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Art History 111 – Introduction To The History Of Art Nowhere are the values, beliefs, priorities, aspirations and fears of a society more evident than in its artistic production. Artists are the mirror of their times, whether as promoters of the status quo, or as the catalysts for revolution and social change. Consequently, this course is designed to provide students not only with an introduction to the history of art, but also with an understanding of the ways in which art and artists both shape and are shaped by the cultures in which they operate. Students will learn key art-historical periods and cultures, and a sampling of artworks and monuments most characteristic of each period and culture, as well as the methods of art history: visual analysis, descriptive and analytical writing, and important terms and concepts. In addition, all weekly lectures and discussion sections will have a thematic component focused the relationship between the creators of art and the societies in which they lived and worked. Art has never been produced in a vacuum: artists and patrons are uniquely powerful members of the social collective, imbued with an aesthetic and technical power to inspire awe and thus to move minds, promote agendas, reinforce existing consensus or overturn it completely.

Mastaba Standard tomb type in in early Egypt

Imhotep (architect) Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser) Saqqara, Egypt 2630-2611 BCE

Great Pyramids: Gizeh, Pyramids of Menkaure (2490-2472); Khafre (2520-2494; Khufu (2551-2528) Pyramids: where Egyptian kings were reborn in the afterlife, just as the sun is reborn each day at dawn

Paintings:

Last Judgment of Hunefer Painted papyrus scroll, 1’3 ½”, detail of an Illustrated Book of the Dead, from the tomb of Hunefer, Thebes, Egypt, 19th Dynasty, ca.1290-175 BCE Anubis (jackal), Thoth (ibis), Horus (falcon), Osiris (God of Dead)

Sculptures:

Menkaure and Khamerernebty (?) from Gizeh, Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, 2490-2472, Graywacke, 4’6 ½” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Seated Scribe from Saqqara, Egypt, 2500 BCE, painted limestone, 1’9” high

Mycenean (Late Helladic) Art ca. 1700-1200 BCE

Treasury of Atreus Mycenae, Greece ca. 1300-1250 BCE

Death Mask, Grave Circle A repoussé (beaten gold) ca. 1600-1500 BCE, 12 inches high

Dorian Invasion “Dark Ages” ca. 1100 – 750 BCE Remembrance of the Heroic Age Hesiod, ca. 750-650 BCE Olympics Begin 776 BCE Homer 7th Century BCE Epic poems, formerly passed down bard to bard, were recorded in written form.

Phases of Greek Art Geometric (ca. 900-600) Orientalizing (ca.900-600) Archaic (ca. 600-480) Early Classical (ca. 480-400) Late Classical (ca. 400-323) Hellenistic (ca. 323-30)

Geometric Krater From the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece ca. 740 BCE 3’ 4 ½”

Temple of Aphaia Ca. 500-490 BCE, view from the south east

Dying Warrior from the west pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, Marble ca. 490 BCE

Dying Warrior from the east pediment of the Temple of Aphaia, Aegina, Greece, Marble, 6’ 1” ca.480 BCE

Pan Painter, Artemis slaying Actaeon c. 470-460 BCE

Penthesileia Painter, Kylix, 16 7/8” c. 460 BCE

Exekias, Achilles and Ajax playing a dice game Athenian black-figure amphora, from Vulci, Italy, 2’ ca. 540-53 BCE

Mourning Athena ca. 460 BCE votive relief stele, Acropolis

Grave Stele of Hegeso from the Dipylon cemetery, Athens, Greece, Marble, 5’ 2” ca. 400 BCE...