ART HIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Warka Vase, Eannatum, Ninurta
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Function in art - political, social, how it worked. Power of the state - how it affected the masses and how they viewed art. Context-whats going on around that piece of work. Mesopotamia - the land between two rivers. Each city state had a patron/god/goddess and a ruler. This ruler is perceived as the deity"s earthly representative. There is no real separation between church and state. A ruler is still just a human. A patron/god building will be at the dead center. Uruk is located on the banks of the euphrates river, good trade. Building resources - no good hard stone. Mud bricks are the reliable properly motivated labor force. White temple, uruk, modern warka, iraq, 3500-3000 bce. Sits on top of a ziggurat. (man made mountain) Elevates the temple, because gods lived in the sky. Mountains were sacred, because they were closest to gods. Anu- the sky god, this temple is dedicated to that.
