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  • Prehistoric periods
    Characterized by the absence of written documentation, making it challenging for historians to study and understand the events, cultures, and societies of that time
  • Prehistoric people
    • Nomads, no permanent abode who travel from place to place to find abundant vegetation and for successful hunting
  • Prehistoric animal paintings
    Have ceremonial purposes
  • Prehistoric people
    • Paint animals
    • Carve animal statuettes
  • Prehistoric human figurines
    • Venus of Willendorf (28,000-25,000)
  • Civilization in the ancient time are historically rooted on the banks of rivers
  • The ancient Egyptian arts originate from the building of tombs like the pyramids and mastaba
  • Most of the Egyptian tombs are built with ornamentation of their ancient deities
  • Osiris
    God of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion
  • Osiris
    • Classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail
  • Horus
    One of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as the god of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky
  • Horus
    • Most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head
  • Ptah
    An ancient Egyptian deity, a creator God and patron deity of craftsmen and architects
  • Ptah
    • A maker and creator, a patron of craftsmen, especially sculptors, including metalworkers, carpenters, and blacksmiths
    • Egyptian God said to have created the Cosmos/universe
  • Anubis
    The God of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld
  • Anubis
    • Usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head
  • The Ancient Greek arts mark the early civilization of the Greece and it early civilization is associated on the three great era such as Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic period
  • Aesthetic (beauty) in ancient Greek era

    Correlated on the human body, most of the visual arts used nude human subjects to represent vigor and beauty
  • Menhir
    A large single upright monolith, made for religious purposes, can vary considerably in size but often taper toward the top
  • Menhirs
    • Sometimes thousands were arranged in parallel ways, can also be found individually as monoliths
  • Dolmen
    Single megalithic chamber tombs, tombs of standing stones, containing two or three vertical stones and a horizontal 'capstone' on top
  • Dolmens
    • Most widely known in northwest Europe, notably in Brittany, France, southern Scandinavia, Britain, Ireland, and the Low Countries
  • Cromlech
    A megalithic construction made of large stone blocks, arranged in a circular form, used as a solar observatory to mark the sun's path
  • Cromlech
    • A good example is at Carn Llechart
  • Archaic Period (Ancient Greek)

    Arts were influenced by the earlier civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt, stressed the nude sculpture such as the kouros and kore
  • Classical Period (Ancient Greek)

    The "Golden age of Athens", arts achieved the aesthetic ideals and sculpture evolved from the frontal and rigid of kouros
  • Hellenistic Period (Ancient Greek)

    The end of the golden age of Athens, sculptures influenced by the Oriental and the political instability which brought new set of aesthetic ideals
  • Phidias
    An Athenian sculptor regarded as one of the greatest of all sculptors of classical Greece, renowned for the Elgin marbles and his colossal statue of Zeus
  • Myron
    One of the prevalent sculptors in the Golden Age of Athens, famous for his representations of athletes
  • Polykleitos
    Considered one of the most important sculptors of classical antiquity, known for his lost treatise the Canon of Polykleitos which set out his mathematical basis of an idealised male body shape
  • Praxiteles
    The first to sculpt the nude female form in a life-size statue, produced elegant representations of gods, mythological figures, and portraits
  • The Roman Visual Arts such as sculptures and architectures imitated the Greek forms and techniques
  • Roman arts
    Developed new artistic subjects like Still Life, Landscape, and Architectural motifs
  • The Arch of Titus is a 1st-century honorific arch located on the Via Sacra, Rome, constructed in c.81 AD by the Roman Emperor Domitian shortly after the death of his older brother Titus
  • Medieval arts are influenced and dominated by the Catholic beliefs, most of the works of art in the Middle Ages are created based on the beliefs of the Catholic Church
  • Early Christian arts
    Produced by Christians or under Christian patronage, influenced by early Christian symbols like cross, fish, lamb, Alpha, Omega, wreath, grapes, doves, and peacocks
  • Early Christian sculpture
    • Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus, depicting scenes from the Bible like Adam and Eve, the sacrifice of Abraham, Jesus entering Jerusalem, Judgement of the souls
  • Medieval arts
    Influenced and dominated by the Catholic beliefs. Most works created based on beliefs of Catholic Church including stories from Old and New Testament, and great martyrs and saints
  • Periods in the Middle Ages (Medieval Arts)

    • Early Christian
    • Byzantine
    • Romanesque
    • Gothic
  • Early Christian sculpture
    • Sarcophagus of Junius Bassus