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3500 BCE
Mesopotamia
The earliest civilization in recorded history. -
2300 BCE
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The world’s first literary epic. -
Period: 560 BCE to 480 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama "Buddha"
Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha or "Enlightened One". -
431 BCE
Greek, "Medea by Euripides".
A tragedy written by the ancient Greek. -
Period: 427 BCE to 347 BCE
Plato
Pupil of Socrates. Allegory of the Cave. -
Period: 384 BCE to 322 BCE
Aristotle
Member of Plato’s Academy for twenty years. -
Period: 1564 to
William Shakespeare
Created a wide range of characters who achieved
immortality from Romeo and Juliet to King Lear to Hamlet to Othello
and Macbeth. -
Claude Monet
Painting "Sunrise" by Claude Monet -
Vincent Van Gogh
Painting "Starry Night" by Vincent Van Gogh. -
Casa Batllo
Casa Batllo (Gaudi, 1904) -
Pablo Picasso
Painting "Ma Jolie" by Pablo Picasso. -
Wassily Kandinsky
Painting "Composition VIII" by Wassily Kandinsky. -
Period: to
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
An economic downturn like had never
been seen before began in 1929 and
lasted until 1939. -
Period: to
Jazz
Jazz during this period took on some of the complex and
sophisticated characteristics of art music, borrowed and transferred from the role classical music held for decades in the 19th century. -
Salvador Dali
Painting "The persistence of memory" by Salvador Dali -
Fallingwater
Frank Lloyd Wright - Fallingwater -
Salvador Dali
Painting "The Burning Giraffe" by Salvador Dali. -
Frida Kahlo
Painting "The Wounded Table" by Frida Kahlo -
Rock 'n' roll
The Beatles who helped define the early part of the 1960s in Rock and Roll, their songs were bouncing with exuberance. -
The Louvre Pyramid
The Louvre Pyramid (I.M Pei, 1989)