Virtue and Vice

Albrecht Dürer 1471 – 1528

The Young Jesus among the Doctors, 1506


Ethical contrast, expressed by portraying human faces. Was there anything similar in ancient art?

Ruins

Gian Paolo Pannini (1691-1765)

When does appear the interest to the ruins of ancient world as ruins?
Maybe that has something to do with the belief that the pagan civilization deserved its defeat?
That was the main thought of Augustine in his De civitate Dei

Still Life

Herculanum fresco, 50 BC

Is that the earlier ancient naturmorte?

Zoo Caryatids

In 1425-1427 Donatello collaborated with Michelozzo on the funerary monument of Antipope John XXIII for the Battistero (in Florence).

Here the lions are placed under the coffin as a kind of Caryatids. Are there such cases in Antiquity?

Caryatids

Erechteion

Human figures as columns at Athens, V BC. Was that the first time ever?

Doric order

Temple of Poseidon at Campania, Italy


No base of column at the oldest Greek stone temples. What about the forerunners in Egypt?

Christ as Young Zeus

Christ with Cross

Michelangelo (1475 - 1564) imagined the Saviour, the Prophets and the saints in the way the ancient artists imagined their gods. Was he the first post-ancient who did so?