history of art Ariana Distefano

  • 40,000 BCE

    cave art

    cave art
    Was placed in Indonesia. Was made with berries and other things found around them. They did not know who exactly made them.
  • Period: 40,000 BCE to 2500 BCE

    Stone Age

    the period of prehistory characterised by the widespread use of stone tools.
  • 30,000 BCE

    cave art

    cave art
    This was made in a cave in France. It was made out of clay, charcoal and they also mixed water with animal fats, vegetable juice, blood or urine. they do not know who drew these.
  • 20,000 BCE

    prehistoric art

    prehistoric art
    Made in Willendorf, Austria. This sculpture is made out of clay. It was a way to celebrate human fertility.
  • 17,000 BCE

    cave art

    cave art
    This can be found in the Lascaux caves in southwestern France. This shows a hunting scene which was many times used for good luck and to show what animals they killed. they do know know who drew it
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 539 BCE

    Mesopotamian era

    The Bronze Age cultures of the Sumerian, Akkadian, Babylonian and Assyrian empires.
  • Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

    Egyptian art

    Ancient Egyptian art is the painting, sculpture, architecture and other arts produced by the civilization of ancient Egypt in the lower Nile Valley.
  • 2600 BCE

    Mesopotamian art

    Mesopotamian art
    The artist is unknown. Called Standard of Ur.
  • 1500 BCE

    Egyptian art

    Egyptian art
    Painted sunk relief of the king being embraced by a goddess. This is seen in the Tomb of Amenherkhepshef.
  • Period: 850 BCE to 31 BCE

    Greek art

    Began in the Cycladic and Minoan civilization, and gave birth to Western classical art in the subsequent Geometric, Archaic and Classical periods
  • Period: 653 BCE to

    Indian, Chinese, and Japanese art

    Characteristics of this art is Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the Floating World.
  • 520 BCE

    Greek art

    Greek art
    This is a vase of Heracles and Athena. Which is black-figure side of a belly amphora by the Andokides Painter.
  • Period: 509 BCE to 330

    Roman era

    Roman art also encompasses a broad spectrum of media including marble, painting, mosaic, gems, silver and bronze work, and terracottas.
  • 450 BCE

    Roman art

    Roman art
    Named Doryphoros (Spear Bearer). Which Romans copied after an original by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos. Made out of marble at a height of 6'6".
  • 210 BCE

    Chinese art

    Chinese art
    Called Army of Emporor Shi Huangdi. They found 8,000 Clay Warriors marching into the next world.
  • Period: 476 to 1453

    Byzantine art

    Byzantine art is content from both Christianity and classical Greek mythology were artistically expressed through Hellenistic modes of style and iconography
  • Period: 500 to 1400

    Middle Ages

    Period during which Christianity flourished in Europe
  • 537

    Byzantine art

    Byzantine art
    One of the most famous of the surviving Byzantine mosaics of the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople. The image of Christ Pantocrator on the walls of the upper southern gallery.
  • 1150

    Indian art

    Indian art
    Picture of Jina Buddha Ratnasambhava.
  • 1164

    Byzantine art

    Byzantine art
    Titled Frescoes in Nerezi near Skopje. Made by Giotto.
  • 1235

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    Titled North Transept Rose Window. This is located at Chartres Cathedral, France. Made with stained glass.
  • 1295

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    A picture of The coronation of the Virgin with angels, saints, Pope Nicolas IV and Cardinal Colonna placed on a ceiling. Made out of Apse mosaic in Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore by Author Jastrow.
  • Period: 1400 to 1550

    Early and High Renaissance

    Renaissance art is the painting, sculpture and decorative arts of the period of European history, emerging as a distinct style in Italy in about 1400
  • Period: 1430 to 1550

    Venetian and Northern Renaissance

    Renaissance means "Rebirth" and defines the period as one of cultural revival and renewed interest in classical antiquity after the centuries labeled the Dark Ages by Renaissance humanists.
  • 1432

    Early Renaissance

    Early Renaissance
    Titled The Ghent Altarpiece: The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb. Painted by van Eyck.
  • 1503

    High Renaissance

    High Renaissance
    The Artist was named Leonardo da Vinci. The Medium was oil on poplar panel. The Subject was Lisa Gherardini. This was titled Mona Lisa
  • 1509

    Northern Renaissance

    Northern Renaissance
    Made by Raphael. It was made of Fresco which is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid, or wet lime plaster. This piece is named The School of Athens.
  • 1519

    Venetian Renaissance

    Venetian Renaissance
    Painted by Titian. Made with Oil on a canvas.
    Titled Pesaro Madonna.
  • Period: 1527 to 1580

    Mannerism

    Mannerism makes itself known by elongated proportions, highly stylized poses, and lack of clear perspective.
  • 1528

    Mannerism

    Mannerism
    Painted by Jacopo Pontormo. Titled Entombment. Made with Tempera on wood.
  • 1535

    Mannerism

    Mannerism
    Titled The Madonna with the Long Neck. Painted with Oil on wood by Parmigianino.
  • Period: to

    Baroque

    Highly ornate and often extravagant style of architecture, art and music that flourished in Europe from the early 17th until the mid-18th century.
  • Baroque

    Baroque
    Titled The Lamentation over St. Sebastian. Painted with oil on canvas. Created by Georges de La Tour.
  • Baroque

    Baroque
    Titled The Triumph of the Immaculate.Painted by Paolo de Matteis.
  • Period: to

    Neoclassical

    Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity.
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

    Romanticismwas an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century.
  • Neoclassical

    Neoclassical
    Painted by Jacques-Louis David. Made with Oil on canvas. Titled Oath of the Horatii.
  • Neoclassical

    Neoclassical
    Titled Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss. Made by Antonio Canova. Made out of Marble
  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    Paint by Caspar David Friedrich. Titled Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog. Painted with oil on a canvas.
  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    Painted by Eugène Delacroix. Titled The Death of Sardanapalus. Painted with Oil on a canvas.
  • Japanese art

    Japanese art
    Made by Katsushika Hokusai. Which is one of the 36 painting of mount Fuji
  • Impressionism

    Impressionism
    Painted by J. M. W. Turner. Titled The Fighting Temeraire. Start of the impressionism era.
  • Period: to

    Realism

    Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. Realists rejected Romanticism, which had dominated French literature and art since the late 18th century
  • Realism

    Realism
    Titled Bonjour Monsieur Courbet painted by Gustave Courbet. Painted with oil paint on a canvas.
  • Period: to

    Impressionism

    Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities, ordinary subject matter, inclusion of movement as a crucial element of human perception and experience, and unusual visual angles.
  • Impressionism

    Impressionism
    Painted by Claude Monet. Painted with oil on a canvas. Many people thought that the painting was at most, a sketch.
  • Realism

    Realism
    Titled The Widower. Painted by Luke Fildes. Using oil paint on a canvas.
  • Period: to

    Post-Impressionism

    Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists' concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and colour
  • post impressionism

    post impressionism
    Named The Starry Night. Painted by Vincent van Gogh while he was in a mental hospital.
  • expressionism

    expressionism
    Made by Edvard Munch. Paint with cadmium yellow, vermilion, ultramarine and viridian pigment. Made in Norway.
  • Period: to

    Fauvism and Expressionism

    A group of early twentieth-century modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong color over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism.
  • Period: to

    Cubism, Futurism, Supremativism, Constructivism, De Stijl

    Cubism in its various forms inspired related movements in literature and architecture
  • Cubism

    Cubism
    Painted by Georges Braque and its name is Landscape of l'Estaque. He painted it with oil on canvas.
  • Fauvism

    Fauvism
    Painted by Henri Matisse. Titled Blue Nude. Painted on a canvas.
  • Cubism

    Cubism
    This was painted by Georges Braque. It is name The Portuguese. It was painted with oil on a canvas.
  • Period: to

    Surrealism

    Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings.
  • Surrealism and cubism

    Surrealism and cubism
    Painted by Pablo Picasso. The picture is titled Guernica. It was painted with oil on a canvas.
  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism
    Paint by Jackson Pollock using paint. Using the paint he splattered it and made it drip.
  • Period: to

    Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s
  • Abstract Expressionism

    Abstract Expressionism
    Made by Willem de Kooning’s. He used oil and enamel on canvas. The title of this piece is Excavation.