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Period: 30,000 BCE to 500 BCE
Global Prehistory Time Period
3500 BCE The wheel is used in Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq.
2900 BCE First Egyptian hieroglyphs appear. Can be divided into Ancient Near East, Egyptian, Etruscan, and Greek time spans. -
Period: 26,000 BCE to 24,000 BCE
Standard of Ur from the royal tombs
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Material: Wood inlaid with shell, lapis lazuli, and red limestone -
Period: 25,300 BCE to 25,000 BCE
Apollo 11 Stones
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Material: Charcoal on Stone -
Period: 15,000 BCE to 13,000 BCE
Great Hall of the Bulls
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Material: Rock Painting -
Period: 14,000 BCE to 7000 BCE
Camelid Sacrum in the Shape of a Canine
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Material: Bone -
Period: 6000 BCE to 4000 BCE
Running Horned Woman
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Material: Pigment on Rock -
Period: 4200 BCE to 3500 BCE
Beaker with Ibex Motifs
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Material: Painted Terra Cotta -
Period: 4000 BCE to 3000 BCE
Anthropomorphic Stele
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Material: Sandstone -
Period: 3517 BCE to 3358 BCE
White Temple and its Zuggurat
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Material: Mud Brick -
Period: 3300 BCE to 2200 BCE
Jade Cong
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Material: Carved Jade -
Period: 3000 BCE to 2920 BCE
Palette of King Narmer
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Material: Greywacke -
2700 BCE
Statue of Votive figures from the Square Temple at Eshnunna
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Material: Gypsum inlaid with shell and black limestone -
Period: 2620 BCE to 2500 BCE
Seated Scribe
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Material: Painted Limestone -
Period: 2550 BCE to 2490 BCE
Great Pyramids of Giza
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Material: Cut Limestone -
Period: 2500 BCE to 1600 BCE
Stonehenge
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Material: Sandstone -
Period: 2490 BCE to 2472 BCE
King Menkaura and Queen
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Material: Greywacke -
Period: 1792 BCE to 1750 BCE
The Code of Hammurabi
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Material: Basalt -
Period: 1550 BCE to 1250 BCE
Temple of Amun-re and Hypostyle Hall
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Material: Cut Sandstone and Mud Brick -
1500 BCE
The Ambum Stone
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Material: Greywacke -
Period: 1473 BCE to 1458 BCE
Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut
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Material: Sandstone carved into rock cliff -
Period: 1353 BCE to 1335 BCE
Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and Three Daughters
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Material: Limestone -
1323 BCE
Tutankhamun's Tomb, innermost coffin
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Material: Gold with inlay of enamel and semiprecious stones -
1275 BCE
Last judgement of Hu-Nefer
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Material: Painted Papyrus Scroll -
Period: 1200 BCE to 900 BCE
Tlatilco female figurine
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Material: Ceramic -
1000 BCE
Terra Cotta Fragment
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Material: Terra Cotta (incised) -
Period: 720 BCE to 705 BCE
Lamassu from the citadel of Sargon II
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Material: Alabaster -
Period: 700 BCE to 337
Roman Time Period
753 BCE Rome is founded by Romulus and Remus on Tiber River
146 BCE Greece became Roman province -
Period: 600 BCE to 150
Athenian Agora
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530 BCE
Anavysos Kouros
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Material: Marble with remnants of paint -
530 BCE
Peplos Kore from the Acropolis
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Material: Marble, painted details -
520 BCE
Sarcophagus of the Spouses
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Material: Terra Cotta -
Period: 520 BCE to 465 BCE
Audience Hall of Darius and Xerxes
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Material: Limestone -
Period: 510 BCE to 500 BCE
Temple of Minerva and sculpture of Apollo
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Material: Wood, mud brick, and terra cotta sculpture -
Period: 480 BCE to 470 BCE
Tomb of the Triclinium
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Material: Tufa and Fresco -
Period: 460 BCE to 450 BCE
Niobides Krater
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Material: Clay using red-figure technique -
Period: 450 BCE to 440 BCE
Doryphoros
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Material: Roman marble copy of the original Greek bronze -
Period: 447 BCE to 410 BCE
Acropolis
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Material: Marble -
410 BCE
Grave stele of Hegeso
Material: Marble and Paint -
Period: 200 BCE to 100 BCE
House of Vetti
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Material: Cut stone and Fresco -
190 BCE
Winged Victory of Samothrace
Material: Marble -
175 BCE
Great Alter of Zeus and Athens at Pergamon
Material: Marble -
100 BCE
Alexander Mosaic from the House of Faun, Pompeii
Material: Mosaic -
100 BCE
Seated boxer
Material: Bronze -
Period: 72 BCE to 50 BCE
Head of a Roman patrician
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Material: Marble -
Period: 13 to 73
Augustus of Prima Porta
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Material: Marble -
Period: 70 to 80
Colosseum
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Material: Stone and Concrete -
Period: 106 to 112
Forum of Trajan
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Material: Brick and Concrete -
Period: 118 to 125
Pantheon
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Material: Concrete with Stone facings -
Period: 200 to 400
Catacomb of Priscilla
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Material: Excavated Tufa and Fresco -
Period: 235 to 527
Late Antique Time Period
33 CE Christ is crucified
313 CE Edict of Milan legalizes Christianity -
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Ludovisi Battle Sarcophagus
Material: Marble -
Period: 324 to Jan 10, 1453
Byzantine Time Period
380 CE Christianity made official Roman religion
394 CE Theodosius I banned Olympic Games -
Period: 400 to Jan 10, 1000
Early Medieval
400 - 700 CE Anglo-Saxons thrived in what is now Great Britain
500 - 700 CE Hiberno Saxons thrived in what is now Ireland -
Period: 422 to 432
Santa Sabina
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Material: Brick and Stone, Wood -
Period: 526 to 547
San Vitale
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Material:Brick, marble, stone veneer, and mosaic -
Period: 532 to 537
Hagia Sophia
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Material: Brick and ceramic elements with stone and mosaic veneer -
Period: Jan 6, 610 to Jan 7, 630
Rebecca and Eliezer at the Well
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Material Illuminated Manuscript -
Period: Jan 9, 640 to
Islamic Time Period
661-750 CE Umayyad Dynasty ruled
1453 CE Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople Contains Early Period, Medieval Period, and Late Period. -
Jan 6, 650
Merovingian looped fibulae
Material: Silver gilt-worked in filigree, inlays of garnets and precious stones -
Period: Jan 6, 680 to Jan 7, 710
Virgin and child between Saints Theodore and George
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Material: Encaustic on Wood -
Jan 6, 700
Lindisfarne Gospels: St. Matthew, cross-carpet page; St. Luke portrait page; St Luke incipit page
Material: Illuminated manuscript - ink, pigment, gold -
Period: Jan 6, 785 to Jan 7, 786
Great Mosque
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Material: Stone Masonry -
Jan 6, 968
Pyxis of al-Mughira
Material: Ivory -
Period: Jan 9, 1000 to Jan 10, 1200
Romanesque
1095 - 1099 CE First Crusade
1188 - 1192 CE Third Crusade -
Period: Jan 6, 1050 to Jan 7, 1130
Church of Sainte-Foy
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Material: Stone and paint, gold, silver, gemstones, enamel over wood -
Period: Jan 6, 1066 to Jan 7, 1080
Bayeux Tapestry
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Material: Embroidery on Linen -
Period: Jan 9, 1140 to Jan 10, 1500
Gothic Time Period
1194 CE A fire burns down sections of Chartres Cathedral
1182 CE Capture of Jerusalem by Saladdin Contains the Early Gothic, High Gothic, and Late Gothic periods within -
Period: Jan 6, 1194 to Jan 7, 1220
Chartres Cathedral
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Material: Limestone, stained glass -
Period: Jan 9, 1200 to Jan 10, 1400
Late Medieval
1215 CE Declaration of Magna Carta
1346 - 1353 CE Black Death -
Period: Jan 6, 1225 to Jan 7, 1245
Dedication Page with Blanche of Castle and King Louis IX of France, Scenes from the Apocolypse from Bibles moralisées
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Material: Illuminated Manuscript -
Period: Jan 6, 1300 to Jan 7, 1325
Röttgen Pietà
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Material: Painted wood -
Jan 6, 1305
Arena (Scrovengni) Chapel, including Lamentation
Material: Fresco, brick -
Jan 6, 1320
Golden Haggadah
Material: Illuminated manuscript - pigment and gold leaf on vellum -
Period: Jan 6, 1354 to Jan 7, 1391
Alhambra
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Material: Whitewashed adobe stucco, wood, tile, paint, gilding -
Period: Jan 9, 1400 to Jan 10, 1500
Northern Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Time Period
1447 CE Gutenberg invents movable printing press
1452 CE Leonardo da Vinci is born -
Period: Jan 9, 1400 to Jan 10, 1500
Early Renaissance: "Quattrocento" Time Period
1360 - 1429 CE Giovanni de' Medici establishes family fortune through banking
1449 - 1492 CE Lorenzo Giovanni gathers artists and individuals from all fields -
Period: Jan 6, 1427 to Jan 7, 1432
Annunciation Triptych
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Material: Oil on Wood -
Period: Jan 8, 1429 to Jan 9, 1461
Pazzi Chapel
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Jan 8, 1431
Arnolfini Portrait
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Material: Oil on wood -
Period: Jan 8, 1440 to Jan 9, 1460
David
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Jan 8, 1450
Palazzo Rucellai
Artist: Leon Battista Alberti
Material: Stone, masonry -
Jan 8, 1465
Madonna and Child with Two Angels
Artist: Fra Filippo Lippi
Material: Tempera on Wood -
Period: Jan 8, 1484 to Jan 9, 1486
Birth of Venus
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Period: Jan 8, 1494 to Jan 9, 1498
Last Supper
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Period: Jan 9, 1500 to
High Renaissance Time Period
1517 CE Martin Luther posts the 95 Thesis
1563 CE First art academy, Academia del Disegno, is founded in Florence -
Jan 8, 1504
Adam and Eve
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Material: Engraving -
Period: Jan 8, 1508 to Jan 9, 1512
Sistine Chapel ceiling and altar wall frescoes
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Period: Jan 8, 1509 to Jan 9, 1511
School of Athens
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Period: Jan 8, 1512 to Jan 9, 1516
Isenheim altarpiece
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Period: Jan 9, 1520 to
Mannerism Time Period
1527 CE Sack of Rome by Germans and Spaniards
1550 -1700 CE Scientific Revolution -
Period: Jan 8, 1525 to Jan 9, 1528
Entombment of Christ
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Jan 8, 1530
Allegory of Law and Grace
Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder
Material: Woodcut and letterpress -
Jan 8, 1538
Venus of Urbino
Artist: Titian
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Jan 8, 1565
Hunters in the Snow
Artist: Pieters Bruegel the Elder
Material: Oil on Wood -
Period: Jan 8, 1568 to Jan 9, 1575
Mosque of Selim II
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Period: Jan 8, 1568 to
Il Gesù, including Triumph of the Name of Jesus ceiling fresco
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Artist: Giacomo da Vignola, Giamcomo della Porta, Giovanni Battista Gaulli
Material: Brick, marble, fresco, stucco -
Period: to
Calling of Saint Matthew
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Period: to
Baroque Time Period
1545 -1563 CE Council of Trent questioned how art should serve religion, thus affecting this time period
1618 - 1648 CE Thirty Years' War -
Period: to
Henri IV Recieves the portrait of Marie de' Medici, from the Marie de' Medici Cycle
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Self-Portrait with Saskia
Artist: Rembrandt van Rijn
Material: Etching -
Period: to
San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
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Period: to
Ecstasy of Saint Teresa
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Las Meninas
Artist: Diego Velàzquez
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Women Holding a Balance
Artist: Johannes Vermeer
Material: Oil on Canvas -
The Palace of Versailles
Artist: Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart
Material: Masonry, stone, wood, iron, gold leaf -
Fruit and Insects
Artist: Rachel Ruysch
Material: Oil on Wood -
Period: to
Rococo Time Period
1715 CE Louis XIV dies
1760's CE Rise of Neoclassicism after the enlightenment of Florence -
The Tête à Tête, from Marriage à la Mode
Artist: William Hogarth
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Period: to
Neoclassicism Time Period
1789 CE French Revolution
1789 - 1871 CE France flips back and forth between monarchy and other forms of government -
Period: to
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery
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The Swing
Artist: Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Period: to
Monticello
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The Oath of the Horatii
Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Period: to
George Washington
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Self-Portrait
Artist: Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Period: to
Romanticism Time Period
1815 CE Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo
1823 CE French invasion of Spain -
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Y no hai remedio, fromo Los Desastres de la Guerra, plate 15
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La Grande Odalisque
Artist: Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres
Material: Oil on Canvas -
The Oxbow
Artist: Thomas Cole
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Still Life in Studio
Artist: Louis-Jacques Mandé Daguerre
Material: Daguerreotype -
Slave Ship
Artist: Joseph Mallord William Turner
Material: Oil on Canvas -
The Stone Breakers
Artist: Gustave Courbet
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Nadar Raising Photography to the Height of Art
Artist: Honoré Daumier
Material: Lithograph -
Olympia
Artist: Édouard Manet
Material: Oil on Canvas -
The Saint-Lazare Station
Artist: Claude Monet
Material: Oil on Canvas -
Period: to
The Burghers of Calais
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Liberty Leading the People
Artist: Eugène Delacroix
Material: Oil on Canvas
