Objectives

• describe the characteristics of prehistoric

art;
• identify the artistic elements of Egypt,
Greek and Roman Arts;
• realize the importance of Ancient art and
culture in our daily living; and
• create artworks guided by techniques and
styles of Ancient and Classical art.
Ancient Art
• refers to many types of art produced by
the advanced cultures of ancient
societies with some form of writing
such as those of ancient China, India,
Mesopotamia, Persia, Israel, Egypt,
Greece and Rome.
 Ancient Art
• China – they made
numerous pre
historical arts such as
sculptures like the
Terracotta Warriors,
Bells like the Zhou
dynasty Bronze Bell,
Potteries and many
more.
 Ancient Art
• Mesopotamia –
People of
Mesopotamia made
statue and
sculptures during the
reign of the
Assyrians and
Babylonians.
 Ancient Art
• Greece – An ancient
Greece made pots,
trophies and wine
decanters from the
material wood and
rarely stone and
marble.
Introduction to Prehistoric Art
Types
• Archeologists have identified 4 basic types of Stone
Age art, as follows: 
1. Petroglyphs (cupules, rock carvings and
engravings);
2. Pictographs (pictorial imagery, ideomorphs,
ideograms or symbols), a category that includes cave
painting and drawing; and 
Introduction to Prehistoric Art
Types

3. Prehistoric sculpture (including small totemic statuettes

known as Venus Figurines, various forms of zoomorphic and
therianthropic ivory carving,and relief sculptures)
4. Megalithic art(petroforms or any other works associated
with arrangements of stones). Artworks that are applied to
an immoveable rock surface are classified as parietal art;
works that are portable are classified as mobiliary art.
Characteristics
• Would vary according to culture, beliefs
and the individual artist
• Would be in the materials used, it being
charcoal, ash, pigment, or carving in stone
or wood.
Classical Art

• The term Classical may be applied to all art and

music from a specific period in history (1750-
1820). In the strictest sense, this is a term used to
characterize the art, literature, and aesthetics
created by the ancient Greeks and Romans. In the
visual arts, a sense of control in the handling of
themes and a sense of order and proportion of
forms are observed.
Classical art was formed by three of the most
influential types of arts made by mankind:

• Egyptian Art
• Greek Art
• Roman Art
Egyptian Art

• Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture,

architecture and other arts produced by the
civilization of Ancient Egypt in the Lower
Nile Valley from about 1000 BCE to 100 AD.
Ancient Egyptian art reached a high level in
painting and sculpture and was both highly
stylish and symbolic.
 Egyptian Art
• Architecture
(Egyptian Pyramids)

- The ancient Egypt

pyramids are the
world’s largest and
oldest tombs or burial
places.
 Egyptian Art
• Painting
• Egyptian paintings show
mythological
representations and
scenes of the everyday
activities of the Egyptians
such as hunting, fishing,
farming, or banqueting.
 Egyptian Art
• Sculpture
(Akhenaten and Nefertiti)
• King Akhenetan and
Queen Nefertiti, rulers of
Egypt during the Amarna
period are shown in this
limestone statuette.
 Egyptian Art
• Folk Arts
• In ancient Egypt, both
living and the dead wore
jewelry. Egyptians
create amulets and
jewelry because of their
belief of these objects’
ability to protect them
 Egyptian Art
• Folk Arts
• This pectoral or a type
of large necklace, which
is worn on the chest is
found in the tomb of an
18th Dynasty Pharoah,
Tuthankhamun.
 Egyptian Art
• Folk Arts
(An ancient Egyptian pot)
• Pre dynastic period
(5000 BC – 3000 BC)
• One of the ancient
Egyptians’ earliest art
forms.
 Greek Art
• Greek art have exercised on the culture of countries
around the world, particularly the art of sculpture and
architecture. Its focus is Humanism and the belief of
Human kind’s spark of Humanity.
• Greeks Classical art became Hellenistic art during the 4 th
century BC following the conquests of Alexander the
Great.
 Greek Art
• Architecture
(The Parthenon)
• It is considered
as the greatest
monument of the
Golden Age of
Athens in Greece
 Greek Art
•Painting
• An early Greek panel
painting of an
unknown artist for a
tomb at Paestum,
Italy.
 Greek Art
•Sculpture
(Venus de Milo)
• Art historians
describe this piece as
the ideal of
Hellenistic beauty.
 Greek Art
•Sculpture
(Laocoon and His Sons)
It is considered as one
of the most famous
ancient sculptures.
 Greek Art
•Folk Art
The artistry of the ancient
people of Greece was
evident in the way they
decorated the jewelry
with various images of
people, plants, and
animals.
Roman Art
• Roman art refers to the visual arts
made in Ancient Rome and in the
territories of the Roman Empire.
 Roman Art
• Architecture
(Maison Carree, Nimes)
• They expanded the
interior chamber of the
Maison Carree and it
reached the outer
columns, and they raised
the temple on a podium.
 Roman Art
• Architecture
(The Pantheon in Rome)
• Roman engineers
completed the Pantheon,
a temple to all the gods,
in AD 128
 Roman Art
•Painting
(The Grand Hunt)
• Roman paintings
portray rituals, myths,
landscapes, still life,
and scenes of the daily
activities of the Roman
 Roman Art

•Sculpture
(The Capitoline Wolf)
• It is a statue that has
become the symbol of
the city of Rome. It is a
bronze sculpture of a
she-wolf with suckling
twin infants.
 Roman Art
•Folk Arts
(Battle of Issus)
• Roman mosaics depict
scenes from everyday
life and athletes in
various poses.
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