GIEL CANITES

Prehistoric Art to
Contemporary Art
 Timeline

PREHISTORIC ACIENT MEDIEVEL

RENAISSANCE EARLY MODERN CONTEMPORARY

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 PREHISTORIC ART
CHARACTERISTICS
Cave paintings, fertility goddesses, megalithic structures
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Civilizations from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and the Romans

INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Sulawesi Cave Paintings, Lascaux Cave Paintings, Venus of Willendorf, Stonehenge

SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS

Ice Age ends 910,000BCE-8,000BCE); new Stone Age and first permanent settlements (8000BCE-2500BCE)

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 PREHISTORC
ART
before Prehistoric art refers to all art that
was created before cultures had

3,000 developed more complex forms of

expression and communication

B.C.E. such as a written language.

Prehistoric art can not only be
described as art found on cave
walls, but also prehistoric sculpture
such as the Venus figurines.

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PREHISTORIC ART
EXAMPLES
 ACIENT ART
CHARACTERISTICS
Religious and symbolic imagery, decorations for utilitarian objects, mythological stories
Mesopotamian -warrior art and narration in stone Egyptian - Afterlife focus: pyramids and tomb paintings; massive, monumental structures
Greek and Hellenistic - Greek idealism; perfect proportions; architectural orders (Doric, Ionic, Corinthians)
Romans- Roman realism: practical and down to earth; the arch
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Civilizations from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and the Romans
INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Mesopotamian
Code of Hammurabi; Standard of Ur; Gate of Ishtar

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 ACIENT ART
Egyptian
Imhotep’s pyramid; Great pyramids; Temple of Rameses; The Great Sphinx
Greek and Hellenistic
Parthenon; Myron; Phidias; Polykeitos; Praxiteles
Roman
Augustus of Primaporta; Colosseum; Trajan’s Column; Pantheon
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS

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 ACIENT ART
Mesopotamian
Sumerians invent writing (3400 BC); Hammurabi writes his law code (1780
BCE); Abraham founds monotheism
Greek and Hellenistic
Athens defeats Persia at marathon (490 BCE); Peloponnesian
Roman
Julius Caesar was assassinated (44BCE); Augustus proclaimed emperor (27
BCE); Diocletian splits Empire (CE 292)
Rome falls (CE 476)

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 ACIENT ART

3,000 Ancient art spans the period

from around 6,000 BCE through

B.C.E. to 600 CE. This ancient art history

400 C.E. timeline includes artwork

produced in prominent ancient
civilizations such as Egypt,
Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome,
and the early Chinese dynasties.
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ACIENT ART
EXAMPLES
 MEDIEVAL ART
CHARACTERISTICS
Dark imagery, biblical subjects, Classical mythology, Gothic architecture, Romanesque, Celtic Art, Carolingian
Renaissance
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Abbot, Suger, Cimabue, Duccio, Giotto
INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Crucifix, Lamentation of Christ St. Sernin, Durnham Cathedral, Chartres Cathedral
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS
Viking Raids (793-1066); Battle of Hastings (1066); Crusades I-IV (1094-1204)
Black Death (1347-1351) Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)

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 MEDIEVAL
400 ART
Medieval Art was made up of

to
various artistic mediums, such as
sculpture, illuminated manuscripts,
stained glass, tapestries, mosaics,
and metalworks. Numerous

1400. artworks were made using these

different styles, which went on to
have a higher survival rate than
other mediums like fresco wall
paintings
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MEDIEVAL ART
EXAMPLES
 RENAISSANCE ART
CHARACTERISTICS
Rebirth of classical culture
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Ghiberti, Brunelleschi; Donatello; Boticelli; Leanardo; Michaelangelo; Rapahael
INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Ghiberti’s Door; Cathedral of Sta. Monica del Fiore; David; Primavera, Mona Lisa
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS
Guttenberg’s invents movable parts (1447); Turks conquers Constatntinople(1453);m Columbus lands in
New Word (1492); Martin Luther starts Reformation (1517)

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 RENAISSANCE

1400 ART
The Renaissance is a period in

to history and a cultural

movement marking the
transition from the Middle

1600. Ages to modernity, covering

the 15th and 16th centuries
and characterized by an effort
to revive
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RENAISSANCE ART
EXAMPLES
 EARLY MODERN ART
CHARACTERISTICS
The triumph of imagination and individuality
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Caspar Friedrich, Gericault, Delacroix, Turner, Benjamin West
INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Caernarvon Castle; Liberty Leading the People
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS
American Revolution (1775-1783); French Revolution (1789-17990; Napoleon crowned Emperor by French
(1803)

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 EARLY

1600 MODERN ART

The early modern period (1500–

to
1700) brought several significant
changes in the lives of the English
people. The most dramatic were

1800
perhaps the Reformation, the
subsequent dissolution of the
monasteries in the 16th century,
and the devastating Civil War
during the next

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EARLY MODERN ART
EXAMPLES
 CONTEMPORARY ART POST MODERN AND DECONSTRUCTIVISM
CHARACTERISTICS
Art without a center and reworking and mixing past styles
LEADING CONTRIBUTORS
Gerard Richter, Cindy Sherman, Anselm Kiefer, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid
INFLUENTIAL WORKS
Orders of the Night; Abstract Art
SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL EVENTS
Nuclear freeze movement; Cold War fizzles; Communism collapses in Eastern Europe and USSR (1989-1991)

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 CONTEMPORARY
ART

after Contemporary art follows from

modern art, which is broad term
used to define art produced

1800. between the 1850s and 1945.

However, some art historians set
the start date of contemporary art
in the 1960s with the emergence of
pop art, an artistic movement that
represented a radical break from
modernism.
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CONTEMPORARY ART
EXAMPLES