ESSAY TITLE: This and That
QUESTION: How are Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture both interconnected and yet independent and; how did they collectively or independently affect the development of art in the Early Christian period?
Part one:
Summary: my experience answering this question is to have a understanding about culture and how each share similarities and difference which help impact a new art development in the early Christian period.
Reason: I believe the reason for this question is to understand how each culture are the same and are different from one another.
Purpose: I believe the purpose Mr. Fortier gave us this question was to make us students understand how there are similarities and difference in art and how that can make an impact alone to change history.
Direction: my direction for this question was to try to answer and understands the similarities and difference between each country.
Impression: what I received from answering this question was a new look in Egyptian, Greek and Roman art.
PART TWO:
Answer:
For this question I was asked to explain the similarities and difference between Egyptian, Greek and Roman art and architecture. Though the Egyptian was separated by a different century I discovered many connections between the three. One example of a connection is how both the Greek and Egyptian managed to tell a story in their art work. The sculpture “Athena Attacking the Giants” tells a story of an epic battle between the Gods and the Giants, during the battle, the Greek goddess Athena grabbed the hair of a male winged monster known as Alkyoneos a son of the earth goddess who son was being forced down on his knees as his mother begged Athena to release him. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,152) An Egyptian art known as “Akhenaten and his family” explained how Akhenaten and Queen Neferititi who had received a royal blessing of Aten. The royal couple received the blessings of the Aten who uses the rays to penetrate the open pavilion to offer ankhs through their nose giving them the “breath of life” (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,71) Just like the Greek and the Egyptians, Romans also held stories with in their walls. At page 195 you see the lower part of the Column of Trajan, at this piece it tells the story of a scene of the Trajan army corssing the Danube river on a pontoon bridge as being the first Dacian campaign. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren,195) I compare both of these art work because I believe both expressed there stories about the God or Gods they believed in and how they were portrayed In their lives.
Another large similarity between the Egyptians and Greeks and the Romans is how there sculptures all seem to have the same position. for example, Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have the same position as the Egyptian sculpture “MenKaure and a Queen”. Both art works have their one leg moved out and both hands curled up in a fist. They both seem to be very stiff, but a large difference between the two is how Anavysos Kouros and Peplos Kore have a much warmer feeling with their facial expressions then Menkaure and his Queen does. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 59,166). In architecture all three countries were very impressive, the Egyptian and Greek have a major contrast and difference between them. In the image on page 67 it shows a long pole called a shaft that keeps ‘The Great temple of Amin at Karnak” sustained (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 67) In page 111 the Greek also had a similar shaft, Roman and Greece had seem to share the same design Romans Pantheon temple. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 111)
the Egyptian made countless of art work of humans faces which seemed very unrealistic. Egyptian art was not very realistic though it held traits of a human being. An example is the head of Queen Tily who face does not seem very realistic compared to the Roman sculpture Middle-aged Flavian Woman. When you see both of this art work you begin to notice the lack of detail and realism the Queen Tily has compared to the more detailed face of the middle-aged Flavian woman. The Flavian women hold a much more detail with musical aging and expression compared to Queen Tyle. (Art History fourth edition volume one, Marilyn Stokstad Michael W.Cothren, 72,191)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maler_der_Grabkammer_der_Nefertari_001.jpg Maler der Grabkammerder Nefertari-artist uknown- 1298-1235 BCE)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollo1.JPG -artist unknown -second century)
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ChristAsSol.jpg - artist unknown - Early pre-4th century Mosaic of Sol Invictus)
the Early Christian period borrowed artistic traits from Egyptians, Greek and Rome by using the Halo as a religious icon which represent glow and purity, halos started to appear in Egyptian art by the art work “RA with solar disc, before 1235 BC” you can see how Ra the sun god has a halo on his head, and just like the Egyptians the Romans also had paintings with halos. “The halo represents an aura or glow of sanctity which was conventionally drawn encircling the head. It first appeared in the culture of Hellenistic Greece and Rome, possibly related to theZoroastrian hvarena - "glory" or "divine lustre" - which marked the Persian kings, and may have been imported with Mithraism. Though Roman paintings have largely disappeared, save somefresco decorations, the haloed figure remains fresh in Roman mosaics. In a 2nd century AD Roman floor mosaic preserved at Bardo, Tunisia,[15] a haloed Poseidon appears in his chariot drawn byhippocamps. Significantly, the triton and nereid who accompany the sea-god are not haloed.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(religious_iconography) it is not until the 4th century was the halo being used to represent Jesus and his divine nature and ever since then it has only been used to represent Jesus. Even though Egyptians, Roman and the Greek appear differentthey are more identical then we expected them to be.
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