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A look at the human form, how and why it has been changed throughout art.
Cycladic female figurine (post-canonical type), Unknown, "2800-2300 BC" - "", From the collection of: Museum of Cycladic Art
Prehistoric Art.
A Small female figure, thought to be crafted for the travel-driven Nomadic life.
Human head figurine, Unknown, Epipaleolithic period, 12,000 years ago, From the collection of: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
One of the oldest depictions of the human face.
Prehistoric.
Goddess figurine, Unknown, Pottery Neolithic 8000 years ago, From the collection of: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
This Prehistoric female figure shows the primal instict of exageration towards the important body parts.
Sumerian Foundation Figurine, Unknown, ca. 2900 B.C.E.-2500 B.C.E., From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
This Sumerian statuet is more refined in the face and head. The male depicted can be seen with clearly depicted arms.
Ancient Near East
Statue of a Family Group, Unknown, ca. 2371-2298 B.C.E., From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
This sculpture of an Egyptian family uses hiarchle scale to show the father as the head of the family. Ancient Egypt
Relief of Hairdresser Inu, Unknown, ca. 2008-1957 B.C.E., From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
This relief of the Hairdresser Inu shows the Ancient Egyptian's New enphasis of evenness and exact proportions.
Ancient Egypt.
Lady Tjepu, Unknown, ca. 1390-1353 B.C.E., From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
In this Egyptian pice of art, the eye is shown in a frontal view while the rest of the body is in profile.
Ancient Egyptian
Seated Statue of Nehy, Egyptian, ca. 1250-1230 BC (New Kingdom), From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
This statue shows how the Egyptians enlarged and twists the body in order to retain the hiarchle scale.
Ancient Egypt.
Figure of a Bound Foreign Prisoner, Unknown, ca. 1979-1801 B.C.E., From the collection of: Brooklyn Museum
THis figure shows how the concorers viewed theirr prisoners, bleak and hopeless.
Painted Wall Panel with an Athletic Trainer, Unknown, 520–510 B.C., From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
An Etruscan Wall painting of an Athletic Trainer. Getting ready to Pump *clap* You up. This Borrows from the profile view of the Egyptians and Ageans.
Statue of a Kouros, about 530 B.C. or modern forgery, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
A marble statue of a young Greek. Shows the Greek's strive for Idealism using emphasis.
Stamnos, Attributed to the Chicago Painter, About 450 B.C., From the collection of: The Art Institute of Chicago
A wine jar depicting Greek Men and women. shows the figures as flat with deapth in their clothing's fold.
This Saint Thelca representation is not idealized like the Roman gods and godesses during its time. To separate it's self from the Roman gods this early christian sculpture is unidealized.
Silver Reliquary: Christ with the Apostles, unknown, 400 AD - 410 AD, From the collection of: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
The representations of the apostles on this Early Christian work show the apostles relaxed with folding robes.
Virgin and Child, Coptic, 7th-8th century (Early Medieval), From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
The Virgin and Child statue puts enphasis on Both Mary and Christ's heads by enlarging them. It is also constructed out of wood, a common art medium of the Midevil period.
New Testament shows the Byzentine aspect of floating figures. Byzentine period.
The Transfiguration, Unknown, late 13th century, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
This depiction of The Transfiguration shows the use of the Golden Halo in Byzentine paintings.
Portable Altarpiece with the Weeping Madonna, Georges Trubert, about 1480 - 1490, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
The Portable Altarpice with the Weeping Virgin shows the flat style of Prerenaissance art.
Mausoleum Doors, Qanbar ibn Mahmud, December 1551-January 1552 (early Safavid), From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
These Mausoleum doors show Coligraphy disctibing the people who lie within.
Hedwig Listening to a Reading; Hedwig Praying, 1353, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
This prayer book page shows the range of colors available to the Midevile painters and coligraphers.
Evangelist Mark Seated in his Study, Byzantine, 1025-1050, From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
Evangelist Mark Seated at his study shows the importance of gold in Byzantine painting.
Mary Magdalene Borne Aloft, Taddeo Crivelli, about 1469, From the collection of: The J. Paul Getty Museum
THis Depiction of Mary Magdalene shows the first use ofbordering in painting. Byzantine Art.
Book-Cover Plaque with the Crucifixion and Holy Women at the Tomb, Carolingian, ca. 870-880 (Medieval), From the collection of: The Walters Art Museum
This Midevile sculpture shows the Great detail put into Reliefe diring this time period. Medival.
Mural paintings from the apse of Sant Sadurní in Osormort, Vic workshops, Mestre d'Osormort, 1125/1150, From the collection of: Mev, Museu d'Art Medieval
Madonna and Child with St John the Evangelist, St John the Baptist, St James of Compostela and St Nicholas of Bari, Agnolo Gaddi, (c. 1388-1390), From the collection of: National Gallery of Victoria
Sambadar is scukpted in the round and shows the religious dedication of the Indian People.
We inhabit the corrosive littoral of habit, James Gleeson, 1940, From the collection of: National Gallery of Victoria
By morphing the human body, Surrealist painters paint Symbolism with great intensity. Surrealism.
Adam and Eve from Our Historical Heritage, Salvador Dali, 1975, From the collection of: SCAD Museum of Art
Madonna (Self-Portrait), Cindy Sherman, 1975, From the collection of: SCAD Museum of Art
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