UPCOMING EVENTS:

10/31/23: Scandinavian Art Show

11/6/23: Video Art Around The World

11/29/23: Lecture: History of Art

12/1/23: Installations 2023 Indie Film Festival

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The GOLDEN GLOBE

Our project is centered on art throughout the Golden Ages. This includes Greek, Roman, Islamic, and lastly the Medieval Renaissance golden ages. Our intention is to find correlations between these times by means of technology, culture, and social advancements. Art is a very pivotal component to a society, by researching communities present within in each of these societies, we can make a general assumption as to why these “golden ages” actually occurred.

Jan van Eyck, The Virgin of Chancellor Rolin

A Signet of Persia's King Darius

Etruscan Tomb of the Leopards

Mithras Slaying the Bull, 200 C.E.

Emperor Severus and His Family, 200 C.E.

Praxiteles' Statue of Aprhodite, 4th Century B.C.E.

The Wolf Suckling Romulus and Remus, 5th Century B.C.E.

c.691 C.E. - The Dome of the Rock at Jerusalem

c.480 B.C.E. - Greek Against Persian in Hand-to-Hand Combat

c.1479-1480 C.E. - Portrait of Mehmed II

c.715 C.E. - The Great Mosque at Damascus

Emily Fero
May 1, 2016
1 min read

"Like the Dome of the Rock, the Umayyad mosque at Damascus in Syria, built at the beginning of the eighth century, drew on Byzantine forms. In this mosaic, which is one of many that decorate the interior of the mosque, the style is Byzantine. But the harmonious intertwining of trees, buildings, rocks, and water picks up on an Islamic theme: the new faith's conquest over both civilization and nature" (The Making of the West 256). The expanding economy at the time allowed for many building projects to be completed with extensive artwork. The art drew upon previous ideas and civilizations, but was altered to fit within the current people's ideologies.

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