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PREHISTORIC ART
Time Period
Paleolithic Art 4000B.C.E in the Near East
4000 B.C.E in Europe
Neolithic Art 8000 B.C.E – 3000 B.C.E in the Near East
4000 B.C.E – 2000 B.C.E in Europe
Prehistoric Background
Artistic innovation
Characteristics of prehistoric sculpture
Major work of prehistoric sculpture
Characteristics of prehistoric painting
Major work of prehistoric painting
Characteristics of prehistoric architecture
Major work of prehistoric architecture
Vocabulary
Archaeology -
Cromlech –
Megalith –
Menhir –
Mortise and tenon –
Post and lintel –
ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART
Time Period
The main period are these:
Historical background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations in ancient near eastern architecture
Innovations in ancient near eastern painting and sculpture
Characteristic of Sumerian art
Major Works of Sumerian Art
Characteristics of akkadian art
Major work of akkadian art
Characteristics of Babylonian
Major Works of Babylonian Art
Characteristic of hittie art
Major Work of Hittie Art
Characteristic of Assyrian art
Major Works of Assyrian Art
Characteristics of Persian art
Major Works of Persian Art
Vocabulary
Apadana –
Capital –
Cuneiform –
Cyclinder seal –
Façade –
Ground plan –
Hierarchy of scale –
Lamassu –
Negative space –
Relief sculpture –
Stele –
Ziggurat –
EGYPTIAN ART
Time Period
3000 – 30 B.C.E
The most important artistic periods in Egyptian art are the following:
Historical Background
Patronage and Artistic Life
Artistic innovations in Egyptian architecture
Characteristics of Egyptian architecture
Artistic innovations in Egyptian sculpture and painting
Characteristics of Egyptian painting
Characteristics of Egyptian sculpture
Major Works of Predynastic and Old Kingdom Art
Major Works of Middle Kingdom Art
Major Works of New Kingdom Art
Vocabulary
Amarna style –
Engaged column –
Hierarchy of scale –
Hieroglyphics –
Hypostale –
In situ –
Ka –
Mastaba –
Necropolis –
Papyrus –
Pharaoh –
Pylon –
Reserve column –
Sarcophagus –
AEGEAN ART
Time Period
Historical Background
Innovations in Aegean architecture
Innovations in Aegean painting
Innovations in Aegean sculpture
Characteristics of Cycladic art
Major Works of Cycladic Art
Characteristics of Minoan art
Major Works of Minoan Art
Characteristics of Mycenaean art
Major Works of Mycenaean Art
Vocabulary
Corbel arch –
Cyclopean masonry –
Fresco –
Megaron –
Repousses –
GREEK ART
Time Period
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of greek sculpture
Characteristics of greek archaic sculpture
Major Works of Greek Archaic Sculpture
Characteristics of greek hellenestic sculpture
Major works of Greek Classical Sculpture
Innovations in greek architecture
Characteristics of greek architecture
Major Works of Greek Hellenistic Sculpture
Major Works of Greek Architecture
Innovations of greek pottery
Characteristic of greek pottery
Major Works of Greek Pottery
Major Work of Greek Mosiac Art
Vocabulary
Acropolis-
Amphora –
Architrave –
Caryatid –
Cella –
Contrapposo –
Cornice –
Entablure –
Frieze –
Kiln –
Kouros –
Krater –
Kylix –
Metope –
Mosaic –
Pediment –
Propylaeum –
Relief sculpture -
Shaft –
Tholos –
Trigylph –
ETRUSCAN ART
Time Period
Tenth century B.C.E to c. 270 B.CE
Height: seventh – sixth centuries B.C.E
Historical Background
Characteristics of Etruscan architecture
Major Work of Etruscan Architecture
Characteristics of Etruscan painting
Major Work of Etruscan Painting
Characteristics of Etruscan sculpture
Major Works of Etruscan Sculpture
Vocabulary
Necropolis –
Stucco –
Terra-cotta –
ROMAN ART
Time Period
753 B.C.E fifth century C.E
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations in roman architecture
Characteristics of roman architecture
Major Works of Roman Architecture
Innovations in roman painting
Characteristics of roman painting
Major Works of Roman Painting
Innovations in roman sculpture
Characteristics of roman sculpture
Major works of Roman Sculpture
Characteristics of early imperial sculpture
Major Works of Imperial Sculpture
Characteristics of late imperial sculpture
Major Works of Late Imperial Sculpture
Vocabulary
Aqueduct –
Atrium –
Basilica –
Bust –
Coffer –
Contrapposto –
Cubiculum –
Cupola –
Encaustic –
Foreshortening –
Forum –
Fresco –
Impluvium –
Keystone –
Oculus –
Peristyle –
Pier –
Spandrel –
Vault –
Veristic –
Time Period
200 – 550 C.E
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Artistic innovations of early Christian architecture
Characteristic of early Christian architecture
Major Works of Early Christian Architecture
Innovations in early Christian painting and sculpture
Characteristics of early Christian painting
Major Works of Early Christian Painting
Characteristics of early Christian sculpture
Major Work of Early Christian Sculpture
Characteristics of early jewish art
Major work of Early Jewish Art
Vocabulary
Ambulatory –
Apse –
Atrium –
Axial plan –
Basilica –
Catacomb –
Central plan –
Chalice –
Clerestory –
Coffer –
Cubicula –
Gospels –
Loculi –
Lunette –
Narthex –
Nave –
Orant figure –
Synagogue –
Torah –
Transept –
Triforium –
BYZANTINE ART
Time Period
Vocabulary
Cathedral –
Codex –
Icon –
Iconostasis –
Mosaic –
Pantocrator –
Pendentive –
Psalter –
Squinch –
Triptych –
ISLAMIC ART
Time Period
650 – C.E to the present
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations in Islamic architecture
Innovations in Islamic painting and sculpture
Characteristics of Islamic art
Major Works of Islamic Art
Vocabulary
Arabesque –
Calligraphy-
Jail –
Koran –
Mihrab –
Minaret –
Minbar –
Mosque –
Muhammad –
Muqarnas –
Qiblah –
Tessellation –
Vocabulary
Animal style –
Cloisonné –
Cloister –
Codex –
Horror vacui –
Scriptorium –
Westwork –
ROMANESQUE ART
Time Period
1000 - 1150
Historical Background
Characteristics of Romanesque architecture
Major Works of Romanesque Architecture
Innovations in Romanesque sculpture
Characteristics of Romanesque painting and sculpture
Major Works of Romanesque Painting and Sculpture
Vocabulary
Ambulatory –
Apse –
Arcade –
Archivolt –
Axial plan –
Baptistery –
Bay –
Campanile –
Cathedral –
Clerestory –
Embroidery –
Jamb –
Narthex –
Portal –
Tapestry –
Transept –
GOTHIC ART
Time Period
1140 – 1400 up to 1550 in some sections of Europe
Historical background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations in gothic architecture
Characteristics of gothic architecture
Major Works of Gothic Architecture
Innovations in gothic painting
Characteristics of gothic painting
Major work of Gothic Painting
Innovations in gothic sculpture
Characteristics of gothic sculpture
Major Works of Gothic Sculptures
Vocabulary
Chevet –
Choir –
Close –
Compound pier –
Fan vault –
Flying buttresses –
Moralized bible –
Ogee arch –
Portal –
Pinnacle –
Rose window –
Vocabulary
Allegory –
Altarpiece –
International gothic style –
Maesta –
Maniera greca –
Predella –
Tempera –
Trecento –
EARLY RENAISAANCE IN NORTHERN EUROPE: FIFTEEN CENTURY
Time Period
1400 – 1500
The early renaissance in northern Europe takes place in the mercantile centers of Flanders
(Belgium) Holland, Germany and France
Historical Background
Characteristics of early northern renaissance architecture
Major Work of Fifth teen Century Architecture in Northern Europe
Innovations is northern renaissance painting
Characteristics of northern renaissance painting and sculpture
Major Work of Fifteenth – Century Sculpture in Northern Europe
Vocabulary
Book of hours -
Donor –
Engraving –
Etching -
Grisaille –
Polyptych –
Triptych –
Woodcut –
Time Period
1400 – 1500
The early renaissance takes place in the courts of Italian city – states: ferrara, Florence, mantua,
naples, rome, venice, and so on.
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of early renaissance architecture
Characteristics of fifteenth – century Italian architecture
Major Works of Fifteenth – Century Italian Architecture
Major Works of Fifteenth – Century Italian Painting
Characteristics of early renaissance painting
Major works of fifteenth – century Italian sculpture
Major Works of Fifteenth – Century Italian Sculpture
Vocabulary
Bottega –
Humanism –
Latern –
Orthogonal –
Pilaster –
Rusticate –
Stringcourse –
Trompe l’ oeil –
HIGH RENAISSANCE
Time Period
1495 – 1520
Rome, Florence, Venice
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of high renaissance architecture
Characteristics of high renaissance architecture
Major works of High Renaissance Architecture
Innovations of high renaissance painting
Characteristics of high renaissance painting
Major Works of High Renaissance Painting
Characteristics of high renaissance sculpture
Major Work of High Renaissance Sculpture
Major Works of the Venetian High Renaissance
Vocabulary
Canvas –
Chiaroscuro –
Cinquecento –
Glazes –
Ignudi –
Martyrium –
Quoins –
Sacra conversazione –
Sfumato –
Time Period
1520- 1600 Italy
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations and characteristics of mannerist architecture
Major works of Mannerist Architecture
Innovations of mannerist painting
Characteristics of mannerist painting
Major Works of Mannerist Painting
Innovations of mannerist sculpture
Characteristics of mannerist sculpture
Major Work of Mannerist Sculpture
Major Works of Late – Fifteenth – Century Art and Architecture
Vocabulary
Genre painting –
Still life –
Villa –
LATER RENAISSANCE IN NORTHERN EUROPE AND SPAIN: SIXTEENTH
CENTURY
Time Period
1500 – 1600
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Characteristics of sixteenth – century art and architecture
Major Works of Sixteenth – Century Architecture
Characteristics of sixteenth – painting and sculpture
Major Works of Sixteenth – Century Painting
Vocabulary
Anamorphic image –
Engraving –
Woodcut –
BAROQUE ART
Time Period
1600 – 1700
The term baroque means irregular shaped or odd a negative word that evolved in the eighteenth
century to describe the baroque’s deviation from the Italian renaissance
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations in baroque architecture
Characteristics of baroque architecture
Major works of Italian Baroque Architecture
Major Work of French Baroque Architecture
Major works of English Baroque Architecture
Innovations of baroque painting and sculpture
Characteristics of baroque painting
Characteristics of baroque sculpture
Major Works of Italian Baroque Art
Major works of Spanish Baroque Art
Major Works of Flemish Baroque
Major Works of Dutch Baroque Art
Major Works of French Baroque Art
Vocabulary
Baldacchino –
Genre paintings –
Impasto –
Poussinistes and rubenistes –
Tenebroso/tenebrism –
Vanitas –
THE ROCOCO
Time Period
1700 – 1750
The rococo derives its name from a combination of the French rocaille, meaning pebble or shell
and barroco, meaning baroque, thus motifs in the rococo were thought to resemble ornate shell or
pebble work
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of rococo architecture
Characteristics of rococo architecture
Major Work Rococo Architecture
Innovations of rococo painting
Characteristics of rococo painting
Major Works of French Rococo Painting
Major Work of Italian Rococo Painting
Major Works of Eighteen Century English Painting
Vocabulary
Academy –
Apotheosis –
Fere galante –
Pastel –
NEOCLASSICISM
Time Period
1750 – 1815
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of neoclassical architecture
Characteristics of neoclassical architecture
Major Works of Neoclassical Architecture
Innovations of neoclassical painting
Characteristics of neoclassical painting
Major works of Neoclassical Painting
Innovations of neoclassical sculpture
Characteristics of neoclassical sculpture
Major Works of Neoclassical Sculpture
Vocabulary
Exemplum virtutis –
ROMANTICISM
Time Period
1789 – 1848
The French revolution of 1789 and the European revolts of 1848 form a near although not
completely accurate, boundary for romanticism
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of romantic architecture
Characteristics of romantic architecture
Major Works of Romantic Architecture
Innovations of romantic painting and sculpture
Characteristics of romantic painting
Major Works of Spanish Romantic Painting
Major Works of French Romantic Painting
Major Works of British and American Romantic Painting
Major Works of German Romantic Painting
Major Work of Romantic Sculpture
Major works of Photography
Vocabulary
Calotype -
Camera obscura –
Daguerreotype –
Photogram –
School –
The sublime –
Time Period
1848 – 1900
Historical background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovation of realism
Characteristics of realism
Major Works of Realism
Characteristics of impressionism
Major Works of Impressionism
Characteristics of post – impressionism
Major Works of Post – Impressionism
Characteristics of symbolism
Major works of symbolism
Characteristics of nouveau
Major works of nouveau
Characteristics of late nineteenth – century architecture
Major Works of Late Nineteenth – Century Architecture
Major Works of Late – Nineteenth Century Sculpture
Vocabulary
Avant –
Japonisme –
Lithography-
Plein –
Pointillism -
Positivism –
Primitive –
Skeleton –
Zoopraxiscope –
Time Period
1900 – 1945
Historical background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations of early twentieth – century architecture
Innovations of early twentieth – century painting
Innovations of early twentieth – century sculpture
Characteristics of fauvism
Major Works of Fauvism
Characteristics of expressionism
Major Works of Expressionism
Characteristics of cubism
Major Works of Cubism
Characteristics of futurism
Major Work on Futurism
Characteristics of dada
Major Work of Dada
Characteristics of precisionism
Major Work of Precisionism
Characteristics of metaphysical painting
Major Work of Metaphysical Painting
Characteristics of surrealism
Major Work of Surrealism
Characteristics of suprematism
Major Work of Suprematism
Characteristics of constructivism
Major works of constructivism
Characteristics of DeStijl
Major works of DeStilj
Characteristics of Bauhaus
Major Work of the Bauhaus
Characteristics of the international style
Major work of International Style
Characteristics of the prairie style
Major Work of the Prarie Style and Wright’s Later Work
Characteristics of art deco
Major Work of Art Deco
Characteristics of organic art
Major Works of Organic Art
Characteristics of depression era art
Major Works of Depression Era Art
Characteristics Mexican muralist
Major Work of Mexican Muralism
Vocabulary
Abstract –
Biomorphism –
Cantilever –
Collage –
Ferroconcrete –
Harlem –
renaissance –
Mobile –
Ready –
Regionalism –
Time Period
1945 – TODAY
Historical Background
Patronage and artistic life
Innovations modern architecture
Characteristics of modern architecture
Major Works of Modern Architecture
Innovations of modern painting
Innovations of modern sculpture
Characteristics of abstract expressionism
Major Works of Abstract Expressionism
Major Work of the New York School Sculpture
Characteristics of c
Characteristics of color field painting
Major Work of Color Field Painting
Characteristics of pop art
Major Works of Pop Art
Characteristics of minimalism
Major Work of Minimalism
Characteristics of site art
Major Works of Site Art
Characteristics of conceptual art
Characteristics of performance art
Characteristics of Op art
Characteristics of feminist art
Major Works of Feminist Art
Vocabulary
Action painting –
Assemblage –
Bendery dots –
Color field –
Installation –