Prehistoric to Rome

Paleolithic

Period: 35,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

Venus of Willendorf

28,000 BCE

Subtracted limestone, Fertility idol

Apollo 11 Stones

25,500 BCE

Namibia, Charcoal on stone

Humans in America

25,000 BCE

Neolithic

Period: 15,200 BCE to 2000 BCE

Ambum Stone

15,000 BCE

Ambum Valley (New Guinea), Greywacke

Ibex Beaker

4200 BCE

Susa (Iran), Painted terra cotta, Found in an acropolis

Anthropomorphic Stele

4000 BCE

Arabian Peninsula, Sandstone

White Temple

3500 BCE

Uruk (Iran), Sumerian, Mud brick

Palette of King Narmer

3000 BCE

Predynastic Egypt, greywacke, early propaganda

Seated Scribe

2620 BCE

Saqqara (Egypt), Old Kingdom, painted limestone, subtraction, carved in the round, funerary

Old Egypt

Period: 2613 BCE to 2181 BCE

Standard of Ur

2600 BCE

Royal tombs at Ur (Iraq), Sumerian, Wood inlaid with shells, lapis lazuli, and red limestone

Stonehenge

2500 BCE

Wiltshire (UK), Sandstone, Where bones were buried

First Iron Objects

2500 BCE

Great Pyramids (Menkaura, Khafre, Khufu)

2490 BCE

Giza (Egypt), Old Kingdom, cut limestone, pyramids are tombs of the pharaohs

The Code of Hammurabi

1792 BCE

Babylon (Modern Iran), Susian, basalt, engraved with the laws of the people

New Egypt

Period: 1570 BCE to 1069 BCE

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

1473 BCE

Egypt, New Kingdom, sandstone, partially carved into rock cliff, and red granite, Senemut was the architect

Hatshepsut Statue

1473 BCE

Egypt, New Kingdom, sandstone

Akhenaton, Nefertiti, & 3 Daughters

1353 BCE

New Kingdom (Amarna), 18th Dynasty, limestone

Amarna

Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE

Akhenaton moved the capital of Egypt from Thebes to Amarna, made Egypt polytheistic to monotheistic

Tlatilco

1200 BCE

Central Mexico, Ceramic

Fall of Troy

1200 BCE

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

Rome Founded

753 BCE

Lamassu

720 BCE

Citadel of Sargon II (Iraq), Nep-Assyrian, Alabaster

Athenian Agora

600 BCE

Archaic through Hellenistic Greece, plan, 30 acres

Anavysos Kouros

530 BCE

Archaic Greece, marble with remnants of paint, ideal form

Peplos Kore

530 BCE

from Acropolis, Archaic Greece, marble with remnants of paint, peplos is a garment

Audience Hall (Apadana)

520 BCE

of darius and Xerxes, Persepolis, Iran, Persian, limestone

Classical Greece

Period: 510 BCE to 323 BCE

Republic Rome

Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

Persian Wars

449 BCE

Parthenon

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble,

Acropolis Plan

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects

Temple of Athena Nike

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble

Victory Adjusting Her Sandal

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, in the frieze that was around the Temple of Athena Nike

Helios, Horses, & Dionysos

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, located in the East pediment of the Parthenon

Plaque of the Ergastines

447 BCE

Acropolis, Greece, Iktinos and Kalikrates were the architects, marble, frieze at the East entrance of Parthenon

Alexander the Great Dies

323 BCE

Hellenistic Greece

Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE

Doryphoros (Spear Bearer)

120 BCE

Classical Greece, Polykleitos was the artist, original (bronze) 450 BCE, copy (marble) 120 BCE,

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Hellenistic Greece, bronze, lost wax, not ideal body (looks tired)

Alexander Mosaic

100 BCE

from House of Faun, Pompeii, Republican Roman, mosaic, shows when Alexander defeated the Persians

Assassination of Julius Caesar

44 BCE

Imperial Rome

Period: 27 BCE to 476

Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

70

Rome, Italy, Imperial Rome, stone & concrete (CONCRETE CHANGED THE WORLD)

Augustus of Prima Porta

100

Imperial Roman, marble, controposto, idealized form, propaganda

Pantheon

118

Imperial Rome, concrete with stone facing, pantheon means all gods

Western Rome Falls

476