1. A BRIEF HISTORY OF WESTERN ART CAVE MAN TO 21 ST CENTURY

2. PREHISTORIC ART – CAVE PAINTING

3. EGYPTIAN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE 5000 BC to 300 AD. Egyptian art in all forms obeyed one law: the mode of representing man, nature and the environment remained almost the same for thousands of years and the most admired artists were those who replicated most admired styles of the past.

4. ROMAN ART 100-500 AD GREEK ART 250BC Greek art began around 2500b.c. until 250 b.c.

5. BYZANTINE ART 5 TH CENTURY

6. UCCELLO, Paolo UCCELLO, Paolo The Rout of San Romano c. 1456 National Gallery, London EARLY RENAISSANCE MASACCIO The Holy Trinity 1425

7. Fra Angelico Fra Angelico Annunciation 1439-1443 Fresco (176 x 148 cm) Cell 3, Convent of San Marco, Florence Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci The Annunciation c. 1472-1475 Oil and tempera on panel (98 x 217 cm) Galleria Uffizi, Florence THE RENAISSANCE

8. Botticelli, Sandro Botticelli, Sandro The birth of Venus c. 1485 Tempera on canvas 172.5 x 278.5 cm Uffizi, Florence

9. Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa 1503-1506 Oil on wood 77 x 53 cm Louvre, Paris LATE RENAISSANCE

10. Michelangelo Michelangelo The Creation of Adam Fresco 1510 Detail from The Sistine Chapel ceiling

11. Bruegel, Pieter Bruegel, Pieter The Peasant Dance 1568 Oil on oak panel 114 x 164 cm Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna DUTCH RENAISSANCE

12. REMBRANDT, THE ANATOMY LESSON, 1630 BAROQUE