Sculpture
Sculpture
Sculpture
CLASSICAL
ART
TRADITIONS
SHORT REVIEW....
•PRE-HISTORIC ERA
•ANCIENT EGYPT
•CLASSICAL GREEK
•ROMANTIC
•BYZANTINE
•ROMANESQUE
SCULPTUR
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PRE-HISTORIC
SCULPTURE
•Materials used in sculptures vary according
to region and locality.
•Archeologists believed that their sculpture is
a result of natural erosion and not of human
artistry.
•Frequently carving may have mythological or
religious significance
Venus of Willendorf
28,000 B.C.E. – 25,000 B.C.E
Image from Treasures of the
World, 1961 CCP Library
Shows an attitude of
maximum tension, full
of compressed energy,
and about to explode
an action.
Roman Sculptures
•Most Roman sculptures are made of
monumental terra-cotta.
•They did not attempt to compete with
the mythology but rather they produced
reliefs in the Great Roman triumphal
columns with continuous narrative
reliefs around.
The Portonacio Sarcophagus
between 180-190 BCE
Museu Nationale Romano
-an early
example of
Byzantine
Ivory work
Romanesque
Sculptures
•Small individual works of art were
generally made of costly materials for
royal and aristocratic patrons.
•These lightweight devotional images
were usually carried in the processions
both inside and outside the churches
Gothic Sculptures
• Gothic sculptures have a greater freedom of
style.
• They no longer lay closely against the wall,
but begun to project outward.
• Figures were given their own particular
attitudes instead of being set into particular
patterns and are more lively and realistic.
Resurrection
of the Virgin,
end of the
12th century
Cathedral
Amiens
CLAY
TIME!