Art Movement's Timeline

Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)

3500 BCE

Warrior art and narration in stone relief Stele of Hammurabi’s Code
(1780 b.c.)

Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)

3100 BCE

Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting Bust of Nefertiti
(3100 b.c.);

Stone Age (30,000 b.c.-2500 b.c.)

2500 BCE

Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures Woman of Willendorf

Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)

850 BCE

Greek idealism: balance, perfect proportions; architectural
orders(Doric, Ionic, Corinthian) Parthenon

Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476)

500 BCE

Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch Augustus of Primaporta
(27 b.c.)