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8000 BCE
First clay female figures
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Period: 8000 BCE to 139 BCE
Mesopotamian art
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7000 BCE
Earliest pottery
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6000 BCE
Handmade pottery
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5000 BCE
Painted pottery made on a slow wheel
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4000 BCE
Mass-produced pottery made on a fast wheel or in a mold.
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2900 BCE
Objects made of gold, silver, lapis lazuli, and carnelian founded in graves
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2350 BCE
Mythological, narrative scenes and Sargon the Great representations
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2112 BCE
Statues in temples built by gudea, and ziggurats are built in Ur and other cities
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1800 BCE
Hammurabi destroyed a palace that was decorated with wall paintings and stone statuary
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1350 BCE
The Kassite kudurru, or boundary stone, is decorated with royal and divine figures.
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Period: 900 BCE to 700 BCE
Geometric Period
Painting on vases was most common, always with representations and repetitions of shapes -
879 BCE
Stone reliefs of human-headed winged lions and bulls, in the palace. The interior walls are decorated with alabaster slabs with painted details. These show the accomplishments of the king.
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776 BCE
Foundation of the Olympic Games. The name of the winners was drawn by Julius Africanus and was preserved by Eusebius
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Period: 776 BCE to 117
Greek art
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750 BCE
Homer composes his two epic poems: the Iliad and the Odyssey. Greek people also started to colonize places such as southern Italy and Sicily, these places became city-states and some Greek-style temple was built there.
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Period: 700 BCE to 480 BCE
Archaic Period
Sculptures of men (Kouroi) and women (Korai) -
650 BCE
One of the largest Greek theater is constructed in Syracuse
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610 BCE
The poetess Sappho reverence Aphrodite and the Muses
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604 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar reign: molded multicolored glazed bricks with images of striding lions decorate the main street, while bulls and dragons similarly
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550 BCE
Art in Mesopotamia is influenced by others cultures from the East and West.
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525 BCE
A new technique is developed in Athens, the red-figure pottery that is diametrically opposite to the black-figure technique
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Period: 510 BCE to 320 BCE
Classical Period
Perfection in human sculpture is one of the main characteristics, this perfection was due to some ratios that the greek people found, about anatomy and humans expressions they always tried to reach perfection. -
432 BCE
The Parthenon is built and designed by Iktinos and Kallikrates, both architects, it is build of marble and incorporates the Doric and Ionic orders.
The triangular space above the columns, called pediment, is a memorable characteristic of all greek temples, in the Parthenon it is about Athena birth and a war against Poseidon. -
410 BCE
The temple of Athena Nike is completed
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403 BCE
Another Greek theater is founded in Sicily by Dionysius of Syracuse
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331 BCE
Hellenistic art and culture influence Mesopotamia, that's because Alexander the Great conquered the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates River
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Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic period
Greek influence over the places that Alexander the Great conquered. During this period artists improved and perfected naturalism, they also always want to reach a realist perfection, showing face expression, for example. They incorporate three characteristics to their work: expressive movement, realistic anatomy, and ornate details. -
139 BCE
This blue-green glazed pottery is the result of more influence of different cultures in Mesopotamia
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100 BCE
Venus de Milo, marble statue of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love
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42 BCE
Laocoon and His Sons, it is a Roman marble copy of a greek bronze statue
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102
The Library of Pantainos is constructed
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117
Hadrian, a Rome emperor completes the Temple of Olympian Zeus
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500
The beginning of Byzantine and Medieval art, mosaic art and Orthodox icon painting were the greatest features of art in this period
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Period: 500 to 1415
Dark Ages art
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532
The Hagia Sophia, an Eastern Orthodox cathedral and also as the seat of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, but during the Fourth Crusaders it was turned in a Roman Catholic cathedral
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550
Insular manuscripts as Cathach of St. Columba, the oldest irish manuscript ever found it has decorated letters. Book of Durrow is the earliest Gospel Book that survived from that time
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700
Oils such as walnut is first used as oil-resin varnishes for paintings on glass and stone
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780
Medieval Christian artwork appear during the Carolingian Renaissance
It shows that the Church was the strongest instituition in that time, because it's the only subject of art developed in that time, it include the Irish manuscripts, Byzantine art and almost all the art and architecture of the churches -
1349
Illumination showing the Black Plague, this fact was so shocking and there was too many deaths that artists in that time show facts like this mass burial
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1415
The Limbourg Brothers show a more realistic work, developing things such as shadows and woodsmoke
