ARTH 2150 Lecture : ARTH 2150 Lecture 1.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTH 2150
• Professor: Andrew Sherwood

Document Summary

Bronze 3,000 1000 (used bronze tools) Dark 1,000 750 (immense collapse and lack of knowledge from the previous age) 750: we find an incredible rise in standards of living and increase in population levels and the earliest alphabet starts to appear (beginning of literacy in greece) 480: big invasion led by xerxes and sacked athens, ends a period. Athens rises from the ashes and the greatest athenian period begins from 480-336/323 (philip ii dies in 336, alexander dies in 323) 146/31: the romans are more involved in the mediterranean and leveled carthage and corinth. 31: augustus becomes the first emperor in rome. Constantine the great establishes constantinople in 325, power shifts from rome to the byzantine. These periods represent a historical change that effects the art in some way and changes it from what was previous. Greek (and roman) art gives us the classical conception of beauty. The greeks give us gods that resemble humans over animals.