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    Western classical art traditions developed over thousands of years, from pre-historic cave paintings used for communication, to paintings in ancient Egypt that emphasized the importance of the afterlife. Egyptian paintings were highly stylized and used symbolic imagery with colors like red, blue and green. Classical Greek paintings commonly depicted battle scenes, myths and everyday life, using techniques like fresco and encaustic. Roman paintings expanded on landscapes and depicted a variety of subjects. Byzantine art blended Greek and Oriental styles for Christian subjects. Gothic art featured illuminated manuscripts and frescoes with elegant style.

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    Western classical art traditions developed over thousands of years, from pre-historic cave paintings used for communication, to paintings in ancient Egypt that emphasized the importance of the afterlife. Egyptian paintings were highly stylized and used symbolic imagery with colors like red, blue and green. Classical Greek paintings commonly depicted battle scenes, myths and everyday life, using techniques like fresco and encaustic. Roman paintings expanded on landscapes and depicted a variety of subjects. Byzantine art blended Greek and Oriental styles for Christian subjects. Gothic art featured illuminated manuscripts and frescoes with elegant style.

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    Western classical art traditions developed over thousands of years, from pre-historic cave paintings used for communication, to paintings in ancient Egypt that emphasized the importance of the afterlife. Egyptian paintings were highly stylized and used symbolic imagery with colors like red, blue and green. Classical Greek paintings commonly depicted battle scenes, myths and everyday life, using techniques like fresco and encaustic. Roman paintings expanded on landscapes and depicted a variety of subjects. Byzantine art blended Greek and Oriental styles for Christian subjects. Gothic art featured illuminated manuscripts and frescoes with elegant style.

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    Western Classical Art Traditions - Paintings

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    Western classical art traditions developed over thousands of years, from pre-historic cave paintings used for communication, to paintings in ancient Egypt that emphasized the importance of the afterlife. Egyptian paintings were highly stylized and used symbolic imagery with colors like red, blue and green. Classical Greek paintings commonly depicted battle scenes, myths and everyday life, using techniques like fresco and encaustic. Roman paintings expanded on landscapes and depicted a variety of subjects. Byzantine art blended Greek and Oriental styles for Christian subjects. Gothic art featured illuminated manuscripts and frescoes with elegant style.

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    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

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