Art History Review

Here are a sample of slides to help you review

the terms and concepts from class discussion

and the readings.

Art and Religion

How would you describe the interplay between

art and religion?

• How art explains the dogma of a religion

• Art can confirm the faith of believers

• An intermixture of art, religion and politics

• Art facilitates religious ritual

Cubiculum of Leonis, Catacomb of Commodilla. Late 4th century.

Reconstruction Drawing, Old St. Peter's Basilica. c. 320–327;

atrium added in later 4th century. Approx. 394’ long and 210’ wide..

Church of Santa Costanza. c. 350.

Santa Costanza (ca. 350 CE)

Rome

Harvesting of grapes - example of syncretism

Hagia Sophia (532-537 CE)

Anthemius of Tralles and Isidorias of Miletus, Architects

Istanbul, Turkey

The Islamic World

Empires Video

Islamic art and religion

Mihrab, Great Mosque

Cordoba, Spain 965 CE

Qu’ran, Kufic script

Calligraphy 700-800 CE

Muhammad as prophet (570-633)

•Receptor and translator of revelations of God

•Not divine, no saints in Islam

•Depends on individual accountability with God

Five Pillars of Islam

• Shehadah (Witness) – no one worthy of

worship but Allah

• Salat (Prayer) – five times daily individual

prayer

• Sawm (Fasting) – Ramandan

• Zakat (Alms) – tithing

• Hajj (Pilgrimage) – based on original 622 CE

Hijra by Mohammad from Medina

Great Mosque at

Cordoba, Spain

(786-987)

Virtual Tour

Quibla wall

Mihrab

Prayer Hall, Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain.

Begun 785–786.

Taj Mahal. Mughal period, reign of Shah Jahan, c. 1631–1648.

South and Southeast Asia.

Standing Buddha. c. 5th century CE.

Great Stupa, Sanchi. Founded 3rd century BCE, enlarged c. 150–50 BCE.

Video link

Early Stupa; Later Stupa; Watchtower; Stone Pagoda; Wooden Pagoda.

Standing Buddha. Kushan period, c. 2nd–3rd century CE. Height 7’ 6”.

China and Korea.

Soldiers. Qin Dynasty, c. 210 BCE.

Chinese Characters.

Fan Kuan. Travelers among Mountains and Streams.

Northern Song Dynasty, early 11th century CE. Height 6’ 9 1/2”.

Xu Daoning. Section of Fishing in a Mountain Stream.

Northern Song Dynasty, mid 11th century CE. 19" × 6’ 10”.

Chinese Scroll Painting Video

The Americas Before 1300.

Colossal Head, San Lorenzo. c. 1200–900 BCE. Height 7’ 5”.

Ceremonial Center of the City of Teotihuacan. c. 100–650 CE.

Palace (Foreground) and Temple of the Inscriptions.

Palace, 5th–8th century CE;

Temple of the Inscriptions (Tomb of Pakal the Great), c. 683 CE.

Maya Writing.

Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent. c. 200 CE.

Europe of the Early Middle Ages.

Visigothic Fibulae. 6th century.

Height 5 5/8”.

Found in Spain

Carpet Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels. c. 715–720.

13 3/8" × 9 7/16".

What questions can you

bring to this image?

Page with the Beginning of the Text of Matthew's Gospel,

Lindisfarne Gospel Book. c. 715–720. 13 3/8 × 9 7/16”.

Echternach Gospels (1100 and 690 CE)

Anglo-Saxon (7th century) compared with Carolingian (9th century)

Lindesfarne and Ebbo Gospels -- Pages with St. Matthew the Evangelist

Torhalle at Lorsch, Germany (767-774 CE)

Carolingian miniscule script ----->