Art Across Time
Introduction Why Do We Study the History of Art?
Living With Art
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Part I- 1, 2, 3, 4
The Art of Prehistory
Prehistory to Bronze Age in Western Europe
Paleolithic (c. 50,000–c. 8000 B.C.)
Ice Age ends c. 30,000 B.C.
Use of stone tools and weapons
Hunting-and-gathering life style
First evidence of sculpture (c. 25,000 B.C.)
First evidence of painting (c. 25,000 B.C.)
Shamanism
Rock Paintings of Australia
The Dreaming
Mesolithic (c. 8000–6000/4000 B.C.)
Tassili rock painting, Algeria
Transition to agriculture
Neolithic (c. 6000/4000–c. 1500 B.C.)
Settled communities
Megalithic architecture
Ggantija Temple, Malta
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Window on the
World 1: Rock
Paintings of
Australia
Stonehenge, England
The Ancient Near East
c. 9000–300 B.C.
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Neolithic (c. 9000–5th millennium B.C.)
Jericho skulls; Çatal Hüyük; polytheism
Mesopotamia (c. 4500–c. 600 B.C.)
Ziggurats; urbanization; cylinder seals
Cuneiform; the Epic of Gilgamesh
Akkad: Sargon; Naram-Sin
Neo-Sumerian: Gudea
Babylon: Hammurabi's law code
Assyrian Empire, Neo-Babylonian Empire
Anatolia: Hittite Empire (c. 1450–1200 B.C.)
Neo-Babylonian Empire (612–539 B.C.)
Iran (c. 5000–331 B.C.); Achaemenid Empire
Scythians (8th–4th centuries B.C.); Animal Style
ANCIENT EGYPT, c. 5450–31 B.C.
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Predynastic (5450–3100 B.C.)
Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt (3100 B.C.)
Palette of Narmer: pharaonic rule; polytheism
Old Kingdom (2649–2150 B.C.)
Beginning of monumental royal art and architecture
Middle Kingdom (c. 1991–1700 B.C.)
New Kingdom (1550–1070 B.C.)
Amarna period (c. 1349–1336 B.C.)
Akhenaten's monotheism: worship of the Aten
Nubia: cross-cultural influences
The Aegean
c. 3000–1100 B.C
Cycladic Bronze Age
(c. 3000–1100 B.C.): marble idols
Minoan
(c. 3000–1100 B.C.)
Myth of Europa; palace at Knossos; Linear A
Thera destroyed
(c. 1500 B.C.); frescoes
Mycenae (c. 1600–1100 B.C.)
Citadels; megaron; Cyclopaean masonry;
tholos tombs; Linear B
Trojan War (c. 1180 B.C.)
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Part II- 5, 6, 7, 8
The Art of Ancient Greece
c. 800–1st CENTURY B.C.
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Homeric epics written down (c. 800 B.C.)
Greek alphabet; Delphic oracle; Olympian gods
Battle of Marathon: Persian defeat (490 B.C.)
Philosophy: Plato; Socrates; Aristotle
Theater: Aeschylos; Sophokles; Euripides; Aristophanes
"Man is the measure of all things"
Vase painting; mosaics; monumental sculpture
Orders of architecture: Doric; Ionic; Corinthian
Periklean Athens (c. 450–400 B.C.)
The Parthenon; canon of Polykleitos
Herodotos ("father of history")
Peloponnesian War: Sparta defeats Athens
Alexander the Great dies (323 B.C.)
Hellenistic period
THE ART OF THE ETRUSCANS,
c. 1000–100 B.C.
Naval control of the Mediterranean (7th–5th century B.C.)
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Window on
the World 2:
China:
Neolithic to
First Empire,
c. 5000–206
B.C.
Necropoleis (cities of the dead); ash urns; tomb frescoes;
temples; mirrors; bronze sculpture
Bronze Age:
Shang; Zhou
Status of women; augury
Iron Age:
Emperor Qin
(Shihuangdi)
Unification
of China;
Great Wall
(begun 3rd
century B.C.)
Piece-mold
bronze
casting;
calligraphy
Terra-cotta
army
ANCIENT ROME,
6th CENTURY B.C.–4th CENTURY A.D.
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Lengendary founding by Romulus and Remus (753 B.C.)
Window on the
World 3:
Developments in
South Asia: The
Indus Valley
Civilization
South Asia, c.
2700 B.C.–3rd
Century A.D.
Indus Valley
civilization
(2700–1750
B.C.)
Rule by kings to 509 B.C.
Stamp seals;
bronze and
stone
sculpture
Republic (509–27 B.C.); Latin language; government by senate
and patricians
Punic Wars against Carthage (264–146 B.C.)
Vedas and
Upanishads
Buddha born
(563 B.C.)
Empire (27 B.C.–A.D. 476)
Augustus first emperor; Virgil's Aeneid
Development
of Buddhism:
Ashoka's
pillars; stupas
Domestic architecture; public buildings; concrete
Gandharan
and
Mathuran
sculpture
The Forum; round arches; domes; barrel vaults
Assimilation of Greek forms and Greek gods
Portraiture; wall paintings; country villas
Rome falls to Germanic invaders (A.D. 476)
Early Christian and Byzantine Art
1st–9th centuries
Crucifixion of Jesus (c. A.D. 33)
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Window on
the World 4:
Developments
in Buddhist
Art
1st–7th
Centuries
India:
Gupta
sculpture;
Ajanta Caves
Constantine's Edict of Milan (A.D. 313)
China:
Silk Roads;
Yungang
Caves;
Longmen
Caves
Paradise
sects
Early Christian art:
catacombs, Old Saint Peter's Martyria, mosaics, basilicas
Byzantine Empire:
Justinian and Theodora (6th century)
San Vitale; Hagia Sophia; domes on pendentives
The codex (Vienna Genesis)
Iconoclastic Controversy (8th–9th centuries)
Early Middle Ages
5th–10th CENTURIES
Islam:
birth of Muhammad in Mecca (c. 570)
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Window on
the World 5:
Mesoamerica
and the Andes
(1500 B.C. A.D. 1500)
Olmec
(c. 1200–900
B.C.):
colossal
stone heads
Islamic conquests (7th–8th centuries)
Teotihuacán
(c. A.D. 350–
650):
pyramids;
talud-tablero
Mosques; the Koran; calligraphy; Dome of the Rock
Maya
(c. 1100 B.C
.–A.D. 1500):
calendars;
ball game;
Popul Vuh;
Bonampak
murals;
Chichén Itzá
Northern Europe:
Anglo-Saxon metalwork
Vikings (c. 800–1000):
metalwork; rune stones; picture stones; Norse gods; Beowulf
Aztec Empire
(c. 1300–
1525)
The Andes (c.
2500 B.C.–
A.D. 500):
Chavín;
Paracas;
Nazca;
Moche;
Tiwanaku;
Wari
Denmark becomes Christian (965)
Inca Empire
(c. 1438–
1522):
Machu
Picchu
Ireland:
illuminated manuscripts; stone crosses; becomes Christian (5th century)
Carolingian Europe:
Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman emperor in Rome (800);
Palace Chapel; monastic rule
Ottonian Europe (10th–11th centuries):
Saint Michael's at Hildesheim;
Gospel book of Otto III
Romanesque Art
10th CENTURY–c. 1150
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Feudalism; pilgrimage roads; Crusades; relics and reliquaries; Song of Roland
Sainte-Foy (Conques);
Saint-Pierre (Moissac);
Saint-Lazare (Autun); Pisa
Rib vaults; barrel vaults; groin vaults
Stavelot Triptych; manuscripts
Stave church (Norway); stone interlace
Bayeux "Tapestry"; Battle of Hastings (1066); Norman conquest of Britain
Precursors of Gothic:
Caen; Durham
Gothic
1147–13th/14th centuries
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Window on
the World 6:
Buddhist and
Hindu
Developments
in East Asia
and South
Asia
(6th-13th Century)
Abbot Suger, Book of Suger; age of cathedrals
Paradise sects;
pagodas; Horyu-ji;
Hinduism; Hindu
temples, Angkor
Wat and Angkor
Thom
Pointed arches; rib vaults; stained glass; flying buttresses
French cathedrals: Chartres; Amiens; Reims
Guilds; Magna Carta (1215); Scholasticism
Sainte-Chapelle; Canterbury; Thomas à Becket
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales; Salisbury Cathedral
Spread of Gothic in Europe
19th-century Neo-Gothic
Saint Patrick's Cathedral, New York
Renaissance Precursors
13th–14th centuries
Humanist movement; Petrarch; Boccaccio
Artists: Pisano; Cimabue; Giotto; Duccio; Ambrogio Lorenzetti; Orcagna;
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Simone Martini; Sluter; Limbourg brothers
Dante, Divine Comedy; Saint Francis of Assisi
Bubonic plague (Black Death) (1348)
Hundred Years' War (1337–1453)
International Gothic Style
Part IV- (12), 13, 14, 15, 16,
The Early Renaissance
15th CENTURY
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Perspective in Asian
Painting
Florence in the age of Humanism
China; Persia
Competition for the Baptistery doors (1401)
Italian artists:
Brunelleschi; Ghiberti; Pisanello; Masaccio; Donatello;
Rossellino; Gentile da Fabriano; Alberti; Uccello; Castagno;
Verrocchio; Fra Angelico; Piero della Francesca; Mantegna; Fra
Filippo Lippi; Botticelli; Ghirlandaio
Leonardo Bruni's humanist tomb
Patronage: Isabella d'Este
Art theory: Alberti, On Painting (c. 1435)
History: Bruni, Praise of the City of Florence and History of the
Florentine People
The condottiere and fame; the Platonic Academy
Northern painters:
Campin;
van Eyck;
van der Weyden;
Memling;
van der Goes
HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY,
c. 1500–c. 1550
Columbus sails in search of a new route to India (1492)
The ideal of the circle: Vitruvian Man
Bramante: the Tempietto
Leonardo: Mona Lisa; Last Supper
Papal patronage
Julius II (pope 1503–1513)
New Saint Peter's; Sistine Ceiling (Michelangelo)
Stanza della Segnatura (Raphael)
Leo X (pope 1513–1521)
Pope Paul III: Michelangelo's Last Judgment
Window on
the World 7:
Perspective in
Asian Painting
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Michelangelo in Florence: The Laurentian Library
The myth of Venice
Venetian painters: the Bellini; Giorgione; Titian
Controversy: painting versus sculpture; color versus drawing
Charles V invades Italy (1527)
Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
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Chapter 16 Sixteenth-Century Painting and Printmaking in Northern Europe
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Part V- 17, 18
The Baroque Style in Western Europe
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Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
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Window on the
World 8: Mughal Art
and the Baroque
Part VI- 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
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Nineteenth-Century Realism
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Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
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Window on the
World 9: Japanese
Woodblock Prints
Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
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Window on the
World 10: Gauguin
and Oceania
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Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse
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Window on the
World 11: African
Art and the
European AvantGarde
Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles
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Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and the United States Between the Wars
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Window on the
World 12: Hopi
Kachinas
Abstract Expressionism
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Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
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Innovation, Continuity and Globalization
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