Prehistoric to Rome

  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • Period: 200,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

  • Venus of Willndorf
    28,000 BCE

    Venus of Willndorf

    oolitic limestone, four inch sculpture, owned by nomadic people, fertility idol
  • Apollo 11 Stones
    25,500 BCE

    Apollo 11 Stones

    portable stone, oldest piece found outside of Egypt, created by nomadic people, charcoal stone
  • 25,000 BCE

    Humans in the Americans

  • Period: 15,200 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Neolithic

  • Beaker With Ibex Motifs
    4200 BCE

    Beaker With Ibex Motifs

    painted terra cotta, animals in art, the first stamp of a particular craftsman, found in an acropolis
  • Anthropomorphic Stele
    4000 BCE

    Anthropomorphic Stele

    Stylized, sand stone figure, associated with religious/burial practices, resembles a human
  • White Temple and Its Ziggurat
    3500 BCE

    White Temple and Its Ziggurat

    mud brick, the Sumerian people invented cuneiform, idea of building up to be closer to the gods
  • Palette of King Narmer
    3000 BCE

    Palette of King Narmer

    grey wake palette used for paint, subtractive, low relief, iconography present on both sides
  • Seated Scribe
    2620 BCE

    Seated Scribe

    painted limestone, represents the scribe of someone important, literate and educated, buried with the scribe
  • Standard of Ur
    2600 BCE

    Standard of Ur

    narrative in art on registers, depicts peace on the front and war on the back
  • Stonehenge
    2500 BCE

    Stonehenge

    astrological tool used as a place to worship, stones from various places, mortise tenin
  • 2500 BCE

    Probable date of the first iron subjects

  • The Great Pyramids
    2490 BCE

    The Great Pyramids

    Kufu then Khafre, then Menkaure. Where they were buried with the Kha facing the North so their soul was protected, surrounded by smaller pyramids for wives etc
  • Period: 2040 BCE to 1640 BCE

    Egypt: Old

  • The Code of Hammurabi
    1792 BCE

    The Code of Hammurabi

    Basalt, engraved with the Babylonian laws, hierarchy to scale, set of laws given from the gods and passed to the leaders to enforce amongst their society
  • Period: 1550 BCE to 712 BCE

    Egypt: New

  • The Ambum Stone
    1500 BCE

    The Ambum Stone

    greywacke, figure made by subtraction, found near bones, therefore possibly ritualistic
  • Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
    1473 BCE

    Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut

    Thutmost erases the women that was before her by destroying everything except this so her should could still live, sculptures offering sacrifices to the gods
  • Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
    1353 BCE

    Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters

    create a new religion, chambers behind Thuts tomb, aiming to be more realistic with lines, cotton acting as hands from the sun god
  • Period: 1348 BCE to 1320 BCE

    Amarna

  • Tlatilco Female Figure
    1200 BCE

    Tlatilco Female Figure

    ceramic, figures that depicted everyday life, bifactured, often carried with people
  • 1200 BCE

    The Fall of Troy

  • 776 BCE

    First Olympic Games

  • 753 BCE

    Rome founded

  • Lamassu
    720 BCE

    Lamassu

    Neo-Assyrian figures with characteristics from several different animals, apotropaic purpose
  • Athenian Agora
    610 BCE

    Athenian Agora

    town center, pantheistic way leading leads through the agora, commercial civil and social buildings
  • Korous/Kore
    530 BCE

    Korous/Kore

    ideal marble statues, representative of human anatomy, men always nude, women wearing a peplos
  • Korous/Kore
    530 BCE

    Korous/Kore

    ideal marble statues, representative of human anatomy, men always nude, women wearing a peplos
  • Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes (Apadana)
    520 BCE

    Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes (Apadana)

    imported limestone, hypostyle haul, the gate of all nations, surrounded by lamassu
  • Period: 510 BCE to 323 BCE

    Greek: Classical

  • Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

    Rome: Republic

  • Doryphorous
    450 BCE

    Doryphorous

    roman copy was marble, original greek figure was bronze, polykleitos’ cannon of proportion, contrapostic, realism in art begins
  • 449 BCE

    Persian Wars

  • Acropolis
    447 BCE

    Acropolis

    pantheon made with entasis to correct natural eye distortion, temple of athena nike, victory adjusting her sandal+ wet drapery, plaque of the ergastines, captures greek life in Athens
  • 323 BCE

    Alexander the Great Dies

  • Period: 323 BCE to 146 BCE

    Greek: Hellenistic

  • Seated Boxer
    100 BCE

    Seated Boxer

    bronze statue, not an ideal figure, may have bene touched for good luck at the feet, found in gym
  • Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun
    100 BCE

    Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun

    mosaic of Alexander the Great conquering the Persians, foreshortening
  • 44 BCE

    The assassination of Julius Caeser

  • Period: 27 BCE to 284

    Rome: Imperial

  • Colosseum  (Flavian Amphitheater)
    70

    Colosseum (Flavian Amphitheater)

    concrete changes the world, important to keep your newly conquered land happy, used for entertainment and courts
  • Augustus of Prima Porta
    100

    Augustus of Prima Porta

    marble statue, many around Rome to know who your leader was, orator pose, early propaganda
  • Pantheon
    118

    Pantheon

    largest unreinforced building, dome, whole in center that allows water into the building but drains in the floor to release water
  • 476

    Western Rome falls