Art History Presentation

Art History

Serra da Capivara
• The Serra da Capivara National Park in northeast
Brazil home to several large rock shelters which
are decorated with pre historic cave paintings
which are dated as far as 25000 years ago. This is
considered as one of the earliest known human
paintings.
• These cave paintings include scenes of prehistoric
rituals, hunting, trees and animals. The stylistic
movement of these paintings are the earliest
evidence of artistic representation of human race.

A Mountainous Landscape with
a Waterfall
• Dated ca. 1600. Artist Kerstiaen de Keuninck
(Flemish, Kortrijk ca. 1560-1632/33 Antwerp)
• Kerstiaen de Keuninck, unlike its predecessor
continued the Flemish stylistic imaginary of
mountain scenery that originated from Patnir..
The panoramic painting of the landscape of
the incredible mountain and rock formation.
• The illustration is concerned with contrasting
pictorial effects with the use of heavy
passages of opaque paint set on areas in a
very thin medium,

The Crucifixion
• Artist: Master of the Berswordt Altar
(German, Westphalian, active ca. 1400-35)
one of the foremost painters of the global
gothic style in northwest Germany. The
traditional gilded background and the
inclusion of a horizon were a part of thirty
scenes of an extensive narrative cycle
which forms a large altarpiece from the
Neustädter Marienkirche in Bielefeld,
Westphalia