Art History Timeline Project

By tkc007
  • Neolithic Art
    9000 BCE

    Neolithic Art

    T-shaped stone pillar with animal reliefs, from Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, ca. 9000 bce. Sanliurfa Museum, Sanliurfa.
    Kleiner, Fred S. "T-shaped stone pillar with animal reliefs" Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, 16th ed., Cengage Learning, 2019, p. 24.
  • Neo-Babylonia
    575 BCE

    Neo-Babylonia

    Ishtar Gate (restored), Babylon, Iraq, ca. 575 bce. Vorderasiatisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin.
    Kleiner, Fred S. "Ishtar Gate (restored)." Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History, 16th ed., Cengage Learning, 2019, p. 50.
  • Korea - Three Kingdoms Period
    500 BCE

    Korea - Three Kingdoms Period

    Crown, from the north mound of the Cheonmachong tomb (tomb 98), Hwangnam-dong, near Gyeongju, Korea, Three Kingdoms period, fifth or sixth century. Gold and jade, 10¾″ high. Gyeongju National Museum, Gyeongju.
  • Ancient Greece
    437 BCE

    Ancient Greece

    iktinos, Parthenon (looking southeast), Acropolis, Athens, Greece, 447–438 bce.
  • Olmec - Preclassic Period
    400 BCE

    Olmec - Preclassic Period

    Colossal head, La Venta, Mexico, Olmec, ca. 900–400 bce. Basalt, 9′ 4″ high. Museo-Parque La Venta, Villahermosa.
  • Ancient Rome
    100 BCE

    Ancient Rome

    Man with portrait busts of his ancestors, from Rome, Italy, late first century bce. Marble, 5′ 5″ high. Centro Montemartini, Musei Capitolini, Rome.
  • Later Islamic Art - Luxury Arts
    1540

    Later Islamic Art - Luxury Arts

    maqsud of kashan, carpet from the funerary mosque of Shaykh Safi al-Din, Ardabil, Iran, 1540. Wool and silk, 34′ 6″ × 17′ 7″. Victoria Albert Museum, London.
  • Sapi
    1540

    Sapi

    master of the symbolic execution, saltcellar, Sapi- Portuguese, from Sierra Leone, ca. 1490–1540. Ivory, 1′ 4⅞″ high. Museo Nazionale Preistorico e Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome.