Prehistoric to Rome

By mckenz28
  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • Period: 200,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • 28,000 BCE

    Venus of Willndorf

    Venus of Willndorf
    oolitic limestone, four inch sculpture, owned by nomadic people, fertility idol
  • 25,500 BCE

    Apollo 11 Stones

    Apollo 11 Stones
    portable stone, oldest piece found outside of Egypt, created by nomadic people, charcoal stone
  • 25,000 BCE

    Humans in the Americans

  • Period: 15,200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Neolithic

  • 4200 BCE

    Beaker With Ibex Motifs

    Beaker With Ibex Motifs
    painted terra cotta, animals in art, the first stamp of a particular craftsman, found in an acropolis
  • 4000 BCE

    Anthropomorphic Stele

    Anthropomorphic Stele
    Stylized, sand stone figure, associated with religious/burial practices, resembles a human
  • 3500 BCE

    White Temple and Its Ziggurat

    White Temple and Its Ziggurat
    mud brick, the Sumerian people invented cuneiform, idea of building up to be closer to the gods
  • 3000 BCE

    Palette of King Narmer

    Palette of King Narmer
    grey wake palette used for paint, subtractive, low relief, iconography present on both sides
  • 2620 BCE

    Seated Scribe

    Seated Scribe
    painted limestone, represents the scribe of someone important, literate and educated, buried with the scribe
  • 2600 BCE

    Standard of Ur

    Standard of Ur
    narrative in art on registers, depicts peace on the front and war on the back
  • 2500 BCE

    Stonehenge

    Stonehenge
    astrological tool used as a place to worship, stones from various places, mortise tenin
  • 2500 BCE

    Probable date of the first iron subjects

  • 2490 BCE

    The Great Pyramids

    The Great Pyramids
    Kufu then Khafre, then Menkaure. Where they were buried with the Kha facing the North so their soul was protected, surrounded by smaller pyramids for wives etc
  • Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE

    Egypt: Old

  • 1792 BCE

    The Code of Hammurabi

    The Code of Hammurabi
    Basalt, engraved with the Babylonian laws, hierarchy to scale, set of laws given from the gods and passed to the leaders to enforce amongst their society
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    Egypt: New

  • 1500 BCE

    The Ambum Stone

    The Ambum Stone
    greywacke, figure made by subtraction, found near bones, therefore possibly ritualistic
  • 1473 BCE

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
    Thutmost erases the women that was before her by destroying everything except this so her should could still live, sculptures offering sacrifices to the gods
  • 1353 BCE

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
    create a new religion, chambers behind Thuts tomb, aiming to be more realistic with lines, cotton acting as hands from the sun god
  • Period: 1348 BCE to 1320 BCE

    Amarna

  • 1200 BCE

    Tlatilco Female Figure

    Tlatilco Female Figure
    ceramic, figures that depicted everyday life, bifactured, often carried with people
  • 1200 BCE

    The Fall of Troy

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 753 BCE

    Rome founded

  • 720 BCE

    Lamassu

    Lamassu
    Neo-Assyrian figures with characteristics from several different animals, apotropaic purpose
  • 610 BCE

    Athenian Agora

    Athenian Agora
    town center, pantheistic way leading leads through the agora, commercial civil and social buildings
  • 530 BCE

    Korous/Kore

    Korous/Kore
    ideal marble statues, representative of human anatomy, men always nude, women wearing a peplos
  • 530 BCE

    Korous/Kore

    Korous/Kore
    ideal marble statues, representative of human anatomy, men always nude, women wearing a peplos
  • 520 BCE

    Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes (Apadana)

    Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes (Apadana)
    imported limestone, hypostyle haul, the gate of all nations, surrounded by lamassu
  • Period: 510 BCE to 323 BCE

    Greek: Classical

  • Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

    Rome: Republic

  • 450 BCE

    Doryphorous

    Doryphorous
    roman copy was marble, original greek figure was bronze, polykleitos’ cannon of proportion, contrapostic, realism in art begins
  • 449 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • 447 BCE

    Acropolis

    Acropolis
    pantheon made with entasis to correct natural eye distortion, temple of athena nike, victory adjusting her sandal+ wet drapery, plaque of the ergastines, captures greek life in Athens
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great Dies

  • Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greek: Hellenistic

  • 100 BCE

    Seated Boxer

    Seated Boxer
    bronze statue, not an ideal figure, may have bene touched for good luck at the feet, found in gym
  • 100 BCE

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun
    mosaic of Alexander the Great conquering the Persians, foreshortening
  • 44 BCE

    The assassination of Julius Caeser

  • Period: 27 BCE to 284

    Rome: Imperial

  • 70

    Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

    Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)
    concrete changes the world, important to keep your newly conquered land happy, used for entertainment and courts
  • 100

    Augustus of Prima Porta

    Augustus of Prima Porta
    marble statue, many around Rome to know who your leader was, orator pose, early propaganda
  • 118

    Pantheon

    Pantheon
    largest unreinforced building, dome, whole in center that allows water into the building but drains in the floor to release water
  • 476

    Western Rome falls