Art History

By Claudia Télles
  • 36,000 BCE

    Introduction.

    Introduction.
    history has been part of us from the beginning of the whole universe, without it we would not know what has happened in our world even before we were born, and one of the wonderful things that has left us is art, art has been able to represent Each time as it deserves, are stories that even in books we can find, ranging from the religious to the political, covering topics of romance, tragedy and even moments of war.
  • 36,000 BCE

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    Without art or history, there would be no truth about what has been of humanity, but only the great ones have known what to do with it.
  • 30,000 BCE

    Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.)

    Cave painting, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures
  • 3500 BCE

    Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)

    Warrior art and narration in stone relief
  • 3100 BCE

    Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)

    Art with an afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb painting.
  • 3000 BCE

    Prehistoric (before c. 3000 B.C.E.)

    The term “prehistoric” refers to the time before written history. In the West, writing was invented in ancient Mesopotamia just before 3000 B.C.E., so this period includes visual culture (paintings, sculpture, and architecture) made before that date.
  • 3000 BCE

    Ancient (c. 3000 B.C.E. to c. 400 C.E.)

    This period includes the great early civilizations of the ancient Near East (think Babylonia), ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, the Etruscans, and the Romans—everything that comes after the invention of writing and before the fall of the Roman Empire. Keep in mind the disintegration of the Roman Empire took centuries, but to simplify, c. 400 will do.
  • 400

    Middle Ages (c. 400 C.E. to c. 1400 C.E.)

    The first half of this thousand-year period witnessed terrible political and economic upheaval in Western Europe, as waves of invasions by migrating peoples destabilized the Roman Empire. The Roman emperor Constantine established Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) as a new capital in the East in 330 C.E. and the Western Roman Empire broke apart soon after. In the Eastern Mediterranean, the Byzantine Empire (with Constantinople as its capital), flourished.
  • 1400

    Renaissance (c. 1400 to 1600)

    In part, the Renaissance was a rebirth of interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture. It was also a period of economic prosperity in Europe—particularly in Italy and in Northern Europe. In art history, we study both the Italian Renaissance and the Northern Renaissance. We talk about a way of looking at the world called Humanism, which—at its most basic—placed renewed value on human knowledge, and the experience of this world, using ancient Greek and Roman literature and art as a model.

  • Early Modern (c. 1600 - 1800)

    It might seem strange to date the beginning of the "modern era" to so long ago, but in many ways it was the scientific, political and economic revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries that have most shaped our own society.

  • Modern (after c. 1800)

    Capitalism became the dominant economic system during this period. Individuals risked capital to produce goods in a currency-based market which depended on inexpensive, waged labor. Labor eventually organized into unions (latter-day guilds) and in this way, asserted considerable influence. More broadly shared political power was bolstered by overall increases in the standard of living and the first experiments in public education.

  • Introduction

    history has been part of us from the beginning of the whole universe, without it we would not know what has happened in our world even before we were born, and one of the wonderful things that has left us is art, art has been able to represent Each time as it deserves, are stories that even in books we can find, ranging from the religious to the political, covering topics of romance, tragedy and even moments of war.