CHRONOLOGY OF ANCIENT ART

Origins | Mesopotamia | Egypt | Bronze Age Aegean | Greek | Etruscan & Roman


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Origins
  • Palaeolithic (Old Stone Age) Art, 35,000-10,000/8,000 B.C.

  • 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)


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



Mesopotamia
  • 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


  • Early Dynastic Sumer, 3000-2340
    • Tell Asmar statues (2750-2600)
    • Royal Cemetery of Ur (2600-2500)
         Standard of Ur (c. 2550)
    • Stele of Eannatum (c. 2560)


  • Akkadian Period, 2340-2180
    • Bronze Head of Akkadian Ruler (Sargon?)
    • Stele of Naramsin (c. 2280)


  • Neo-Sumerian Art, 2140-2000



Egypt

    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


  • Predynastic Period, 4000-3150
    • Wall-Painting from Hierakonpolis
    • Macehead of King Scorpion


  • Archaic (Early Dynastic) Period, 3150-2686 (Dynasties I-II)
    • Dynasty I: Palette of King Narmer


  • Old Kingdom, 2686-2181
    • Dyn. III:
      • Step Pyramid at Sakkara (2680); Djoser (Zoser), Imhotep
      • Panels from Tomb of Hesi-Re
    • Dyn. IV:
      • Bent Pyramid ar 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)


    First Intermediate Period, 2181-2040


  • Middle Kingdom, 2040-1782
    • Dyn. XI: Mentuhotep, Funerary Complex at Deir el-Bahari
    • Dyn. XII: Portraits of Sesostris (Senusret) III


    Second Intermediate Period, 1782-1570


  • 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, 3000-1100


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ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN




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