Art-History Flashcards
Neolithic
8K-2K BCE – New Stone Age – Megalithic architecture, Stonehenge
Paleolithic
22KBCE–“old Stone Age”–stone tools, cave paintings
Mesopotamian
3500 BCE – Writing, city state, worship figures, ziggurats
Egyptian
2500 BCE – Funerary, embalming, pyramids, temples
Greek
450 BCE – Parthenon, Contrapposto, Pottery
Roman
300 BCE-400 AD, builders, arch, colosseum, baths, villas
Byzantine
300AD-1000AD, Mosaics, stylized figures, Hagia Sophia
Romanesque
1000-1200AD–Round arch, illuminated manuscripts
Gothic
1150-1400//POINTED arch, stained glass, elaborate….Salt Lake Temple
Renaissance
15th-16th c. // LEONARDO, MICHAELANGELO
Baroque
17th c. // Rembrandt, dramatic lighting, theatrical
Rococo
18th c. // Fragonard, pastel, decline of aristocracy
Neo Classicism
19th c. // Ingres, return to classic, Moral
Realism
19th// Courbet, nature, Homer, etc.
Impressionism
19th//Monet, brighter color, light, pleonasm air