Greek & Roman Art
Composition
Unit 9
Lesson Overview
Ancient Greece dates from 2000 B.C.E. It took about 500 years Mycenaean culture to emerge and becomes the birthplace of Western civilization. Historians place extreme importance on the contributions in architecture, art, and theatre made by these people over 30 centuries ago.
Lesson Summary
Students will discuss and respond to the varied cultural contributions the Greeks made to the history of Art. We will cover the three orders of decorative style that originated in Greece. Then look at Greek sculpture and how it changes over time.
Greek architecture refers to the architecture of the Greek-speaking peoples who inhabited the Greek mainland and the Peloponnese, the islands of the Aegean Sea, the Greek colonies in Ionia (coastal Asia Minor), and Magna Graecia (Greek colonies in Italy and Sicily). Greek architecture stretches from c. 900 B.C.E. to the first century C.E. (with the earliest extant stone architecture dating to the seventh century B.C.E.). Greek architecture influenced Roman architecture and architects in profound ways.
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Vocabulary
Capital ~The top element of a column.
Colonnade~ Formed by a line of columns.
Corinthian column~the capital is elongated and decorated with leaves.
Cornice~a horizontal element above the frieze
doric column~a simple heavy column without a base.
Pediment~triangular section framed by the cornice and the ranking cornice.
Greek Theater~The theatre of Ancient Greece flourished between 550 BC and 220 BC. A festival honoring the god Dionysus was held in Athens, out of which three dramatic genres emerged: tragedy, comedy and the satyr play.
Frieze~ a decorative band running across the upper part of the wall.
Ionic Column~ columns with an elaborate base and the cap is usually enriched with egg and dart.
Lintel~ the cross beam supported by columns.
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Curriculum and Framing Questions
Essential Question:
How does art help us understand the lives of people of different times, places, and cultures? What are the two factors that contributed to keeping Greek city-states for joining to form a nation.
Foundation Questions:
How does art preserve aspects of life?
What was the Parthenon?
How were they decorated and what were Greek vases used for?
Student Learning Objectives for Lesson:
What were the earliest forms Greek decorative orders?
Student Learning Goals:
What features are characteristics of early Greek sculptures?
Reading A Painting
The Dying Gaul
a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BC
37 x 73 7/16 x 35 1/16 in
Capitoline Museums, Rome.
Inquiry Question:
How does the statute back you feel? What can you imagine the intent of this unknown sculpture to be?
Targeted CPALMS Content Standards:
VA.912.C.2.1 Examine and revise artwork throughout the art-making process to refine work and achieve artistic objective.
VA.912.C.2.4 Classify artworks, using accurate art vocabulary and knowledge of art history to identify and categorize movements, styles, techniques, and materials.
VA.912.C.3.1 Use descriptive terms and varied approaches in art analysis to explain the meaning or purpose of an artwork.
VA.912.C.3.5 Make connections between timelines in other content areas and timelines in the visual arts.
National Standards:
HS Advanced VA:Cn10.1.IIIa
Synthesize knowledge of social, cultural, historical, and personal life with art-making approaches to create meaningful works of art or design.
Unit Assessments
Formative Assessment
Jump Start images: Sarcophagus, clay helmets, Decorative Styles of columns, and Roman architecture advancements.
Summative Assessment:
Quizzes and Critiques with rubric assessments
Roman Mosaic sketchbook practice.
Unit Project Choices:
Myth project- students choose any story of myth they with to visually depict. See criteria below.
Myth project timeline
You can choose what ever culture you wish. Make sure to do plenty of planning sketches in your sketchbook. Work out your plan on week 1, and record the legend details in your sketchbook, both in text and images. Please note here on schoololgy what myth or legend you are researching and depicting.
Rubric for Myth project
A
Demonstrates though thoughtful design and composition, using entire canvas to tell story
Demonstrates perspective
Multiple details in composition
Evidence of color mixing, tint, shade, and gradation
Shows evidence of multiple different textures, for example wrinkling in cloth, hair, scales, feathers.
Sketchbook plans should match work with evidence of storyline, research, and thumbnails of process
Show evidence in sketchbook and image of original storyline, backstory, and research. Includes a works cited pages/notes.
B
Demonstrates thoughtful design and composition, using entire canvas to tell story
Demonstrates perspective
Many details in composition
Evidence of color mixing, and gradation
Shows minimal evidence of textures, for example wrinkling in cloths, hair, scales, feathers
Sketchbook plans should match work with evidence of storyline, and research
Show evidence in sketchbook and image of original storyline, backstory, and research.
C
Demonstrates good design and composition, using entire canvas to tell story
Demonstrates perspective
Few details in composition
Evidence of color mixing.
NO textures, for example wrinkling in cloths, hair, scales, feathers
Sketchbook plans should match work
Show evidence in sketchbook and image of original storyline, backstory, and research.
D Incomplete