LARA-NOUR'S ULTIMATE 2020 AP ART HISTORY STUDY GUIDE
Frontispiece of the Codex Mendoza: Form: -Ink and color on paper Function: -Show power/greatness of their empire, to record history, worship and respect the Gods, and important stories of the founding of city -Antonio de Mendoza (the first viceroy of New Spain) commissioned a codex= to record information about the Aztec empire for him to know Context: -Codex= information about the lords of Tenochtitlan, the tribute paid to the Aztecs, daily life year to year, inner working of the empire -1541-1542 C.E. Content: -The Codex: great amount of information about the Aztec empire Frontispiece: -Information about the organization, foundation, origins of the (Tenochtitlan) Aztec capital "place of the prickly pear cactus" schematic diagram of Tenochtitlan -city divided into four parts by intersecting blue/green smooth diagonals -represent: city divided into four quarters= mirror the organization of the universe, believed to be four parts aligned with the four cardinal directions (north, east, south, west). -city made of canals: depicts the quadripartite division of the city and the canals running through it
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Mosque of Selim II: Form: -Stone, brick, marble Function: -An example of Ottoman Empire's wealth and greatness, along with its power and vastness (along a popular tourist passing through place, showed tourists of its dominance) -Mosque— displays differences between Islam and Christianity -The mosque represents Islam's triumph. It also was an attempt to surpass the Hagia Sophia and the Byzantine Basilica in Istanbul. Context: -Architect= Senan -Completed in Edirne, rather than capital Istanbul -Edirne was where Selim was stationed as a prince when his father campaigned in Persia in 1548 -Edirne was first major city that traveling Europeans would pass in the Ottoman Empire. Selim built this mosque there to exemplify Ottoman Empire's greatness. -Mosque also was able to dominate the domestic landscape of Content: -The grand dome rests on eight muqarnas-corbelled squinches supported by eight large piers -Muquarnas are faceted decorative forms, protrude and recess- they bridge a point of transition They allow the round base of the dome to join the octagon formed by the piers. -The Qibla: wall that faces Mecca, projects outward emphasizing openness of interior space
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