painting styles?

Question

can you please make a differentiation or description of the following painting styles?
early christian,egyptian,greek,roman,gothic,romanesque,byzantine,reinassance,modern,post-modern...tnx

i mean painting styles on early christian period,egyptian period,etc..

Answer 1

Jesus etc.Cleo Petra,mummies,pyramids,Thor,knights,

Answer 2

In short:

Egyptian; simple, idealised paintings. No sense of perspective or scale. Almost all paintings include people or Gods. Figures always shown in profile (i.e. from the side). Mostly shows upper classes relaxing, lower classes working. All figures are emotionless. Lots of symbolism and writing incorporated into the paintings. Little use of colour as rock pigments were mostly used.

Greek; Very romanticised. Mostly showing Greek heroes from their mythology. Early on, people only shown in profile, later some portraits were from the front. Usually very simple use of colour, as most Greek paintings were made on Vases. None of the Greek fresco paintings have survived, and very few of their murals have, so we basically have no idea what their large scale paintings were like.

Roman; Via the Etruscans of Southern Italy, the Romans learnt pretty much everything about art from the Greeks. Not much improvement from the Greek art form during the Roman Empire. We do have some surviving frescos, and so we know that they used vivid colours and liked to show things relative to their place in a home e.g. food and animals in the kitchen, battle scenes in the study etc. Nearly all the paintings made by Romans were either direct copies or heavily influenced by earlier Greek art (which hasn't survived).

Early Christians; Most drawings were made in manuscripts by monks. Most show highly stylised images. The subjects were often highly detailed, and often accurately portray the contemporary fashion. They are almost all of religous subjects, or monarchs. No understanding of perscpective yet, so people are always drawn too large for the environment. The faces show no emotion.

I am actually writing about this subject at the moment. I've published up to Greek art so far and will be doing Roman, then Early Christian next. Links to published work below.

Answer 3

There are a multitude of sites for this. Also check wikipedia. Greek and Roman had many similarities as Roman stole much from surrounding countries,peoples. Early Christain was dule to me, unrealistic, longfaced and mixed with symbology and myth of the ruling religious leaders to sway uneducated masses into beliefs and practices. And to illustrate they writings esp before the printing press. Alot of gold leaf etc. Go get visuals!

Answer 4

I could write a complete essay about that and barely scratch the surface. But I'm not going to. It is just to complex to give an 'easy answer' to.

Check out:
http://www.beyondbooks.com/art11/2e.asp?pf=on
http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-9780714842004-1
http://www.oldandsold.com/articles08/roman-2.shtml

This may help you get some more info:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/h/c/hcm1/survey_links.html

Answer 5

Those aren't painting styles.