1. The Art of Beauty

2. Prehistoric and Ancient Man Venus of Willendorf, ca. 28,000-25,000 BCE Cycladic statuette, ca. 2500-2300 BCE

3. Ancient Egypt Seated statue of Khafre Hatshepsut as Pharaoh

4. Akhenaton, from the Temple of Aton, Karnak, Egypt, ca. 1353-1335 BCE. Sandstone, approx. 13’ high

5. Nefertiti, from Tell el-Amarna, Egypt, ca. 1353-1335 BCE. Painted limestone, approx. 1’ 8” high.

6. King Menkaure and a Queen Fourth Dynasty, reign of Menkaure. Graywacke with faint remains of paint. Old Kingdom.

7. BACK TO ANCIENT GREECE Kouros, ca. 600 BCE Kritios Boy, ca. 480 BCE Polykleitos, Doryphoros , after a bronze of ca. 450-440 BCE

8. LET’S DO THAT WITH THE FEMALE FORM Peplos Kore, ca. 530 BCE Three goddesses, from the east pediment of the Parthenon, ca. 438-432 BCE Praxiteles, Aphrodite of Knidos , copy after original of ca. 350-340 BCE

9. In Honor of Chanukah . . . Art from the Hellenistic Period: What Was So Appealing?

10. Hellenism: From the Death of Alexander the Great, 323,to 31 BCE

11. Let’s See That Again With Women

12. And with the female nude . . .

13. Real or Too Real: Roman Verism Relief portrait head of a man, c. 1st Century BCE, marble, 9 5/8" height Portrait of the Emperor Antonius Pius, c.138-161 CE, shown with the style of beard made popular by Hadrian. Marble, 15 7/8" height.

14. Augustus Caesar and wife Livia

15. The Human Body in the Middle Ages

16. Good Shepherd Mosaic, 5 th century CE

18. The Last Judgment 1120-35 Tympanum of west portal Cathedral of St. Lazare, Autun, France

19. Psychostasy: weighing of souls

20. The Renaissance, 1400-1600 Michelangelo’s God Creating Adam, from the Sistine Chapel ceiling, ca. 1511

21. The Pieta was finished in 1499, when Michelangelo was only 24 years old

22. Left: The Cowper Madonna, 1504 Right: Madonna of the Chair , 1518 Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael, lived from 1483-1520

23. Titian, Venus of Urbino , 1538

24. Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus , 1485

25. The sculpture is symbolic of three major themes of its day: 1. Good conquers Evil 2. Florence (the defeat of France) 3. Man (can accomplish anything he sets his mind to) Michelangelo’s David , 1501-1504 Here he is . . .

26. David, 1501-1504

28. Gianlorenzo Bernini, David 1623-24 White marble 170 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome

30. The Elevation of the Cross, c. 1610-11 The Judgment of Paris, c. 1600 Peter Paul Rubens, 1577-1640

31. The Rococo Style Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing , 1766

32. Jean–Auguste-Dominique Ingres, The Grand Odalisque , 1814

33. The excess and frivolity of the French nobility led to regime change and Romanticism, the promotion of the individual Theodore Gericault, Portrait of an Insane Woman , 1822

34. Edouard Manet, Olympia , 1863

35. Pablo Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, ca. 1932 Henri Matisse , Woman Wearing a Hat , 1905

36. Albert Giacometti, Man Pointing , 1947

38. Kiki Smith, Untitled Barbara Kruger, Untitled