ART HISTORY
CLASSIC
CIVILIZATIONS 800 BC
- 337 AD (BCE-CE)
PREHISTORIC Greek Art 800 - 323 BC
Hellenistic Art 323-150 BC ROMANESQUE STYLE
25000 BC – 2000 BC Etruscan Art 6th - 5th century BC
1000 - 1140 AD
Roman Art 509 BC - 337 AD
ANCIENT MIDDLE AGES GOTHIC STYLE
CIVILIZATIONS 373 - 1453 AD (CE) 1140 - 1500 AD
3000 BC - 331 BC Celtic, Saxon, & Hiberno 200 - 732 AD
Byzantine Art 400 - 1453 AD
(BCE) Justinian 527 - 565 AD
Egyptian Art 3200 - 1070 BC
Mesopotamian Art 3500 - 331 BC Islamic Art 622 - 900 AD
Persian 539 - 331 BC Carolingian Art 732 - 900 AD
Aegean Art 3000 - 1100 BC Ottonian Art 900 - 1050 AD
Minoan (Crete) 3000 - 1475 BC
Mycenean (Greece) 1650 - 1100 BC
Hall of the Bulls (detail of
PREHISTORIC bull), Lascaux, France.
25000 BC – 2000 BC
Ceiling of the Great Hall,
Altamira, Spain.
"Chinese Horse," Entrance to Lascaux cave in 1940.
Lascaux, France. c.
15,000-10,000 B.C.
Venus of Savignano
(Modena), Italy. c.
25,000 B.C. Serpentine
stone.
Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain (Wiltshire), England. c.
2000 B.C.
ANCIENT
CIVILIZATIONS
3000 BC - 331 BC (BCE)
The Great Sphinx, Giza, Egypt. c. 2570-2544 B.C.
Mycerinus and His
Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops), Giza, Egypt. c. 2601-2528 B.C. Queen,
Khamerernebty.
c. 2515 B.C. Slate.
Colosseum, Rome 72-80 A.D.
CLASSIC CIVILIZATIONS
800 BC - 337 AD (BCE-CE)
Red-figure jug c. 470 B.C.
Pantheon, Rome
Zeus, c.460 B.C.
Parthenon, 5th c. B.C. Laocoon and his Sons, c. 200 B.C.
MIDDLE AGES ROMANESQUE GOTHIC STYLE
373 - 1453 AD (CE) STYLE 1000 - 1140 AD 1140 - 1500 AD
St Francis of Assisi, 1235
Notre Dame de Paris: w. façade, 1160-1345
St. Ambrose, Milan, 379-386
Book of hours, Paris c. 1410.