Art History Timeline

By KellyChamberlain
  • 2,500,000 BCE

    Olduwan Culture

    Olduwan Culture
    Main key of this culture was the ability of chipping stones to create a chopping or cutting edge
  • 15,000 BCE

    Magdalenian art begins

    Magdalenian art begins
    This culture is practiced by homo sapiens across western and central Europe.
  • 10,000 BCE

    Mesolithic Era

    Mesolithic Era
    This era has a wide variety of races. It includes brachycephalic humans which are short skulled and dolichopehalic humans who are long skulled
  • 2500 BCE

    Saharan Culture

    Saharan Culture
    This is the earliest known figurative sculpture from sub-Saharan Africa and was made by the Nok People.
  • 750 BCE

    Greek Alphabet

    Greek Alphabet
    The greek alphabet was created
  • 340 BCE

    Famous Greek sculpture: Boy From Antikythera.

    Famous Greek sculpture: Boy From Antikythera.
    This Greek sculpture portrays a young boy in Antikythera.
  • 246 BCE

    Chinese Terracotta Army Warriors

    Chinese Terracotta Army Warriors
    This is a massive collection of terracotta sculpture consisting of 8,000 clay warriors and horses.
  • 232 BCE

    Famous Greek sculpture: Dying Gaul.

    Famous Greek sculpture: Dying Gaul.
    This is an ancient Roman sculpture made in marble, of a man appearing to be dying after a battle.
  • 206 BCE

    Chinese porcelain

    Chinese porcelain
    The word porcelain derived form the italian word "porcellana" which means a type of translucent shell describes any ceramic ware that is white and translucent.
  • 166 BCE

    Pergamon Altar of Zeus

    Pergamon Altar of Zeus
    This was built by built by King Emends. This is an example of Hellenistic Greek sculpture
  • 150 BCE

    Venus di milo

    Venus di milo
    This sculpture made for a lot of mystery auto why the woman's arms are cut off.
  • 42 BCE

    Laocoon

    Laocoon
    He was a Trojan priest who was attacked, with his two sons, by giant serpents sent by the gods.He is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle.
  • 9 BCE

    Ara Pacis Auqustae

    Ara Pacis Auqustae
    This is an Altar in Rome dedicated to the pax. The altar reflects the Augustan vision of Roman civil religion.
  • 113

    Roman Relief sculpture

    Roman Relief sculpture
    These are Amazon warriors from an ancient Roman sarcophagus in the Vatican Museum.
  • 395

    St Peter's Basilica

    St Peter's Basilica
    St. Peter's is the most famous work of Renaissance architecture and one of the largest churches in the world.
  • 500

    Byzantine medieval art

    Byzantine medieval art
    Byzantine medieval art began with mosaics decorating the walls and domes of churches. These mosaics were taken up in Italy, especially in Rome.
  • 532

    Byzantine Architecture

    Byzantine Architecture
    The cathedral of Hagia Sophia is the masterpiece of architecture from the Byzantine Empire. It was built as a Christian church at Constantinople.
  • Nov 29, 800

    Carolingian Art

    Carolingian Art
    This Chapel is an excellent example of Christian Carolingian
    architecture.
  • Nov 29, 1115

    Bayeux Tapestry

    Bayeux Tapestry
    This is an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long which shows the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England.
  • Nov 29, 1387

    Ming Dynasty art

    Ming Dynasty art
    Ming rule brought about a time frame of cultural restoration and expansion this lead to a widespread renewal of traditional types of art.
  • Nov 29, 1400

    Renaissance Art

    Renaissance Art
    This was painted by an Italian renaissance artist named leonardo da vinci. The painting is portrait of a woman.
  • Nov 29, 1545

    Mannerism Art

    Mannerism Art
    This type of art is typically associated with attributes such as emotionalism, elongated human figures, and strained poses.

  • Baroque Architecture

    Baroque Architecture
    This was a building style that took place in Italy in places like cathedrals.

  • Rococo Art

    Rococo Art
    Love and seduction was commonly portrayed in these paintings with a lot of color.

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    Liberty Leading the People was made in response to the political upheaval that would resulted in the overthrow of the reigning monarch, Charles X.

  • Realist movement

    Realist movement
    This photo of a stone breaker shows the everyday struggles and the hard life these people have. An important part of this is that the viewer can not see the mans face which reveals his identity.

  • French Impressionism

    French Impressionism
    All of the painting from artists during this period are very soft and do not have harsh lines.

  • Expressionism

    Expressionism
    Expressionism is an intensely personal art form. The artist strives to show their personal feelings about the object painted, rather than just recording what he sees.

  • Cubism

    Cubism
    Synthetic Cubism uses geometric shapes to form a picture. This type of Cubism is more colorful than earlier forms.

  • Surrealism Art Movement

    Surrealism Art Movement
    This is popular is schools, it is showing perspective of what an individual sees while looking at a landscape or object.

  • Social Realism

    Social Realism
    This refers to any painting or sculpture that was created in a realist style which means that it contains a socialist message.

  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism
    The phrase "Abstract Expressionism" was initially coined in Europe. These paintings are all very crazy and have many components to them.