Prehistoric to Rome

Paleolithic

Period: 35,000 BCE to 2017

Apollo 11 stones

25,000 BCE

Charcoal on stone, really small and that meant portable. Damaged easily by weather. Theme: Rituals

Venus of WIllendorf

25,000 BCE

Oolitic limestone tinted with ochre. The first human form to ever be sculptured. Fertility symbol. Theme: Fertility

Humans in Americans

25,000 BCE

Neolithic

Period: 6000 BCE to 1500 BCE

Ibex beaker

4000 BCE

It is painted terra cotta, it show lots of different animals including birds, dogs and a goat. Theme: Animals in art

Anthropomorphic Stele

4000 BCE

Made out of sandstone. Earliest work of art in Arabia. Stylized, not realistic. Theme: Anthropomorphic images.

White temple

3500 BCE

Made out of mud brick and its 40 feet high.The higher the building, the closer you are to the gods. Theme: Religious centers.

Palette of king Narmer

3000 BCE

Made out of greywacke, the palettes are telling a story trough registers. Tells the story of Narmer conquering Egypt and unified them. Theme: SYmbols in art.

Standard of Ur

2600 BCE

It is wood inhaled with lapis lazuli and red limestone. This is evidence of trading. Theme: Narrative in art

Great pyramids

2500 BCE

It is made out of cut limestone, it was made for buring the pharos. Theme: Burial places

Seated Scribe

2500 BCE

It is painted limestone, looks human. He has man boobs, meaning he had enough food to eat and a well paying job but not royalty. Theme: Human figures in art

Stonehenge

2500 BCE

A great example of post and lintel construction. Made entirely out of sandstone. Theme: Ritual centres/Places of worship.

Probable date for the first iron objects

2500 BCE

The code of Hammurabi

1750 BCE

Made with basalt, the pillar is ingraved with laws and rules that Hammurabi recieved from Shana. Theme: Human Divine

Amarna

Period: 1550 BCE to 1292 BCE

Ambum stone

1500 BCE

Made out of greywacke. Was found near bones which is why the Theme is: Ritualistic.

Temple of Hatshepsut

1460 BCE

Made out of sandstone, this was a new way of burying the pharos, instead of a pyramid.

Akhenaton

1340 BCE

Made out of limestone. Telling a story trough art. Nefertiti and Akhenaton in the afterlife. Theme: Genre scenes.

The fall of troy

1200 BCE

Egypt: Old and New

Period: 1069 BCE to 653 BCE

Tlatilco female figure

900 BCE

It is ceramic. This little toy was usually buried with people. Theme: Descriptions of human figure.

First Olympic games

776 BCE

Rome founded

753 BCE

Lamassu

720 BCE

From the citadel of Sargon ll, its all made out of alabaster. It was made to protect the people inside the gates. Theme: Hybrid figures guardians.

Greek: Hellenistic

Period: 700 BCE to 510 BCE

Agora

600 BCE

Agora- meaning gathering place. The big road in the middle is a Panthantic way.

Anavysos Kouros

530 BCE

Marble with remnants of paint, this art is influenced by the egyptians. Theme: Idealized form

Greek: Classical

Period: 509 BCE to 323 BCE

Rome: Imperial vs Republic

Period: 509 BCE to 27

Apadana of Darius and Xerxes

500 BCE

Doryphorus

450 BCE

Sculptured the way we walk and talk, it is human looking.
Theme: Idealized human form

Acropolis

410 BCE

Classical Greece

Alexander the great dies

323 BCE

Alexander Mosaic

100 BCE

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Bronze, the first sculpture to be made out of bronze in the ancient greece era. Theme: Individual vs Society

Colesseum

75 BCE

The assassination of Julius Caesar

44 BCE

Portrait of Augustus from Prima

100

Made in marble, the sculpture is 6´8 feet high. It was not carved in the back, so only meant to be in front of a wall.

Panthenon

150

Made out of concrete, a Roman invention. It worships all the gods, Pantheon means; all gods. Theme: Home of worship.

Western Rome falls

476