TERESA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

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, and other
archeological discoveries that lead to an
understanding of early human life and
culture.
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
 The cave complex was opened to the public in 1948.By 1955,
the carbon dioxide, heat, humidity, and other contaminants produced
by 1,200 visitors per day had visibly damaged the paintings and
introduced lichen on the walls.
The cave was closed to the public in 1963 to preserve the art.
After the cave was closed, the paintings were restored to their original
state and were monitored daily. Rooms in the cave include the Hall of
the Bulls, the Passageway, the Shaft, the Nave, the Apse, and the
Chamber of Felines.
Pre-Historic Era Art
Pre-Historic Era Art
 Egyptian paintings

The purpose of 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.
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
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?
 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.
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.
Judgment of Paris
 red-figured pottery named after where it was
found.
Vase painting
Shapes commonly found are:
1. Pelike –wine container
 2. Lekanis- a low bowl with two
horizontal handles and a low broad
foot
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
 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