Art History

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  • 270,000 BCE

    The world's oldest piece of art.

    The world's oldest piece of art.
    Cupule and meander petroglyph on
    a boulder at the Auditorium Cave,
    Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh, India.
  • Period: 270,000 BCE to 800 BCE

    Prehistoric Art

  • 230,000 BCE

    Venus of Berekhat Ram

    Venus of Berekhat Ram
    A controversial piece as some believe this figure could just be the cause of natural erosion.
  • 200,000 BCE

    The Venus of Tan-Tan

    The Venus of Tan-Tan
    This piece is believed to be the first representation of the human body.
  • 70,000 BCE

    Blombos Cave Rock Art

    Blombos Cave Rock Art
    This piece is the earliest sign of cave art and the crosshatch pattern.
  • 40,000 BCE

    Aurignacian Art

    Aurignacian Art
    The true beginning of Cave Art. The handprints symbolize a signature
  • 33,000 BCE

    Mammoth Ivory Carving

    Mammoth Ivory Carving
    Ivory carvings such as this one were not uncommon during this time period. Some believe the animal carvings symbolized good luck in hunting or past hunting experience.
  • 25,000 BCE

    Megalithic Art

    Megalithic Art
    Megalithic art is the fourth staple in prehistorical art, and a major part of the neolithic stage. This type of art was well known as being seen on tombs and memorials.
  • 12,000 BCE

    Roc-aux-Sorciers

    Roc-aux-Sorciers
    Relief sculptures started to gain popularity in cave art. Using this method created a new type of masterpiece.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 395 BCE

    Egyptian Art

  • 3000 BCE

    Narmer Palette

    Narmer Palette
    The engraving depicts a victorious Egyptian king unifying the land under his rule.
  • 2700 BCE

    Egyptian Architecture

    Egyptian Architecture
    The first stone pyramid built in ancient Egypt was the 'Step Pyramid'.
  • Period: 650 BCE to 27 BCE

    Greek Art

  • 600 BCE

    Archaic Greek Pottery

    Archaic Greek Pottery
    This piece is showing a black figure style design.
  • 600 BCE

    Kleobis and Biton

    Kleobis and Biton
    Archaic Greek Art was influenced by Egyptian art, as you can see in this piece.
  • 550 BCE

    The temple of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis.

    The temple of the goddess Athena on the Acropolis.
    Archaic Greek Architecture
  • 480 BCE

    Classic Greek Pottery

    Classic Greek Pottery
    Moving away from the red and black figure style of design, the white ground technique became popular by painting on a white clay background.
  • 432 BCE

    Classical Greek Architecture

    Classical Greek Architecture
    The Parthenon is one of the most well known structures designed by the ancient Greeks.
  • 360 BCE

    God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo II

    God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo II
    The pharaoh Nectanebo II is shown in this piece in between the legs of the falcon god of kingship, Horus
  • Period: 300 BCE to 400

    Roman Art

  • 246 BCE

    Chinese Terracotta Army

    Chinese Terracotta Army
    The major cultural achievement of Qin Dynasty Art
  • 232 BCE

    Dying Gaul (Hellenistic Sculpture)

    Dying Gaul (Hellenistic Sculpture)
    "Hellenistic Greek sculpture continued the Classical trend towards ever greater naturalism." It is at this point that both animals and people became acceptable subjects for sculpture. These types of sculptures were usually made for the wealthy.
  • 172 BCE

    Gilt Bronze Human-Shaped Lamp

    Part of Han Dynasty Art
    Western Han Dynasty
  • 80 BCE

    Roman Art

    Roman Art
    Villa of the Mysteries found in Pompeii
  • 31 BCE

    Hellenistic Painting

    Hellenistic Painting
    Mythology was of great importance to the Greeks and therefore played a big part in their Art.
  • 106

    Trajan's Column

    Trajan's Column
    The greatest relief sculpture of Ancient Rome, Trajan's Column is a Doric-style monument, designed by the architect Apollodorus of Damascus.
  • 193

    Marcus Aurelius' Column

    Marcus Aurelius' Column
    Seen in the Piazza Colonna, Rome.
    Depicts the "rain miracle of Quadi".
  • 270

    Late Roman Sculpture

    Late Roman Sculpture
    Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons
    Roman relief sculpture in marble.
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    Renaissance, Romanesque, Gothic
  • 1000

    High Relief Romanesque Sculpture

    High Relief Romanesque Sculpture
    This piece shows Judas Iscariot
    hanging himself, helped by devils.
  • 1070

    Ptah Statue

    Ptah Statue
    The great Egyptian god Ptah was a deity known for being a creator and for listening to individuals’ prayers.
  • 1150

    Virgin and Child Ivory Carving

    Virgin and Child Ivory Carving
    Gothic sculpture
  • Period: 1150 to 1250

    Early Gothic

  • Period: 1250 to 1375

    High Gothic

  • 1279

    Egyptian Sculpture

    Egyptian Sculpture
    Ramesses II was a pharaoh who ruled ancient Egypt. He was notorious for putting up statues of himself around Egypt.
  • 1280

    Gothic Sculpture

    "Virgin and Child" a sculpture carved from Ivory
  • Period: 1375 to 1450

    International Gothic

  • 1378

    Jacob & Esau Relief, Gates of Paradise

    Jacob & Esau Relief, Gates of Paradise
    By Lorenzo Ghiberti, one of
    the greatest Renaissance sculptors.
  • 1426

    Expulsion From The Garden of Eden

    Expulsion From The Garden of Eden
    by Masaccio. A seminal image
    of 15th century religious art.
  • 1440

    Descent From the Cross

    Descent From the Cross
    One of the greatest Flemish altarpieces of the Northern Renaissance.
    By Roger van der Weyden.
  • 1483

    Virgin of the Rocks

    Virgin of the Rocks
    By Leonardo da Vinci. Known to be one of the Greatest Paintings ever
  • 1484

    Renaissance Art

    Renaissance Art
    Birth Of Venus by Botticelli
  • 1501

    David

    David
    By Michelangelo. A masterpiece of
    Italian Renaissance sculpture.
  • 1503

    Renaissance Art

    Renaissance Art
    Mona Lisa by Leonardo Da Vinci
  • 1509

    The School of Athens

    The School of Athens
    By Raphael. This painting is famous for its use of perspective
  • 1511

    Creation of Adam

    Creation of Adam
    By Michelangelo's. Located on
    the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

  • Calling of Saint Mathew

    Calling of Saint Mathew
    By Caravaggio. This piece contained a lot of tenebrism.
  • Period: to

    Italian Baroque

    During this time period art needed to have three very important characteristics due to the protestant reformation...
    1) Had to show moral instruction
    2) Had to be pleasing to the eye
    3) Cannot contain Nudity

  • Judith and her Maidservant

    Judith and her Maidservant

  • Rise of French Tapestry Art

  • Period: to

    Roccoco

    This time period has been known to show wealthy and materialistic situations in pieces of art.

  • Pilgrimage of Cytherea

    Pilgrimage of Cytherea
    By Jean Antoine Watteau
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical Art

    This art reflected classical art from ancient Greece and Rome.

  • The Swing

    The Swing
    Painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard. A fun painting with the message of adultery.
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

    Art meant to evoke emotion.
  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

    A time period characterized by an emergence of science, intelligence, and technology.
  • Period: to

    Realism

    Subject matter during this time included genre scenes of rural and urban working class life, scenes of street-life, cafes and night clubs, and nudity.

  • The Raft of the Medusa

    The Raft of the Medusa
    An oil painting o by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault.

  • Daguerreotype

    Daguerreotype
    Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre and introduced the daguerreotype worldwide.The Daguerreotype process, or daguerreotypy, was the first publicly available photographic process, and for nearly twenty years it was the one most commonly used.

  • The barricades

    The barricades
    Horace Vernet

  • The Stone Breakers

    The Stone Breakers
    By the French painter Gustave Courbet. This painting depicts two peasants, a young man and an old man, breaking rocks.
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

    French movement characterized by rapid, spontaneous and loose brushstrokes in paintings.

  • Horse in Motion,

    Horse in Motion,
    Eadweard Muybridge

  • The Lady of Shalott

    The Lady of Shalott
    By John William Waterhouse.
  • Period: to

    The Classical Revival in Modern Art

  • Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

    Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
    By Pablo Picasso.
    The first Cubist picture and one of
    the greatest 20th century paintings.
  • Period: to

    Cubism

  • Child in Carolina Cotton Mill

    Child in Carolina Cotton Mill
    Cotton Mill Worker in North Carolina This photograph depicting a young girl at work in a North Carolina cotton mill was taken by the American photographer Lewis W. Hine.
  • Period: to

    Futurism

    An "avant-garde" movement

  • Violin and Candlestick

    Violin and Candlestick
    By Georges Braque.

  • The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street

    The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
    By Giorgio de Chirico, a key
    pioneer of surrealistic painting.

  • Harlequin With Guitar

    Harlequin With Guitar
    By Juan Gris.

  • Large Bather

    Large Bather
    By Pablo Picasso.

  • Nudes against a Red Background

    Nudes against a Red Background
    By Fernand Leger.
  • Period: to

    Surrealism

  • The Persistence of Memory

    The Persistence of Memory
    By Salvador Dali

  • The Listening Room

    The Listening Room
    By Rene Magritte.
  • Period: to

    Abstract Expressionism

  • Homage to the Square: Apparition

    Homage to the Square: Apparition
    By Josef Albers.