Chapter 14

The renaissance begin in Italy. The Italian Renaissance had placed human beings once more in the center of life's stage and infused thought and art with humanistic values. In time,the stimulating ideas current in Italy spread to other areas and combined with indigenous developments to produce a French Renaissance, an English Renaissance, and so on.

The amazing thing about the renaissance was that it was started in Italy. It was era where the unknown was going to be recognized by their artwork.

Chapter 5

During the time of the eighth century, the era of Classical Greece took shape and the Olympic Games were founded in 776 BCE. During the time human figure returned to Greek art in the form of bronze statuettes and simple silhouettes and other abstract vases. Full life stoned statutes appeared in Greece. The earliest koori emulated the frontal poses of Egyptian statues. 

The temple are ancient but they raise a question how did they do their sculptures.

Chapter 4

In the 8th century, there was a great war between Greeks and Trojans. Many poets wrote of these great battles and a describing a time long before a golden age of larger than life heroes.  In the 3000 BC early Cycladic sculptors create marble figurines for placement in graves to accompany the dead into afterlife. Cycladic art was abundantly available in the superb quarries of Aegean Islands especially on Naxos sculptors.  Many Cycladic art, represent nude women was the meaning of life beauty and art.

The pre- historic aegean was known as the Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.

chapter 3

Many of the eqyptian glofied the kings known as pharaohs and believe that they that they were spirtual. In the pre-dynastic and early dynastic the earliest Egyptian narrative reliefs and paintings were created. The first artist that was recognized was  name Ihotep.  Statuary types were expressing the nature of the pharaonic kingship. the back bone of Egypt was and still is the Nile River. During the middle ages, detailed knowledge the Romans posed about Egyptians and their gods were largely forgotten.  The world viewed Egyptians as a distinct from other ancient worlds. Their neighbors such as Mediterranean Mesopotamian and Persia viewed them as gods from another moon. Egyptians believed that primeval waters called Nun, existed in only darkness. 

I find it amazing how they did their pyramid and their structures without having an technology.

Chapter 13

• Abbot Suger of Saint Denis rose from humble parentage.
• Ambulatory and radiating chapels abbey church
• About Sugar`s remodeling of Saint Denis marking the beginning of the Gothic architecture
• Rib vaults with pointed arches spring from slender columns stained glass windows.

The gothic europe was the same yet different from the previous chapters. The building were cathedral but they had a twist to it.  For example, the gothic cathedral was oculus meant small, round windows. Lancet meant a tall, narrow window crowned by a ointed arch.  

Chapter 12

The rebirth of monumental sculptures. Cathedrals portals were always noticing the second coming. The souls of the dead line up to await. The cult of relics was not new in the romanesque. The interior reveals a kinship with the three-story wooden- roofed churches of the ottonian era. The cast end of the church, in constant, has an innovative plan with an ambulatory around the choir and three semicircular chapels. Bernard of clairvaux on cloister sculpture.

Like the previous chapter, this is a continuous of the religion aspect.