Guess the Era where the arts should belong:

a. Ancient Art – Pre-Historic, Egyptian

b. Classical Art- Greek, Roma
c. Medieval Art- Byzantine, Romanesque,
Gothic
• 1. How did you classify the different
artworks into their respective periods?

• 2. What was the basis of your classification?

Western classical art
traditions
 MAPEH GRADE 9
K-12 QUARTER 1
WESTERN CLASSICAL ART TRADITIONS-
PAINTINGS FROM EARLY PERIODS
 PRE-HISTORIC ERA

Includes all human existence before the

emergence of writing. Their work of art is of
interest not only to the art historians but also to
archeologists and anthropologists, for whom
the art is the only one clue-along with fossils,
pollens and other archeological discoveries that
lead to an understanding of early human life
and culture.
 Characteristics
- Pre- historic paintings were usually correct in
proportion
- Includes all human existence before the
emergence of writing
- FUNCTIONS
• Pre-historic paintings represent their way of
communicating
• Religious or ceremonial purposes
• Represent animals native in the region
Neolithic tools
PAINTINGS FROM THE PRE-HISTORIC ERA
Paintings during the pre-historic era were found
inside caves which may have been the pre-historic
people’s way of communicating with each other. It may
also be for religious or ceremonial.
These symbols for these people paintings may be
considered more an artifact of archeological evidence
than a true picture of human’s first created art.
Pre-historic drawings of animals were usually
proportion.
 CAVE OF LASCAUX
5,000-10,000 BC-Stone Age 1
Paleolithic Paintings
Southwestern France
 The dominant features in the painting were large animals
native in the region. It was discovered on 12th of September
1940, and was given a statutory historic monument protection. It
was discovered by 18-year-old Marcel Ravidat. Ravidat returned
to the scene with three friends, Jacques Marsal, Georges Agnel,
and Simon Coencas, and entered the cave via a long shaft. The
teenagers discovered that the cave walls were covered with
depictions of animals.
The Great Hall of the Bulls
 CAVE OF LASCAUX
5,000-10,000 BC-Stone Age 1
Paleolithic Paintings
 CAVE OF LASCAUX
5,000-10,000 BC-Stone Age 1
Paleolithic Paintings
Some sections have been identified
inside the cave such as:
1. The Great Hall of the Bulls
2. The Lateral Passage
3. The shaft of the dead man
4. The Chamber of Engraving
5. The Painted Gallery
6. The Chamber of Felines
Pre-Historic Era Art
Pre-Historic Era Art
• Egyptian paintings
 Egyptian paintings
Function:
Egyptian Paintings is to make the deceased person’s
afterlife place pleasant. With this mind, themes include
journey to the underworld or the presentation of the
deceased to the gods of the underworld by their
protective deities.
 It emphasizes the importance of life after death
and the preservation of the knowledge of the past.
Characteristic:
Most paintings were highly stylize and symbolic, and
show profile view of animals or people. The dominant
colors used were red, black, blue, gold and green
derived from mineral pigments that can with stand
strong sunlight without fading.
Egyptian murals and paintings represented their
lives, religious events and mythical symbols. The mural
paintings on tomb told a story and recorded history.
The paintings on the walls of the tomb show the events
in the life of the King here on earth and the scenes he
expects to encounter in the underworld after his death.
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
Sacrophagus 18th dynasty
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
PAINTINGS FROM ANCIENT EGYPT
What can you say about the
paintings of Egypt?
 Quiz

• In Ancient Art give the one characteristic and

function of the ff:

• Pre-historic

• Ancient Greek
 PAINTING FROM CLASSICAL GREEK ERA

Painting from the Classical Greek Era were most

commonly found in vases, panels and tomb. It
depicts natural figures with dynamic
compositions. Most of the subjects were battle
scenes, mythological figures and everyday
scenes. It reveals a grasp of linear perspective
and naturalist representation.
Judgment of Paris
 Vase painting
Kerch Style-also referred to as Kerch Vases are
red-figured pottery named after where it was
found.
Shapes commonly found are:
1. Pelike –wine container
 2. Lekanis- a low bowl with two
horizontal handles and a low broad
foot
Most Common Methods of Greek Painting

1. FRESC0- method of painting water based

pigments usually on a wall surfaces.
2. ENCAUSTIC- developed to used by Greek
ship builders, who used the hot wax to fill
the cracks of the ship. Soon pigments
(colors) was added and used to paint a wax
hull.
3. Lebes Gamikos- with high handles and
lid use to carry bridal bath
4. Krater –bowl use for mixing
wine and water
 Panel painting
Pitsa panel- the earliest known panel painting
Tomb of the Diver
 ANSWER
1. PRE-HISTORIC
2. MARCEL RAVIDAT
3. FRANCE
4. HISTORIAN
5. ARCHEOLOGISTS
6. ANTHROPOLOGIST
7. THE HALL OF THE BULLS
8. THE LATERAL PASSAGE OR THE PASSAGEWAY
9. THE SHAFT OF THE DEAD MAN
10. THE PAINTED GALLERY
THE CHAMBER OF FELINES
THE CHAMBER OF ENGRAVINGS
THE APSE, THE NAVE
Identify the following pictures where
they belong:
 QUIZ #1
1. An era include all human existence before the
emergence of writing. __________________
2. Who discovered the cave of Lascaux in 1940?
___________
3. In what place Cave of Lascaux located?
_______________
4-6. For them art is the only one clue-along with
fossils, pollens and other archeological discoveries
that lead to an understanding of early human life
and culture.
7-10. Paintings that named inside the Cave of Lascaux.
1. The purpose of this painting is to make the deceased
afterlife place pleasant. __________________
2. A method of Greek painting water based pigments on a
freshly applied plaster usually on a wall
surfaces___________
3. A method of Greek painting that developed to use by
Greek ship builders, who used the hot wax to fill the
cracks of the ship._______________
4-7. Shapes that are commonly found in Greek Kerch Style
Vase painting.
8.It also referred to Kerch vases are red-figured pottery
named after the place where it was
found.__________________________
9-10. Two earliest known panel painting….
Answer
1. EGYPTIAN OR EGYPTIAN PAINTING
2. FRESCO
3. ENCAUSTIC
4. PELIKE
5. LEKANIS
6. LEBES GAMIKOS
7. KRATER
8. KERCH STYLE
9. PITSA PANEL
10. TOMB OF THE DIVER
 Paintings from the romantic
era
Most of the painting from this era were copied
or imitated from Hellenic Greek paintings. Fresco
technique was used in brightly colored backgrounds;
division of the wall into a multiple rectangular areas
(tic-tac-toe design); multi-point perspective; and a
tropme-l’-oeil effect.
Roman paintings have a wide variety of
subjects, animals, everyday life, still life, mythological
subjects, portraits and landscapes.
The development of landscape painting is the
main innovation of Roman painting from Greek
painting.
 MOSAIC- it is a process where an image is created
using an assemblage of small pieces of colored glass,
stones, or other materials. This technique use for
decorative art or interior decorations.

HEAD OF ALEXANDER
The full image is a
Roman floor mosaic in
the House of Fun
Pompei, dated 100
BC.The whole mosaic
depicts the battle
between the armies of
Alexander the Great
and Darius III of Persia
HEAD OF ALEXANDER
 FRESCO FROM THE
VILLA OF MYSTERIES
(Pompeii 80 BC)
This fresco painting
was believed to depict
ceremonial rites, either
marriage or an
initiation of a woman
in a mystery cult.
BOSCOTRECASE, POMPEII
BOSCOTRECASE, POMPEII
 BYZANTINE PAINTING
The lively styles of paintings which had been
invented in Greek and Rome lived on Byzantium
but this time for Christians.
By the 11th century, the Greek and Oriental
styles seem to blend together in magnificent,
imposing images, which adorned the churches in
large and small forms.
Theodora
was an Asian
Queen with
dark eyes
and hair with
fierce
expression.
ROMANESQUE PAINTING
These are largely placed mosaics on the walls
of the churches that follows a strict frontal pose.
It has remarkable variety of artistic traditions
such as modeling and treatment of faces and
draperies that follow Byzantine convention while
the refreshingly decorative feelings comes from
Southern French Styles. It also shows traces of
MOZARABIC influence (Arabize influence) through
elongated oval faces, large staring eyes and long
noses, figures against flat colored bands and heavy
outlining.
 CHRIST IN MAJESTY
Painting from the Church of St. Clemente, Tahull, Lerida Spain c. 1123
Christ wears a greyish,
white robe with a blue
mantle. Underneath the
mandorla (An Italian word
for almond, in painting, it is
used to describe an
enclosure surrounding holy
figures) is black band with
white writing. Each side of
the center window are three
arches resting on columns of
capitals in green, red and
black between of figures of
Virgin Mary and five saints
are columns with wavy line
patterns going vertically.
 Paintings from gothic era

Paintings have been confined in the

illumination of manuscript pages and the painting
of .on the walls of churches in cosmopolitan style,
elegant, mannered and sophisticated
The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestry
1506-1513
 THE LADY AND THE UNICORN TAPESTRY
Subjects
usually depicts
popular
legends and
love stories,
patterns like “
mile fleur” or
thousand
flowers show
influence which
may have been
due to the
Crusades.
ROSE WINDOW Stained Glass
windows were
created to
transform the
vast stone
interiors with
warm and
glowing color and
at the same time
to instruct
Christians in their
faith.
Rose Windows Samples
 The Shepherd
David
The paintings show
some realistic
details and shows
naïve naturalism.
 THE SHEPHERD DAVID
13th Century Gothic Manuscript Illustration