Prehistoric – Medieval Art Roots of painting, sculpture, architecture established
Prehistoric Art: The Beginning Horse, Cave Painting at Lascaux, France 14,000 BC Stonehenge, c. 2000 BC Wiltshire, England
Mesopotamia: The Architects Horse, Cave Painting at Lascaux, France 14,000 BC
Egypt: The Art of Immortality “Fowling Scene” 1450 BC, British Museum, London “Prince Rahotep and Wife Nofret,” 2610 BC
Egypt: The Art of Immortality Mask of King Tut, 1352 BC
Greece: They invented a lot more than the Olympics Exekias, “Dionysus in a Sailboat” 550-521 BC “Youth Singing and Playing the Kithara”
Greece: They invented a lot more than the Olympics “Nike of Samothrace,” 190 BC, Louvre, Paris Iktinos and Kallikrates, the Parthenon, 448-432
Rome: The Organizers Marcus Aurelius, AD 165 Capitoline Hill, Rome Colosseum, AD 70-82, Rome
Rome: The Organizers Frieze, Villa of the Mysteries, 50 BC, Pompeii
Pre-Columbian Art of the Americas Rivera “The Liberation of the Peon,” 1931 “Kagle” (mask), 1775-1825
The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion Berlinghiero, “Madonna and Child,” early 12th cent. Book of Kells, Illumintation, 760-820
The Middle Ages: The Reign of Religion Rose Window, Chartres Cathedral, 13th Century