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30,000 BCE
Altamira and Lascaux Caves
The caves where the earliest cave paintings were found, the paintings in them date back as far as 30,000 years! -
30 BCE
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt is the first large civilization near the Niall river. They are most notable for their pyramids, deities, and hieroglyphs. -
20 BCE
Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Hieroglyphs are what early Egyptians used as writing. The symbols had meaning, and when put together it would be a sentence. -
1100
Middle Ages
The period of European history from the fall of the Roman Empire in the West (5th century) to the fall of Constantinople (1453), or, more narrowly, from c.1100 to 1453. -
1400
Renaissance
the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries. -
Creaton of the Canvas
Historically made from tightly woven hemp—the word canvas comes from the Latin cannabis -
Counter-Reformation
The reform of the Church of Rome in the 16th and 17th centuries which was stimulated by the Protestant Reformation. -
Baroque Period
The historic period from about 1600 until 1750 when the baroque style of art, architecture, and music flourished in Europe. -
Model Books
Books that have drawings of models and are used by artists as a base or as practice for a certain type of art they are trying to recreate or make. They were the early sketchbooks. -
Rococo Period
Rococo is sometimes used to denote the light, elegant, and highly ornamental music composed at the end of the Baroque period, from the 1740s until the 1770s.