Lesson Objectives:
Identifies distinct characteristics
1 of arts during different periods
Create own painting that shows
the western classical artworks in
2 any era/ period showing the
characteristics.
Appreciate the relevancy,
3 importance and usefulness of
Western Classical artworks in
everyday lives
“Western Classical arts have rich
characteristics. They have specific functions
in their lives and beliefs and become the key
in understanding how the people in the early
age lived their lives. They also used
traditional symbols to represent an actual
object or an idea about the ancient culture.”
WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS
TIMELINE
Pre-
historic Egyptian Greek Roman Byzantine Romanesque Gothic
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Ancient Art Classical Art Medieval Art
1, 500, 00 BC- 2,000 2,000 BC – 400 BC 400 BC – 1400 AD
BC
WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS
ANCIENT ART
PRE- ANCIENT
HISTORIC EGYPTIAN
ANCIENT ART
PRE-HISTORIC
PRE- HISTORIC PAINTINGS
SCULPTURES
❑ Includes all human ❑ Materials used vary
existence before the according to region
emergence of writing. and locality.
❑ Their art is only one ❑ Frequently carving
clue-along with fossils, may have mythological
pollens and other or religious
archaeological significance.
discoveries.
ANCIENT ART
PRE-HISTORIC
PRE- HISTORIC PAINTINGS
SCULPTURES
❑ Found inside the caves.
❑ Drawing of animals were ❑ Result of natural
usually correct in erosion and not of
proportion. human artistry.
❑ Were more an artifacts of
archaeological evidence
than a true picture of
human’s first created art.
PRE- HISTORIC PAINTING
CAVE OF LASCAUX
PRE-HISTORIC SCULPTURES
VENUS OF BRASSEMPOUY
VENUS OF WILLENDORF
ANCIENT ART
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
PAINTINGS SCULPTURES
❑ Make the deceased ❑ Symbolic elements
person’s afterlife place were widely used.
pleasant. ❑ Tombs required the
❑ Emphasize the most extensive use of
importance of life after sculpture.
death. ❑ Filled with figures or
hieroglyphics.
ANCIENT ART
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
PAINTINGS SCULPTURES
❑ Were highly stylize and ❑ Relief compositions
symbolic, and shows a were arranged in
profile view of animals horizontal lines.
or a person. ❑ Most of the time the
❑ The walls of the tomb gods were shown larger
than humans, the kings
shows the life events of
larger than their
the king. followers, the dead
larger than the living.
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
PAINTING
Paintings from Sarcophagus of Tutankhamen XVIII
Dynasty
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN
SCULPTURES THE PHARAOH MENKAURE AND HIS
QUEEN
QUEEN NEFERTITI
WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS
CLASSICAL ART
GREEK ROMAN
CLASSICAL ART
GREEK PAINTINGS GREEK SCULPTURES
❑ Were most commonly ❑ Were tense and stiff,
found in vases, panels, their bodies were
tomb. hidden within folding
❑ Depicts natural figures robes.
with dynamic ❑ Finally evolved and
compositions. showed all the points
of human anatomy
and proportion.
CLASSICAL ART
GREEK PAINTINGS GREEK SCULPTURES
❑ Common Subjects: ❑ Hellenistic style was
1. Battle scenes used for more
2. Mythological figures elaborate patterns,
3. Everyday scenes mannered
arrangement of figures
❑ Common Methods: and groups
1. Fresco ❑ Representation of
2. Encaustic movement for
dramatic events
PAINTINGS
VASE PAINTING PANEL PAINTING
❑Paintings on flat panel
❑Refers to Kerch style
wood
(red figured pottery)
❑Pitsa Panel
❑Commonly subjects:
TOMB or WALL PAINTING
1. Life women scenes
2. Mythological beings ❑ Very popular
3. Scene from mythical ❑Uses methods of fresco
story or event ❑Sharp, flatly outlined style
of painting
CLASSICAL ART
GREEK GREEK
PAINTING SCULPTURES
MYRON, THE
JUDGMENT OF PARIS DISCOBULUS
DIFFERENT VASES:
LEKANI LEBES
PELIKE KRATER
S GAMIKOS
CLASSICAL ART
PANEL
TOMB / WALL PAINTING
PAINTING
PITSA PANEL TOMB OF THE DIVER
ROMAN ART
ROMAN PAINTINGS ROMAN SCULPTURES
❑ Copied and imitated from ❑ Made of monumental
Hellenic Greek paintings terra-cotta
❑ Fresco technique was ❑ Produce reliefs in the
used
Great Roman
❑ Development of
triumphal columns with
landscape painting
❑ Wide variety of subjects, continuous narrative
animals, everyday life, still reliefs around
life, mythological subjects,
portraits and landscapes.
ROMAN ART
ROMAN PAINTING
❑ Mosaic – An art process
where an image is
created using an
assemblage of small
pieces of coloured glass,
stones, or other materials
❑ Technique that is used for
decorative art or interior
decorations
HEAD OF ALEXANDER
ROMAN PAINTINGS
FRESCO FROM THE VILLA OF MYSTERIES VENUS OF BRASSEMPOUY
ROMAN
SCULPTURES
THE PORTONACIO SARCOPHAGUS SARCOPHAGUS, FROM CERVETIRI
WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS
MEDIEVAL ART
GREEK GOTHIC
ROMANESQUE
BYZANTINE ART
BYZANTINE PAINTINGS BYZANTINE SCULPTURES
❑ Focus on Christian ❑ Animals were used as
subjects a symbols
❑ Blend with magnificent, ❑ Used of acrostic signs
imposing images which ❑ Religious, everyday
adorned churches in life scenes and motifs
large and small forms from nature are the
dominant themes
MEDIEVAL ART
BYZANTINE BYZANTINE
PAINTING SCULPTURES
THE COURT OF EMPRESS THEODORA THE BARBERINI DIPTYCH
ROMAN ART
ROMANESQUE
ROMANESQUE PAINTINGS
SCULPTURES
❑ Largely mosaic placed ❑ With famous sculptural
on the wall of churches pieces (reliquaries,
❑ Follow a strict frontal altar frontals,
pose crucifixes and
❑ Show traces of devotional images
Mozarabic influence usually both inside and
(elongated oval faces, outside churches.
large staring eyes and
long noses, heavy
outlining
ROMAN ART
ROMANESQUE ROMANESQUE
PAINTING SCULPTURES
CHRIST IN MAJESTY LAST JUDGEMENT
GOTHIC ART
ROMANESQUE
ROMANESQUE PAINTINGS
SCULPTURES
❑ Fresco paintings on the ❑ Had greater freedom
wall churches of style
❑ Depict popular legends ❑ Began to project
and love stories outward
❑ Used of stained glass ❑ Has own particular
windows attitudes
❑ Show realistic details ❑ More lively and
and show naive realistic
naturalism.
1. Explain the following:
2. 1. What do you think is the relevancy,
importance and usefulness of Western
Classical artworks in our lives?
3. 2. Why do we need to understand the
different artworks from Pre-historic to
Gothic era?
✔ REFLECTION
✔ Share your personal insights about
the lesson using the prompts below.
I understand that ___________________.
I realize that ________________________.
Seatwork: Give the characteristics of an artworks that
would best describe in every era/period.
Characteristics of an artworks
Period/ Era (paintings and sculptures)
o 1. Pre-historic
o 2. Egyptian
o 3. Greek
o 4. Roman
o 5. Byzantine
o 6. Romanesque
o 7. Gothic
ACTIVITY # 2
I. Create your own create painting that
shows the characteristics of western
classical artworks with the application
of elements and principles of arts.
