The Four Tetrarchs, ca. 305, Porphyry
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,Hellenistic Period
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-decline of the ideals espoused by the age of Perikles and Phidias
-defeat of the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C.E.
-Alexander the Great
-Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, and even parts of India
-Eastern (Oriental) cultural and artistic influences
-classical canon of idealized human beauty: drama, violence, suffering,
age, physical decay
-nude female figures
Al-Khazneh (the "Treasury"), rock-cut mausoleum, Petra (Jordan), 2nd century
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Emancipation and Re-Definition of Artistic Identity
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-The French Academy of Painting and Sculpture (founded 1648) was
influential in defining the modern identity of the artist as an independent
intellectual; a development that only accelerates over the course of the
19th century (when the Academic system is already in decline; Rembrandt
ahead of his time)
, -Demise of the traditional patronage system in place since the
Renaissance; during the 18th/19th centuries artists no longer produce for
patrons, but for the market place (they no longer know their clients on a
personal basis most of the time)
Relief Processes
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-Printing occurs with the raised parts of the plate; those parts that have not
been cut away
-Examples: linoleum cuts (linocuts), woodcuts (or woodengravings)
Iktinos and Kallikrates, The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 448-432 B.C.E.
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Augustus
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-admiration of Greek models
-mythological and allegorical figures
-Cult of the Emperor, Emperors were seen as god-like
, -relief panels
-Tellus Relief panel
Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503, watercolor
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Etruscan Sculpture
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-Founding myth of Rome: Romulus and Remus
-Bronze and terracotta
Early Dynastic Period
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,Hellenistic Period
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-decline of the ideals espoused by the age of Perikles and Phidias
-defeat of the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C.E.
-Alexander the Great
-Sumer, Babylon, Egypt, Assyria, Persia, and even parts of India
-Eastern (Oriental) cultural and artistic influences
-classical canon of idealized human beauty: drama, violence, suffering,
age, physical decay
-nude female figures
Al-Khazneh (the "Treasury"), rock-cut mausoleum, Petra (Jordan), 2nd century
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Emancipation and Re-Definition of Artistic Identity
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-The French Academy of Painting and Sculpture (founded 1648) was
influential in defining the modern identity of the artist as an independent
intellectual; a development that only accelerates over the course of the
19th century (when the Academic system is already in decline; Rembrandt
ahead of his time)
, -Demise of the traditional patronage system in place since the
Renaissance; during the 18th/19th centuries artists no longer produce for
patrons, but for the market place (they no longer know their clients on a
personal basis most of the time)
Relief Processes
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-Printing occurs with the raised parts of the plate; those parts that have not
been cut away
-Examples: linoleum cuts (linocuts), woodcuts (or woodengravings)
Iktinos and Kallikrates, The Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, 448-432 B.C.E.
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Augustus
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-admiration of Greek models
-mythological and allegorical figures
-Cult of the Emperor, Emperors were seen as god-like
, -relief panels
-Tellus Relief panel
Albrecht Dürer, The Great Piece of Turf, 1503, watercolor
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Etruscan Sculpture
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-Founding myth of Rome: Romulus and Remus
-Bronze and terracotta
Early Dynastic Period
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