1. MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN ART
HISTORY
MESOPOTAMIAN AND EGYPTIAN ART

2. MESOPOTAMIA

3. THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART
MESOPOTAMIA’S GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO ARCHITECTURE:
THE ARCH AND THE VAULT ALLOWED ARCHITECTS TO CONSTRUCT HIGH BUILDINGS. THE ARCH IS ABLE TO SUPPORT A LOT OF WEIGHT DISTRIBUTING THIS ALONG THE WHOLE BUILDING.
ZIGGURAT: MESOPOTAMIAN BUILDING MADE OF ADOBE. THEY WERE PYRAMID-SHAPED TEMPLES WITH A SANCTUARY ON THE TOP.

4. THE FIRST URBAN CIVILISATIONS: MESOPOTAMIAN ART
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF MESOPOTAMIAN ARCHITECTURE: THE ISHTAR GATE, IN BABYLON.
GLAZED CERAMICS DECORATED BUILDINGS. THEY SHOWED FLORAL AND ANIMAL MOTIVES, GEOMETRIC DESIGNS AND SCENES OF WAR.

5. HISTORY
2. EGYPTIAN ART

6. EGYPTIAN ARCHITECTURE
LINTEL
EGYPTIAN ART USED LINTELS AND WAS BASED ON MONUMENTALISM (HUGE MONUMENTS).
HORIZONTAL STONE SUPPORTED BY TWO PILLARS.
EGYPTIAN TEMPLES SHOW HOW THEY WERE USED IN ARCHITECTURE

7. THE EGYPTIAN TEMPLE
TEMPLES HAD DIFFERENT PARTS. ONLY THE PHARAOHS AND THE PRIESTS COULD ENTER THE SANCTUARY
AVENUE OF SPHINXES

8. EGYPTIAN TOMBS
ALL THE TUMBS SHOWED PAINTINGS ABOUT THE AFTERLIFE AND THE JUDGEMENT OF OSIRIS

9. EGYPTIAN TOMBS: paintings
THIS PAINTING SHOWS THE GOD ANUBIS, GOD OF THE UNDERWORLD, MUMMIFYING A BODY.
EGYPTIANS PRACTICED MUMMUFICATION TO PRESERVE THE BODIES FOR THEIR JOURNEY TO THE AFTERLIFE

10. GREEK ART MOTIF GREEK SCUPTURE PERIOD ARCHAIC PERIOD CLASSICAL PERIOD
NAKED YOUNG WOMEN AND MEN (KORAI-KUROI)
INESCRUTABLE FACIAL EXPRESSIONS
CLASSICAL PERIOD
(5th and 4th C. BC)
STATUES OF SPORTMEN, GODS AND GODDESSES
AGILITY AND MOVEMENT
SERENE FACIAL EXPRESSION
HELLENISTIC PERIOD
MYTHOLOGICAL SCENES
TWISTED AND EXAGGERATED MOVEMENT OF THE BODIES
PERIOD
MOTIF
CHARACTERISTICS

11. GREEK ART
1. SCULPTURE
The DORYPHOROS BY THE SCULPTOR Polykleitos shows the Greek CANON (Perfect body proportions): seven times the height of the head

12. GREEK ART 2. ARCHITECTURE
THE DIFFERENCES AMONG THE THREE ORDERS FOCUS ON THE COLUMN AND CAPITAL

13. ROMAN ART ARCHITECTURE
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE USED BOTH THE ARCH AND THE VAULT / LINTELS AND COLUMNS

14. FORUM, the public square in cities.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS
AQUEDUCT, WHICH TRANSPORTED WATER TO CITIES
FORUM, the public square in cities.
PUBLIC BATHS (THERMAE)