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Topic 6 - Study Images
Art and Power

 

Part I: Commanding authority

·        Portrait of Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, early 1st century AD, copy of a bronze original, ca. 20 BC. (Detail of breastplate)

·        Justus of Ghent (?), Federico da Montefeltro and his son Guidobaldo, c. 1476

·        Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Napoleon on his imperial throne, 1806

·        Roman copy of Philoxenos or Eretria’s Battle of Issus (ca. 310 BC), House of the Faun, Pompeii, Italy, late 2nd- early 1st century BC. (Detail of Alexander’s face)

·        Equestrian statues of Marcus Aurelius, Rome, ca. 175 AD

·        Titian, Emperor Charles V at Mühlberg, 1548

·        Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte crossing the Alps, 1801

 

Part II: Power and Spectacle

·        Citadel at Persepolis, Iran, ca. 521-465 BC

General view of the Apadana palace

Stairway of the Apadana palace

Detail of the Apadana palace bas-reliefs: A Mede at the foot of Darius I

Detail of the Apadana palace bas-reliefs: Darius the Great

·        Arch of Titus, Rome, Italy, after 81 AD

·        Andrea Mantegna, Panel IV of the Triumphs of Caesar, 1485-6

·        Fountain of Apollo, Palace of Versailles, France, 1668-70 (general view)

·        Louis XIV as Apollo, 1654

·        Vera Mukhina, Industrial worker and collective farm girl, erected for the Paris International Exhibition, 1937

 

Presentations

·        King Solomon: Nicolas Pousin, The Judgement of Solomon, 1649

·        Joseph (of Egypt): Diego Velázquez, Joseph’s bloody coat brought to Jacob, 1630, Monasterio de San Lorenzo, El Escorial

·        Moses: Cosimo Rosselli, Tablets of the Law and the Golden Calf, 1481-2, Sistine Chapel, Vatican Palace (Rome)

·        St Peter: Caravaggio, Crucifixion of Saint Peter, 1600, Cerasi Chapel, Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome

·        Hitler: Photograph of Adolf Hitler with a blond girl

·        Akhenaton: Relief from the Akhenaten’s tomb, el-Amarna, c. 1353 BC

·        Huangdi: Terracotta Army of the First Emperor of Qin, 210-209 BC

·        Muhammad: The Prophet Muhammad in a Mosque, Persian, c. 1550

·        Quetzalcoatl: Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan, ca. 1-750 AD (in today Mexico)

·        Shango: Shango Dance Wand, Hamill Gallery of African Art in Boston, Massachusetts