Art History 2015

By priorematias
  • 100

    PREHISTORIC ART 30,000 - 2,500 b.c.

    PREHISTORIC ART 30,000 - 2,500 b.c.
    STONE AGECharacteristics: Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures.
    Chief Artists and Major Works: Lascaux Cave Painting, Woman of Willendorf, Stonehenge.
    Historical Events: Ice Age ends (10,000 b.c.–8,000 b.c.); New Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)
  • 100

    MESOPOTAMIAN ART 3,500 B.C. - 539 B.C.

    MESOPOTAMIAN ART 3,500 B.C. - 539 B.C.
    MESOPOTAMIAN ARTHistorical Events: Sumerians invent writing (3400 b.c.); Hammurabi writes his law code (1780 b.c.); Abraham founds monotheism.
    Characteristics Warrior art and narration in stone relief.
    Chief Artists and Major Works: Standard of Ur, Gate of Ishtar, Stele of Hammurabi's Code.
  • 100

    EGYPTIAN ART 3,100 b.c - 30 b.c.

    EGYPTIAN ART 3,100 b.c - 30 b.c.
    EGYPTIAN ARTCharacteristics: Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting.
    Historical Events: Narmer unites Upper/Lower Egypt (3100 b.c.); Rameses II battles the Hittites (1274 b.c.); Cleopatra dies (30 b.c.)
    Chief Artists and Major Works: Imhotep, Step Pyramid, Great Pyramids, Bust of Nefertiti
  • 100

    GREEK AND HELLENISTIC ART 850 b.c. - 31b.c.

    GREEK AND HELLENISTIC ART 850 b.c. - 31b.c.
    GREEK AND HELLENISTIC ARTCharacteristics:
    Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian).
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    Parthenon, Myron, Phidias, Polykleitos, Praxiteles
    Historical Events:
    Athens defeats Persia at Marathon (490 b.c.); Peloponnesian Wars (431 b.c.–404 b.c.); Alexander the Great's conquests (336 b.c.–323 b.c.)
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  • 200

    ROMAN ART 500 b.c - 476 a.d.

    ROMAN ART 500 b.c - 476 a.d.
    ROMAN ARTCharacteristics:
    Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch.
    Historical Events:
    Julius Caesar assassinated (44 b.c.); Augustus proclaimed Emperor (27 b.c.); Diocletian splits Empire (a.d. 292); Rome falls (a.d. 476).
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    Augustus of Primaporta, Colosseum, Trajan's Column, Pantheon.
  • 500

    BYZANTINE ART a.d. 476 - a.d. 1453

    BYZANTINE ART a.d. 476 - a.d. 1453
    BYZANTINE ARTCharacteristics:
    Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic architecture and amazing maze-like design.
    Historical Events:
    Justinian partly restores Western Roman Empire (a.d. 533–a.d. 562); Iconoclasm Controversy (a.d. 726–a.d. 843); Birth of Islam (a.d. 610) and Muslim Conquests (a.d. 632–a.d. 732).
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    Hagia Sophia, Andrei Rublev, Mosque of Córdoba, the Alhambra.
  • 500

    MEDIEVAL ART 500 a.d. - 1400

    MEDIEVAL ARTCharacteristics:
    Celtic art, Carolingian Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic.
    Historical Events:
    Viking Raids (793–1066); Battle of Hastings (1066); Crusades I–IV (1095–1204); Black Death (1347–1351); Hundred Years' War (1337–1453).
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    St. Sernin, Durham Cathedral, Notre Dame, Chartres, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto.
  • Jan 1, 1400

    RENAISSANCE

    RENAISSANCECharacteristics:
    Ribirth of classical culture.
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    Ghiberti's Doors, Brunelleschi, Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael.
    Historical Events:
    Gutenberg invents movable type (1447); Turks conquer Constantinople (1453); Columbus lands in New World (1492); Martin Luther starts Reformation (1517).
  • Jan 1, 1527

    MANNERISM 1527 - 1580

    MANNERISM 1527 - 1580
    MANNERISMCharacteristics:
    Art that breaks the rules; artifice over nature.
    Historical Events:
    Magellan circumnavigates the globe (1520–1522).
    Chief Artists and Major Works:
    Tintoretto, El Greco, Pontormo, Bronzino, Cellini.

  • BAROQUE 1600 - 1750

    BAROQUE 1600 - 1750
    BAROQUE ARTIn the last part of this period scholars placed the ROCOCO movement. At first, it was considered "Late baroque" but later on it was accepted as a period in its own right.
    Characteristics:
    Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars.
    Main artists and works:
    Splendor and flourish for God; art as a weapon in the religious wars
    Reubens, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Palace of Versailles.
    Historical events:
    Thirty Years' War between Catholics and Protestants (1618–1648).

  • NEOCLASSICAL ART 1750 - 1850

    NEOCLASSICAL ART 1750 - 1850
    NEOCLASSICLA ARTCharacteristics:
    Art that recaptures Greco-Roman grace and grandeur.
    Main artists and works:
    David, Ingres, Greuze, Canova.
    Historical events:
    Enlightenment (18th century); Industrial Revolution (1760–1850).

  • ROMANTICISM 1780 - 1850

    ROMANTICISM 1780 - 1850
    ROMANTIC ARTCharacteristics:
    The triumph of imagination and individuality.
    Main artists and works:
    Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West.
    Historical events:
    American Revolution (1775–1783); French Revolution (1789–1799); Napoleon crowned emperor of France (1803).

  • REALISM 1848 - 1900

    REALISM 1848 - 1900
    FRENC REALISM
    Characteristics:
    Celebrating working class and peasants;en plein airrustic painting.
    Main artists and works:
    Corot, Courbet, Daumier, Millet.
    Historical events:
    European democratic revolutions of 1848.

  • IMPRESSIONISM 1865- 1885

    IMPRESSIONISM 1865- 1885
    IMPRESSIONISMCharacteristics:
    Capturing fleeting effects of natural light.
    Main artists and works:
    Monet, Manet, Renoir, Pissarro, Cassatt, Morisot, Degas.
    Historical events:
    Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871); Unification of Germany (1871).