PreColumbian amp African Art Architecture Roman builders developed the arch vault and dome Pioneered the creative use of concrete Created immense interior spaces without inner supports Architecture ID: 212644
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Roman, Pre-Columbian, & African Art
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Architecture
Roman builders developed the arch, vault and dome
Pioneered the creative use of concrete
Created immense interior spaces without inner supports
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Architecture
Basilica:
An oblong building with semicircular apses on either end, high clerestory windows
Used as a meeting place and widely imitated in medieval Christian churches.
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Basilica JuliaSlide5
Architecture
Barrel Vault
Deep arch forming a half-cylindrical roof
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Barrel VaultSlide7
Architecture
Groin Vault
Two intersecting barrel vaults at the same height that form a right angle
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Groin VaultSlide9
The Colosseum (70 A.D)
Used Doric columns at base, Ionic in the middle and Corinthian above.
Use of columns and arches allowed the
Colosseum
to rise to new heights
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The Colosseum (70 A.D)
Seated 50,000 spectators
Once flooded to stage a navel reenactment by a cast of 3,000
So efficiently laid out that it inspired present-day stadium design
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ColosseumSlide12
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Colosseum at nightSlide13
Roman Sculpture
Roman sculpture was more literal than Greek
Often kept wax death masks of ancestors that were factual molds of the deceased’s features
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Pompeii
Luxurious resort community that was covered with 18 feet of ash pumice
This preserved the city until it was uncovered 1,700 years later
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Pompeii
Villas painted with realistic still
lifes
and landscapes, which they used as make-believe windows
Intricate Mosaics made of colored stone, glass or shell
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Fish Mosaic- PompeiiSlide17
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Fish Mosaic- PompeiiSlide18
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Battle of Issus- PompeiiSlide19
Pre-Columbian
Art was vitally important to tribal society
Art objects were often thought to be magical and help ensure the tribe’s survival.
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Crocodile God Hammered Gold Breast PlateSlide21
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Mayan VaseSlide22
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Wooden Grave
Mapuche
EffigiesSlide23
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Stone Inuit Carving (Vancouver)Slide24
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Anasazi
PotterySlide25
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Hupa
Woven BasketSlide26
Mound Builders
Native Americans have always been environmentalists
Created burial mounds out of earth as a symbol of their harmony with nature.
More than 10,000 exist in the Ohio Valley, there are mounds from Florida to Wisconsin.
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Great Serpent Mound in OhioSlide28
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Great Serpent Mound in OhioSlide29
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Great Serpent Mound in OhioSlide30
Early African Art
Wooden masks were used in ritual performances
Masks were intentionally unrealistic:
When confronting a supernatural power the idea was for the performer’s identity to be completely concealed.
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Dan people wooden maskSlide32
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Ivory
Belt MaskSlide33
Early African Art
African Sculpture
Rejected real-life appearance in favor of vertical forms, tubular shapes, and stretched out body parts derived from the cylindrical form of trees.
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Couple from
Dogon
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Mother and Child from
Dogon
, Mali