Early Art Approx. 20,000BC Southern France, 20,000 years ago, Lascaux France, Hall of Bulls Cave Art Priest paintings of animals they did not hunt, but watched, wanting to be like them. Ice age for 15,000 years Ancient Egyptian Art Afterlife was topic of art 1370 BC Tomb paintings promoted success in afterlife Messages have to be clear Each part of figures are painted in clearest view (eyes from front, face from profile, body from front, feet from profile) Ancient Greece, 500BC Human body is center of artists’ focus. Last Greek paintings are on vases, like Achilles killing Penthelisea, Queen of the Amazons Achilles fell in love with her as he killed her. Roman Art Pompeii covered by Vesuvius Romans not quite as convincing as Greeks in painting figures (The Baker and his Wife) Scotland 800 AD Dark Ages Monks lived in fear of Vikings raids Book of Quells Book was cut down by a restorer, people signed it, business transactions recorded France 1400 AD Middle Ages, International Styles, Castles and battlements Non-religious art reappears after dark ages. Castle grounds and peasants Paintings for rich people and of their lives (break) Italy 1300 Giotto (Florence) Shepherd boy painting Christian story on church walls (concerned with the people on Earth) The Resurrection Medieval Europe Duccio Sienna’s champion painter who painted for victory Gothic artist (which means heaven takes precedent of earth) Ambosio Lawerenzeti Painted in council room good and bad government in Sienna Basilica De Francesco in Assisi Gothic art of “who’s who” in Italy Jan Van Eyck First master of oils, on wood rather than the damp walls. Portrait of the married couple exemplified wealth and success through The swelling stomach, show bed, oranges, dress Van der Weyden Last Judgment Painting in the hospital for sick to view for faith Good at evoking emotion in the painting Gothic paintings evoke fears of people for not having pure faith Religious warnings and depictions of suffering Gargoyles and devils