1. Mid-term Study Slides 1
2012

2. Babylonian Art
Stele of Hammurabi
• 300 law codes at bottom
• Punishments depend on social standing
• Earliest body of laws in existence
• Hammurabi standing saluting god Shamash
• Hammurabi rules with the permission of the
god
• Shamash hands the code to him
• Divinely inspired law
• Shamash has a coil-shaped crown, an extremely
long beard and flames (wings?) coming from his
back
• Cuneiform

3. Audience Hall at Persepolis (c. 500 BCE)

4. Note the impression of cylindrical volume (perhaps influenced or
done by Ionian Greeks)
from Persepolis

5. Funerary Temple of Hatshepsut

6. Queen (Pharoah) Hatsepshut
(c. 1495 BCE)

7. Minoan Bull-Jumping Fresco

8. Helmet The crested helmet with a floral
design immediately marks this archer as
foreign. The helmet is of Scythian or
persian design, but to Greek artists, less
concerned with historical accuracy, it
servedto conjure a Trojan warrior from the
Hair Holes left in the marble indicate
east
where the statue had
accrouterments, like the fringe of hair
framing the forehead and spilling from
Face Dark Paint marking brows and eyelids gives a
the helmet. These were originally
lively, alert expression. The Temple of Aphaia was built
modelled in lead, malleable enough to
between Greece’s archaic and classical periods. The archer
capture flowing locks.
retains the so-called archaic smile, yet his pose and the
modeling’s subtle realism look to the coming age.
Vest Incised lines, visible under
Bow and Arrow The bow was
rakinglight, served as guides for the lions and
originally made of marble and
griffins. Coloring was determined by traces of
bronze, the arrows of colored
pigment but also by variations in the stone’s
bronze and gilded tips. The
weathering. Durable vermillion protects stone
shape of the missing bow has
longer than does fragile yellow ochre, for
been reconstructed in part by
example.
using images from Greek
vases.
Trousers The harlequinlike
diamond pattern appears under
ultraviolet light. The artist
captured the fabric’s elasticity by
having the diamonds stretch and
compress at points – as on the
Crouching Pose Battle scenes were common
bent knee – to reflect
at he awkward triangular spaces on the
movement.
temple pediments. The crouching pose filled
in the midpoint between apex and
corner, while a fallen warrior occupied the
narrowest space.
Greek Archaic Sculpture

9. Kritios Boy
c. 480 BCE

10. •Disheveled, aged and weary
•Wrinkled face, saggy flesh
and bent body
•Represents a specific
moment in her journey
•Naturalistic and immediate
depiction
•Hellenisitic time is more
cosmopolitan
•More interest in diversity
and observations of human
experience
•Less interest in perfect order
and idealization, timeless
vision of youth
Old Market Woman
1st century CE

11. Ara Pacis c. 13 – 19 BCE

12. Atrium, House of the Silver Wedding

13. Ixion Room
•Fresco, linear perspective, atmospheric
perspective
•Foreshortening
•Ixion murdered his father-in-law and planned
to seduce Hera
•Zeus struck him with a thunderbolt and
ordered him to be tied to a wheel in hell
•Scheme of red and white fields
•On bottom painted to resemble marble slabs
•On top, architectural vistas that do not align
to a single viewpoint
•Thin delicate motifs alternate with framed
mythological scenes

14. Flavian Amphitheatre

15. Flavian Amphitheatre, 80 CE

16. Basilica of Santa Sabina, Rome, c. 432 C.E.

17. Arch of Constantine, c. 315 CE

18. Trier, Basilica of Constantine (audience hall)

19. Audience Hall of Constantine at Trier, early 4th century

20. Sarcophagi of Junius Bassus, c. 359 CE

21. Hagia Sophia

22. Hagia Sophia

23. The Alhambra, 1338 - 1390