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.
- 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:
- Austria:
- 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
- The Cycladic Islands:
- Crete:
- Thera (Santorini): West House, Akrotiri (eruption c. 1500 or 1628?)
- Greece:
GREEK
- The Greek Dark Age (1100-760 B.C.)
- The Greek Archaic Period (760-480 B.C.)
- The Late Geometric Period, 760-700
- The Orientalizing Period, 720/700-625
- Protocorinthian Vase-Painting, 720-625
- Protoattic Vase-Painting, 700-625
- Sculpture
- The High Archaic Period, 625-480
- Athenian Black Figure Vase-Painting
- Athenian Red Figure Vase-Painting (begins c. 530)
- Sculpture
- Architecture
- The Classical Period (480-323)
- The Early Classical Period, 480-450
- The High Classical Period, 450-400
- The Late Classical Period, 400-323
- Praxiteles (370-330):
- Skopas (370-330):
- Lysippos (350-300):
- The Hellenistic Period, 323-31 B.C.
ETRUSCAN AND ROMAN
- Etruscan Art and Architecture
- Roman Republican Art and Architecture (509-31 B.C.)
- Roman Imperial Art (31 B.C.-337 A.D.
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