Queen Kawit at her toilet, from the sarcophagus of Queen Kawit,
found at Deir el-Bahri, Middle Kingdom, c.2061-2010 BC (stone relief)
Egyptian 11th Dynasty (2061-2010 BC)
Relief from a tomb with a procession of offering carrier. Nineteenth Dynasty.
Statuette of a male figure,
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Greek,Geometric Period (7th-8th BC)
Dancing Faun (Pan)
from around 100 B.C.
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Bronze Sculpture
Western (Royal) Portal at Chartres Cathedral (ca. 1145)-these architectural statues are the earliest Gothic sculptures
Apollo in his Chariot (Jean-Baptiste Tuby, 1668-1670, lead; at the end of the Royal Way, Versailles Palace, Paris; Apollo ensures that time proceeds properly, emerges from the depths of the water to start a new day, at the end of which (after having spread his blessings across the land) he will end his journey & go to rest in the Grotto of Thetis, the sister and wife of Oceanus.
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Greek Geometric (900-700 BC ) contrasted with Hellenistic (323-31 BC)
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Faustian 12th century contrasted with Louis XIV (1643-1715)
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image of Ionic and Corinthian
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Vignola (1507-73) Italian architect of Mannerism, famous for the Villa Farnese at Caprarola & the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. One of 3 architects responsible for spreading the Italian Renaissance throughout W Europe. He worked with Michelangelo who had a major influence on him; after 1564 he carried on his work at St Peter's, constructing the 2 subordinate domes according to Michelangelo's plans. In 1556, Cardinal Alessandro Farnese commissioned him to build the Villa Farnese (1559-73). It sits on an earlier pentagonal fortress, a fine examples of Renaissance architecture, ornament is used sparingly to achieve proportion & harmony, the severe design complements the site. This style, Mannerism, was a reaction to the ornate High Renaissance designs of 20 years earlier. Vignola in his youth had been heavily influenced by Michelangelo. His planned for a pentagon constructed around a circular colonnaded courtyard where paired Ionic columns flank niches containing busts of the Roman Emperors, above a rusticated arcade
see illustration
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Bernini (1598-1680) famous for his sculpture but also a successful architect who achieved considerable & lasting effects here as well. Notably the Piazza San Pietro (1656–67), the piazza and colonnades in front of St. Peter's Basilica, and also the Baldachin of St Peters. The building he perhaps took the most joy in design (since he was able to build it from scratch) was the richly ornamented oval church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale (1658-61) for the Jesuit novitiate.
see illustration of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
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Bobrinsky Bucket. probably Herat, 1163
cast brass with copper, silver and gold; one of the most extraordinary inlaid brass objects to survive. alternate bands of Arabic inscriptions and figural scenes.
Intended as a New Year's gift after Rashid al-Din had performed the pilgrimage to Mecca, which he would have undertaken in the last month of the preceding year.
