School Worldview Timeline

  • Period: 500 BCE to 500

    Classical Worldview

    Art that Represents Worldview: Art of rider on horse (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Rider_Cdm_Paris_814.jpg)
    This picture has a lot of emotion in it (rider's head is bowed) and the Classical worldview has a lot to do with emotion
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages Worldview

    Art: Maestà.
    This art has a lot of symbolism and religious meaning. Church is everything in the Middle Ages
  • Period: 1400 to

    Renaissance Worldview

    Art: Pietà.
    Things are meant to be beautiful in Renaissance worldview. The Pietà has lots of emotion and reflects that idea of making things beautiful and meaningful.
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    Enlightenment Worldview

    Art: A Philosopher Giving A Lecture at the Orrery
    This art is very controlled, only shows what the artists wanted it to show. Not much emotion, just meaning.
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    Romantic Worldview

    Art: The Lady of Shalott (painting)
    This painting is emotional, lots of symbolism. Out in nature, full of natural, beautiful things.
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    Victorian Worldview

    Art: Ophelia by John Everett Millais
    Realism, painting of a vulnerable woman, common during the Victorian Era in art.
  • Period: to

    Modern, Post-Modern Worldview

    Art: The Weeping Woman by Pablo Picasso
    Abstract ideas, portraying emotion and a feeling instead of a specific picture. Whatever you want it to be.