Art History Timeline

  • venus of willendorf, austria
    10,000 BCE

    venus of willendorf, austria

    Mesolithic era
  • Period: 2650 BCE to 2631 BCE

    Stepped Pyramid of Djoser and Tomb Complex 2650-2631

    This piece demonstrates artistic vision and the cultural environment that fosters it
  • Churing the ocean of Milk, Angkor Wat
    1113 BCE

    Churing the ocean of Milk, Angkor Wat

    This piece demonstrates rhythm, a principle of art. The composition repeats an element which comes across as rhythm
  • Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions, Assyria
    650 BCE

    Ashurbanipal II Killing Lions, Assyria

    created from limestone, now located in British museum, london
  • Red Figure Kylix
    490 BCE

    Red Figure Kylix

    by Douris at Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  • Pantheon
    125

    Pantheon

    Located in rome. Made out of concrete and marble which encompassed divine qualities
  • Shrine to Vairocana Buddha
    650

    Shrine to Vairocana Buddha

    located in Luoyang, Valley of the Yellow River. Natural rock carving
  • Dome of the Rock
    687

    Dome of the Rock

    located in jerusalem
  • Period: 900 to 1300

    Serpent Mound

    near Locust Grove
    sculpture using the land
  • Period: 1100 to 1100

    Codex - Ancient Greece 1100 AD

    trunk of tree of block of wood - series of sheets of paper - bound and fixing on one end. Basically the first "book."
  • Period: 1185 to 1204

    Deesis Mosaic

    This mosaic depicts a good example of tactile texture that is perceived due to the materials themselves
  • Rose Window
    1233

    Rose Window

    from the north transept of chartes cathedral
  • Jikji
    1377

    Jikji

    Moveable metal type
  • Masaccio. The Expulsion from Paradise
    1427

    Masaccio. The Expulsion from Paradise

    Florence Italy, 1427. Fresco.
  • Jan Van Eyck
    1436

    Jan Van Eyck

    lucca madona
  • Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus,
    1482

    Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus,

    This piece of art has balance, imagery and cultural references (Greek Mythology).
  • 1492

    Leonardo Da Vinci. proportions of the human figure

    this piece conveyed some elements of science interjecting with art. Da Vinci also demonstrated a grasp on proportional drawings
  • The Unicorn in Captivity
    1495

    The Unicorn in Captivity

    Gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr
  • Ryoanji Zen Garden of Contemplation
    1499

    Ryoanji Zen Garden of Contemplation

    a walled garden in Japan
  • Michealangelo Buonarroti
    1501

    Michealangelo Buonarroti

    David, Italy
    Galleria dell'accademia, Florence
  • Madonna of the Meadow,
    1505

    Madonna of the Meadow,

    by Raphael, italy
    Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
  • The Isenheim Altarpiece,
    1505

    The Isenheim Altarpiece,

    By Matthias Grünewald, Germany
    located in Musée d’Unterlinden, Colmar, France
  • madonna of loreto raphael
    1509

    madonna of loreto raphael

    Mary depicted as a young women with jesus
  • Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel
    1512

    Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel

    this piece is done by Michealangelo in the Vatican Rome
  • Knight, Death, and the Devil, Albrecht Durer - 1513
    1513

    Knight, Death, and the Devil, Albrecht Durer - 1513

    This masterpiece is an example of engraving- where ink is rubbed into the recessed lines of laminated woodblock or polished metal plate.
  • Venus of Urbino,Titan ( Tiziano Vecellio)- 1538
    1538

    Venus of Urbino,Titan ( Tiziano Vecellio)- 1538

    This oil painting uses powdered pigments grounded into a slow drying oil. Titan started this painting as an opaque monochrome underpainting, which then had many layers of jewel-like glazes applied to the surface.
  • Giuseppe Arcimboldo
    1563

    Giuseppe Arcimboldo

    Vegetables in a bowl
  • Juan Sanchez Cotan

    Juan Sanchez Cotan

    Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber
  • Jan Bruegel

    Jan Bruegel

    A Stoneware Vase of Flowers, c.1607. Oil on Panel
  • Artemisia Gentilesch, Judith and Holofernes

    Artemisia Gentilesch, Judith and Holofernes

    An important large historical painting that Artemisia executed and was considered skilled for her position
  • Abduction of the daughters of leucippus

    Abduction of the daughters of leucippus

    peter paul rubens
    piankothek, munich
  • Gianlorenzo Bernini

    Gianlorenzo Bernini

    Baldacchino St. Peter’s, Rome
  • Peter Paul Rubens

    Peter Paul Rubens

    Venus and Adonis
  • The Night Watch, Rembrandt Van Rijn - 1642

    The Night Watch, Rembrandt Van Rijn - 1642

    This oil painting represents the usage of context. Historical circumstances influenced this artist. This artist showed members of the ordinary merchant class representing a Protestant middle-class culture.
  • Cornaro Chapel with the Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Gianlorenzo Bernini -1645-1652

    Cornaro Chapel with the Ecstasy of St. Theresa, Gianlorenzo Bernini -1645-1652

    In the Church of Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome, this installation which is mixed media artworks designed for a specific interior or exterior space, there is a dramatic stage for the statue of St. Theresa.
  • taj mahal

    taj mahal

    located in india
  • The Milkmaid

    The Milkmaid

    Johannes Vermeer
  • Jan Steen

    The Dissolute Household
  • Hall of Mirrors

    Hall of Mirrors

    Jules Hardouin Mansart and Charles le Brun
    Versailles, France
  • Palace of versailles

    Palace of versailles

    sponsored by Loui the 14th
  • Hall of Mirrors

    Hall of Mirrors

    Francios de cuvillies
    Amalienburg hunting lodge, germany
  • Yama, Tibet - mid 1700s-1800

    Yama, Tibet - mid 1700s-1800

    This piece is a form of iconography, which is a system of symbols that allows artists to refer to complex ideas. This piece symbolizes the Indian God of Death, who later became the Protector of the adherents of the Buddhist religion.
  • Kitagawa Utamaro, a pair of lovers

    Kitagawa Utamaro, a pair of lovers

    Frontispiece from poem of the pillow, japan
  • Komurasaki of the tamaya teahouse

    Komurasaki of the tamaya teahouse

    Kitagawa utamaro
    japan
    tokyo national museum
  • John Constable

    John Constable

    The Haywain, England, 1821. Oil on canvas
  • First known Photograph

    First known Photograph

    "Heliography"
  • The peaceable Kingdom

    The peaceable Kingdom

    by Edward Hicks, united states. Held at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • arch de triumph

    arch de triumph

    Start of period of romanticism and sponsored by napoleon
  • John James Audubon

    John James Audubon

    Carolina Paroquet, USA
    Watercolor
  • house of parliament

    house of parliament

    Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin
  • Utagawa Kunisada, shook the demon of queller

    this piece demonstrates a good diverse example of line quality.
  • Valley of the Shadow of Death - Roger Fenton- 1855

    Valley of the Shadow of Death - Roger Fenton- 1855

    This photograph was produced twice to record images of war. There was a debate to see if the photographer physically moved the cannonballs into the next photo or if they actually were bombed.
  • Pierre Auguste Renoir

    Pierre Auguste Renoir

    .The Luncheon of the Boating Party, France
  • La grande Jatte

    La grande Jatte

    Georges seurat, france
    the art institute of chicago
  • Van Gogh potato eaters

    Van Gogh potato eaters

    -Humble meal around humble table in a dirty room
    - Drinkingteaorcoffee
    - able to see the peasant life
  • Portrait of dr. Gachet

    Portrait of dr. Gachet

    Vincent Van Gogh, Netherlands, oil on canvas
  • Maternite

    Maternite

    Marie Cassatt
  • Claude Monet

    Claude Monet

    Claude Monet paints multiple pieces at different times of day to convey how light looks at different times of day
  • Henride Toulouse Lautrec

    Henride Toulouse Lautrec

    At the Moulin Rouge
  • claude monet

    claude monet

    water lilies, oil on canvas
  • Grand Mosque Djenne, Mali, 1906-1907

    Grand Mosque Djenne, Mali, 1906-1907

    The mosque shown shows differences in cultural styles
  • James Ensor

    James Ensor

    The Banquet of the Starvedor Comical Repast
  • Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917

    Marcel Duchamp Fountain 1917

    "this is art because I say it is"
  • Watts tower

    Watts tower

    simon rodia, united states
    reinforced concrete with mixed media
  • F.T Marinetti and Fillia

    F.T Marinetti and Fillia

    The Futurist Cookbook
  • Salvador Dalí

    Salvador Dalí

    Persistence of Memory, Spain, 1931.
    salvador painted this landscape that doesn't make sense with such realism for the viewer to step into the scene
  • José Clemente Orozco.

    José Clemente Orozco.

    Gods of the Modern World, Mexico, 1932. Fresco,
  • The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

    The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti

    Ben Sahns, united states, held n whitney museum of american art
  • Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    By Doorthea Lange, nipomo valley, united states
    Famous photograph of a mother and her two children
  • Meret Oppenheim

    Meret Oppenheim

    The Luncheon in Fur, practicing realism
  • The Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso - 1937

    The Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso - 1937

    This pice of art used the etching method which is when a metal plate is coated wot a stick protective ground, into which the artist scratches a design. The plate is then placed into an acid bath which eats away the exposed metal surface.
  • Nighthawks

    Nighthawks

    By Edward Hopper now located Art Institute of Chicago
  • Norman Rockwell

    Norman Rockwell

    freedom from want
  • Le Corbusier

    Le Corbusier

    Notre Dame du Haut
  • Blue Veil

    Blue Veil

    by morris louis
  • Joern Utzon

    Joern Utzon

    Opera House, Sydney, Australia,
  • Panal of Independence, Father Hidalgo, Juan O'Gorman-1961

    Panal of Independence, Father Hidalgo, Juan O'Gorman-1961

    This piece of art represents idealogical criticism, which is the political underpinnings of art. This scene shows atrocities committed against the indigenous people, as well as representing the church, army, and the major leaders in the struggle.
  • Claes Oldenburg

    Claes Oldenburg

    floor burger
  • andy warhol

    andy warhol

    campbell soup
  • Wayne Thiebaud, Pie Counter

    Wayne Thiebaud, Pie Counter

    This oil piece deals with food as a visual display and a popular icon
  • Bridget Riley

    Bridget Riley

    "current"
    piece that involves optics
    says vision is psychological
  • Marcel broodthaers

    Marcel broodthaers

    Iron pot, mussel shells and paint
  • Robert Smithson

    Robert Smithson

    spiral jetty 1970
    Utah
    Working with the land directly as a material
    Constantly changing
  • Nancy Holt

    Nancy Holt

    Sun tunnels
    1973
    Not directly manipulating nature but working with the environment to create an installation
  • Man Ray

    artist who created surrealism by working with exposure and taking images and creating them to be something they're not but creating something that feels right
  • Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude

    running fence
    Fence of fabric in California over hills
    1976
  • TV Buddha - Nam June Paik- 1976

    TV Buddha - Nam June Paik- 1976

    This piece is an idea about self, Buddha is watching himself on a live feed. This was basically the first idea of "self streaming" or "selfies."
  • Walter de maria

    Walter de maria

    The lightning Field (1977)
    Capturing nature through installation
    experience of the piece happens due to the natural environment
  • Sun Mad

    Sun Mad

    Ester Hernandez, United States
  • Cindy Sherman

    Cindy Sherman

    this is a self portrait of Marilyn Monroe, Cindy Sherman tries to portray popular women in a stereotypical role
  • Jaune Quick-to-seesmith. Genesis, 1993

    Jaune Quick-to-seesmith. Genesis, 1993

    This piece is an oil painting which exemplifies an innovative and unique style while borrowing other artists existing styles
  • speechless

    speechless

    Shirin Neshat which is pen and ink
  • sophia calle the chromatic diet

    sophia calle the chromatic diet

    conversation between novelist and graphic designer
  • Frank Gehry

    Frank Gehry

    Walt Disney Concert Hall, USA, 2003
  • 40-channel video installation with tables and chairs; color, sound.

    40-channel video installation with tables and chairs; color, sound.

    Kutlug Ataman. Küba, 2004
    commissioned by carnegie