Two Dimensional Media: having the dimensions of height and width only. Seen only from the front including painting, drawing, and prints. Fresco: wall painting Painting on wood panel Painting on silk Smenkhkare & Meritaten(?), Tel el-Amarna, Dynasty 18, ca. 1335 BCE Virgin of Vladimir, ca. 1100 Zhou Jichhang, Arhats Giving Alms to Beggars, 1178

Drawing on vellum Drawing on paper Koran page, beginning of Surah, 9th century Bernardino Poccetti, Drawing of Design for façade of Florence Cathedral, 13th century

Three Dimensional: having height, width, and depth Three Dimensional: having height, width, and depth. Can be seen in the round including sculpture, craft, and architecture Carved Modeled Cast Shaman with drum and Snake, ca. 1000 Sarcophagus with reclining couple, ca. 520 BCE Lion Human, Germany, Ca. 30,000-26,000 BCE

Sculpture: assembled Relief Victory stele of Naram Sin, ca. 2300-2200 BCE Bull headed lyre from Ur, ca. 2600 BCE,

Architecture Religious Homes Tombs Great pyramids of Giza, 2500 BCE Chartres Cathedral, Begun 1134, rebuilt 1194 Model of house & garden, Thebes, Dynasty 11, Ca 2009-1997 BCE

Composition: structure and organization of a work of art Landscape setting Dressed in the Roman manner Foreground, middleground, and background Crowded and busy Byzantine border David Composing Psalms, Paris Psalter, ca. 900, 14-1/8 X 10-1/8”, Biblioteque Nationale, Paris

Proportion and scale: size of parts to the whole or relationship of the work to its surrounding Colossal head, La Venta, Mexico, 900-400 BCE, basalt, 96” high Pepy II & his mother, Queen Meyre, Dynasty 6, ca. 2383-2289 BCE, calcite, 15-1/4”, Brooklyn Museum Hierarchic proportion Mounumental scale

Symmetry Balance Purse cover, Sutton Hoo ship burial, 625-33, gold with garnets and enamels, 8” long, British Museum, London S. Appolinaire in Classe, interior, Ravenna, 533-49 CE

Color: makes an impression, can be symbolic (Mary in blue) Stavelot triptych, Mosan, ca. 1156-58, gold, cloisonne enamel, 19 X 26” (open), Pierpont Morgan Library, New York Virgin and Child with Saints and Angels, icon, Monastery of St. Catherine, Mt. Sinai, Egypt, second half 6th century, encaustic on wood, 27 X 18-7/8”

Lines: most basic element. Can be real or “implied” (imagined). Actual lines Implied lines (connect his hand to audience) Chi Ro Iota, Book of Kells, ca. 8th century, tempera on vellum, 13 X 9-1/2”, Trinity College, Dublin Aulus Metellus, late 2nd Century BCE, bronze, 5’11”, Museo Archelogico Nazionale, Florence

Content: meaning, symbolism, decoration, religious or narrative, representational, non-representational, expressionism Rebecca & Eliezer at the Well, Folio 7, Vienna Genesis, tempera, gold, silver on purple vellum Shiva, as Nataraja, bronze, Punjab, ca. 1000 Symbolic Narrative

Crucifixion, Church of Hosios Loukas, Greece, ca. 1020, mosaic Religious Content and Expressionism Decorative and Non Represenational Representational Crucifixion, Church of Hosios Loukas, Greece, ca. 1020, mosaic Banner from So. Spain, 13th century, silk tapestry, Burgos, Spain