THE HISTORY OF WESTERN ART I
FALL 2005



Lascaux

Lascaux, France (15,000-13,000)


divider bar


MONUMENTS LIST


Origins
whiteball Paleolithic (Old Stone Age) Art, 35,000-10,000/8,000 B.C.
  • France:
    • Chauvet (32,000-30,000?)
    • Laussel Reliefs (25,000-20,000)
    • "Venus" of Lespugue (25,000-20,000)
    • Pech-Merle (20,000-15,000)
    • Lascaux (15,000-13,000)
  • Spain:
    • Altamira (15,000-10,000)
  • Austria:
    • "Venus" of Willendorf (28,000-25,000)

Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age) Art, 10,000/8,000-3,000 B.C.

  • Europe:
    • East Spanish rock paintings (8,000-3,000)
  • Palestine:
    • Natufian Culture (10,000-8,000)

whiteball Neolithic (New Stone Age) Art, 8,000-3,500 B.C.

  • Palestine:
      Jericho (8,000-6,000); plastered skulls (6500-6300)
  • Anatolia:
      Catal Huyuk (6300-5400)
  • Mesopotamia:


Mesopotamia
whiteball Protoliterate Sumer, 3500-3000
  • White Temple, Uruk (3200-3000)
  • Ritual Alabaster Vase with Sacred Marriage of Inanna, Uruk
  • Marble Head of Goddess (Inanna?), Uruk
  • Granite Stele of Lion-Hunter, Uruk

whiteball Early Dynastic Sumer, 3000-2340

  • Tell Asmar statues (2750-2600)
  • Royal Cemetery of Ur (2600-2500)
    • Standard of Ur
  • Stele of Eannatum (c. 2560)

whiteball Akkadian Period, 2340 - 2180

whiteball Neo-Sumerian Art, 2140-2000

  • Portraits of Gudea of Lagash (2140-2120)
  • Third Dynasty of Ur
    • Ziggurat of Ur
    • Stele of Ur-Nammu


Egypt
goldstar(Note: The chronology of ancient Egypt varies, sometimes considerably, from scholar to scholar and from book to book; the following is just one of many plausible schemes, and may not exactly correspond with every date given in your texts. You should, in any case, concentrate less on the year dates for individual monuments than on their period or Kingdom and Dynasty)

whiteball Predynastic Period, 4000-3150

  • Wall-Painting from Hierakonpolis
  • Macehead of King Scorpion

whiteball Archaic (Early Dynastic) Period, 3150-2686

  • Dynasty I: Palette of King Narmer

whiteball Old Kingdom, 2686-2181

  • Dyn. III: Step Pyramid at Sakkara (2680); Djoser (Zoser), Imhotep
      Panels from Tomb of Hesi-Re
  • Dyn. IV: Bent Pyramid at Dahshur (2610); Sneferu
      "Great Pyramid" at Giza (2580)" Khufu (Cheops), Hemon
      Khafre (Chephren), Sphinx (2550)
      Menkaure (Mycerinus) (2530)
      Bust of Ankh-haf (2450)
  • Dyn. V: Mastaba of Ti, Sakkara (2450)

whiteball First Intermediate Period, 2181-2040

whiteball Middle Kingdom, 2040-1782

  • Dyn. XI: Mentuhotep, Funerary Complex at Deir el-Bahari
  • Dyn. XII: Portraits of Sesostris (Senusret) III

whiteball Second Intermediate Period, 1782-1570

whiteball New Kingdom, 1570-1070

  • Dyn. XVIII: Thebes
      Hatshepsut (1498-1483); Temple at Deir el-Bahari
      Tuthmosis III (1504-1450); Karnak
      Amenhotep III: Luxor; Amenhotep, son of Hapu
      Tombs of the Nobles, Thebes (Menena, Nakht, Rekhmire)
      Akhenaten, Nefertiti (1350-1334); Tell Amarna
      Tutankhamun (1334-1325)
  • Dyn. XIX: Ramesses II (1279-1212): Abu Simbel


Bronze Age Aegean
  • The Cycladic Islands: Marble figurines (3000-2000)
  • Crete: Kamares Ware (Middle Minoan, 1800-1700)
    • The Floral Style (Late Minoan 1A, conventionally 1550-1500, possibly earlier)
    • The Marine Style (Late Minoan 1B, conventionally 1500-1450, possibly earlier)


Greek
whiteball The Greek Dark Age (1100-760 B.C.)

whiteball The Greek Archaic Period (760-480 B.C.)

  • The Late Geometric Period, 760-700
  • The High Archaic Period, 625-480
    • Athenian Black Figure Vase-Painting
      • Athens Nettos Amphora (625)
        • Sophilos (580-570)
      • Kleitias and Ergotimos: the Francois Vase (570-560)
    • Exekias:
      • "Ajax and Achilles at Dice" (Vatican), 530
      • "Suicide of Ajax" (Boulogne), (540-530)
    • Athenian Red Figure Vase-Painting (begins c. 530)
      • Andokides Painter (c. 530-520)
      • Euthymides: "Revellers Amphora" (510)
    • Sculpture
    • Architecture
      • Athenian Acropolis:

whiteball The Classical Period (480-323)

whiteball The Hellenistic Period (323-31 B.C.)


Etruscan & Roman
whiteball Etruscan Art and Architecture
  • Tomb of the Bulls (Tarquinia), 540
  • Tomb of Hunting and Fishing (Tarquinia), 510-500
  • Temple of Minerva, Veii (Portonaccio), 510-490
  • Capitoline Wolf, c. 500-480
  • "Junius Brutus," c. 300
  • The Orator (L'Arringatore), 80 B.C.

whiteball Roman Republican Art and Architecture (509-31 B.C.)

  • Forum of Pompeii (2nd-1st centuries B.C.)
  • Atrium-House type: House of the Faun, Pompeii ("Alexander Mosaic," c. 1st cent B.C.)
  • Sanctuary of Fortuna, Praeneste (100-80 B.C.)
  • "Veristic" portraiture (2nd-1st centuries B.C.)

whiteball Roman Imperial Art (31 B.C.-337 A.D.

whiteball Late Antiquity and Early Byzantine Art and Architecture (337 - 726 AD)

  • Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, Rome (c. 359)
  • Haghia Sophia, Constantinople (Istanbul), 532 - 537
    Architects: Anthemius and Isidorus


divider bar


home outline
monuments discussion


Web site created by Stephanie Struble for Jeffrey Hurwit,
"History of Western Art" (ArH 204), Fall 2002, Department of Art History, University of Oregon.

* Images linked from this page are Copyright 1999, Jeffrey Hurwit