AP Art History: Timeline

30,000 →500 BCE : GLOBAL PRE HISTORY

8,000 → 10,000 (bce) : agricultural revolution

15,000 (bce):

• ambum stones

• apollo 11 stones

• running horned woman

• great hall of bulls

• camelid sacrum (in shape of a canien)

• beaker w/ ibex motives

• anthropomorphic stele

• jade cong

• stonehenge

• terracotta fragment

3,500 → 300 BCE : ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

*start of democracy; Greece (450); Athens; Parthenon

*the “golden ratio” - polyklitus

Near East/ Mesopotamia:

3500 → 2300 (bce) : Sumerian

• Hammurabi Code; first written language (cuneiform), and written law

2300 → 2200 (bce) : Akkadian

1900 → 1600 (bce) : Babylonian

900 → 600 (bce) : Assyrian

Egypt:

3500 → 3000 (bce) : PreDynastic Egypt

• Pallet of King Narmer

3,000 → 2200 (bce) : Old Kingdom Egypt

• step pyramids

• “Seated Scribe”

2100 → 1600 (bce) : Middle Kingdom Egypt

• rock cut tombs

1500 → 40 (bce) : New Kingdom Egypt

1355 → 1325 (bce) : Armarna Period

• Akanaten, Neffrititi, and 3 daughters

Greece/ Aegean:

2000 → 1500 (bce) : Minoan

• “La Parisienne”

1500 → 1100 (bce) : Mycean

700 → 480 (bce) : Archaic

480 → 323 (bce) : Classical

450 → 370 (bce) : High Classical

323 → 31 (bce) : Hellenistic/ Hellenism

Etruscan/ Rome

800 → 500 (bce) : Etruscan

• tomb of the triclinum

• statue of apollo and athena

500 → 40 (bce) : Republican Rome

• head of roman patrician

40 → 476 (bce) : Imperial Rome

• Agustus of Prima Porta

410 : Rome Falls to the Visigoths

200 → 1750 CE : EARLY EUROPE AND COLONIAL AMERICAS:

30 → 500 (ce) : Early Christian

• Cattacombs of Pricilla

312 : Editch of Milan Signed

• leagalizes christianity

500 → 1300 (ce) : Byzantine (key date= 500’s)

• Haija Sophia

600 : Islam Founded

600 → forward (ce) : Islamic Art

400 → 800 (ce) : Medieval Europe

• Rottegen Pieta

750 → 900 (ce) : Carolingian

900 → 1000 (ce) : Ottonian

1000 → 1150 (ce) : Romanesque

1150 → 1300 (ce) : Gothic (key date=1200)

• Chartes Cathedral

• Notre Dame

1300 → 1400 (ce) : Late Gothic “Trecento”

1400 → 1500 (ce) : Early Italian Renaissance

1400 → 1500 (ce) : Northern Renaissance

1500 → 1520 (ce) : High Renaissance

1520 → 1600 (ce) : Mannerism

1600 → 1700 (ce) : Baroque

1670 → 1720 (ce) : Rococo

• “The Swing”

1700 → 1750 (ce) : Counter Rococo

Later Europe & America’s

1750 → 1820 (ce) : Neo Classicism

• “Oath of Horati”

• “Cordeination of Napoleon” - Jaques Louis David

1790 → 1850 (ce) : Romanticicm

1830 → 1860 (ce) : Realism

1870 → 1890 (ce) : Impressionism

• monet

• manet

• renroir

1880 → 1900 (ce) : Post Impressionism

• cezanne