WESTERN ART

HISTORY
ARTS IN PRE -
HISTORIC
CIVILIZATION
 Prehistoric art ( 40,000-
4,000 BC.)

 Rock carvings, engravings , pictorial

imagery ,sculpture, and stone
arrangement.
MEDIEVAL ARTS IN
EUROPE
MEDIEVAL ART (500 –
1400)
 Centered around the church; biblical
subject and scene from classical
mythology; illuminated manuscript and
Gothic architecture.
FAMOUS ARTIST IN WESTERN
EUROPE
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
 Pablo Ruiz Picasso was a Spanish
painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist
and theatre designer who spent most of
his adult life in France.

Three musician
 Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

 Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian

polymath of the High Renaissance who was active
as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist,
theorist, sculptor, and architect. 
Diego Velázquez(1599–1660)

 Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was

a Spanish painter, the leading artist in the
court of King Philip IV of Spain and
Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age.
 Las meninas
Gian Lorenzo Bernini(1598–1680)

 Gian Lorenzo Bernini was an Italian sculptor and architect.

While a major figure in the world of architecture, he was
more prominently the leading sculptor of his age, credited
with creating the Baroque style of sculpture. 

Medusa David
Most Common paintings
in Classical Greek
The Pergamon altar (180-
160BC)
 Was a monumental construction built during
the reign of the Ancient Greek King Eumenes II
in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of
the terraces of the acropolis of Pergamon in
Asia Minor.
Goddesses from the east pediment
of the Parthenon (c 438-432BC) ...

 The east pediment of the Parthenon showed the birth

of goddess Athena from the head of her father Zeus. The
sculptures that represented the actual scene are lost. Zeus
was probably shown seated, while Athena was striding
away from him fully grown and armed.
 God from the sea, Zeus or
Poseidon (c 470BC) 

 This majestic bronze, found in the sea off

Greece, conveys the magic of Greek
mythology. The god – probably Zeus,
lord of Olympus himself – is caught in the
act of hurling a thunderbolt.
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