Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective (13th Edition)

Gardner's Art Through the Ages: The Western Perspective (13th Edition)

Fred S. Kleiner

Language: English

Pages: 881

ISBN: 1133954804

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


As fascinating as a real visit to the world's famous museums and architectural sites, GARDNER'S ART THROUGH THE AGES: THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE gives you a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated tour of the world's great artistic traditions--plus all the study tools you need to excel in your art history course! Easy to read and understand, this 13th Edition of the most widely read history of art book in the English language is the only textbook that includes a unique "scale" feature (accompanying the book's photographs of paintings and other artworks) that will help you better visualize the actual size of the artworks shown in the book. Three levels of review including extended image captions, "The Big Picture" overviews at the end of every chapter, and a special global timeline will help you study for your exams. You'll also find materials that will help you master the key topics quickly in the ArtStudy Online (a free interactive study guide that includes flash cards of images and quizzes).

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Etruscan artworks come from underground tomb chambers. At Cerveteri, great earthen mounds (tumuli) covered tombs with interiors sculptured to imitate the houses of the living. ❚ At Tarquinia, painters covered the tomb walls with monumental frescoes, usually depicting funerary banquets attended by both men and women. Tomb of the Leopards, Tarquinia, ca. 480–470 BCE CLASSICAL AND HELLENISTIC ART, ca. 480–489 BCE ❚ The Greek defeat of the Etruscan fleet off Cumae in 474 BCE ended Etruscan

The Romans often covered the rough concrete with stucco or with marble revetment (facing). Despite this lengthy procedure, concrete walls were much less costly to construct than walls of imported Greek marble or even local tufa and travertine. The advantages of concrete go well beyond cost, however. It is possible to fashion concrete shapes that masonry construction cannot achieve, especially huge vaulted and domed rooms without internal supports. Concrete enabled Roman builders to think of

employed perspective, reducing the size of and blurring the most distant forms. Also, all diagonal lines converge on a single point. 1 ft. intervals between a structure’s masses, or the amount of space occupied by three-dimensional objects such as sculpture, pottery, or furniture. Volume and mass describe both the exterior and interior forms of a work of art—the forms of the matter of which it is composed and the spaces immediately around the work and interacting with it. PERSPECTIVE AND

Theophanu, a Byzantine Princess Italy 373 THE BIG PICTURE 300 316 ❚ ARCHITECTURAL BASICS: The Romanesque Church Portal 317 ❚ RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY: The Crusades 320 397 410 Holy Roman Empire 412 ❚ MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Tempera and Oil Painting 401 Contents ix ❚ MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Framed Paintings 404 ❚ ART AND SOCIETY: The Artist’s Profession in Flanders 406 ❚ MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES: Woodcuts, Engravings, and Etchings 415 ❚ RELIGION AND MYTHOLOGY: Catholic and

cliffs, these tombs often have a shallow columnar porch, which leads into a columned hall and burial chamber. 3-19 Interior hall of the rock-cut tomb of Amenemhet (tomb BH 2), Beni Hasan, Egypt, 12th Dynasty, ca. 1950–1900 bce. The columnar hall of Amenemhet’s tomb was carved out of the living rock, which explains the suspended broken column at the rear. The shafts are fluted in a manner Greek architects later emulated. 52 Chapter 3 EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS columned hall and then into a

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