesar and wife Livia
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The Human Body in the Middle Ages
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Good Shepherd Mosaic, 5th century CE
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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
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The Last Judgment
1120-35 Tympanum of west portal
Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun, France
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Psychostasy: weighing of souls
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The Renaissance, 1400-1600
Michelangelo’s God Creating Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, ca. 1511
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The Pieta was finished in 1499, when Michelangelo was only 24 years old
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Left: The Cowper Madonna, 1504Right: Madonna of the Chair, 1518 Raffaello Sanzio, known as
Raphael, lived from 1483-1520
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Titian, Venus of Urbino, 1538
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Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1485
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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 . . .
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David,1501-1504
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Gianlorenzo Bernini, David1623-24White marble170 cmGalleria Borghese, Rome
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The Elevation of the Cross, c. 1610-11
The Judgment of Paris, c. 1600
Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640
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The Rococo StyleJean-Honore Fragonard,
The Swing, 1766
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Jean–Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque, 1814
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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
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Edouard Manet, Olympia, 1863
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Pablo Picasso,Girl Before a Mirror, ca. 1932
Henri Matisse, Woman Wearing aHat, 1905
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Albert Giacometti, Man Pointing, 1947
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Kiki Smith, Untitled Barbara Kruger, Untitled
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