ART 104 Lecture 4: Art History 104 - Lecture 4
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History of bronze age art (in europe: 3000-1200 bce): the most famous examples of. Bronze age art appeared during the rise of mesopotamia (present-day iraq), greece, Crete (minoan civilization) and egypt in the" cradle of civilization" around the. The emergence of cities, the use of written languages and the development of more sophisticated tools led to a much wider array of monumental and portable artworks being created. Egyptian art (from 3100 bce): egypt, arguably the largest civilization in ancient art history, was the first culture to follow a recognizable art style. Egyptian painters depicted in profile the head, legs, and feet of their human subjects, while portraying the forehead eyes, shoulders, arms, and torso. Certain artistic conventions stipulated how to represent gods, pharaohs and ordinary people, controlling elements such as scale, colour, and figurative role. A series of beautiful egyptian encaustic wax paintings, known as the fayum portraits, give a fascinating glimpse of ancient egyptian hellenistic civilization.
