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Art Periods

By Arisakirsammer
  • 500

    Roman

    Roman
    Characteristics:
    - Romans favored nature scenes with birds in flight, fishes, dogs and exotic animals.
    - Roman artists created their masterpieces using homemade pigments. Some Masterpieces:
    - Bust of Emperor Claudius,
    - The Wedding of Zephyrus and Chloris,
    - Villa of the Mysteries. Some Artists;
    - Charles Angrand
    - Pierre Bonnard
    - Fra Angelico
    - Giovanni Bellini
  • Feb 18, 700

    Greek

    Greek
    Characteristics:
    - Greek artists created their masterpieces using homemade pigments.
    - Artists used many different ingredients to achieve the desired colors, including burnt apple seeds, pulverized semiprecious stones, etc. Some Materpieces:
    - Saint Eustace
    - Children's Concert Some Artists:
    - Nikolaos Gyzis
    - Leonidas Drosis
  • Feb 12, 1150

    Gothic

    Gothic
    Characteristics:
    - The art-works are complex, fraught with religious fervor and symbolism.

    - Gothic paintings are darkly mystical, infused with an ethereal emotional intensity. Some Masterpieces:
    - Portal at Chartres Cathedral
    - The Garden of Earthly Delights
    - The Last Judgement Some Artits:
    - Hieronymus Bosch
    - Matthias Grünewald
  • Feb 12, 1450

    The High Renaissance

    The High Renaissance
    Characteristics:
    - Rebirth of classical culture.
    - There are highly valued synthesis of science, art, geometry and the natural world.
    - Paintings of the High Renaissance are intensely passionate and luxuriously luminescent. Some Masterpieces:
    - The Mona Lisa
    - The School of Athens
    - Pietà
    - David
    - The Creation of Adam
    - The Tempest Some Artits:
    - Andrea del Sarto
    - Ghiberti's Doors
    - Brunelleschi
    - Donatello
    - Botticelli
    - Leonardo Da Vinci
    - Michelangelo
    - Raphael
  • Feb 12, 1580

    Baroque

    Baroque
    Characteristics:
    - The style is distinguished by the emotional effects of color and overall harmony of the painting.
    - The Baroque style used elaborate effects to stir up religious passions. Some Masterpieces:
    - Medusa
    - The Triumph of the Immaculate
    - Aeneas flees burning Troy
    - The Crowning with Thorns Some Artists:
    - Caravaggio
    - Frans Hals
    -Nicolas Poussin
    - Diego Velázquez

  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism
    Characteristics:
    - The artist expresses only what he has within himself, not what he sees with his eyes.
    - Expressionists typically splash paint rapidly, and with force allowing their feelings and emotions to be transferred directly to paper or canvas. Some Masterpieces:
    - No. 5
    - Canticle
    - Woman V
    - Onement 1
    - The Transcendental
    - The Gate Some Artists:
    - Wassily Kandinsky
    - Gorky
    - Pollock de Kooning
    - Rothko
    - Warhol