History of Art: from 1000 BCE to 1600 CE
In this course we will learn about History of Art: From 1000 BCE to 1600 CE.
To understand how art propagated further, one must understand the concept of Empires?
What are empires? An Empire is a political construct in which one state dominates over another state or a series of states. At its heart, an empire is ruled by an emperor, even though many states in history without an emperor at their head are called “empires”. The earliest city-states tried to grow by taking over their neighbours. Where they succeeded, a single larger state might form, but more often the aggressor became a core state, holding sway over several semi-independent peripheral states – a halfway stage to a larger state. This core state became more than merely the strongest in the region becoming the Empire.
How does “empire” affect the arts?
People started using art as a way of coming to terms with their religious or political ideas, and social environment. This was particularly true for imperial systems.
Members of the dominant group used arts as a device to explain and justify their power, to express the mystique of rulers, and to illustrate their knowledge and command of the natural world.
Those who find themselves incorporated into empires often pass through phases of adapting their art to that of their political masters, rediscovering the wellsprings of their art – sometimes as a conscious act of resistance, and, finally, reflecting through their art a new national consciousness.
The intention remains the same, but the medium keeps on evolving for the better, be it paintings, sculpting, literature, theatrics, and architecture even.
Let us look at what geek has to offer
About 400 miles from Egypt the Island of Crete has been inhabited since the very Neolithic times, the creations shifted from the islands to the mainland’s i.e. the Aegean during the Bronze and this linkage continues to be the foundations of the ancient Greek civilization. The art of the ancient Greeks is typically divided into four periods: Geometric, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic. Collectively these periods span from roughly 1000 B.C. to 323 B.C.
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