ARTH 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Doric Order, Homoeroticism, Roman Sculpture
7 Dec 2016
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Identify each image by giving three pieces of information (each worth 1 2 point): artist, title, approximate date (date given in power point + or 10 years) The answers should be composed in prose, not in bullet points. Answers in bullet-point form tend to consist of random pieces of facts and information. We want to see how you support your answers with historical information and formal analysis. Literary and artistic naturalism aims at accuracy and objectivity and cultivates realistic and even sordid portrayals of people and their environment. Light and shadow to suggest volume and show a light source, drapery. Emphasize on emotion and drama conveyed in religion. Discuss how the artist achieves effects of naturalism in this work, but at the same time follows conventions of religious art in the period. Creates a dramatic scene: weapons, faces different directions. Two-toned surfaces: columns and arches from gray tuscan sandstone. Borrowed it from classical art, show he is knowledgable.
