Study Images for AP Art History

Ancient and Classical Worlds

Stele of Naram-Sinc. 2254-2218 BCE

Lamasu. Human-headed winged bull facing. Bas-relief from King Sargon II's palace at Dur Sharrukin in Assyria (now Khorsabad in Iraq), c. 713–716 BCE.

Assyrian Art

Lamassu• Guardian figure protects

entrances into palaces• Combination man and animals• Winged, hoofed• Has five legs: two if you look from

the front, four as you look from the side

Audience Hall at Persepolis (c. 500 BCE)

Portion from the Egyptian Book of the Dead

Temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Deir al-Bahrri c1490-1460 bce

“The Place of the Northern Monastery”

Karnak Temple Complex

Funerary Krater

Grave Stele of Hegeso

Nike Adjusting Her Sandal

Nike of Samothrace

The Temple of Athena Nike

447 B.C. – 438 B.C. Classical Period

Iktinos and Kallikrates – architectsPheidias - Sculptor

Hellenistic SculptureLaocoön and His Sons• Negative space• Many viewpoints, eyes wander

everywhere• Laocoön trying to tell the Trojans

that the Greek horse was booby-trapped

• Strangling of figures by snakes sent by the gods to silence them

• Deep cutting into stone to create shadows

• Extreme musculature• Agonizing expressions • Figure to the right added later

AraPacis c. 13 – 19 BCE

Ara Pacis, South Wall

Ara Pacis, 13 – 9 BCE, RomeFertility and Fecundity

Trier, Basilica of Constantine (audience hall)

Audience Hall of Constantine at Trier, early 4th century

Wall Paintings from Pompeii

Second Style – 1st century BCE

Pompeii,

60 – 50 BCE

Villa of the Mysteries

Villa of the Mysteries

Dionysiac Mystery Frieze•Fresco, Foreshortening•2nd Pompeian Style painting•Large figures in a frieze-like format•Initiation rites into the female cult of Dionysos•Figures act out mystery rites•Painted marble panels at bottom, from the First Pompeian style of painting•Bright Pompeian red background pushes figures forward•No linear perspective, but three dimensional illusionism•Figures interact with each other on adjacent wall spaces

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

Atrium, House of the Silver Wedding