ROMAN ART/ARCHITECTURE

Roman arches made from wedge shaped blocks

Extending arch

tunnel

Crossing tunnels church Circular arch = dome PANTHEON Corinthian columns with no fluting Coffers ( square things in ceiling provides structure and makes ceiling lighter),

hole at top for light (oculus) ROMAN INNOVATIONS Coffers (in pantheon) Roadways some are still used Aqueducts so that cities could be built anywhere, also they were high to prevent contamination Fountains that are fed by pipes Castles Sewers, plumbing BOSCOREALE ROOM trompe loeil- painting something to make it look 3-d/real when its only 2d roman frescoes on walls COLLOSEUM Three Columns: Bottom Doric, middle ionic, top Corinthian CONSTANTINE THE GREAT Roman legacy of portrait sculpture

BASILICA

VAULT: Arched Roof

CHRISTIAN ART Flat halos unproportional MEDIEVAL Christianity rejection of greek, roman realism/nudity/proportions Storytelling (due to illiteracy) Tribal art interlacing things Fantastic creatures Greek,Roman Kept arches, castles(defense) etc (Romanesque 700-800 AD, Gothic 1150-1250 AD) Drapery Others book illumination, symbolic, small valuable portable art miniaturization decorated book covers *flat halos, drapery does not reveal body Romanesque church:

Arches Columns Small windows Thick walls tympanum- lots of carvings, semi circle with lots of carvings

tracery

GOTHIC:

-pointed arch -ribbed vault -flying buttress (from building to tower things) RENAISSANCE: Renaissance- Italy 1400s High Renaissance 1495-1525 -shading, clothes to look like person under it o.o? -overlapping bodies Giotto 1306- first renaissance artist Florence = new Athens Petrach Humanism Genius renaissance Scrovegni Chapel- frescoes painted by Giotto -THE LAMENTATION

*atmospheric perspective

chiaroscuro

light/dark modeling

sfumato

softness, moisture

BEFORE- Egg tempera- pigment, eggyolk (stops flakiness), glaze (boiled linseed oil)- DRIES FAST THEREFORE NO BLEND NOW- oil paint- pigment, linseed oil, turpentine- CAN BLEND, CAN DRAW ON FLEXIBLE SURFACE LIKE CANVAS Richer ppl = newer techniques = less frescoes Oil paint on wet canvases doesnt dry good, peels the tempietto donato bramante

looks like pantheon NORTHERN RENAISSANCE -Hidden symbolism -Triptych, diptychs, polytych -Lots of intricate details -Religious events not only in roman times, now is religious too Master of Flemale (Robert Campin) Jan van Eyck- original user of oil paints MANNERISM- resulted from Counter Reformation -Experimentation -distorted twisted bodies -odd color combinations (pink,purple) BAROQUE -Tenebrism- dark background light figures -Caravaggio influenced Rembrandt Velazquez -Bernini -Poussin -worked for Louis XIV

-NO BLOOD/GORE ex) rape of the Sabine women -Rubens -hated Poussinists -used color? Velazquez Rembrandt Still-lifes Vermeer-genre painting ROCOCO -social scenes? -something with greek things I think (Embarkment to Cythera) -erotic o.o