AP Art History Timeline

Paleolithic

35,000 BCE

"Venus" of Willendorf

28,000 BCE

Paleolithic 2800BCE-25000BCE
Oolitic Limestone tinted w/ ochre

Apollo 11 Stones

25,500 BCE

Paleolithic 25500BCE-25300BCE
Charcoal on Stone

Humans in the Americas

25,000 BCE

Neolithic Near East

6000 BCE

Ibex Beaker

4200 BCE

Susian 4200BCE-3500BCE
Painted Terra Cotta

Neolithic Europe

4000 BCE

Anthropomorphic Stele

4000 BCE

Neolithic 4th millenium BCE (4000 BCE)
Sandstone

White Temple and its Ziggurat

3500 BCE

Sumerian c.3500BCE-3000BCE
Mud Brick

Palette of King Narmer

3000 BCE

Predynastic Egypt c.3000BCE-2920BCE
Greywacke

Seated Scribe

2620 BCE

Old Kingdom Egypt c.2620BCE-2500BCE
Painted Limestone

Old Kingdom Egypt

2600 BCE

Standard of Ur

2600 BCE

Sumerian c.2600BCE-2400BCE
Wood inlaid w/ shell/black limestone

Probable date of the first iron objects

2500 BCE

Stonehenge

2500 BCE

Neolithic Europe c.2500BCE-1600BCE
Sandstone

Great Pyramids

2490 BCE

Old Kingdom Egypt c.2490BCE-2472BCE
Cut Limestone

Code of Hammurabi

1792 BCE

Susian c.1792BCE-1750BCE
Basalt

New Kingdom Egypt

1550 BCE

Ambum Stone

1500 BCE

Neolithic c.1500BCE
Greywacke

Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

1473 BCE

New Kingdom Egypt c.1473BCE-1458BCE
Sandstone partially carved into a rock cliff, red granite

Akhenaton

1353 BCE

New Kingdom Egypt c.1353BCE-1335BCE
Limestone

Amarna

1350 BCE

The Fall of Troy

1200 BCE

Tlatilco Female Figurine

1200 BCE

Neolithic 1200BCE-900BCE
Ceramic

First Olympic Games

776 BCE

Rome Founded

753 BCE

Lamassu

720 BCE

Neo-Assyrian c.720BCE-705BCE
Alabaster

Athenian Agora

600 BCE

Hellenistic Greek 600BCE-150BCE
Plan, 30 acres

Korous/Kore

530 BCE

Archaic Greek c.530BCE
Marble w/ paint remnants/details

Apadana

520 BCE

Persian c.520BCE-465BCE
Limestone

Republican Rome

510 BCE

Classical Greek

480 BCE

Doryphoros

450 BCE

Classical Greek 450BCE-440BCE
Bronze, Roman Copy (marble)

Persian Wars

Period: 449 BCE to 479 BCE

Acropolis

447 BCE

Classical Greek c.447BCE-410BCE
Marble

Hellenistic Greek

325 BCE

Alexander the Great Dies

323 BCE

Alexander Mosaic

100 BCE

Republican Rome 100BCE
Mosaic, 1.5 million tiles

Seated Boxer

100 BCE

Hellenistic Greek c.100BCE
Bronze

The Assassination of Julius Caesar

44 BCE

Portrait of Augustus from Prima Porta

50

Imperial Rome 50CE
Marble

Imperial Rome

50

Colosseum

70

Imperial Rome 70CE-80CE
Stone and Concrete

Pantheon

118

Imperial Rome 118CE-125CE
Concrete w/ stone facing

Western Rome Falls

476