Iconography

surrounded by flowers and birds.” Other pagan iconography include images of a dolphin pair, Daniel among the lions, and fishermen. There are several reasons why the pagan frescos are not as well preserved as the Christian frescos. The pagan frescos are typically dated to the pagan era of the catacombs, which is about a century older than the Christian era. Furthermore, as the conversion from pagan to Christian undertook the catacombs, Christian iconography replaced pagan themes in an effort…

Describe the Work Hall of Bulls is a beautiful Upper-Paleolithic cave painting made in ca. 15,000 B.C. The painting is scaled larger than life size standing 25 feet tall and 62 feet wide; and, it resides inside of a cave on a coarse, rigid, and uneven rock wall. The cave is located in a small geographical area called Lascaux located in Dordogne France. Furthermore, there is no known artist for the Hall of Bulls, because of historical ignorance and the age of the painting; however,…

Inspiration for the Thesis Topic At the middle of this semester, I decided to go back to the point, the Post-Impressionist period, where I started to be interested in Art history in the very beginning. Therefore, I would love to start again with Gustav Klimt, who lived around the same period, but had a distinctively different style in Austria. After talking to Professor Houghteling, I was inspired by the perspective offered by her. Since several well-known works of Gustav Klimt have been…

rags to riches, themes of love and marriage as well as “the choice”, which can be seen when Mildred decides to separate from her first husband Bert. All of these themes are incorporated and mixed in with the film noir elements including lighting iconography, the noir protagonist, and the femme fatale. Joan Crawford, who plays Mildred…

Shiva Response The sculpture of Shiva from the Chola Dynasty in the 10th Century, expresses the cultures desire to freeze an icon, and have a physical density of substance important to state of mind of the people. This icon shows a physical relationship to the people and the land that it comes from. There is a dialogue between the old and the new when looking at this object and recognizing the setting that it finds itself in. When looking at specific aspects of this Icon the viewer immediately…

that is both complex and fascinating. In combination of the Expressionism, Fatalism and Realism that the film portrays, film noir conveys a dark world and a sense of unusual surreslism to the audiences. Meanwhile, the unique patterns of visual iconography and unusual stylist narrative elements structure the conventions in film noir, which generate the firmly distinctive consciousness beyond other…

differences that is noticeable is that Grecos piece has the newly developed style of “Chiaroscuro” which was heavily used during the Baroque period mainly by Caravaggio. Greko uses angels in his pieces and has removed all animals that contain powerful iconography. The Ox is nowhere to be seen, the sheep is nowhere to seen and there is no dog. Wtewael has a style that of which is exaggerated colors and exaggerated physique of the body where the characters look godly. Compared to Grecos painting,…

In representations of the Totentanz, Death was portrayed as playing a trumpet; Reinhold Hammerstein advocates this is because traditionally Judgement Day iconography of the “Trumpet sounding” summoning souls to be judged. (Hammerstein, 1980) This led to illustrations of the Totentanz as a dance towards death. Other art forms based on the Totentanz gradually evolved including decorative woodcuts, accompanied…

These two works have many principal elements in common, but are ultimately very different. Though they are comprised of the same materials, depict similar subject matter, and reflect similar influences, one would never mistake one work from the other. The content of these two paintings is comparable, but many formal properties and iconographic details are different. Both works appear to be oil on canvas. This was a popular medium in 16th to 17th century Latin America. Both works also feature…

The statue of Hercules was made in Rome, but was found somewhere in Italy. Hercules is known to be from Greek, but what I didn’t know was that the Romans adopted the same Gods and Goddesses of Greece. The iconography and intended location of the work tell me that the function of this sculpture was to show the people about this heroic Greek figure and who it was. The function also shows that Hercules was very strong and shows no fear, since he is shown standing…