Hello Class: Just like what I mentioned in our class before, your homework during the weekend is to choose your favorite artist for your group presentation. Each group is required to write 10 to 15 pages paper in Word format and present the most important part together with artwork images in PowerPoint during and outside […]
Sandro Botticelli was an Italian painter of Early Renaissance and an artist of Florentine School. During his lifetime he was one of the most acclaimed painters in Italy. Among his best known works are The Birth of Venus and Primavera. Jan van Eyck (1390–1441) was an Early Netherlandish painter active in Bruges and one of the […]
Raphael – “Study for the Three Graces” (1518) Media: Red chalk over stylus Image source: Wiki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHUVyg85r-A Raphael Sanzio (1483 – 1520) was a productive master painter and architect of the Italian High Renaissance. Raphael was one of the finest draftsmen in the history of Western art, and used drawings extensively to plan his compositions. […]
Image and text source: Internet The Pietà (1498–1499) is a world-famous work of Renaissance sculpture by Michelangelo Buonarroti, housed in St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City. It is the first of a number of works of the same theme by the artist. The statue was commissioned for the French Cardinal Jean de Bilhères, who was a […]
The Medieval Art of the Western world covers a vast scope of time and place, over 1000 years of art in Europe, and at times the Middle East and North Africa. It includes major art movements and periods, national and regional art, genres, revivals, the artists crafts, and the artists themselves. Art historians attempt to […]
Image source: Internet Byzantine art is the name for the artistic products of the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from Rome’s decline and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, many Eastern Orthodox states in Eastern Europe, […]
Today’s homework is to watch the first video (Roman Art History from Goodbye-Art Academy). I may ask some homework questions in the next class. Roman art refers to the visual arts made in Ancient Rome and in the territories of the Roman Empire. Roman art includes architecture, painting, and sculpture. While the traditional view of […]
So-called Venus Braschi by Praxiteles, type of the Knidian Aphrodite, Munich Glyptothek Considered to be the origins of modern civilization, the Greeks built an empire rich in culture and knowledge, as well as stunning art achievement. The arts of ancient Greece have exercised an enormous influence on the culture of many countries all over the […]
Photo Credit: Ping Xu Poster Design by Ping Xu Truman’s Study Abroad team (faculty and students) visited the pit-1 of Museum of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses on May 29, 2013. The Terracotta Warriors made in the Qin Dynasty (221–206 BC), were discovered by chance in 1974, and have since become an icon of Chinese […]
Image Source: Internet http://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/the-egyptian-pyramids For more than 2,000 years, Egypt was one of the richest and most civilized lands in the ancient world. Much of what we know about this great civilization has been learned from its art and architecture. In particular, the ruins of tombs and temples have provided a valuable record of Egyptian […]
