☝️FIRSTS

Aphrodite of Cnidus

First nude female figure sculpture

Duomo

First dome to use concrete

David & Donatello

First nude sculpture since ancient times

Pre-Raphaelite Movement

First avant-garde movement

Hudson River School

First American school of landscape painting

Gustave Courbet

First French realist

Pompidou Center

First high tech monument in Paris

Academia de Dibou y Pintura

First art school in the Philippines

Juan Luna & Felix Ressurecion Hidalgo

First international artists winning gold and silver in Madrid expo

La Doctrina Christiana en la Lengua Espanola y Dagala

First written and published book in Philippines by the Dominicans

San Agustin Church

First religious structure built in Luzon and only stone church in its size

San Sebastian Church

First steel building set from Belgium in the Philippines

Fort San Pedro

First fort in the Philippines

Nuestra Senora de Guia

First stone fort in the Philippines

Fabian dela Rosa

First painter of note in the the century Philippines and dean in UP Fine Arts

Juan Arellano

First Filipino architect pensionado

Tomas Mapua

First registered architect

Juan Nakpil

First national artist for architecture in the Philippines

Napoleon Abueva

First modern Philippine sculptor

Sargon I

First Mesopotamian ruler in Akkadia

Fabian dela Rosa

First Filipino painter of note for the 20th century

Tomas Mapua

First registered Architect of the Philippines

The Crystal Arcade

First commercial establishment in the Philippines that was fully air-conditioned

Hernando Ocampo

First purely non-representational art produced in the country

Fagus Shoe Factory

First building to use curtain-walling

Wainwright Building

First building to use and elevator and reach ten storeys

Joseph Paxton

First to recognize the aesthetic properties of glass and iron

Greek Revival Style

First national style in the United States

Wassily Kandinsky

First pioneer of abstract painting

Emile Galle

First great exponent of Art Nouveau in France

Regionalism

First style used by the architectural theorists Alexander Tzonis and Liane Lefaivrelt

Romanticism

First style used by August Wilhelm and Friedrich Scholgel to label a wider cultural movement

Henry VII

First Tudor monarch

Queen Anne

First modern furniture period in England

Middle Georgian

First furniture period to be known as Chippendale period

Church of II Gesu

First facade to be considered truly Baroque

Durham Cathedral

First cathedral to use pointed arches

Curule

First chair with cushion

Column-Krater

First known Greek vase from Corinthian examples

Stepped Pyramid of Zoser

First pyramid to be ever built

Sumerian

First people to produce literature

Akkadian

First Mesopotamian rulers to call themselves kings

Ashurnarsirpal II

First great Assyrian king who led the establishment of the New Assyrian empire

Palace of Shapur I

First arcaded construction built in the Persian Empire

Glass

First material discovered during the Ancient Greek period

Imhotep

First known architect in history

Vitruvius

First person to create a comprehensive treatise on architecture

Home Insurance Building

First skyscraper that introduced steel-frame construction techniques

Romans

First people to use concrete as a building material

Villa Savoye

First modernist building that was designed by Le Corbusier

City of Uruk

First known urban planning system

Impressionism

First modern art movement that emerged in France

Chrysler Building

First Art Deco skyscraper

Elsie de Wolfe

First first Interior Decorator to be given a design “commission”

Fallingwater

First use of cantilevered construction

Abbey Church of Saint-Denis

First known use of flying buttresses