WESTERN

CLASSICAL ART
TRADITIONS
PRE-HISTORIC ERA
■It includes all human existence
before the emergence of writing.
■Understanding of early human life
and culture.
■Found inside cave
■Way of communication
THE GREAT HALL OF THE BULLS
THE SHAFT OF THE DEAD MAN
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
■Make deceased afterlife place
pleasant.
■Themes include journey to the
underworld by their protective deities.
■Emphasizes the importance of life
after death and the preservation of
the knowledge of the past.
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT

■Highly stylized, symbolic, and showed

profile view of an animal or person.
■Main colors used were red, black,
blue, gold and green.
SARCOPHAGUS OF TUTANKHAMEN XVII
DYNASTY
 PAINTINGS FROM CLASSICAL
GREEK ERA
■Commonly found in vases, panels,
and tomb.
■Most of the subjects were battle
scenes, mythological figures, and
everyday scenes.
 COMMON METHODS OF GREEK
PAINTING
1.Fresco – method of painting water-based
pigments on a freshly applied plaster
usually on a wall surfaces.
2.Encaustic – developed by Greek
shipbuilders, who used hot wax to fill the
cracks of the ship.
VASE PAINTING
■ Kerch Style – referred to as Kerch Vases are
red, figured pottery named after the place
where it was found.
Shapes commonly found:
1.Pelike
2.Lekanis
3.Lebes Gamikos
4.Krater
PELIKE
LEKAMIS
LEBES GAMIKOS
KRATER
PANEL PAINTING
■Paintings on flat panels of wood.
■Panel paintings no longer exist
because of their organic composition.
PITSA PANEL
TOMB/WALL PAINTING
■Popular during classical period.
■Uses the method of fresco in either
tempera (water-based) or encaustic
(wax).
■Sharp, flatly outline style of painting.
■Only few samples survived
TOMB OF THE DIVER
PAINTINGS FROM ROMAN ERA
■Roman paintings have a wide variety of
subjects, animals, everyday life, still life,
mythological subjects, portraits and
landscapes.
■The development of landscape painting
is main innovation of Roman painting
from Greek painting.
MOSAIC
■An art process where an image is
created using an assemblage of small
pieces of colored glass, stones, or other
materials.
■Used for decorative art or interior
decorations.
HEAD OF ALEXANDER
BOSCOTRECASE POMPEII
BYZANTINE PAINTING
■Lively styles of painting which had been
invented in Greece and Rome loved on in
Byzantium but this time for Cristian
subjects.
■The Greek and Oriental styles seem to
blend together in magnificent and
imposing images which adorned the
churches in large and small forms.
VILLA OF MYSTERIES
ROMANESQUE PAINTING
■Largely placed mosaics on the walls of
the churches that follow a strict
frontal pose.
CHRIST IN MAJESTY
 PAINTINGS FROM THE GOTHIC
ERA
■The illumination of manuscript pages
and the painting of frescoes on the
walls of churches in cosmopolitan style,
elegant manner, and sophistication.
LADY AND THE UNICORN TAPESTRY
ROSE WINDOW FROM THE NORTH TRANSCEPT
THE SHEPERD DAVID